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Post by laughinggas on Jan 29, 2018 15:23:35 GMT
What a great day it was. I've got to say that the Donny staff were as nice as you could get - a real credit to their club and I'll certainly be hoping they finish second to us next season. One curiosity struck me - between Partington going off and Menayese coming on our back four was made up entirely of left footers - i.e. Bola, Broadbent, Sweeney and Brown. No doubt Harry will be able to tell us if that's ever happened before? Home game this season. Same back 4. Can't remember if that was from start or someone, maybe Leads, went off injured.
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Post by irishrover on Jan 29, 2018 15:52:41 GMT
Only a few points - we found on-street parking in the trading estate opposite the ground (lucky us); your opinions on Donny & their gamesmanship? Do you agree with SteveK about the ref? I certainly do - thank God he was firm & stood no nonsense? Finally, did you pick up on the Donny fans' reactions & opinions? I haven't seen anything from Donny - I could imagine them thinking they were a bit unlucky. I'm sure we would be in their situation. To create the kind of chances they did and not to get anything out of it you probably would feel a bit hard done by. There was definitely a certainly an edge to the way they played - lots of running off with the ball to delay our momentum etc but I think that may have been partly because they had no confidence in their defence so were trying to grab any possible advantage they could. I wouldn't have said it was anything massively out of the ordinary though and we did a fair bit of timewasting of our own where we could of course. I don't normally comment on the refs unless there's a genuinely game altering decision which is pretty rare in my view. The Harrison booking looked very harsh to me and the guy should have been booked for the challenge on Sinclair but other than that I thought the ref had a very decent game. There was a good flow to the match - referees always deserve more credit for that than they often get; a ref can have a major impact on the flow of the game. It's pretty difficult to tell with the penalty shouts - the first one at our end with Marquis definitely wasn't even though he went on at the ref for bloody ages about it. The others were at the opposite end so I didn't feel I had a good look at them really and it did have the feel of '3rd time and they might get it' about the situation but I have a feeling that they may have overplayed the ref in this one. I do think there comes a point sometimes where the advantage of getting in a ref's ear with a home crowd baying for everything flips and the ref's unconscious attitude becomes 'I'm not giving these b'stards anything' and they may have had that effect; feel like I've seen that a few times at the Mem over the years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 16:51:51 GMT
...and now Darren Ferguson's views (from the BP): Doncaster Rovers boss Darren Ferguson thought his side were "outstanding" and passed Bristol Rovers "off the pitch at times" during their 3-1 defeat to the Gas... ..."We were on top for the majority of the game, and a lot of the stuff we did was really good..."Unfortunately we scored them off the park, however Darren can always look back at a fine moral victory.
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Post by a more piratey game on Jan 29, 2018 17:08:20 GMT
Harrison - 10. It really was a Jason Robertesque performance in terms of the physical dominance both on and off the ball and the air of confidence he exuded and I have no higher praise then that.
praise doesn't get much higher!
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Post by Angas on Jan 29, 2018 17:54:12 GMT
According to the radio commentary, they only had one actual defender playing and he went off went off injured. The rest were all stand-ins.
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Post by bloogas on Jan 29, 2018 20:05:09 GMT
According to the radio commentary, they only had one actual defender playing and he went off went off injured. The rest were all stand-ins. Yes,heard that on BBC Radio Sheffield after the match. So what? We had a CB drop out & a new pairing at the back. We'd just lost our star player. We all got problems.
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Post by Angas on Jan 29, 2018 21:13:37 GMT
According to the radio commentary, they only had one actual defender playing and he went off went off injured. The rest were all stand-ins. Yes,heard that on BBC Radio Sheffield after the match. So what? We had a CB drop out & a new pairing at the back. We'd just lost our star player. We all got problems. Irishrover's judgement was spot on. Thought he might like to know, that's all.
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Post by Igitur on Jan 29, 2018 22:23:47 GMT
Ellis gets the EFL 1 goal of the week:
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