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Post by socrates on Feb 8, 2022 21:42:15 GMT
I don’t understand why we used coutts as a deep laying playmaker , he was marked constantly yet we would go back from attacking midfield positions to pass to him when he was between the centre backs.
We dominated possession but it feels like 50% of our passes were nothing balls to Coutts .
It had a very Ben Garner feel about it tonight, not enough effort , not enough strength and way too many stupid pointless passes which slowed us down.
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Post by nsblue on Feb 8, 2022 21:42:23 GMT
Over 70% possession but we never dominated in the right area's or created enough chances given how much we had the ball. It felt like a Garner-esqe performance
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 8, 2022 21:42:57 GMT
Defence is relegation quality- Harries and Houle terrible- can only pass backwards the pair of them. Was Saunders playing? We lacked a physical presence up front. We will struggle to get anything saturday.
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Post by Russgas on Feb 8, 2022 21:43:12 GMT
Pathetic, gutless and clueless. Just passing it backwards and sideways all game with no penetration what so ever. 4-1 would have been a fair score line.
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Feb 8, 2022 21:43:37 GMT
Wrong team selection, wrong tactics But, but we are going up mind
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Post by Midsomer Murderer on Feb 8, 2022 21:43:47 GMT
Fans mentioning Harries on Twitter with dogs abuse. This is the Rovers some of you wanted 👏 ?
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Post by Wimborne Gas on Feb 8, 2022 21:44:20 GMT
Fans mentioning Harries on Twitter with dogs abuse. This is the Rovers some of you wanted 👏 ? ??
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Post by brfclee on Feb 8, 2022 21:44:25 GMT
Well that was awful, most of the players completely off the game tonight.
I have to say those saying that Harries is a liability are completely wrong, he is far worse than that. There is no excusing it, I don't like criticising players as they try there best, but not only is his best on par with Bristol and District 5, he doesn't even try half the time, so lacklustre, awful.
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Post by Big Jock on Feb 8, 2022 21:44:30 GMT
Th vultures are circling , night everyone 🤦♂️
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Post by bidefordgas on Feb 8, 2022 21:44:47 GMT
Luke Thomas seemed like the only one really doing anything since he came on Exactly, all our so say stars absolutely useless and what on earth did Saunders contribute all night, did he even touch the ball? Any of us could have kept goal for Oldham tonight, must have been their keepers quietest game of the season.
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Post by gasman on Feb 8, 2022 21:45:00 GMT
I knew this would happen on paper it looked like easy points but this is Rovers very poor tonight by so many of the team, we move on UTG
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Post by percy on Feb 8, 2022 21:45:17 GMT
It’s all about how we react Saturday. Mansfield won again and will make us pay if we play anywhere near that bad. Hopefully we see a reaction and maybe some players returning. Grant and Taylor most importantly
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Post by Dirt Dogg on Feb 8, 2022 21:47:10 GMT
Don’t like to single anyone out after a poor performance all round, but Harries really is dogsh*t. Think you’re giving him too much credit ! Would love to see his stats on how every forward ball he plays he gives away . Get bloody rid ffs . The best ball playing defender in the league according to Ben Garneriola.
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Post by plymouthgas on Feb 8, 2022 21:47:13 GMT
We had the ball for over an hour tonight, and we created 1 chance. Absolutely awful
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Post by socrates on Feb 8, 2022 21:47:18 GMT
Well f**k me that was just about as bad a first 40 minutes that I’ve ever seen by the Gas but the goal gives us hope. Our plan A for the first 40 minutes was pass it sideways or backwards to Coutts who was always under pressure and usually gave the ball away. We stopped doing that towards the end and I thought they looked shakey at the back. We’re not out of this yet but we need to defend better and stop the pointless balls in midfield that are putting us under pressure and hit the attacking players quicker. Well it didn’t happen , more pointless balls to a player that I see as a Stuart Sinclair / Ogogo type player , more of a holding midfield ball winner. Why oh why we kept giving it to him to make things happen when we had players on the pitch that can I just cannot see.
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Post by dudelebowski on Feb 8, 2022 21:48:38 GMT
In short.
A *ing disgraceful performance.
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Post by rememberhalifax on Feb 8, 2022 21:49:10 GMT
Disappointed? yes ,bitterly, surprised? not really, best wait for 'sick' parade before being to critical but at the end of the day if we were serious about play offs we had to get something from this game ,prob 3pts.its been a while since we had this kind of disappointment but that does not make it any easier to take, a lot of fans saw this as an easy 3pts, it was never gonna be that .
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Post by socrates on Feb 8, 2022 21:49:19 GMT
We had the ball for over an hour tonight, and we created 1 chance. Absolutely awful Coutts has the ball for about 30 minutes. That tells the story as I snd others have said it was very Garner- essq with coutts playing the Westbrooke role.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Feb 8, 2022 21:49:20 GMT
One of those nightmare days that can happen. Taylor is a massive loss just before kick off and then Evans early on. We obviously should still have done better but Oldham had their tails up and didn’t give us much space all evening. They deserve some credit as well as just focussing on our deficiencies. I thought Connolly looked the best of our back four tonight and if we get Taylor back alongside him on Saturday we’ll look a lot better.
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Post by pirate on Feb 8, 2022 21:49:40 GMT
Back to reality. Not good enough.
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