45th minute Reading score through Sam Smith but it is Disallowed for offside 2 minutes extra time to be played 45+2 good save from Knibbs by Griffiths HT Reading 0 - 0 Rovers
todays match attendance 12,843 of which 1608 were Rovers fans 59th minute 2nd yellow / red card for Forde, Rovers down to 10 men 60th minute Hunt on Sotiriou off, Rovers now playing with a back 3 Griffiths heading for a yellow card for time wasting over his goal kicks, hasn't happened yet but this ref won't put up with this for long I suspect, then he goes down injured, he is ok to continue which as we don't have a GK on the bench is a good job Sam Smith scores Reading 1 - 0 Rovers This is followed by 2 changes by Rovers Lindsay and Bilongo on Ward and Sinclair off Rovers strike partnership Hutchinson and Bilongo about 20minutes to get an equaliser and hold out for a draw 75th minute Binden's boot catches Bilongo in the face yellow card shown, Rovers fans not happy with the decision by the ref A corner from the resulting free kick which comes to nothing
81st minute corner Rovers, Mola brings a save from the keeper before the defender clears the loose ball for another corner. 84th minute Bilongo gets a 2nd boot in the face, free kick Rovers but no booking 86th minute Matt Taylor yellow carded after a conversation with the linesman after he gave a throwing to Reading 89th minute Bilongo offside as the ball strikes the hand of a Reading player in the box 5 minutes extra time to be played 94th minute Griffiths up for a corner after a Mola shot turned over by the keeper 90+5 Moore fails to get enough on the ball to put it in the net, cleared for a corner which their keeper saved from Bilongo, the assist for the attempt came from a Griffiths header FT Reading 1 - 0 Rovers Looking at Daniel Hargraves commentary Rovers can consider them selves a little unlucky to not get at least a point from this match
Sounds like it was a valiant effort from the ten men to try and salvage a point, but why wait to play football until we’re down to ten men and what on earth was Shaq Forde thinking?
After looking at the sky highlights I believe that Forde was fouled by the second player, regained his feet rode the 3rd challenge when the line mans flag was raised, I also would like to know since when has putting your boot in someone's face not being a red card and this happened to Bilongo twice with a yellow first time and nothing the second time. I have said many times on different thread we need an experienced striker who is capable of getting twenty goals in a season
When we lose on Saturday we will be out of all the cup competitions and we can concentrate on the league
Todays line up v Weston Super Mare Griffiths, Moore, Mola, Sinclair, Sotiriou, Taylor, Martin, Hutchinson, Conteh, Lindsay, Hunt Subs Hall, Sousa, Ward, Thomas, Anthony, McCormick, Forbes, Bilongo, Leipus 4th minute First shot to Weston which Griffiths spill for a corner 5th minute a misjudged pass from Griffiths leads to Kadji a Bristol City loanee shooting well wide 10th minute Mola attempt on goal blocked Weston keeping the fans quite 2 attempts on goal in 5 minutes Rovers 1 attempt in 12 minutes, wonder why the fans are quite top of the premier division is interesting today, Bournemouth and Brighton beating Man City and Liverpool while Newcastle beat Arsenal 19th minute Moore has 2 attempts on goal before Taylor has a shot cleared off the line for a corner which is headed over by Moore
25th minute Hutchinson shot blocked to the keeper and in the 26th minute a shot destined for the bottom corner was headed away 30th minute a cross from hunt is headed straight at the keeper by Hutchinson 31st minute Emlyn Lewis the Weston skipper is down injured and getting treatment and has now left the pitch after a lengthy delay, Weston down to 10 men, has now been replaced by Ollie Chamberlain 39th minute Martin shot from a Hunt cross is well saved as is the follow up by Sinclair 42nd minute Martin header goes wide 43rd minute Lindsay Rovers 1 - 0 Weston 6 minutes extra time to be played HT Rovers 1 - 0 Weston Super Mare todays attendance 6898 with 1824 from Weston
Second half started no substitutions mentioned 49th minute Jason Pope yellow carded for a foul on Sinclair 52nd minute Poor pass from Moore lets in Weston but Griffiths makes the save 53rd minute Weston appealing for handball by Taylor, not given 56th minute Hunt concedes a corner from a Coulson strike 57th minute Chamberlain puts another shot over the bar 60th minute Sotiriou heads wide at the near post from a corner Weston corner won by Kadji 64th minute Jordan Bastin scores for Weston Rovers 1 - 1 Weston Bastin is then promptly taken off They took Bastin off in the 66th minute no name has been given for his replacement, are they playing with ten men or as Daniel Hargraves just not given us his name
73rd minute Yellow card for Coulson for a foul on Sitiriou who was then replaced by Luke Thomas 75th minute a corner conceded by Griffiths of Ruben Reid 79th minute Lindsay, Sinclair and Martin off Ward, McCormick and Bilongo on 84th minute Harris spills a Hutchinson shot out for a corner About 5 minutes plus extra time for somebody to score to save us from another 30 minutes of play before penalties 86th minute Hutchinson blasts wide from close range 90th mnute Harris saves from Bilongo 6 minutes extra time to be played 92nd minute Griffiths get a touch on a Ruben Reid shot corner Weston straight up to the Weston end as Bilongo wins a corner which Taylor heads wide 96th minute Chants of Taylor out from the Thatchers end FT rovers 1 - 1 Weston 30 more minutes to play as boos ring out around the ground
Extra time now started 94th minute Kadji yellow carded 95th minute Taylor, assist from McCormick Rovers 2 - 1 Weston 101st minute Hutchinson wins a corner when his shot is deflected 102nd minute Taylor hits the bar105th minute McCootie yellow carded for a foul on Mola 2 minutes extra time HT of extra time 17.24 second half begins 114th minute Harris catches a McCormick volley, Weston attack immediately and win a corner 117th minute another Hutchinson shot blocked for a corner he seems to be the only one trying Scuffle between Ward and un un named Weston player Penalty, 2 yellow cards shown and the penalty saved 2 minutes extra time to be played 120+2 Ward Rovers 3 - 1 Weston FT Rovers 3 - 1 Weston
Well we’ve scraped into the second round but being held at home in 90 minutes by a team largely made up of part-timers, however good, is really poor. I have to say that I agree with the chants from the Thatchers End.
We've drawn Barnsley away in the second round of the FA Cup - ties to be played between 29 Nov and 2 Dec.
To days line up v Mansfield Griffiths, Moore, Wilson, Taylor, Mola, Martin, Hutchinson, Conteh, McCormick, Forde, Lindsay. Subs Sinclair, Ward, Sotiriou, Thomas, O'Donker, Forbes, Bilongo Promochere has broken his hand, Kilgour on the bench for Mansfield 5 minutes gone Mansfield have had 2 corners and Conteh had shot blocked, could be a good game 6th minute Mansfield 3rd corner cleared by Mola 8th minute yet another corner also cleared Aaron Collins scored a 94th minute winner for Bolton in the early KO Match According to Daniel Hargraves nothing has happened in the last ten minutes of the match Louis Reed yellow carded for a cynical challenge on Forde who was on the break 23rd minute corner for Mansfield as a cross is deflected onto the roof of the net 21st minute a second shot from Conteh blocked
Don't know what's happening all my posts after the21st minute have disappeared of the page 25th minute Reed yellow carded followed a minute later by Conteh 31st minute Rovers 1st corner collected by the Keeper 33rd minute corner to Mansfield from which Rovers launch a counter attack which was stopped by the offside flag 39th minute free kick Rovers for foul on McCormick taken by Chris Martin which hits the wall 42nd minute a free kick to Mansfield in a good position which also hit the wall 45th minute McCormick wins a corner for Rovers HT Mansfield 0 - 0 Rovers Two yellow cards Reed and Conteh in the 25th and 26th minute, no Extra time so no time wasting, sounds like a good match so far
2nd half just started no subs mentioned 49th minute McCormick well wide with a shot after a foul 49 minute Luke McCormick opens the scoring Mansfield 0 - 1 Rovers, Assist by Hutchinson 56th minute a back heel from Lucas Akins nearly catches out Griffiths who saved the shot 56th Mansfield Blake-Tracey yellow carded for a foul on forde 59th minute Quinn shoots over the bar for Mansfield 62nd minute Waine and Boateng replace Akins and Quinn Seemed to remember Boateng played on loan for us a good while back 66th minute Big save from Griffiths who palmed away a shot 69th minute McCormick concedes a foul, Daniel states he needs to be careful as he has been yellow carded which was in the 57th minute which Daniel didn't mention
74th minute Lewis and Maris on Baccus and McLaughlin on 75th minute a break in the match as a Mansfield player down 76th minute Bowery replaces Blake- Tracey 84th minute McCormick and Martin off O'Donker and Ward on 88th minute Connor Taylor down injured match delayed 89th minute game restarted 90th minute Forbes and Sinclair on Hutchinson and Forde off 6 minutes extra time to be played 95th minute corner to Rovers 16.53 Mansfield have the ball in the net, ref gives handball, no goal FT Mansfield 0 - 1 Rovers, A good performance a clean sheet and three points what more can we ask for Rovers could be up to 12th position in the league
Three points on the road against a team above us in the league is a minor miracle! Good to be mid table - we have a winnable match against out-of-sorts Blackpool on Tuesday, I just hope we can string a few results together and finally add some consistency to our season.
Tonight's line up v Blackpool Griffiths, Moore, Wilson, Taylor, Martin, Hutchinson, Conteh, McCormick, Bilongo Forde, Lindsay Subs Mola, Sinclair, Ward, Sotiriou, Thomas, O'Donkor, Forbes. The match has started 6th minute Blackpool's first attack ends with a free kick conceded by Bilongo which was deflected over the bar for a corner which was cleared 8th minute free kick to Rovers for a high boot near Martin's head which also comes to nothing Forde header saved and the follow up from Martin h9its the inside of the post and bounces out but the flag was up for offside 21st minute corner to Blackpool after a good save from Griffiths Conteh tried to breakaway after the corner but was stopped by Norburn which earned him the first yellow card of the night 25th minute Free kick to Blackpool just outside the box after Joseph seemed to slip which leads to Ballard scoring from Embleton's free kick Rovers 0- 1 Blackpool timed at 27th minute
