Rovers have announced two pre season friendlies today, away to Chippenham Town on Friday 4th July 7.30 KO and Bath on Wednesday 16th July 7pm KO. Ticketing will be announced shortly, with more friendlies to be announced shortly
Man Utd and Tottenham would be good choices about our standard, though it could be considered an insult to the Rovers, Was reading that Liverpool were looking to move Darwin Nunez on wonder if we could get him on loan about our standard judging by some of the chances he missed
Yeovil hosting the Rovers on Saturday 19th July celebrating the career of Marcus Stewart, no time or ticketing details given at present
18 minutes gone Rovers v Stockport 0 - 0 Score now 2 - 0 to Stockport I think after 55 minutes Match finished Stockport 3 - 2 Rovers, goal and an assist for Ollie Dewsbury and Luke Thomas with Rovers 2nd
38th minute Bath city 0 -0 Bristol Rovers Apparently playing 3-4-3 formation HT bath city 0 -0 Bristol Rovers Daniel Hargraves doing a commentary on Bristol live 9if anybody is interested, no team sheets on the report, just the comment that Jed Ward is not included in tonight's line up or bench Daniel saying we have had good chances but not taken them and we still haven't signed a striker, now news of any trialists tonight 58th minute 2 goal line clearances deny Rovers 63rd minute7 changes for Rovers On Brad young, Senior, Hutchinson, Thomas, Mc Eachran, Shaw and Dewsbury Off Southwood, Southam-Hales, Howley, Sparkes, Conteh, Sotiriou and Omochere 68th minute Bilongo Bath 0 - 1 Rovers assisted by a free kick from McEachran
77th minute corner Rovers which came to nothing, following Daniels commentary it is a bit like watching paint dry, think it is going to be another long season without the hoped for promotion unless we sign somebody who can score goals and some body who can create good chances 83rd minute Wiles-Richards makes a good save from Dewsbury 91st minute 3 minutes extra time to be played FT Bath 0 - 1 Rovers
22nd minute Yeovil 1 - 0 Rovers, Yeovil appear to be on top at the present time Kofi Shaw and Luke Thomas get the goals to give us the win, Yeovil 1 - 2 Rovers
Tonight's line up v Coventry Southwood, Senior, Sparkes, Moore, Kilgour, Hutchinson, Omochere, Sotiriou, Taylor, McEachran, Conteh, Subs Young, Forde Thomas, Ellison, Southam-Hales, Bilongo, Shaw, Dewsbury 8th minute Omochere beats the offside trap and feeds Hutchinson Who feeds in Sotiriou whocant get his shot away and ten fouls the defender 10th minute 2nd Coventry corner which Senior clears 11th minute Southwood saves from Saksmoto 14th minute yellow card for Taylor Moore 16th minute Southwood loops the ball over the top and Sotiriou tries to lob the keeper but the nearest defender bodies him and he goes down with a possible head injury, no foul given
20th minute Play has restarted don't know whether Sotirou is still on the pitch but Southwood makes a good save from Thomas-Asante, Sotiriou now back on the pitch 22nd minute Thomas -Asante puts one over the bar, they seem to be the team playing the best football at present 26th minute Rovers corner which appears to come to nothing 33rdminute Sotiriou cross from the right towards Omochere is blocked behind for a corner which also looks to have come to nothing 37th minute a cross from Senior headed over by Omochere 41st minute Miguel Brau fire a shot straight at Southwood 45th minute Omochere beats three defenders before crossing to Hutchinson but the move fizzles out hand ball on the left gives Rovers a free kick which comes to nothing HT Rovers 0 - 0 Coventry
2nd half has started a couple of changes for Rovers and eleven for Coventry Bilongo, Thomas, Sotharn-Hales on Moore, Senior and Hutchinson off 50th minute a sliding challenge from Kilgour stops Simms as he races towards the goal 52nd minute free kick to coventry as Sparkes goes through Raphael, southwood punches the free kick away but it falls to Mason Clarke whose shot is well wide of the target 55th minute Kilgour again clears a dangerous ball out for a throw 60th minute Omochere and McEachran off Forde and Shaw on 63rd minute Raphael puts in a cross and Southam-Hales at the back post turns it into the net Rovers 0-1 Coventry 70th minute Sparkes off Dewsbury on Daniel saying a break in play no reason given
73rdminute a Forde cross finds whose shot is easily saved by the keeper 74th minute Forde off injured Ellison on 81st minute Kesler-Hayden scores Rovers 0 - 2 Coventry 84th minute corner to Coventry FT Rovers 0- 2 Coventry We need some quality in midfield and strikers, the best position prediction I have seen for Rovers is 14th After looking at the results and reports of our pre season I reckon the National league beckons
We definitely need a striker and an attacking midfielder but I’m not too worried about us, a L2 team, being beaten by a top half Championship side. I have no idea how we’ll get on this season but I’m certain we won’t be relegated.
Cant see us creating the chances at present we need and someone to finish them but putting them in the net, of the attacking players Forde looked the most likely to do something and he went of injured Sotirou just cant seem to sort his feet out when a chance comes his way, on the positive side Omochere played for 60 minutes and Conteh played the whole match, but we only had about 8 subs and when Forde went of injured we brought on a centre half, where was Howley. no sign of Mola again, we need players
