One game in and the "R" word is already being used.  Dingles hammered Coventry today so after their doom and gloom I'm sure they are now playoff contenders.  Watched a bit of Fulham today, did not see the result or the whole match but they looked to have some very good movement.  Don't see us beating them or Spurs.

If we have to rely on Nelsen to be a solid defensive unit we are in trouble.  Today was always going to be a difficult game.

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are you not contradicting yourself there. Slating us for being negative yet you cant see us beating Fulham nor Spurs.Your hardly being positive are ya

Well, Im home now from the match, so I'll give a little review for what its worth.

In the first half, i thought overall we were quite good actually especially for the first 30mins. Our passing was slick and our attacking looked very dangerous and our wide men got in some good positions, only for MGP who was WOEFUL all game to put ###### crosses in the box.

But what was our defence playing at!!! Mokoena was one of the worst centre backs Ive ever seen playing for Rovers today, and i'd rather have Darren Peakcock than him.

I though Savage and Reid in the first half were okay too! But Shefki Kuqi-just imagine a mix of Lorenzo Amoruso,Ashley Ward and Dwight Yorke in one man-well thats our Kuqi. He was a funckin joke! He didnt win one header in the whole game nor did he hold the ball up once for the classy looking Bellamy (who actually won a few flick ons for a little guy)

And for the second half, well to be fair, whatever Hughes said at half time was thrown out the window when Sheringham scored about 20 seconds after kick-off,(thank god i missed the goal as i was getting a beer n burger)

But after that, we were shocking and looked a relagation team for sure. Todd,Mokoena,Savage,Emerton,Pedersen,Matteo and Kuqi deserved to be shot for that performance and unless we improve i aint gunna spend good money to go see that ######.

My ratings:

Friedel 6

Neill 8 -had a very good game IMO

Todd-5

Moko-2

Matteo-4

MGP-3

Savage-5

Reid-7

Emerton-5

Bellamy-7

Kuqi-0.5

How many tickets have we sold for tomorrow?

I'll be there!!

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almost sold out our initial allocation of 1,500 i was told yesterday when i got my tickets

So not only are the managers playing mind games but the players want a go now aswell.

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I actually have got a good feeling that both WILL play against West Ham. I think this due to the breaking news txt that some people recieved still yet to be published on the official site

he's also missing a major point in that when we had the Walkers money, WE STILL WENT DOWN!!

its a long season mate.

I'm there Thursday.

tips:  if you see the leather cushions for hire - get one. Those plastic seats are real uncomfortable.

Don't think you're allowed to take alchohol or cans into the ground.

Get there early. Could be queues owing to extra security/bag searches.

Sun tan lotion. There's no shade, you're exposed to the sun [hopefully] all day.

But you know all that, don't you!

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probably, because for the people who got tickets for the Ashes, its highly unlikely this will be their first ever cricket match they've been to.

dont mean to have a go, but do you pay for all this yourself or ya parents?

Lets see how many we get against Fulham.....18-19,000 at best

P.S. Quite impressed with Forest's near 25,000 yesterday I must say.

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depends really.If we beat West Ham i cant see it being around 23k

Well West Ham are really ###### IMO. There team is shocking! Really should be no problem for Rovers here, but........

WE ALWAYS LOSE AWAY TO WEST HAM.

West Ham 2-1Rovers

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Well, Bolton got just over 2,000 yesterday for there friendly.

When people have just payed for their season tickets, they dont want to pay another £15 to watch a pointless match.

Well they couldnt play all their best players, they play Boro tomorrow.

Matt Jansens speaking on rovers world!!!!! YAY!!!!

Im just glad Bellamy didnt play.

Nothing broken according to MH. And Matts "ok".

phew! (I hope)

HOWZZZAAAAT!

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Can't believe the optimism surrounding Boro.

In recent years they've built teams for a season, not squads, and this summer they've done neither...

Bottom half for me I'm afraid.

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Well, this season they've got Mendiete *(spelling) back. Along with Yakubu who is a 20+ goal striker and a highly rated young full-back Emanuel Pogatetz.

I'll give ya 1000000000000000000000000-1

maybe he's still not fit then?!

Hardly a lie is it. Hughes obviously thought he would be ready to play, but he's not, simple as.

what exactly did he 'lie' about??

He said that if he is unable to play against Grimsby he will play on Saturday.

So what did he lie about exactly?

Hughes told Rovers world the other day that Bellamy had taken a knock against 1860 and if he wasnt to play today, he would deffo play against Espanyol

Im only quoting the word you used mate

yes but you always 'fear' about all things Rovers recently. Trying to become the new rovers6 are we garns?

1-1 Matteo heads in from Savage cross

1-0 Grimsby