Exiled_Rover

GK: Wahlstedt RB: Rankin Costello CB: Carter CB: Hyam LB: Brittain CM: ? CM: A. Wharton AMR: Moran AMC: Szmodics AML: Sigurdsson CF: ?

Ennis has a knee injury. JRC has shifted into CM twice this season and bossed it - not sure why they're so hesitant to make it a permanent thing.

They released a short video on Twitter of Sigurdsson going through the motions 1-on-1 with a coach last week. It's obviously a step up between that and training at full speed with the first XI, so he still looks on track to be eased into first team action after the international break.

We should be winning this if we've got promotion aspirations. Alas Sigurdsson and Ennis won't be playing so we won't have the firepower we need to make this game a certain banker.

I hope we bury them and empty the bench.

We think he's injured.

Composed on the ball, athletic enough to play out wide (without being incredibly quick) and like he hadn't ever trained with his teammates before. Definitely a lot more to come from him. Not sure why it's taken us all summer to get him in if he was linked in June.

You poor sod. I play football with a PNE fan - they really do have the thinnest skin. Calls Rovers fans 'plastics' (whatever that means), but if you fire anything back they get very defensive.

They're brought in 10 new players (and spent nearly £7m in the process) - I'd be disappointed if they weren't good this year.

Vale would have helped his cause by breaking a sweat every now and again.

LOL he genuinely might get himself sacked in a post match interview. Love it.

I've just seen that they've spent £110m on transfers this summer - that's astounding.

We do if we bring in a #9. New player, Ennis and Gallagher for one position is more than enough - I don't want him buried during this pivotal development period just in case we might need him.

It looks like he's lost his ability to control a football.

We paid a transfer fee for 5 of that starting 11 today (6 of the 15 that played today) - less than £5m in total. I wouldn't even like to start totting up what that Watford squad cost to assemble - their new striker was £2m alone. JDT is doing an incredible job - and so are our Academy coaches, to be fair.

Neither did Rhodes or a whole host of goal scorers I could mention. His movement is very good - I haven't seen him take enough shots to say what his finishing is like, but if you're a yard ahead in your head you can be a nightmare for defenders. He's athletic enough to play in this league, without being incredibly big / fast. We needed someone to get onto the end of balls last season - as much as I'd like a Drogba clone, in this formation it's not required.

Smash and grab implies that we were second best - I don't think they troubled us. A worldie of a strike hit the crossbar and Pears made a good save. Otherwise did they really threaten our goal?

I'd like to see Leonard loaned out to a L1 team. There's a very good player in there, but I'd rather he learned on the job elsewhere and for us to bring in a #9.

Imagine JDT with that Watford squad - they'd batter us.

'Assistant referee', if you're being pedantic.

I don't think he gave the ball away when he came on. Clearly a tidy player and a massive step up from Dolan. He's decently athletic too, which is what I was mainly worried about.

Their coaching staff looked absolutely gutted on the bench. You'd think they'd lost to a non-league side by their reaction.

As it wasn't in the box that would have been very generous.

Booked for cramp - this ref really is a tosser.

What's our xG now?