matt83

Poor stuff so far this half.

They’re just the worst. I hope they don’t do well and we’re treated to a rendition of U-S-A, U-S-A

Played the yanks twice in the World Cup and haven’t beaten them. That’s fairly embarrassing

3-0

That’s exactly what I was picturing. Before that I had zero opinions on the Welsh would even route for other British team in spite of their chip on the shoulder for the English but that irked me

As much as Iran is a hideous political regime, it's tremendous to see the Welsh get beaten like that.

England clearly have no interest in this 50 overs mini series. Can’t blame them really - a lengthy t20 tour of Pakistan, then the t20 World Cup. Now 3 pointless ODI games, just let the buggers come home and have a couple of months off before flying to NZ for the test series.

That women in the studio is talking rubbish. Wales can afford to rest bale on Friday... Does she realise it's a group. I was amazed Roy Keane didn’t laugh or sneer more at that comment! It’s not like wales reserves would guarantee a win vs Iran - even the first team wouldn’t be certain of it! Yes let Swindon's Johnny Williams play instead or Portsmouth’s Joe Morrell

I’ve only watched the 2nd half and they keep alluding to the fact the yanks were decent (or wales poor) in the first half. But from what I’ve seen of this half England should walk it on Friday.

For a World Cup with such an ignominious build up I thought the football at least may do the talking. 5 mins in and the farce off the pitch is replicated on it.

Plus when the bulk of the Brits get over. You’ve got an irreverent culture (including self-deprecation) colliding with a culture that will execute its own subjects for blasphemy. I can see this going well.

I smell another farce from the rovers hierarchy. I guarantee they won’t have realised yet and will frantically relocate it to Leyland or somewhere.

Since France 98 in the World Cup and France 2016 in the euros qualification has been a joke. There should be an element of achievement in qualifying for the World Cup and Euros but for the likes of England qualification is all but guaranteed before a ball is kicked and increasing it to 48 teams even gives the dregs a realistic chance of qualifying. Personally I’d shake the whole qualifying process up anyway. In Europe I’d have a tournament running while the main tournament is on for the likes of Gibraltar, San Marino, faro islands, Estonia, Latvia, Scotland, etc. The minority of those then get through into the main qualifying group. Also picking on CONCACAF (but there’s others) for 4 of them to qualify that’s a joke. Pretty much Mexico, usa, Costa Rica guaranteed to qualify with Canada beating a Caribbean island. This isn’t a modern school sports day where everyone is a winner it’s the elite international tournament.

Yeah I wouldn’t consider any more than 24 teams for a World Cup and 16 for a euros. Make it more interesting than a string of fairly dull one sides games (much like the qualifiers)

I enjoyed that. Porto had about 5 black lads that looked about 10 foot tall. Probably fortunate to get a draw all in all but still always disappointing to concede in injury time. Thought the rovers lads on the left put a decent shift in but had no idea who they were (batty/gent 🤷‍♂️) and the lad up front (Leonard) looked decent if a little isolated, even more so in the 2nd half for obvious reasons. Going forward Eastham should be looking to dethrone pears as the no 2.

👍. I was picturing the club doing something daft like forgetting there’s a game on locking the car park doors. 🤣

England 1-0 Iran. Holland Denmark Germany Brazil England France Belgium Portugal Gone for a Denmark upset vs Argentina to split from the pack. 🤷‍♂️ Hopefully if all goes well in the group we have the beating of Senegal/Ecuador. But the quarters look tough

What’s the crack with parking? With there being 100 or so on I’m picturing being able to effectively drive right up to the ground and park on that car park then have zero issues getting off afterwards. Just seems a bit of a trek from the usual spot near the havelock for such a game.

True. But you don’t have to be Nostradamus to see where this one is going

It’s operation dumb down and sweep everything under the carpet. We are in a false position in terms of performances in the league and beaten 2 division 4 sides on what should ordinarily be a standard cup run. So when the luck runs out, and it will be when, Rovers will plummet down a poor league. Those very same fans who are lauding 3rd and the last 16 of the league cup as a justifiable excuse for anything will be finding reasons (excuses) to use for why where we will be is brilliant. Red hot favourites trotted out-budget, parachute payments, manager still learning his trade, anyone can beat anyone.

Can you imagine having that as a job. Trawling through a website on behalf on cretins who couldn’t care less about what’s being said on said site. I’m picturing swag and Barry bling sat across a huge table asking for a report on what’s been written. Well the majority still despise you and for 12 years now all they’ve wanted is a properly run football club….bah not on our watch. Get out and find posts which say we’re not awful.

I wonder how many championship clubs are actually affected by the World Cup or international fixtures. More the newly relegated sides but I’d be tempted to play the season as normal from the championship and below instead of league one and below.

What’s the usual attendance at this level? I saw that fixture for a fiver and thought might head along unless something comes up. I’m guessing a couple of hundred

When jdt arrived he talked about the high press and even mocked the pointless possession at the back as the Dutch disease. So most people, including myself, thought high press that’s dack finished. In the mother of all ironies we play the most pedestrian pointless possession football going and hope that when eventually go direct the forwards can work some individual magic to unlock defences. Surely this crap we’re playing now is more suited to Dack.

So mola selected for his pace. Interesting considering we were set up to defend so deep pace wasn’t necessary. Still we defended well apparently.