1 hour ago, JHRover said:

To be fair to Rovers they are certainly pulling out all the stops these days 

Like arranging for the Grand National to be moved to lunchtime so that Rovers fans can watch it before we play Leeds at 12:30pm. Some effort.

 

Comedy gold at Ewood nowadays with their announcements.

1 minute ago, philipl said:

That is extraordinary.

If games lasted 75 minutes we would still be chasing a play-off place.../

With a +16 swing in goal difference than we currently have 🤯

Why has that Hull defender done that 🙈🙈

I’d be fuming if i was a hull fan. Or Leicester and Ipswich.

They’ve got promoted, spent just £4.6 million and are proving that you can actually outperform the parachute payment clubs if you do it right. 

Hope they win it. Shows it can be done.

4 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Sammi was great today but Dolan was top class.That pass for Sammi’s first goal was DeBruynesq. 

I’ve give a rating of 9 to four players today - Sammi, Dolan, JRC and Hyam. That’s rare for me!

2 minutes ago, Bbrovers2288 said:

No idea where some of you are getting we are safe from, I still think we need to beat Wednesday and at least one other 

If we draw with Sheff Weds, they will need to get 7 points from 4 games to catch us.

I think 4 points probably does it, 5 to be safe.

2 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He didn't look that good against Ipswich.

Every now and again, like today, he looks like a really useful player that warrants some of the hype he gets (Luton interested in him etc). 

He won MOTM on here so plenty must have disagreed with you

Well done. Excellent performance. Defensively solid but plenty of men getting forward to support the attack. Add a bit of quality and that will do for me most weeks,

Just now, Silas said:

Good,  cos I feel like we need 3 goals to get a win.

2 goals smells suspiciously of a heart wrenching draw. 

I still feel worried even though Sunderland have hardly done anything that half. This second half is huge.

Excellent first half after the first 10 minutes. Szmodics, Hyam and Dolan all very good and JRC immense,

12 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Have to disagree - selecting Hedges and Gallagher is like playing with nine men.

I'm not sure why Ayari hasn't had more game time, he looks a pretty decent player.

In which case JDT was an absolute genius for having Gallagher and Hedges regularly in a side at the top of the league last season. That side is a lower mid-table championship side lacking a bit of firepower. It’s not a 0 wins in 16 games side.

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

 

I don’t look at that team and think it is a team that , if applying themselves correctly,  should be going 16 games without at a couple of wins.  If this was in November I’d be genuinely hoping for a win with that line up. 
 

Even the bench is looking stronger than the last few months albeit without a striker.

I’ve just posted on the Sunderland thread but I backed us to go down at 15/4 yesterday on betfairs exchange.

As fans you generally know far more about the situation at Rovers than all other sporting event. You know the injuries, the form, everything. You should always be betting with your head rather than your heart.

Does anybody realistically think we have only a 21% chance of going down. It’s far higher than that.  It doesn’t mean I want it to happen, nor that I won’t still cheer rovers on as loud as ever whenever I watch them. Just I think it’s overpriced.
 

I really don’t get why people have issues with it. 

6 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

leonard has a back problem,out for the season

Hadn’t seen that. Another one that’s spineless then.

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

anyone know what gallaghers illness is,apart from being terminally shite

Or Leonard. I know he’s not the answer but it was mid-Jan last time he was sighted. He’s better than Semir.

Edited - moved it to another thread.

46 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

i don`t particularly think eustace is any good but we should give him a chance to see what he can do next year.as it stands i doubt any manager could get us out of the trouble we are in,we`re going down,lets see what he can do in a lower division

Don’t be daft. Before the players downed tools on JDT he got 10 wins from 22 games with this squad. Admittedly he had Wharton but also had a lot of injuries and was forced to play Wahlstedt.

Eustace has come in to a run of very winnable games and has failed to win any. He had plenty of time to turn this around and still potentially does. On paper our defence is not the worst in the league, and we have the leagues top goal scorer. However Eustace approach has led to us scoring just 6 goals in 9 league games, against some of the lowest sides in the division.  He’s had plenty of time to turn this around and if we go down it’s because he has been a very poor manager.

3 minutes ago, roverblue said:

Without his through balls you need players bursting down the wings, taking on a man, having a shot from range, powering onto  crosses and smashing it in.

We have no players who can do that.

JRC is the only one. No surprise he popped up and put the ball in the back of the net Friday. It’s just keeping him fit.

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Wasn't the commentator Andy Hinchcliffe?  

Might have been. I only flicked through and get the two mixed up.

18 minutes ago, arbitro said:

That is from an angle which skews Szmodics' position. The actual replays rather than a still show him a lot closer to the keeper and in his eye line. I too have seen goals allowed for similar but felt they should have been disallowed too. Cardiff had a goal disallowed at Ewood this season for something very similar and as I recall it was pretty much unanimously supported on here.

If you watch the sky coverage it shows that replay during the main the game from 38.40 onwards. I can't post the video on here (on which Don Goodman actually changes his mind about whether he's offside when he sees it), but can only post the stills in sequence.

If you still think this clearly in the keepers line of vision then fine, but I disagree.

edit - I'm just going to crop and repost these to make them bigger.

37 minutes ago, arbitro said:

It was totally the correct decision. I'm making an educated guess that the linesman informed the referee that Szmodics was offside but from his side on view couldn't tell if he was in the keepers eye line. It was up to the referee then to judge whether this was the case. It was one of the few decisions Atwell got right because in my view he was poor for both teams.

In the keepers eyeline? This is as JRC hits it and Szmodics has never crossed the keepers view of the ball at all, even in the build up. I've seen far worse examples of goals allowed after these kind of incidents even after being reviewed  by VAR. I'm not sure. 

13:55 onwards on this video. 

One positive from yesterday. At least JRC was back and looked a goal threat from midfield. Hopefully we can keep him fit cos I think he has more bottle and bite about him than a lot of these.

15 hours ago, Andy said:

Gilsenan must be sat there watching Chrisene playing LW, trying to make sense of the world.

Hopefully that's the last time we see Chrisene anywhere other than LB. He as shocking and it wasn't even like he was offering much protection to Pickering who was constantly getting ran at.