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Post by knowall on Nov 1, 2017 15:29:33 GMT
A dreadful and unfair report imo,with us playing friday night the selection was always going to be difficult for the manager. Im sure he hoped for a better performance but he was right to make the match a low priority and protect as many 1st choice players as possible from injury. Marcus stewarts post match interview gave a much more balanced view of the game and the difficulties rovers faced against a good young side. Make no mistake some of the players playing last night are close to the exit door but there were encouraging performances from russe,hargreaves and dunwald.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 15:57:15 GMT
No real interest in this Checkatrade competition but it does give fringe players and youngsters a chance to impress. Sounds like with the exception of a few they did not take that opportunity. That's a shame but one that primarily impacts on them.
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Post by Gastafari on Nov 1, 2017 16:45:44 GMT
Sorry but if the players didn't give two hoots then they deserve to have their contracts ripped up. Why? Should the supporters who don't give two hoots about this farcical, shambles of a competition have their season tickets ripped up or banned from ever going to future games too? Its a pointless sham, and us as a club, whether it be fans, players, Management and owners should be letting the powers that be know what a pointless sham it is. Im hugely disappointed that as many as 1500 turned up to watch it.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 1, 2017 17:12:19 GMT
So Bluebutterfly why was it a dreadful and unfair report. I have no reason to give such whereas Marcus Stewart does in his position. As I say lets see how we fare on Friday night. To play with no cr4eative midfielder last night was stupid and apart from the goal we created very little. Most players were awful as was the team performance. Please advise why it was dreadful and unfair. Did you think it was a good Team Performance or individual performance? You say DC hoped for a better performance but why should he obtain that with Sinclair and Russe in the engine room. I am at5 loss to explain a midfield of Broom, Sinclair,Russe and Moore and would NOT expect to beat any team either from League 1 or 2 or the National League with that quartet and I stand by what I have said.
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Post by peterparker on Nov 1, 2017 17:17:06 GMT
So Bluebutterfly why was it a dreadful and unfair report. I have no reason to give such whereas Marcus Stewart does in his position. As I say lets see how we fare on Friday night. To play with no cr4eative midfielder last night was stupid and apart from the goal we created very little. Most players were awful as was the team performance. Please advise why it was dreadful and unfair. Did you think it was a good Team Performance or individual performance? You say DC hoped for a better performance but why should he obtain that with Sinclair and Russe in the engine room. I am at5 loss to explain a midfield of Broom, Sinclair,Russe and Moore and would NOT expect to beat any team either from League 1 or 2 or the National League with that quartet and I stand by what I have said. no creative midfielder, but aren't Broom and Moore wingers (whether they are/were any good is immaterial to your comment). wouldn't it be Sinclair and Russe job to get the ball and give it to the wingers to attack
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Nov 1, 2017 17:19:34 GMT
So Bluebutterfly why was it a dreadful and unfair report. I have no reason to give such whereas Marcus Stewart does in his position. As I say lets see how we fare on Friday night. To play with no cr4eative midfielder last night was stupid and apart from the goal we created very little. Most players were awful as was the team performance. Please advise why it was dreadful and unfair. Did you think it was a good Team Performance or individual performance? You say DC hoped for a better performance but why should he obtain that with Sinclair and Russe in the engine room. I am at5 loss to explain a midfield of Broom, Sinclair,Russe and Moore and would NOT expect to beat any team either from League 1 or 2 or the National League with that quartet and I stand by what I have said. Regarding the midfield, there was obvious logic in resting Ollie Clarke, Lines and Sercombe for yesterday's relatively meaningless match in a competition which we are rightly not prioritising, given the amount of game time they have had this season. There was obvious logic in playing Sincs to get more minutes into his legs after his injury. It was then just a case of who to play alongside him. Which other central midfielder apart from Russe has been remotely near the squad, let alone the starting XI? But of course, DC's decision was stupid.
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Post by pirate49 on Nov 1, 2017 17:22:03 GMT
On a lighter note, after playing at first some excellent Northern Soul tracks the first track played in the 'official' build-up was Ghost Town by the Specials. Made I chuckle anyways.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 17:41:53 GMT
So Bluebutterfly why was it a dreadful and unfair report. I have no reason to give such whereas Marcus Stewart does in his position. As I say lets see how we fare on Friday night. To play with no cr4eative midfielder last night was stupid and apart from the goal we created very little. Most players were awful as was the team performance. Please advise why it was dreadful and unfair. Did you think it was a good Team Performance or individual performance? You say DC hoped for a better performance but why should he obtain that with Sinclair and Russe in the engine room. I am at5 loss to explain a midfield of Broom, Sinclair,Russe and Moore and would NOT expect to beat any team either from League 1 or 2 or the National League with that quartet and I stand by what I have said. It demonstrates quite clearly that there is no quality strength in depth with this squad. - it's compounded with the problem that 4/5 players this season are under performing consistently badly.
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Post by BishopstonBRFC on Nov 1, 2017 17:47:17 GMT
Well I went but wished I hadn't. Not because of the competition but because I saw One team that was a delight to watch and one team that was boring and predictable. I will leave you to work out which team was us but come the end I was embarrassed by the total lack of quality on show. I just cannot work out why DC bothered to put a strong team out against Wycombe and then put that team out last night. Sinclair in midfield with another defensive youngster and two useless wingers gave us no chance whatsoever whoever we were playing. I would go as far as to say that most if not all of the National League teams would have beaten us- we really were that bad but what you could tell was that it was a DC side letting the opposition have the ball at the back exactly the same as Saturday but the big difference being that West ham were a lot better with the ball than MK Dons There was no creativity whatsoever in our side and the only players who came out with any credit were the youngsters who tried hard,possibly Nicholls and that was about it. The result and performance on Friday night will for me give the final answer as to whether DC was right to put out such a weak side but I am not confident that DC will improve on his dismal record in the FA Cup. Probably because he has about as much interest in this shitfest of a trophy as the majority of our fans do.
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Post by syg on Nov 1, 2017 18:04:43 GMT
We were playing west hams up and coming, did you expect bristol rovers to be better than a team of players believed to be good enough for the prem.
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Post by Topper Gas on Nov 1, 2017 18:14:43 GMT
So Bluebutterfly why was it a dreadful and unfair report. I have no reason to give such whereas Marcus Stewart does in his position. As I say lets see how we fare on Friday night. To play with no cr4eative midfielder last night was stupid and apart from the goal we created very little. Most players were awful as was the team performance. Please advise why it was dreadful and unfair. Did you think it was a good Team Performance or individual performance? You say DC hoped for a better performance but why should he obtain that with Sinclair and Russe in the engine room. I am at5 loss to explain a midfield of Broom, Sinclair,Russe and Moore and would NOT expect to beat any team either from League 1 or 2 or the National League with that quartet and I stand by what I have said. I guess the club sent out a message last night that they have zero interest in this competition, that being the case I hope more fans boycott the next game, and should we manage to beat Wycombe also any future games.
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Post by Marshy on Nov 1, 2017 18:19:16 GMT
So Bluebutterfly why was it a dreadful and unfair report. I have no reason to give such whereas Marcus Stewart does in his position. As I say lets see how we fare on Friday night. To play with no cr4eative midfielder last night was stupid and apart from the goal we created very little. Most players were awful as was the team performance. Please advise why it was dreadful and unfair. Did you think it was a good Team Performance or individual performance? You say DC hoped for a better performance but why should he obtain that with Sinclair and Russe in the engine room. I am at5 loss to explain a midfield of Broom, Sinclair,Russe and Moore and would NOT expect to beat any team either from League 1 or 2 or the National League with that quartet and I stand by what I have said. I guess the club sent out a message last night that they have zero interest in this competition, that being the case I hope more fans boycott the next game, and should we manage to beat Wycombe also any future games. Should we manage to beat Wycombe? Just the 5 - 1 then.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 1, 2017 18:31:13 GMT
I would expect a decent League 1 side to beat West hams U23 but as regards no interest that seems a stupid comment after beating Wycombe 5-1 in the first match.
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Post by mariobalotelli on Nov 1, 2017 18:37:01 GMT
I would expect a decent League 1 side to beat West hams U23 but as regards no interest that seems a stupid comment after beating Wycombe 5-1 in the first match. Not really a stupid comment though as it as the boycott shared by a very high majority of fans around the country is against U23’s, not fellow league teams
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Nov 1, 2017 19:36:19 GMT
I would expect a decent League 1 side to beat West hams U23 but as regards no interest that seems a stupid comment after beating Wycombe 5-1 in the first match. DC is managing his squad. Three days after a league match, against an u23 side and with two cup games coming up fast, is it not obvious that this would be the game he chose to rest a lot of players? This way he could see how some of his youth players measured up against youth players at a higher level. If he'd played a first team he and they would have been on a hiding to nothing, and had Gaffers or Lines limped off with an injury where would that have left us? In my opinion, DC's selection wasn't stupid and I don't think fans (me included) thinking that this competition is our lowest priority is stupid either.
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Post by seanclevedongas on Nov 1, 2017 22:18:25 GMT
Agree with everything you say Steve but Sweeney was dreadful, i don't know whats got into him, he even made Burn look good Maybe Sweeney needs a Lumley. What is Wael doing with Joanna??
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Post by tommym9 on Nov 1, 2017 22:26:17 GMT
When I saw the line up it was obviously a chance for the fringe players and youth players to get some minutes.
With that in mind it's no real surprise it was an awful performance and I doubt anyone will lose any sleep over it either
Friday is the important game against a county team that is going well in the league.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 23:54:27 GMT
So Bluebutterfly why was it a dreadful and unfair report. I have no reason to give such whereas Marcus Stewart does in his position. As I say lets see how we fare on Friday night. To play with no cr4eative midfielder last night was stupid and apart from the goal we created very little. Most players were awful as was the team performance. Please advise why it was dreadful and unfair. Did you think it was a good Team Performance or individual performance? You say DC hoped for a better performance but why should he obtain that with Sinclair and Russe in the engine room. I am at5 loss to explain a midfield of Broom, Sinclair,Russe and Moore and would NOT expect to beat any team either from League 1 or 2 or the National League with that quartet and I stand by what I have said. Dc played the weakest team he was allowed to play. The team he picked meant that smith,brown,lockyer,broadbent,sercombe,lines,o clarke,harrison,gaffney and partington could not possibly get injured,in other words he made the game a low priority. Broom,russe,burn,dunwald and hargreaves are young players who were given a chance to impress against good quality opposition with mixed results. If shrewsbury or bradford left 8 first choice players out against that west ham team the result would have been exactly the same. As marcus stewarts interview pointed out you learn what players can and cant do in games like this and on the night some showed their limitations. There were positives for me,hargreaves and dunwald both impressed imo,russe kept at it and had a decent 2nd half,leadbitter played against a fine young player but got on top of him in the 2nd half and delivered a couple of fine crosses into the box. You didnt even bother to analyse the young lads individual performances?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2017 0:10:49 GMT
Agree with everything you say Steve but Sweeney was dreadful, i don't know whats got into him, he even made Burn look good Scab.
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Post by stevek192 on Nov 2, 2017 0:52:52 GMT
It wasn't a match report as such Bluebutterfly.
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