Devon Rover

35 minutes ago, RoversTilliDie said:

Don't forget our injuries, and threadbare squad. Let's not get to above ourselves, keep our feet on the ground, and pick up points.

I dont think our injuries are our biggest hindrance. Team selection and subs are often bizarre and do more harm than good. Same again with starting line up today. De Neve and Tavares shouldn't be anywhere near the line up, injuries or not.

2 hours ago, TheRoversGRL said:

We certainly don't think the owners are part of the solution. 

However, if certain people leave. We’re very certain the owners will follow. Hardest part is pleasing everyone. We’re trying our best

"Very certain" is a bold statement. The reasoning/theory for this should be shared, or the language reconsidered.

I have a good friend who is a Portsmouth fan. I met up with him at the same fixture last season, which was a horrible away day for us Rovers. He is dreading today's game (and every game, currently). Like us, injuries have hit them hard with no squad depth and defence a particular problem for today. Goals are there for our taking. His view is that if opponents can nullify the pace and creativity of Josh Murphy then Pompey have nothing at all going forward. His predictions is a Rovers win. I'm feeling similar in that a failure by Rovers to win this one will be a big disappointment and concern for the rest of the season.

How is Tavares still on the pitch? How the hell was he even allowed on the pitch? Utter shit.

Home against a shit team. 3 at the back (fine in itself) with a fucking awful "screening midfielder" as an extra defender, essentially, coupled with a midfield in TGH who seems to have idolised Jason Lowe as someone who's entire game seemed to be based on running around. Useless team, overly defensive and poorly organised. Needs baragi and cantwell at half time. 

Not a surprise and the only sad thing is I feel very little.

2 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Tonights swim team

Got to be one of the very worst central midfields Rovers have ever put out.

1 minute ago, NeilInBristol said:

lol!!!

you have to laugh 

My increasing dad jokes are a further sign of these desperate times!

At least I avoided signing off with "I'll get my (rain)coat"

12 hours ago, KidderStreetNoise said:

 

I like this. 

But I hadn't seen it before it was posted here (thank you).

Where has this statement, and perhaps others like it that I might have also not seen, landed/featured in the media? What impact has been made?

I'm asking with genuine curiosity and wishing for something to be picked up and resonate beyond Rovers fans' groups, but not really seeing it - yet.

3 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Well if you want to know the answers to your questions go and asked him and stop asking me questions I cant answer

Why would Hasta ask Nixon what you think?

The questions raised asking your opinion are valid and it would be interesting to know what you think on this (rather than just passing on other people's views without critically appraising them).

Just now, CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber said:

Place looks absolutely dead 

Its sad to see. But inevitable.

I just never felt like that goal wasn't going to come. We aren't good enough to take our chances and aren't good enough to hold onto a lead by sitting deep. It feels like a defeat. I really dislike this team.

9 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

State of that team/squad.

Its horrible isnt it. Overall, League 1 quality. Probably a big insult to most of league 1.

3 minutes ago, Gamst said:

Defeat to mediocre opposition at home is really poor. Should be holding out for a draw. The quality on display for both sides was appalling. Surely we have one of the poorest squads in the league and now with a few injuries it’s literally threadbare. A remarkable achievement for our billionaire owners given our 7th place finish last year. Very limited options on the bench. Absolutely no creativity on the pitch with an ageing Forshaw on set pieces. We didn’t look like scoring all night. We have so many matches back to back in the next 4 weeks and it doesn’t seem that any injuries are close to a return. The effort is always there and we just have to hope that it’s enough to get us enough points to scrape by. 

The effort wasn't there from De Neve. He was an utter embarrassment.

9 minutes ago, Elrovers said:

After Wrexham we have three home games in a row. I can only see us winning one which is against Sheffield Wednesday. 

I seriously have little confidence of beating Sheffield Wednesday at home. Their team will have more fight and championship nous than ours. 

Honestly, what's the point? Total shambles. Those substitutions. I think that's what have left me despondent about the season, tonight. What a horrible state of affairs.

Dreadful, insipid performance at home. Again. Not helped by a terrible trio of substitutions that would only ever impact the game in one way. No wonder hardly anyone is turning up at Ewood anymore. Horrible stuff.

9 hours ago, AspRover said:

If transfermarkt is anything to go by there's slim pickings.

Rui Patricio ex of wolves and Portugal is 37 and has settled status for a work permit

Fraser Forster likewise 37, there's a keeper who's been on the books at spurs and middlesbrough called Glover, 27 and no senior appearances to speak of. Thomas Vaclik, 36, Czech international spent some time at Huddersfield would get a permit.

Stankovic, 33, 4 caps for Austria last club AEK Athens, calculator recons work permit goes to a tribunal.

None of them really inspire confidence.

 

Interesting shouts. They might not inspire confidence but, for me, much more than Pears does. I doubt we will see anyone come in and, like others have said, we have just got to hope he grabs what is likely a last chance for him to be a first team goalkeeper at this level before his career is fully consigned to bench warming and training games.

2 hours ago, philipl said:

Bristol City supporter friend has texted me that they have a completely makeshift defense and midfield because of injuries and hoping we have no pace in our team.

Having seen their line up, and watched a bit of City, they definitely have a patched up defence and midfield that can be got at. But they still have good quality in goal, central defence captain, and front three. Their danger man is often McCrorie (their Alebiosu) and Randell in central midfield has the ability to run the game if we dont nullify him.

City fans around me seem confident. But I think we've got a chance here. Might come down to how much Rovers fancy it.

1 hour ago, 47er said:

Do we ever beat Bristol City away? I remember Kean's team doing it in our first season after relegation from the Premier League.

Some crazy score as I recall. 5-3 was it?

Actually I manned up and googled it. We've played them 10 times at Ashton Gate and won 3, lost 5.

That was actually a great day. I went to Ashton Gate for that one, and a few defeats since. I'll be there tomorrow but in a home fans section. Trying to rehearse my poker face for if Rovers score. Unsure if this is a skill I will actually require...!

A strong performance, that, leading to an unfamiliar feeling of winning fairly comfortably - and on Sky, too. Several things looking up, well played, Rovers.

2 hours ago, KentExile said:

Blackburn manager Valerien Ismael expects Moussa Baradji to make his debut after the next international break in November.

 

Note that he doesn't state just how much "after" the November break, so that statement covers any date until the end of the season 😉 

Until the end of time, in fact. And I'm still dubious!

I'm now based in Somerset. I get to 4 or 5 Rovers games a year. For convenience and, to be honest, increasingly due to disassociation with what Rovers has become, I attend a few Exeter City and Bristol City home games each year. Neither feels anything like the same as watching and supporting Rovers. The Bristol City games in particularly make me feel like I'm cheating on a lover!! I'll never feel the same emotion at any other club I watch but, to be honest, the less and less that Rovers feels like "my" club, the less that extra buzz really matters. Its sad but I feel like I'm fighting, with diminishing success, the loss of love for something that used to matter so much to me. One day, I suspect that politely clapping a local team that I don't love as much but who's ownership doesn't treat me, as a supporter, like an idiot will be enough for me to just stop going to Rovers, altogether and to simply listen out in hope for news of ownership change, but little more in the meantime.