Match Day Thread Bristol Rovers v Sunderland – Saturday 27th March - KO 15:00

Has he been getting tips from Howard Wilkinson? Bit different from watching swallows though!

 

That's good news, it all helps.

 

I hope he puts Power at right back. He can the play Scowen and Winchester in midfield, as we had at Portsmouth, which was our best display for sometime. Hopefully O'Brien is back, so it is just a case of who he plays instead of Jones ( who I don't think will be risked with 2 big games over Easter coming up). Probably play Diamond as a more like for like (although not as good).

 

After losing to Plymouth he gave some inspirational words with a decidedly mountaineering theme:

“We are attempting to climb Everest and those that can include us, nice as a result of the upper we go now, the upper the air can be and if we now have passengers they’ll trigger losses alongside the best way.

“So on Monday morning we may lose a factor or two as a result of we won’t have useless weight attempting to climb that mountain that lies forward of us to outlive within the premier league.

“I requested the boys to spend a day with their households tomorrow to investigate their efficiency and group efficiency. I simply need individuals to know to any extent further that we are attempting to climb Everest, who perceive that, once you get greater and better, greater, the altitude and the air preserve getting thinner and it will get tougher and tougher.

“We will not have passengers for these subsequent 10 games as a result of if we now have passengers we’ll all die, we’ll all be killed. With the problem we are attempting, you can’t bear individuals.

“I requested them to go away and take a protracted, laborious look and resolve on Monday whether or not they had been all-in or not.

“Once they’re all in, nice, we’ll climb the mountain. If not, they will not go on the journey with us. “

It struck many chords and worked a treat...Bristol Rovers 0 Swindon 1

 

Couple of players who came into contact with someone who tested positive but the players tests were negative. Players haven't been in first team squad due to injury anyway according to tertle spert.

 

Lee Johnson:
“I know a lot about Bristol Rovers from being in and around the area for so long,” he said.
“They’re fighting for their lives, and I think Joey [Barton] is an ideal man to have at the helm during this time as he’s been a winner throughout his career.
“I was at the game on Tuesday as they faced Swindon, and it was a scrappy, committed affair between the sides. Bristol Rovers were really unlucky to lose. As ever in this division, you have to be at your very best to get the result.”

Joey Barton:
“We’re in a survival fight, and for us as a coaching staff it’s about turning some of those defeats into draws and draws into wins. If we as a coaching staff were here earlier, I’m confident this wouldn’t be a conversation,” Barton declared in his official press conference.
“I can honestly say there has been negligence at the club before we arrived and some of our lads have never played in front of a crowd, so it’s fully expected that they’d be a bit tense. We’re fighting for our lives, and we have nine games left to move clear of the relegation places.
“We’re up against a superb Sunderland side who are bang in form. They’re trying to get out of this division – they’ll try to attack us from the get-go – and they won’t be feeling sorry for us in the slightest. We have to face up to that and look for the result.”

 

I didnt realise Baldwin played for them...

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...pares-for-reunion-with-bristol-rovers-3178605

 

Let's hope he plays badly (again).

 

Friday night norm. We will hammer them.
Saturday morning. A nervy ugly 1-0 win will do again.

 

Wyke will bully him i know that much.

 

EFL1 after tonight's game....

 

Oh tell me he did it in a West Country accent.... pleeeaaasssee

 

His record to date isn’t crap really though is it. He had Fleetwood punching well above their weight.

 

They're talking about at Bristol and they're right, he's already taken them backwards.

 

Can’t argue with that.

 

There must be a drastic shortage of coaches if he keeps getting jobs ...

... he's such a joke even the decent Mags can't abide him.

 

Please just beat Barton the odious prick that he is

 

I'd rather we beat Bristol Rovers tbh ...

... it's time we dropped this kind of shyte imo.

It's like some people always claim our ex-players are nailed on to score against us ...

... rarely happens in reality.

When Johnson was asked about Barton he just laughed, rolled his eyes and mocked 'another Sunderland hoodoo' ...

... I agree, time to drop all this bogey team/player/manager nonsense.

Ameobi 'the Mackem Slayer' had a poor record against us, while I'm on.

 

Joey Barton been taking lessons from pasty eater I see

we’ve got to dust ourselves down