1 minute ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Watched abit of the Preston game. I presume they’re getting their results from having a solid defence as they do look strong…However going forward, bar Millar,  they look very poor….Birmingham miles the better team.

If watching Burnley dominate this league and clinching promotion at our place was meant to be a low for us rovers fans, then watching fucking Preston win promotion would just confirm to me we are forever cursed 

5 minutes ago, philipl said:

Watching Southampton v Ipswich.

Ipswich should be at least 3 ahead on Southampton gifts (Hirst badly missed one). My worry about this one is it has less venom that a walking football pre-season friendly. I fancy our Sunderland game will be a full bloodied affair yet Ipswich not only have an extra day's recovery, I doubt there is so much as a bruise or a graze on their players at half time and nobody will be anywhere near being out of breath.

For a so-called passing team, Southampton are statues making it easy for Ipswich to pick up the mistakes off the player on the ball. 

Southampton being so woeful makes it difficult to assess Ipswich but I have seen nothing to worry or scare us.

Ipswich are the type of team we completely fold against, look at Plymouth this season, Rotherham away last season. It will be similar to those I feel, solid basic team but you know how we fair against those 

Forest are making Burnley look semi decent ffs 

1 hour ago, Shirley Crabtree Wrestler said:

There was an old chancer called Waggott,

Who thought he'd bamboozle and blag it,

But the true fans all shouted,

"Oi Stevie, you're OUTED"

So he fucked off to Scunthorpe, the maggot.

Don't tarnish my hometown with that slimey maggot thank you very much haha

Lose this and it would be mid table form no? 3W 3L 1D

Win though and it looks like a very good start with the 4W 2L 1D ..

Would love to do one over on Sunderland but I do feel they will offer more then the likes of Boro and even Plymouth who we lost 3 nothing to! 

Tough game and a good test of character, I'd start Telalovic if Gallagher has a knock, get him in from the get go! 

Garrett would be my other change if Travis is out, but feel JDT will stick JRC in the middle as Brittian needs to keep his place for sure 

                               Pears

   Brittain     Carter     Hyam      Pickering

                   Garret        Wharton

Hedges               Szmodics          Moran

                             Telalovic

That would be my 11, although knowing JDT it will be JRC for Garret and Leonard for Telalovic

Could be a massive game for Garret if he starts, seems to have improved so much over the last 12 months 

Brilliant result and for 60 minutes an outstanding performance that would give any one in this league a game, after Boro got a fortunate goal we did seem to lose our shape alot and looked brittle as we have during the opening 6 games. 

A better team then Boro would murder us if we play the way we did from 60 mins onwards but we would murder any team with the way we played the first 60.. crazy

Although he scored twice Sammie wasn't my MOM that goes to Brittain ..he was magnificent 

Just now, BigBar said:

We really do panic and lack composure for long periods of games. All over the shop so often.

This. We start well or dominate a large spell but then suddenly forget how to play football 

Only one way this is ending up,  I fucking hate our game management it's awful 

How's Telalovic looked in his first 10 or so minutes? Do we look more threatening with him uptop and Moran instead of Dolan?

2 up and cruising and the officials fuck us over and now boro are smashing us. Dropping points to this lot after being 2 up would be a disgrace, boro looked awful 

Wow ..honestly just seen both the penalty appeal and the offside goal given..  the replays will anger us all.. f**ing shambolic officiating 

Ffs boro pull one back! Tails up for them 

Sammie again! 2 up! Come on rovers don't fook it up now 

Amazing timing, during or just as the applause for matt 👏  well done sammie!

Boro coming back into it a bit, we have no killer instinct and it's genuinely embarrassing 

Boro haven't had a single shot yet, what's the odds on them scoring with thier first?

Anyone watched Semirs interview today? Love his attitude and his drive, I hope the lads a hidden gem

10 minutes ago, Butty said:

Think he only played 30 mins, be very surprised if he features 

Hoping he will get a little cameo, 10 15mins. The one I'm hoping to see though is Semir, a good 30 mins for him I hope, a good test for him too.

What we've seen of him in interviews etc he seems to have a real drive, was ready to come here to really push on professionally and play games, obviously had something about him to be picked in BM squad at times. 

Really exciting to see how he gets on.

Maguire own goal, I honestly really feel for him, can't do anything right at the minute 

Scotland seemed to have taken over, we look knackered in the middle 

10 minutes ago, Andy said:

Similarly, no Rovers fan would call us 'Blackburn'.

If you refer to Rovers in a football sense, very few are going to think you're talking about Doncaster, Bristol or Forest Green, to be fair.

I remember being told off for calling us blackburn for a while, but to be fair and in my defense I'm from scunthorpe who's two closest rivals are Grimsby and Doncaster Rovers, so I always used to have to say Blackburn Rovers and not just Rovers 😂

It became a bad habit which thanks to this message board swiftly ended 🤣

Played 60 minutes and grabbed a hatrick, well done to him, hopefully his hunger for goals really drives him on 

I personally don't like the 2 in the middle, we seem to get overrun pretty easily. I'd prefer a 3rd in the middle, even if it means dropping Szmodicz or having Szmodicz as a winger out of position if he's undroppable. 

                          Leo 

 Brittain     Carter    Hyam   Pickering

         Travis    Garret     Wharton 

 Moran                                 Szmodicz

                          Ennis 

If Siggy is fit I'd start him instead of Szmodicz, If Ennis isn't fit I'd start Telalovic upfront.  I would like Travis dropped for Tronstad but again we just don't know how good Tronstad or Garret can be in the championship .. we may be stocked in CM but we are not stocked with quality.

16 minutes ago, M_B said:

Listened to radio Lancs earlier, Steve Eyre said he'd coached Tronstad at Huddersfield, never really saw him as good enough for Championship football. He thought Rovers would have been better keeping Buckley and putting the Tronstad money towards a forward. 

Hopefully he's improved over the years, otherwise it's another poor choice for us