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arbitro

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  1. Coincidentally Nicky Marker was on the pitch at half time yesterday and looked really well. He spoke really fondly about his time at Rovers and how he was made welcome.
  2. I have just seen the winning goal and it looks like Hyam is jumping with divers boots on. A simple header into the box and we get done by it. Yesterday Plymouth played a really high line and the number of times Yuki angled his run to get in behind but wasn't seen was frustrating. The sideways passing becomes habitual and when another option is available invariably it just wasn't seen.
  3. That was a negative - the drive home was a killer yesterday 😁
  4. What an awful week as a Rovers fan.. Nigh on 1000 miles, a pitiful performance at Coventry and a defeat at Plymouth with a goal in the sixth minute of stoppage time. Eustace has to drop his nice guy image and add some players after today and sideline them for a while. Dolan had his one in ten game against QPR and then reverted to type. Awful decision making invariably loses possession and allows the opposition to counter. He needs dropping. I also think we need a specialist right back not a makeshift one. It seemed that Plymouth targeted Carter in the first half as he struggled against Cissoko. I don't blame him, it's on Eustace. Hyam is certainly the weakest link in a position where you need the strongest. His feeble attempt for their second goal should ensure a spell on the bench. Weimann and Hedges aren't contributing nearly enough. Ironically though I thought Pickering was one of the better players today and he will be a shoe-in to get dropped in favour of Beck. Up to Tuesday things were going ok but this week some of the misgivings from last season have resurfaced. Losing can quickly become a habit and Eustace, like all managers will be judged on results.
  5. Conspicuous by his absence in the technical area recently I was wondering about David Lowe. By coincidence I saw him walking out of Ewood last night and asked why he wasn't in Plymouth and he told me he is going to do a scouting report at Swansea tomorrow. It appears he has new role certainly for match days.
  6. Not for me. He was a great example of a 'manufactured' referee with no feel or empathy for the game.
  7. An entertaining match at Ewood that the referee did his best to ruin. Rovers started really well and Leicester looked like but to be fair they played their way back into the game and deservedly equalised with a penalty naively conceded by Michalski. Rovers again went in front only for a resilient Leicester to equalise again. The winner came in the last couple of minutes from a corner with a great delivery from Beck smartly headed home by Edmondson. Both teams finished with ten with an over zealous referee issuing a total of the yellow cards, most of them unnecessary in my view.
  8. It's one of where you want both to lose. However my dislike of the Dingles wants me to see Nobbers win. A few sending offs for both wouldn't go amiss though.
  9. Ex Dingle signs for Plymouth. Hopefully he won't be playing tomorrow.
  10. I rate him highly and against the real threat Plymouth have from their pacy wide players I think he would be our best option tomorrow at right back. It's nonsensical to me to play out best centre back out of position when we have good, natural right backs on the bench.
  11. I don't know who these two are but they have it absolutely right for me.
  12. I genuinely don't know but both punishments were handed out by different associations.
  13. The ten game ban was for an incident in the PL under the jurisdiction of the FA. From memory his other sending off was in the World Cup under the jurisdiction of FIFA.
  14. There is a precedent here with Suarez getting ten games. Anything less than that will be a disgrace but as you rightly say the FA are so inconsistent.
  15. I'd give them a call first thing tomorrow and let them know. They are going off sale at noon but I'd expect them to be sending some down for collection. If it doesn't look like yours will get to you I'd hope they could send you a replacement down for collection.
  16. A friend and his grandson both got refunds.
  17. I saw your update on there but noticed it wasn't pinned. Mods please 😁
  18. I noticed on Tuesday he went over to Sakamoto when he sustained what has proved to be a nasty injury. He spoke to him and touched him in a really nice gesture. It's not often a player from the opposition will console a stricken opponent.
  19. I saw Plymouth beat Luton recently and their best two players were Cissoko and Whitaker who play out wide and have pace to burn. I believe that our weakest area on Saturday will be at full back if he stays with Carter. I don't often do predictions but I'm more worried about this game than I should be.
  20. Thanks for the updates. I think this huge effort is worth its own thread Abbey.
  21. At Liverpool they know they can always sell those tickets or season tickets to some Scandinavian who will pay top dollar. If someone decides not to buy a ticket or season ticket for Rovers invariably that supporter is gone, usually forever. That is a reality and concept the likes of Waggott will never understand.
  22. Only two players from that Rovers line up started last night.
  23. It's high time Duru was given a Championship start. Carter is a stand in at right back and at times it shows. Even playing a back five would be fine with me but Eustace needs square pegs in square holes. Ironically Carter was by no means the worst last night but it's unfair to expect him to do what a natural right back is expected to do. This silly tactic of Pears kicking it out wide for Carter to head on is a folly. If Pears tried it ten times last night it might have worked once. Another irritant last night was how we fell into the trap Coventry set. Countless times they let us have it and a really impressive press put pressure on us and we have it away cheaply. Why didn't Eustace tell them to by pass the press and look to get us in behind? We aren't a pacy team by any stretch of the imagination but at times last night too many looked like they were running in treacle. A huge improvement against a quick passing, sharp looking Plymouth is required otherwise the result will be the same. We need a game plan.
  24. Not one player tonight comes out with any credit. Coventry didn't really have to get out of third gear and still won in a canter. We were slow in possession and out of possession, lacked any real aggression and the decision making from every player was extremely poor. They looked like scoring from every set piece they had and this has been going on since the Derby game. It really needs sorting and Coventry had clearly identified this as a weakness. Dolan exasperates me. On Saturday he was really good - tonight (an early run apart) he was the polar opposite. Did he forget that we had changed ends? To call it a schoolboy error would be an insult to schoolboys. Hyam went back to Mr Softy and allowed himself to be bullied and Baath was marginally better. The experiment of Carter at full back should have ended tonight. His positional play just isn't good enough to play full back. Tronstadt gave probably his poorest performance in a Rovers shirt and Travis looked so hesitant in possession. Cantwell must have had his eyes opened tonight as the pace of Coventry left him looking bewildered. Ohashi was isolated and in such a disjointed performance was feeding off scraps. The substitutes offered nothing. Pears' distribution was awful. It's an interesting situation now for team selection for Saturday. Eustace has several big decisions to make but whoever is picked needs to show some fight and aggression. It seems already like the spirit we showed at Burnley has dissipated.
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