The Pirates v Stevenage

In a physical division we need (or at least Clarke does) to think whether Lines' curling crosses are enough to justify a place in the team, because that's all he's contributed all season long. 

He simply refuses to tackle or to contact opposition players when they have the ball, they know they aren't going to get clattered, that gives them the time to think, get their head up and pass the ball with no pressure. 

He's a very talented footballer, but you need to win the right to play the fancy stuff, and he's never done that part of the game. Not in a Rovers' shirt anyway.

It's even worse than that Bernard, all Easter had to do was square the ball and it was a tap-in, instead he hit a shot that would draw laughs on the Downs. Whether the keeper got a touch or not isn't important, his next touch should have been picking it out of the net.

When you look at the length of his contract, my heart sinks.

Another poor home performance.

A healthy near 6000 crowd were dished up the same drivel that had let down the Mem in previous games.

I have to say apart from a penalty save versus part timers and one tonight from distance which he almost spilled, can anyone remember a save this clown has made? Everything just goes straight through him like he's not there. This keeper is a joke.

We play two wingers, so a great idea is to hoof the ball bypassing them to the smallest bloke on the pitch.....Matty Taylor take a bow son, you were brilliant.

When we have the ball, no movement. No one wants it. Except in defence when we're f ing around with it..

Lines 50% delivery hits the first man. For me, not a captain.

Hanna Montana had Jake Gosling disease from Saturday.

Why doesn't DC play 3-5-2 in second half with Leads overlapping? We looked awesome until Leads injury.

Very poor overall display. Stevenage offered our mate Matt but little else. Well organised in defence and we had no questions to ask apart from a good save by keeps when Easter was put through....and we were rewarded with a goal kick.

I'm sorry but near 6000 were let down tonight and it's only a matter of tome before loyalty dwindles too.

Great turn out Gas, but there's only so long folk will put up with watching a re run of poor football with little to show for it, apologies from management and the same again because cr@p player are played again..


Rant over.

Only 50% of Lines delivery hit first man? Maybe, but the remainder were god damn awful too. Roll a 10 yard pass to Brown to have a free shot, somehow put a bobble on it! Pathetic tonight and didn't provide anything else.

Easter did nothing of note and didn't even hold the ball up and link play like he has been. s**te shot when rolling it square was the better option.

Paris looked good and if he had received the ball from Easter would have had a goal and an assist on debut.

Billy good until doubled up on then drifted out of the game.

Defence decision making was shocking. Learn when to play out and when not to.

Keeper no better than what we had before.

That fella who can't score was IMMENSE. Ran his nuts off, won headers, linked play and started spreading the ball around with confidence. Keep going.

Clarke needs something though as it looked laboured and stale. No real game plan and our football is laboured. I think we are caught between a team with wingers who whip awful balls into a box with no strikers, and a team who want to play intricate football. We need to decide and stick with it before the atmosphere turns.

Our central midfield is the joke of the squad, not Nicholls.

About time some took off the short sighted easy target blinkers and actually got themselves a football brain.

It was.  It was even lower than Andy Fairweather.

Blimey, that takes me back. What was the group? Amen Corner?
Didnt we have a proper striker then in Alfie Biggs and a proper winger in Harold?
I seem to remember we regularly featured in potential promotion positions in what is now Div1. 

Still, you cant hold back progress can you.   

Stevenage not very good, we were awful, play ground defending by Sinclair caused the first goal, and Nichols watching it roll in the net, at least make an effort, and the second goal, DC says it was a great strike, I say it was a good strike which again Nichols should have tried to stop; and up front, Easter IMO not good enough, just had to slot the ball past their keeper for the second equaliser and misses the 22 foot wide goal mouth, not good enough. When a players in position the rest are motion less, the pace of the play and build up is so slow, its no wonder the team does not create enough goal scoring opportunities.