Good grief! We won on penalties and are through to the next round. Can’t say we deserved it but what a display from Josh Griffiths who basically won that game for us! UTG!
After squeaking past Barnsley we’ve got an away trip to Premier League Ipswich in the 3rd round of the cup. Not a bad tie at all, should be a good game.
Today's line up v Orient Griffiths, Moore, Wilson, Mola, Sinclair, Ward, Sotiriou, Taylor, Martin, Forde, Lindsay Subs Senior, Forbes, Bilongo, Garrett, McCormick, Hutchinson, O'Donker 8th minute Pratley has taken a knock and is being replaced by Jordan Brown 14th minute Ball miss headed the ball and the chance went begging 17th minute free kick to Orient seems to be all Orient at present, from which they scored, Orient 1 - 0 Rovers, scorer Dan Happe Rovers supporters immediately start chanting Come on Rovers, According to Daniel Rovers have not been in the match as yet 21st minute Sotiriou getting stick from the crowd who are what the score and then a minute later Perkins puts one over the bar 44th minute Lindsay loses the ball and ageyi's strike is saved by Griffiths and cleared by Wilson We can't pass, we can't defend and we can't create anything upfront not much hope for getting any points tonight 30th minute O'Neill scores Orient 2 - 0
I’ve just got back from coaching my U14s. They’re great lads and good footballers who give it their all. When I saw that Rovers are 2-0 down in half an hour I realised that we truly are in a relegation battle. If our useless team showed even 50% of the effort and commitment my U14s do then I’d be happy. But they don’t, they’re sodding useless and I would bet my house and everything I own on us getting absolutely nothing from this game. Absolutely dire, something’s seriously wrong at that club.
44th minute Lindsay loses the ball and Ageyi's shot is saved by Griffiths and cleared by Wilson 5 minutes extra time to be played 45+2 Agyei makes no mistake this time Orient 3 - 0 Rovers mistake by Mola this time HT Orient 3 - 0 Rovers I agree Bluebaldee as I said earlier we can't defend, we cannot create anything for our forward and when we do they simply miss the target Silly freekick conceded by Forde for the first goal Moore has the ball taken of him cheaply for the second goal and a Mola error leads to the third goal According to Daniel Hargraves the worst half of football this season, said we were second best in every department and the team was booed off at half time If we come out of this match with a point or three points then the man in charge would have given one heck of a team talk at HT
Players back out for the 2nd half no changes for Rovers Daniel reckons some gasheads have left for home already and doesn't blame them 49th minute corner to Orient conceded by Taylor from which Jordan Brown gets a free header which was saved by Griffiths 55th minute Rovers attacked and Sinclair was flagged offside 57th minute Forbes on Mola off and Senior replaces Moore and Simpson replaces Happe because of an injury 65th minute Forbes yellow carded 67th minute Sotiriou and Ward off O'Donker and McCormick on, sarcastic cheers for Sotiriou when he was subbed 68th minute Perkins hits the side netting could have been 4 70th minute Wilson hooks the ball off the line
76th minute Griffiths saves Agyei 80th minute Garrett on Lindsay off 82 minute another stop by Griffiths from Agyei
Telling stat on the BBC, not only have we had just one blocked shot, we’ve only had one touch in their penalty area for the ENTIRE GAME. Appalling.
Thanks for that Stat didn't think we new where their penalty area was and I don't recall seeing we had a shot let alone one that was blocked 86th minute a Senior cross flashes across the goal but Sinclair either didn't get a touch or not strong enough of a touch to score Saturdays opponents Bolton have suddenly found their goal scoring touch 3 goals in ten minutes 4 minutes extra time to be played 90+3 Rovers have a corner which came to nothing FT Orient 3 - 0 Rovers Christmas is coming and so is the transfer window, I think Forbes and Garrett will be recalled by their clubs owing to a lack of playing time who else do people think should depart, and we desperately need 3 attacking MF player who can provide some creativity and a striker who can put the ball in the net, that will cost money lets see how our new owner will respond to our position, championship in three years was his aim, not in month of years with the present squad
Fortunately Agyei didn't have much luck in front of goal tonight or six might have been a bit on the low side Just looked at Daniel Hargraves marking of the player performances, Forde, McCormick and Senior got 6's all the rest were lower, he gave Martin 5 mostly for his defensive headers at corners, didnt see his name mentioned once
Northampton won tonight and have now climbed above Rovers in the league, Rovers now 18th with Wigan and Rotherham the 2 teams between Rovers and the relegation line and both teams are 1 point behind Rovers with a considerably better GD. Crawley are the team immediately below the line 2 points below Rovers. With Rovers Next 2 matches being Birmingham away and Wrexham home and Exeter a week away on Boxing day with us not being able to score goals and win matches we could soon be in the bottom 4
Today's line up v Birmingham Griffiths, Senior, Wilson, Mola, Taylor, Conteh, McCormick, O'Donker, Forbes, Forde, Lindsay Subs Moore, Sinclair, Ward, Omochere, Martin, Hutchinson, Bilongo 6th minute Birmingham want a penalty but get a corner 7th minute Buchanan volleys home from the corner Birmingham 1 - 0 Rovers Rotherham winning Crawley drawing so Rotherham have moved above us and Crawley are just 1 point behind us 37th minute Handball by Connor Taylor penalty Birmingham, Rovers not happy with the decision, Stansfield coverts the penalty Birmingham 2 - 0 Rovers Think Birmingham have had 2 shots on target including the penalty and scored 2, not sure if Rovers have had a shot yet let alone on target 45+2 Pail puts one over the bar 2 minutes extra time to be played 44th minute a good Block from Senior
2 minutes are up during which time Paik puts one over the bar HT Birmingham 2 - 0 Rovers 2nd half underway no subs by either side mentioned 51st minute Martin on Forbes off 58th minute Martin wins a free kick in a good position which was cleared by Birmingham 67th minute a shot from May destined for the bottom corner hooked away by Wilson before it crossed the line 67th minute Ward, O'Donker and Moore on Lindsay, Hutchinson and Senior off 68th minute Ethan Laird on Buchanan off 74th minute Omochere on McCormick off Rovers final change Struggling to stay awake following this match, doesn't seem to be any urgency or enthusiasm in trying to score goals, New owner said championship in 3 years, so relegation this season and then promotion from league 2 followed by promotion from league 1, some excitement possibly coming our was at last
6 minutes plus extra time to save the game in not hopeful According to sky we are in the 85th minute according to Daniel Hargraves nothing has happened since the 75th minute, so maybe he has fallen asleep 90th minute Griffiths saves from Jutkiewicz Ref seems to have a sense of humour 6 minutes extra time to be played, no injuries mentioned so where have 6 minutes come from 92nd minute Hutchinson had a shot he missed it, put it over the bar FT Birmingham 2 - 0 Rovers Sorry can't see us staying in this division if we don't shoot straight and score goals, think we are going to get relegated unless the teams below us keep losing
