Bristol Rovers vs Accrington MATCHDAY THREAD

You lucky bugger, here I am sitting with a coffee like a mug, reading the last few pages on the match day thread reliving the great performance last night that I had to sadly watch hunched over my laptop and now I need to leave for work.

Have a good weekend fella 🍻😜

Didn't watch last night, but big congrats to the boys in blue & white. Especially pleased for JB, hope you get us plenty more results like that.
The Gas are staying UP.

Absolutely great night with a performance and result that I doubted was possible. Well played guys. The challenge now is to take that performance onto the next game and the ones after that.

That was more like it, great display of attacking football and some cracking goals. Accrington (who are they) simply could not cope with us and we could easily have scored another four.
If that's a glimpse of what Joey Barton's can do for us then I want to see more.
Of course we need to follow up with the same Saturday, but I am a lot more optimistic than I have been all season COYB.

Oztumer played for the development squad again today, can only assume it’s to gain fitness?? Would like to see what he can do under Barton

Yeah I imagine it is to get minutes into those that aren't starting. Not just Oz; Little, Hare, Tutonda, Daly all played.

Something quite satisfying about seeing that sort of strength having to play development games because they can't get into the starting 11.

Didn't want to post on the Accrington matchday thread in case I put the 'Jester curse of Accrington' on the team! Probably safe now?? Great performance last night, with Ayunga deservedly MOM, although I think Rodman ran him close. Westbrooke also had one of his best matches and I think JB has found the best position for him higher up the pitch. The 'high press was extremely effective against Accrington and you can see that teams at this level struggle against it. Upson had a good game, replacing Grant, as did McCormick returning from his ban, although there were still signs of the 'impetuousness of youth' there. And, as the commentators said, the amount of defending back that Sam Nicholson did seemed to be something that JB has added to his game. The defence looked more solid with Baldwin back in. I think he might become another TC, because him and Kilgour seem to have a 'better understanding' than Ehmer/Kilgour or Harries/Kilgour, although with all of them there appears to be a mistake waiting to happen. My only problem is the number of goals that go in at the near post. Maybe this is why Day hasn't progressed as people expected. He looked unbeatable for Newport against all sorts of strikes and there is no doubt he is a good shot stopper and appears to command his area, but I seem to remember in the Quest round-ups in his early Newport days, seeing a few go past him at the near post. I hope I'm wrong, because he's the best we've got until Jaakola gets fit(?). I'm now looking forward to Saturday and I haven't been able to say that much this season!
UTG

Don’t particularly like your view point of Hanlan to be honest. You are entitled to your opinion so that’s fine but I find it an inaccurate account from my point of view.

McCormick definitely passed. Not hard enough for a shot.