only2garners

It's nearer to a full strength team than ours but not a true first 11.

To be fair Forest played an almost full strength side against our reserve team. Today Forest made 11 changes and only 2 of the starting 11 started against us.

The first Rovers game I ever went to was with my Uncle, who had to put a half day in at Leyland Motors on Saturday morning first.

There are indeed some fine pubs between Gloucester Road and Ashton Gate. One of my brothers-in-law lives just off Gloucester Road in Bishopston. But it's the other who is a ST holder at City. He lives in Portishead so we rarely get beyond going to the Black Horse in Weston-in-Gordano, a wonderful pub but you need a car too get there (and an accommodating wife or sister-in-law to drive you).

That certainly is a big old walk if you're coming down Gloucester Road.....

Tickets go on open sale from next Wednesday 11th. But our initial allocation is 1,036 and it's conceivable those could sell out. No doubt there will be more available but there might be conditions on the sale of those e.g. no sale or return. As JohnD says I would call the ticket office.

So can Luton, although the game they have in hand is against each other, so they can’t both.

McGree started the game very impressively. Borough looked very sharp in the first 5 minutes but our goal set them back a bit. I thought Rovers gradually became the dominant side in the first half and only a couple of defensive mistakes gave them chances they messed up. One factor is that Rankin-Costello started man marking McGree and played him out of the game for the last 30 minutes of the half. After the equaliser and us going down to 10 men we couldn’t afford to have JRC marking McGree and he became more dangerous again. Dark’s substitution was because he can’t play central midfield especially in a team down to 10. I guess an alternative would have been to take off either Diaz or Gallagher and put him up front but if there is a concern about his stamina then the last thing you need with only 10 is one of them knackered.

Ah but this one's one of those rare "only on the red button" games, rather than centre stage.....

There are Metro trains running on Boxing Day but perversely not on the bit that runs into Sunderland (where 45,000 people want to get to for a football game).

There were nearly 9,000 Rovers fans there on Wednesday night. Less than for a league game but you and I were hardly “a few”.

At West Ham Garrett was much better than Adam Wharton. There seems to be an automatic assumption on here that Adam Wharton should be starting regularly and Jake Garrett is a sub at best. Part from the Blackpool game I’m seeing no evidence of that. It’s way too early to be making definitive predictions about both to be honest.

The TV companies at the end of the day are interested in viewers rather than league positions. They are more likely to choose teams towards the top because that might bring in more neutrals but any game involving the likes of Sunderland, Sheffield United, West Brom are going to bring in more simply because they have more fans.

Apparent he’s also a boycotting ST holder as well. I wasn’t aware Burnley had any, especially someone it seems so committed.

There’s compensation but at a lot less for the away team.

There were at least two - I think Dack and Ayala.

He deserved to be dropped - he was poor at West Ham and rightly substituted. Just back at my son’s in London tucking into a really nice Chilean Pinot Noir.

If I’m celebrating at 7pm I will be ecstatic, as the game won’t finish until c7.25.

They all played in the last round at West Ham - three of them played the whole two hours. One of them scored and four of them scored penalties in a pressure situation in front of 40,000+.

It is now, but it won’t be by next Wednesday.

It's on at 17.30 here so it should be on at 11.30 CST, not 13.30. Or was that your plan, to deliberately miss it?

I give in, are they? The Rovers website still seems to be selling tickets for the game.

What information do you need Rigger? The club website is showing the game on at Leyland on Wednesday 1st Feb.

I'm going to this game. It's a new ground for me and, from my son's house in East London, a lot nearer than from home. It was even more enticing when I bought my train ticket from Stratford to Norwich but now with a rail strike I will still have a 2 hour drive.

What’s that got to do with where the shirts are made. I’m not defending the club, as I don’t know what has happened, but I imagine whoever they get their shirts from has a store a lot nearer than China.