Hasta

I received RE3 for my birthday early last year and then Village for Christmas. It felt wrong not playing 3 through first.

Not sure why you’re so truculent. It wasn’t meant as an antagonist reply. But Kaminsky only had to make one (excellent) save and then when they hit the post he had it perfectly covered stood right behind the miss-hit cross. In the last 5 games only 2 teams have scored more than us so scoring isn’t a worrying problem at the moment . We ain’t going to bang 3 in every game, but if we now also have the ability to nick a goal and defend it in games where we aren’t playing well then that’s a huge positive. Not a negative. They did play poorly going forward today. But they defended extremely well and were certainly not ‘flukey’ to hang on to that lead.

It was against the run of play posession-wise but I wouldn’t say flukey. I would if they were hitting the post and missing good chances but not in how the game panned out. We had some good situations before we went 1 up and I thought we were the better side up until the goal. Then we sat back and miserably failed in trying to hit them on the break. Those tactics might not have worked for us offensively, but when you have a defence that have conceded just 3 goals in the last 10 league games then you know if you get in front you can hold the lead (whoever thought we would say that about Tony’s Rovers). Therefore to concede a lot of possession once in front and not be an attacking force but comfortably hang on isn’t flukey. Weirdly, I never felt like we were going to concede there, where previously you just sat there waiting for it to happen.

The first booking is a bit ridiculous by the ref, but Nyambe was stupid for the second yellow.

How we get there I don’t care.

Absolutely turgid, slack passing, lack of footballing intelligence and overrun for most of the second half. Get in 🔵⚪ 😀😀

The good thing from our perspective with it looking like it could be 3 from 4 ,is that even if you stop up it means Newcastle will go down, and vice versa. And yet there's a real chance you both go. And even if by some unexpected miracle that doesn't happen, next on the hit list are either Leeds or Everton 😀 Happy days 🔵⚪

Watford play Newcastle this weekend and Burnley next Tuesday. 6 points from those two games and it's jelly and ice cream.

Just finished the Resident Evil 3 remake. I have the same opinion as I had 20 years ago. It feels like they put so much effort into making RE2 special and memorable, with multiple story lines, endings and intriguing plot and locations. And then RE3 feels rushed and like a massive step back. Very linear and lacks the puzzle solving of the two that preceded it. It is definitely the ugly sister of the first 4 numbered games.

“Hi Stewart, it’s Tony”

As I state above, they gave it for offside on the guy who Cavani ran in to. The ref looked at the monitor to decide if the player was interfering. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12513373/man-utd-vs-aston-villa-steven-gerrard-points-to-length-of-var-check-after-danny-ings-strike-disallowed

It was offside. If a goalkeeper was back-peddling to tip a cross over the bar and he ran into a player stood behind him who was offside then it would clearly be an offside. If a defender is running back and a guy is stood in an offside position and stops the defender having a chance of getting to the ball (either because he stands in his way or makes the defender run around with him, then the offside player is clearly interfering with play. From the laws:- A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by: preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision. making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball When you actually look at it like that the offside decision is clearly correct. What IS a shambles is VAR doesn't have to explain the decision. If a report was published after each match as to WHY each decision VAR looked at was given or not given it would be a lot clearer for the fans.

We had Branthwaite from Everton and Harwood-Bellis from City both on loan. By the end of the season it was clear than Harwood-Bellis was the better player. However the lad we have on loan from Brighton on at the moment (Van Hecke) is probably a better defender than both of them, albeit not as technical a footballer as Harwood-Bellis. In summary quite good, will still be improving. If your desperate for centre halves as a cheap loan signing it’s not a bad shout.

Dolan has never played there and yes.

No-one is pretending that. Just that it’s the worst rovers goalkeeping performance most of us can remember by some distance. The worry is what happens if Kaminsky gets injured? Or just misses 2 games through COVID? With a strike rate of 2 bad games in 4 can we take that risk. I’d replace the kid we sent back to Liverpool with a loanee keeper.

Can’t wait to see the player ratings for this one.

If you've not seen the highlights be afraid, be very afraid. https://youtu.be/BiI-3Tk_KwQ

As I said above, Dickens played ok that game against Wolves then made 1 mistake which cost us the game and he was remembered for it forever.. Pears just made 3, the second of which was far worse than Dickens. So I actually agree with @1864roverite. That will go down as the worst goalkeeping performance I’ve seen from a rovers keeper. (The Dickens mistake for those that haven’t seen it)

And Kidderminster from tier 6 beating Reading.

Presuming Luton beat Harrogate that’s a free weekend coming up.

He’s remembered for only making one howler in a game. And it still wasn’t as bad as that second goal..

If that was a goalkeeper for a North West Counties league team I’d stilll say it was embarrassing.

I never get why teams like Palace or Everton who are safety mid-table rest players for cup games. That final against Spurs is second only to the 92 play off final in glorious moments I’ve attended regarding Rovers. Two of my biggest disappointments were in semi finals. We were so close to playing in the first FA cup final at the new Wembley, and also the league cup semi we lost at old Trafford 3-2 on aggregate in 2006. Had Bellamy played that game instead of Kuqi I thought we’d have won, and gone on to play Wigan in a second league cup final in 4 years.

Only just been made aware of that on twitter. There's a lot of walk-ons for the two games who that could appeal to. They should be pushing that as widespread as possible.

There was a moment about 25 minutes in when the away fans first sang 'you're not fit to referee', and then for the next 5 to 10 minutes he gave them everything leading up to Mowbray booking. It was the most clear case of the crowd influencing the ref's decisions Ive seen in a long while. Once the home fans got on his back as well he didn't know what to do so basically just got most things wrong.