Bristol Rovers vs Blackpool Official Match Thread

So is life, nothing against the guy but only my opinion 🤷‍♂️
Happy New year

Apart from holding up the ball on several occasions when he was the only Rovers player near the front line and several good passes to Nicholson and Westbrook.  But yes, apart from that he didn't do anything other than score the first goal.  He's a young player learning how to be more effective and gives his all in every game.

What more do you want?

Just 1 more would have been perfect, although I did have a little tickle on 2 - 1 😁.

Yes, but on the first occasion he then did nothing with it. Really frustrated me, never tackles, always standing off even when he has an extra player backing him up, seems concerned that he might get hit when he has the ball, unlike Ozzie or McCormick who are equally positive forward players. 

Hanlan is good, and could get even better. He works hard and as soon as the ball was played in for the first goal I knew he was going to score. Shame about the two misses. He falls over a bit too easily for my liking, trying to get free kicks, but the refs seem to be wise to it. Be good for him to have Daly back.

I thought Westbrook had a good game, always available and tried to look after the ball. McCormick is ace, it would be great if we could sign him.

I thought Leahy did ok today, apart from the moronic moment at the end and a couple of wayward crosses. He is way better than Tutonda. I like Ehmer but he isn’t quick enough for a full back I fear. Alfie did well.

I can't see how anybody can say Westbrook had a good game when he was a virtual passenger for the last 15 or so minutes. Surely he could try and tackle/block the ball occasionally.

As far as Leahy at the death, wasn't he just unlucky the ball rebounded back off him after it hit the Blackpool player. Regardless unless we sign our 5 LB in January he's the best of Tutonda (did he leave with BG!), Kelly & Kioki. RB is a bigger concern unless Little ever gets fully fit.

Three million is a lot of dosh.  Yep.  I'd take that.

Pleased with the win. Could have made life easier by taking our chances but in turn they missed some good chance & JVS saved a couple, so in the end Nicholson’s goal worthy of winning the game.
You expect a few missed chances in normal conditions but in this start stop season, where players are probably not firing as they should, we shouldn’t be too hard on Hanlon, he runs his socks off, and scored a tidy goal, although I think he is a bit predictable trying to run through 3 or 4 players all the time, I feel he needs to mix it up more. His pen miss just one of those things.
The things that infuriate me is how easy it is to get crosses into our box, but on the plus side we look so much more comfortable defending them than we did earlier in the season. The other is Westbrook, I really want him to do well as it looks like there is a good player there, but he never seems ‘busy’ enough, apart from one or two moments today, he just seemed to jog his way through the game without having any real effect either defensively or in the attacking wise, in fact today I thought he seemed in no mans land a lot of the time.
Still 3 points is 3 points, we would have lost that a couple of months ago, well done boys.

We are so lucky to have someone like you.