This is not surprising - we don’t have any strikers. However, we’re not creating anything whatsoever which is a bit worrying.
Shaw has put a couple of good balls in but we need some real creativity before the start of next season, that's assuming we stay up or that we want to make the effort of coming straight back up 40th minute Swinkels puts in a good ball for Hunt which the keeper collected If we lose and Burton win today the gap will be just 6 points with 9 games to go, a bit close for comfort I think we must be in extra time a Ward makes another good save for Rovers no idea how much extra time was played HT Lincoln 1 - 0 Rovers Players back on for the 2nd half with Thomas on for Mola and the game has restarted 47th minute another save from Ward 48th minute corner to Lincoln which Baylis puts into the Rovers net Lincoln 2 - 0 Rovers, thought we had a set piece coach, if we have he doesn't seem to be doing much good at either attacking or defending Can I suggest defending corners training for Rovers this week
53rd minute Collins nets for Lincoln 3 - 0 Rovers 55th minute Sotiriou forces the Lincoln keeper into making a save 58th minute Sotiriou and Moore off Dewsbury and Hutchinson on 61st minute Rovers corner which i am guessing came to nothing as Daniel hasn't reported anything since it happened 66th minute Makama scores for Lincoln 4 - 0 Rovers, are they trying to get Calderon sacked or Rovers relegated because there doesn't seem to be much effort from most of the team today 67th minute Sousa on Swinkels off, think his mistake for the last goal was the final straw, Rovers final change Hard to believe that we would have only been 1 point behind Lincoln if we had won today 75th minute Shaw has 2 attempts on goal both are blocked 80th minute more poor defending from a Lincoln corner results in Ward making another good save 81st minute Mahama nets his third of the afternoon Lincoln 5 - 0 Rovers
82nd minute Shaw off Senior on at least Shaw can walk off with his head held high as he does appear to have put in a decent performance 83rd minute Wilson picks up a yellow card for a foul he was furious with the decision According to Sky we have 6 minutes to score the 6 goals needed for the win 6 minutes extra time a goal a minute to win the game about another 2 minutes to play , well at least it will be a single figures defeat which when they scored their fifth I wasn't convinced about FT Lincoln 5 - 0 Rovers Until Wilson picked up his yellow card I wasn't sure that Taylor and Wilson were actually on the pitch, when you concede 5 you expect to read your main defenders have made a block or a good tackle or even conceded a corner but their names were not mentioned Down to 20th in the league with the points difference just 6 and Burton having a much better GD
What a flippin’ shambles! We put in two decent performances against two sides chasing the playoffs and then collapse against a team with nothing to play for. We really need to keep winning at home because our away form is nailed-on relegation stuff.
Todays line up v Crawley Ward, Wilson, Mola, Sinclair, Ward, Thomas, Taylor, Hutchinson, Butcher, Hunt, Shaw Subs Hall, Sousa, Moore, Sawyers, O'Donkor, Swinkels, Forde Hutchinson appears to be leading the line supported by either Thomas or Sinclair Daniel has already apologised for slow internet 9th minute Shaw has the games first chance which goes over the bar Playing a 4-3-3 formation Cambridge leading Barnsley 1 - 0 at present, the only goal in the 6 matches in league 1 17th minute Penalty shout for Crawley not given Daniel wasn't convinced about the decision's correctness 19th minute sees Kamari Doyle net the first goal Crawley 1 - 0 Rovers, down to poor defending as Doyle was left unmarked and 2 minutes later failed to put the ball into an empty net as a result of more poor defending
24th minute Ward smothers the ball, huge gaps being left in the defence, really can't see us surviving in league 1 at the end of this season Northampton also losing by one goal now 28th minute Ward makes another save and the ball is cleared by Shaw 31st minute Sinclair shoots well wide 32nd minute Barker wiped out Thomas a strong yellow according to Daniel, first yellow of the game Peterborough now winning 1 - 0 43rd minute a cross from Shaw that nobody can get a touch on eventually falls to Mola whose shot is deflected and cleared and Crawley go straight up to the Rovers end and force another save from Ward 45th minute Wilson yellow carded followed by a shot from Shaw that the Crawley keeper has to save 1 minute extra time to be played HT Crawley 1 - 0 Rovers Peterborough have now extended their lead with a 2nd goal
If Wilson hadn't been booked I wouldn't have known he was playing and Taylor also appears to be absent along with Hunt 2nd half underway no changes to either team 49th minute Shaw wins a free kick for Rovers which comes to nothing but was recycled by Hunt which was collected by Lo-Tutala 53rd minute corner to Crawley this could be the begging of the end, cleared to Armando whose shot was saved by ward before Hutchinson curls a shot into the hands of Lo - Tutala 16.13 double change for Rovers Thomas and Hutchinson off Forde and O'Donkor on 58th minute ball deflected towards Armando before Wilson got a toe on it to clear 63rd minute Rovers first corner of the game which was wasted as Rovers commit a foul in the area 16.26 O'Donkor wins a free kick which was so poor it fell to Mola whose volley is also poor and it falls to Forde and he misses the ball, if you were writing a comedy this would be in the script
Cambridge and Peterborough still winning and Northampton still losing, at least the GD gets 1 less 73rd minute, an O'Donkor know down finds Shaw who puts a good ball out to Forde in a good position to cross and he then puts it over the stand housing the Rovers supporters 76th minute triple change for Rovers Sinclair, Ward and Mola off Sawyers, Sousa and Swinkels on Can't see where we are going to get a goal from, Shaw seems to be the only one who is trying to create some chances and we cannot defend to save our lives 86th minute O'Donker has an effort saved by Lu - Tutala about another 3/4 minutes to save the game, this surely was a must not lose game Think the 4th official must be watching a different game 7 minutes of extra time to be played, Crawley supporters not happy 96th minute Wilson heads over the bar FT Crawley 1 - 0 Rovers I wonder if the board will reduce the price of the season tickets when we get relegated, with Burton now having a game in hand on us
Scott Lindsay's first match in charge of Crawley today, hope Burton who are now just 6 points behind us and have a far better GD than us don't change their manager todays attendance accordig to sky 4421
Tonights line up v Birmingham Ward, Moore, Wilson, Mola, Sotiriou, Sawyers, Taylor, Butcher, Shaw, Forde, O'Donkor Subs Hall, Senior, Sinclair, Ward, Thomas Hutchinson, Swinkels Burton and Cambridge both losing 1 - 0, Crawley winning 1 - 0 According to sky the match has started Keshi Anderson scores for Birmingham Rovers 0 -1 Birmingham, got that info from Birmingham Live, can't find any sort of commentary from Daniel Hargraves 14th minute Forde has the ball in the net but is flagged for offside 16th minute Sawyers fires overs the bar 17th minute on his own at the back post fires wide 18th minute Rovers free kick from which O'Donkor nets Rovers 1 - 1 Birmingham
25th minute Stansfield's effort deflected out for a corner 28th minute Rovers free kick straight into the hands of Allsop 32nd minute Iwata collects Allsop's goal kick but his shot goes wide 36th minute O'Donkor hits the bar from which the rebound falls to Butcher whose shot on target was palmed away before Forde was flagged for offside Tonight's attendance is 8088 with 1730 away fans Burton and Crawley both losing at HT 41st minute a Taylor Moore cross headed wide by O'Donkor
It's on sky and it is an evening match which some of us can't get to 44th minute free kick Rovers similar position to the one they scored from, Shaw wins a corner with 1 minute extra time to be played which Sawyers plays a bad pass from and finds Iwata but the defence covers and deals with it HT Rovers 1 - 1 Birmingham Daniel saying that Rovers responded well to conceding the early goal got the equaliser and should be ahead at HT
Better than I was expecting against a top of the league side, a point today and Saturday could just about keep us in this league Crawley have now equalised which keeps us 6 points apart with us having the better GD 2nd half underway no subs mentioned 48th minute Anderson nicks the ball and forces a good save from Ward who the gets Booked for kicking the ball away 50th minute Rovers break with sotirou threading the ball through for Mola who couldn't quite reach it 54th minute corner to Birmingham, Wilson thought a Birmingham player got the last touch but the ref disagreed with Shaw getting the ball away from Anderson Shaw goes on and takes the ball around Allsop but the offside flag is raised and Shaw get booked when he puts the ball in the net 57th minute Paik SEUNG - ho on Leonard off for Birmingham
59th minute Ben Davies booked for dragging O'Donkor down which was wasted 63rdminute O'Donkor collided with Allsop, fans wanted a penalty but the ball fell to sotiriou who put it over the bar Burton now leading Orient 2 -1 67th minute first change for Rovers Shaw off Ward on 69th minute free kick to Birmingham in a dangerous position which was headed away to safety 71st minute ball threaded through for Stansfield which was collected by Ward Missed 2 or 3 good chances tonight hope they don't come back to bite us 74th minute O'Donkor off Sinclair on Burton now winning their match 79th minute Dowell and Sampsted on May and Laird off
