irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Apr 9, 2016 17:18:02 GMT
I think that's a good day at the office for us. 2-2 away at a side that has been comfortably the class of the league this season is a good effort.
Our run in looks handy. 5 games, 3 of them at home and none of them against sides who look particularly good. We do need some help elsewhere now but it is definitely game on. Yeovil and Exeter will be tough games - both are on good runs, and Exeter have a great away record Yes - but if you are aiming to finish 3rd in the league I don't think you look at those 2 fixtures as standout tough games. Some teams are bound to be on good runs when we play them but overall that is a decent looking run in compared with our competitors - some of whom will be taking points off each other, which also helps. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2016 18:06:38 GMT
I think that's a good day at the office for us. 2-2 away at a side that has been comfortably the class of the league this season is a good effort.
Our run in looks handy. 5 games, 3 of them at home and none of them against sides who look particularly good. We do need some help elsewhere now but it is definitely game on. Yeovil and Exeter will be tough games - both are on good runs, and Exeter have a great away record I guess it's just one of those things that we worry about clubs we have to play being 'on a good run' when we've been top of the form tables for weeks and they probably have better grounds for thinking 'oh blimey'. Here's another: by the time we get to the last two games of the season, the chances are both opponents will already have been relegated. Does that prove conclusively that the pressure will be off them and they'll batter us? Or that they ought to be more beatable than most? Or neither? Or both? Edit to add: come to think of it, 3 (60%) of our remaining 5 are against the bottom 3; and 4 (80%) are against teams in the bottom 5. We're probably doomed. |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Apr 9, 2016 18:13:56 GMT
They're definitely going to score, I really can't see us keeping a clean sheet. However I too have a gut feeling we're going to turn up today. 2-2 for me. JJ obviously on the scoresheet... Almost! |
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Post by creationblue on Apr 9, 2016 18:28:14 GMT
I listened to the first half then was out of the loop until I received a message saying 2-2!
I'll take that all day long tbh. The way in which the draw was earnt will feel like a win and I think confidence will be sky high going into the run in.
It's not going to be easy but then we thrive on doing it the hard way!
UTG
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Post by gazdelyon on Apr 9, 2016 18:34:43 GMT
Well, a good start and a great last quarter. I thought our passing was going astray throughout the team in the middle part. We also hoofed it too much until the subs came on. Montano especially offered us an outlet on the left, which was great for my son and I since we were hiding amongst the home fans in the half finished stand! Still, you can always count on us scoring and to get two at Sixfields plus showing the grit to get a point bodes well for the rest of the season. Will it end at the beginning or the end of May???
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Post by gasheadpirate on Apr 9, 2016 18:37:37 GMT
The Point today could be decisive come 7 May.
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Post by creationblue on Apr 9, 2016 18:37:48 GMT
I was actually confident we would score two today as the cobblers have allowed visiting teams that luxury recently, just a shame they scored the same.
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Post by Igitur on Apr 9, 2016 19:40:54 GMT
Gaffney works hard, but achieves little to me and had to be subbed.
Top support again, but chucking a water bottle at the keeper (no matter how annoying the git was), letting off a flare and coming on to the pitch are not wise.
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Post by laughinggas on Apr 9, 2016 19:45:54 GMT
We're we warned about flares last season?
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Apr 9, 2016 20:07:11 GMT
We're we warned about flares last season? I know what you mean, they're awful 70s fashion.. |
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Post by laughinggas on Apr 9, 2016 20:25:02 GMT
We're we warned about flares last season? I know what you mean, they're awful 70s fashion.. That joke was done on another thread! |
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Post by lostinspace on Apr 9, 2016 20:30:57 GMT
it was bound to flare up again somewhere else
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Apr 9, 2016 20:35:13 GMT
I know what you mean, they're awful 70s fashion.. That joke was done on another thread! Hope it was as flairly funny. |
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Post by bignose on Apr 9, 2016 20:51:46 GMT
That was tough to watch and can't believe we came away with a point. We looked dead and buried at 2 nil. I think the changes made a massive change. If only we had started with Montano. Nice to see there are some relatively sane Gasheads on this board!! (On the "other" one, there was one guy who, after watching the Beamback at your place declared that he thought Rovers played really well and thoroughly deserved to win!!!??!??
Fair play on scrambling a point, but I have to say I was really disappointed with Rovers today, you really didn't create a single chance until your first goal, and I cant remember our goalkeeper having to make a save all game?! I don't know if your manager made some changes for today's game (?) but you didn't seem to have any shape or pattern to your play until the subs came on right at the end, by which time we should have been out of sight...!! I can't imagine you play that starting 11 every week, otherwise you wouldn't have been on such a good run lately?!
Anyway, I don't want to sound like a whinger, and the sign of a good team is grinding out results when you play badly, (as we have found out ourselves in the last few weeks!) Good luck for the rest of the season, and hope you get your new ground sorted out eventually! (Any more news on that front since your new owners took over?)
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Post by Bridgeman on Apr 9, 2016 22:49:12 GMT
That was tough to watch and can't believe we came away with a point. We looked dead and buried at 2 nil. I think the changes made a massive change. If only we had started with Montano. Nice to see there are some relatively sane Gasheads on this board!! (On the "other" one, there was one guy who, after watching the Beamback at your place declared that he thought Rovers played really well and thoroughly deserved to win!!!??!??
Fair play on scrambling a point, but I have to say I was really disappointed with Rovers today, you really didn't create a single chance until your first goal, and I cant remember our goalkeeper having to make a save all game?! I don't know if your manager made some changes for today's game (?) but you didn't seem to have any shape or pattern to your play until the subs came on right at the end, by which time we should have been out of sight...!! I can't imagine you play that starting 11 every week, otherwise you wouldn't have been on such a good run lately?!
Anyway, I don't want to sound like a whinger, and the sign of a good team is grinding out results when you play badly, (as we have found out ourselves in the last few weeks!) Good luck for the rest of the season, and hope you get your new ground sorted out eventually! (Any more news on that front since your new owners took over?)
Good to have your sane input on this thread. Although not having any shots on target I thought we played reasonably well for the first 10/15 minutes keeping you at bay for the most part, our main problem were errors of our own making in giving the ball away or hoofing it down the pitch, this then invited you to play in our half. However, after that and until the substitutions were made we were all over the place and there was only going to be one team that was going to get anything out of the game and it certainly wasn't us and you showed for an hour why you're in the position you are. One of those players substituted Liam Lawrence seems to be played when he isn't able to track back or forward very quickly anymore, keeps giving the ball away, watches as the opposing players run away from him and then proceeds to harangue other players around him. Montano who came on to replace him is everything Lawrence isn't and should now be played in every game ahead of Lawrence certainly away from home and preferably from my perspective at home as well. I thought the quality and desire we showed in creating the goals and the clinical finishing deservedly gained us a point in the end as the last 15/20 minutes mostly belonged to us. I've no idea if we'll go up automatically, I hope we do obviously. Very well done on your well deserved promotion, good luck next season. |
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Post by bs14gas on Apr 10, 2016 0:14:01 GMT
That was tough to watch and can't believe we came away with a point. We looked dead and buried at 2 nil. I think the changes made a massive change. If only we had started with Montano. Nice to see there are some relatively sane Gasheads on this board!! (On the "other" one, there was one guy who, after watching the Beamback at your place declared that he thought Rovers played really well and thoroughly deserved to win!!!??!??
Fair play on scrambling a point, but I have to say I was really disappointed with Rovers today, you really didn't create a single chance until your first goal, and I cant remember our goalkeeper having to make a save all game?! I don't know if your manager made some changes for today's game (?) but you didn't seem to have any shape or pattern to your play until the subs came on right at the end, by which time we should have been out of sight...!! I can't imagine you play that starting 11 every week, otherwise you wouldn't have been on such a good run lately?!
Anyway, I don't want to sound like a whinger, and the sign of a good team is grinding out results when you play badly, (as we have found out ourselves in the last few weeks!) Good luck for the rest of the season, and hope you get your new ground sorted out eventually! (Any more news on that front since your new owners took over?)
Well done on your promotion. We have struggled against the better teams so happy with a point today. |
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Post by DudeLebowski on Apr 10, 2016 7:04:33 GMT
Astonishing so many cant tell the difference between a flair & a smoke bomb. Not that I'm excusing anything, use of the word flair just makes everything seem a whole lot worse. But yeh the smoke emitted absolutely reeks.
Ol' Keith was getting proper worked up over it on commentary.
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Post by The Concept on Apr 10, 2016 8:11:56 GMT
That was tough to watch and can't believe we came away with a point. We looked dead and buried at 2 nil. I think the changes made a massive change. If only we had started with Montano. Nice to see there are some relatively sane Gasheads on this board!! (On the "other" one, there was one guy who, after watching the Beamback at your place declared that he thought Rovers played really well and thoroughly deserved to win!!!??!??
Fair play on scrambling a point, but I have to say I was really disappointed with Rovers today, you really didn't create a single chance until your first goal, and I cant remember our goalkeeper having to make a save all game?! I don't know if your manager made some changes for today's game (?) but you didn't seem to have any shape or pattern to your play until the subs came on right at the end, by which time we should have been out of sight...!! I can't imagine you play that starting 11 every week, otherwise you wouldn't have been on such a good run lately?!
Anyway, I don't want to sound like a whinger, and the sign of a good team is grinding out results when you play badly, (as we have found out ourselves in the last few weeks!) Good luck for the rest of the season, and hope you get your new ground sorted out eventually! (Any more news on that front since your new owners took over?)
First of all congratulations on your promotion and enjoy the celebrations. Now, I wasn't at the game so I'm only going on the commentary here and that sounded like - for the first 20 minutes - we were controlling matters, keeping hold of possession, albeit without any significant attempts at goal. I was surprised at this as I was expecting us to be under the cosh. Your first goal came on 23 minutes, with what appeared to be your first real chance. After that we seemed to be knocked off our stride somewhat, and struggled to get going again until the substitutions were made with Monty and Harrison on 56 mins and then especially the formation change to 3 up front when Easter came on at 71 mins. Just before Adams scored the local Northampton radio commentary team said "Bristol Rovers are bossing the game." |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Apr 10, 2016 8:25:23 GMT
Nice to see there are some relatively sane Gasheads on this board!! (On the "other" one, there was one guy who, after watching the Beamback at your place declared that he thought Rovers played really well and thoroughly deserved to win!!!??!??
Fair play on scrambling a point, but I have to say I was really disappointed with Rovers today, you really didn't create a single chance until your first goal, and I cant remember our goalkeeper having to make a save all game?! I don't know if your manager made some changes for today's game (?) but you didn't seem to have any shape or pattern to your play until the subs came on right at the end, by which time we should have been out of sight...!! I can't imagine you play that starting 11 every week, otherwise you wouldn't have been on such a good run lately?!
Anyway, I don't want to sound like a whinger, and the sign of a good team is grinding out results when you play badly, (as we have found out ourselves in the last few weeks!) Good luck for the rest of the season, and hope you get your new ground sorted out eventually! (Any more news on that front since your new owners took over?)
First of all congratulations on your promotion and enjoy the celebrations. Now, I wasn't at the game so I'm only going on the commentary here and that sounded like - for the first 20 minutes - we were controlling matters, keeping hold of possession, albeit without any significant attempts at goal. I was surprised at this as I was expecting us to be under the cosh. Your first goal came on 23 minutes, with what appeared to be your first real chance. After that we seemed to be knocked off our stride somewhat, and struggled to get going again until the substitutions were made with Monty and Harrison on 56 mins and then especially the formation change to 3 up front when Easter came on at 71 mins. Just before Adams scored the local Northampton radio commentary team said "Bristol Rovers are bossing the game." To me, that's how it looked on beamback. We started brightly, they scored against run of play. Northampton continued to dominate through most of the game until Lawrence went off and hey presto, we score against the run of play and had the impetus to win it. A draw was more flattering for us, but Northampton have been a couple of goals down recently in matches to pull it back, so this is what it feels like. If they don't like it.......cobblers! |
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Post by bignose on Apr 10, 2016 13:56:17 GMT
Apologies, I wasn't meaning to be rude! And sure, we also have had some dodgy matches lately where we just didn't turn up (Mansfield away comes to mind, we hardly had a sniff in the first half and were 0-2 down at halftime! We started with 3 central strikers and no wide players at all, when we have usually played 2 or 3 from our 5 excellent wide players all season... Also Stevenage away, where we were 0-2 down, and Stevenage looked as though they would score every time they attacked in the first half!! What I meant was, I was actually feeling sorry for the Rovers fans, stood there with their hands in their pockets midway through the 2nd half, and feeling an empathy with those fans who had spent a lot of money and made a lot of effort to travel and give up their whole Saturday, only to be rewarded with such a thoroughly dismal performance. (Having been in exactly the same position myself more times than I can remember over the years!!) Cobblers had created 5-6 very good chances in the 2nd half and hit the underside of the bar in the first half, at 2-0 we were totally bossing the game and Rovers just didn't seem to be playing with any shape or pattern, I couldn't work out what their gameplan was, or how they were supposed to be scoring at all or how Matty Taylor had scored 25 goals this season! It was only when CW substituted 2 of our attacking players and replaced them with defensive ones, and you made your substitutions, seemingly putting more attacking players on, that you looked a bit more interested in the last 15 mins or so. I just couldn't believe that some of the posters on here saw the game so totally differently, as if Rovers dominated most of the match!!? (maybe they had drunk too many beers at the beamback before the match even started!?!  ) Anyway, good luck for the rest of the season, and may well see you in league 1 soon! |
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