ROVERS V HULL CITY

Go on then is everybody looking forward to this game because i am

pkt_drfc wrote:Go on then is everybody looking forward to this game because i am

Should be a cracker, Hull have sold 2500 according to the keepmoat site, lets hope we can muster a good crowd..

yorkie64red wrote:




Should be a cracker, Hull have sold 2500 according to the keepmoat site, lets hope we can muster a good crowd..

Of course we will.....stop fussing. Sales are good and the points are coming.

Anybody reckon we will have a new addition to the squad for saturdays game...thinking Jet, anything else been said where he is concerned..

Nope not according to SOD on DROS his interview Billy is a doubt so is Martis (thank god) but Oster is back in contention taken part in full training all week

pkt_drfc wrote:Nope not according to SOD on DROS his interview Billy is a doubt so is Martis (thank god) but Oster is back in contention taken part in full training all week

Heard that Billy had taken a knock but was feeling much better today, he will want to be part of saturdays game against Dull..

Wont be going to this but should make for a very interesting game, hopefully we can win away for the first time in 17 months but I can see us getting beat if im honest. Im surprised our allocation hasnt been sold either.

Barnzy wrote:Wont be going to this but should make for a very interesting game, hopefully we can win away for the first time in 17 months but I can see us getting beat if im honest. Im surprised our allocation hasnt been sold either.

Looking forward to it, the first yorkshire derby of the season, a few drinks round town first and then down to the keepmoat to see the boys get the 3 points..what better way to spend a saturday...

yorkie64red wrote:Looking forward to it, the first yorkshire derby of the season, a few drinks round town first and then down to the keepmoat to see the boys get the 3 points..what better way to spend a saturday...

He's a comic genius

So come on then, how does everyone see this going, i see a Rovers win after last weeks debacle at cardiff, was at Cantley this afternoon and the lads seemed to be doing a bit of overtime, 2-0 to Rovers...

27-0

Dagenham Rover wrote:27-0

seriously.....

Yorkie are we still going down together on the train ??? if so what time please.

yorkie64red wrote:



seriously.....

Told you before I'm using Auntie Merge's of the Dagenham forums philophisy

Yeh I know I've spelt philoshisy wrong but Ive got this daft Donny Rovers toolbar that don't include a spellchecker unless I'm too drunk to find it

Guess whats the more plausible answer

Excellent result today, a much improved performance, not our best but very consistant,we stuck at it throughout the game and got the 3 points which is all that matters at the end of the day..

Great result but still a long way from our best............we need a centre-back quickly or we will leak goals against better sides.

hoolahoop wrote:Great result but still a long way from our best............we need a centre-back quickly or we will leak goals against better sides.

Sod now has a couple of weeks to get one in, sure we will see one or two new faces before the next game..

yorkie64red wrote:



Sod now has a couple of weeks to get one in, sure we will see one or two new faces before the next game..

I'm 99 3/4 % that will happen

Dagenham Rover wrote:

I'm 99 3/4 % that will happen

You heard something daggers or have you been reading the tea leaves again...

yorkie64red wrote:



You heard something daggers or have you been reading the tea leaves again...

not really but sort of
listen carefully to SOD's comments "the transfer window dosn't really apply to the championship as the loan window kicks in"

REPORT: Doncaster 3 City 1


It’s far too early to be worried. But it’s never too early to be angry.

What an atrocity of a performance this was, and against a side that will take greater pride in beating Hull City than the majority at this level will, even though we’re allegedly a fallen giant from the Premier League.

The day wasn’t helped by the alarming pre-match news that our manager had been admitted to hospital due to generically feeling “unwell”. The rumour mill turned vociferously through the afternoon, with some claiming Nigel Pearson will be back at his desk on Monday and others reckoning he will need a triple heart bypass and will be absent for months.

The former, according to the Head of Football Operations, applies and we can obviously be relieved that the manager has had no more than a bit of a scare, should that genuinely be the case. And therefore we can feel not remotely guilty about declaring open warfare on the commitment, organisation and spirit of the players.

With Craig Shakespeare in charge, City carded a 4-4-1-1 at the soulless Keepmoat Stadium – basically Glanford Park in red – and gave the elbow to Tom Cairney and Jay Simpson. The XI, in home shirts and white shorts and socks, was Duke, Solano, Dawson, Zayatte, Cooper, Ashbee, Bostock, Koren, Garcia, Barmby, Cullen.

Nick Barmby worked his greying hairs off and, ahead of him, Mark Cullen took on a task of considerable thanklessness and gave it his best go. Everyone else was beyond contempt.

Before the first minute had ticked by on football’s tiniest digital scoreboard – so diddy that it could have had an hourly charm installed and a leather strap attached to each side – Doncaster were ahead. Matt Duke was caught a little too far off his line as Martin Woods looped a header over him from James Coppinger’s cross. The whole thing was preventable as Liam Cooper cleared the ball weakly and in a panic instead of leaving it to Duke, conceding possession in as cheap and amateurish a manner as possible.

Oh this was a poor, poor start.

Woods got a second effort on target from a vicious free kick that swerved in the circling South Yorkshire wind but Duke managed to double-fist it away. Away from the actual opportunities created by these practicioners of a purist’s game, City were bad. The whole back four were devoid of a cool head, as one and individually, with Kamil Zayatte especially playing as if he’d set his own head on fire.

Zayatte. Is this rumour about Newcastle United based on reliable sources, or just another scam by this cretinous agent of his to get a slice of a Premier League signing on fee? It isn’t doing a very good footballer any good. Moreover, and more importantly, it isn’t doing City any good.

The game began to settle, patchily, and John Bostock and Robert Koren began to get a decent feel of the ball. Koren is still finding his feet but Bostock already has the whiff of a one-game wonder about him. He struggles to maintain interest when not in possession and doesn’t know where he is supposed to be on the park, while his ultra left-footedness – his reliance on one side of his body makes Kevin Ellison look like Andreas Brehme – makes his movements and intentions a cynch for opponents to predict.

For all the beefs about City’s display, the equaliser was beautifully crafted and wildly celebrated. Nolberto Solano took a quick free kick and gave Koren a soupcon of room, from which the Slovenian managed to steer a radiant pass through the one-paced Doncaster defence and into the path of Barmby, who scored with a crisp shot across Neil Sullivan. For ages since his last goal, he’s been one away from a major scoring milestone for his career, and finally it’s come. Buggered if I can remember exactly what it is though.

This welcome, if rather unexpected strike does not, however, instigate a fresh period of style and domination for the Tigers. In truth, they rarely looked like scoring again for the whole half. Doncaster were unperturbed by being dragged back to matters square and nearly retook the lead quickly when Brian Stock got to the byline inside the City area and pulled a dangerous ball across the six yard box which evaded Duke and was cleared sprawlingly by Zayatte as he sat on his backside.

Woods then let loose a swerving, angled effort from a half cleared corner which Duke batted out as the home side, backed by a dismal crowd in both numbers and volume, continued to dictate every manner of the game. City did have one effort from Bostock after a bad clearance allowed Richard Garcia to feed him in space, but Sullivan dealt with it in comfort.

Cooper then half cleared a Coppinger cross straight to Woods, whose goalbound shot struck the jutting knee of Zayatte and deflected wide when Duke seemed mometarily in real trouble. The Guinean then fell over with little comedy value attached and allowed the busy, irritating Billy Sharp to control and aim for the far corner with a shot that also seemed to have Duke fooled but was cleared by the backtracking Cooper.

Sharp was then fouled by Andy Dawson on the edge of the Doncaster box and the free kick was twice blocked prior to John Oster sending a spiralling header beyond Duke’s glove but on to the roof of the net. Zayatte also picked up a soft yellow card moments later, but when Cooper picked up another yellow in quick succession, just before the break, the punishment was greater.

This was a weird one. Doncaster took a corner and Matt Lockwood challenged with Cooper. Lockood’s arm went up and all yelled for handball but officious referee Lee Mason interpreted the handball as due to a shove of some kind by Cooper. It looked very hard on the youthful defender, even more so when he got his booking. Heads were still being scratched as Sharp sent Duke the wrong way from the spot and chose to mock the Tiger Nation in celebration.

Two minutes were added to little effect and City went in behind, somewhat devoid of any real purpose or strategy. It was distinctly unpretty but it was retrievable. The second half began with a spell of Tigers pressure, including a corner or two, without really giving Sullivan any reason to wipe his brow. One corner was swung in by Bostock and Ian Ashbee, presumably due to a shout from Garcia, ducked under the dropping ball but the Aussie couldn’t get control as the leather pinballed around his shins and got away.

Sullivan clung on to a looping Barmby header soon afterwards, before the City veteran was, most surprisingly, hoiked off the field, along with the ineffective Bostock, to be replaced by Tom Cairney and the “stocky” Jay Simpson. City were going for it, as Garcia didn’t stay wide upon the reshuffle but accompanied Simpson and Cullen up front. Oooh, a 4-3-3. Now let’s see what happens.

Well, what happened was that Doncaster almost immediately notched their third. And City’s change in formation and desperate lack of organisation telegraphed this goal before it was actually scored. The home side sprayed the ball around from flank to flank, across the midfield, with Ashbee unable to do it all on his own, and finally Woods chipped a smart ball on to the instep of Coppinger just inside the area, and he aimed a sweet volly across Duke and into the corner.

There were 20 minutes left, and some of the less footballist branches of City’s support – the ones who shout abuse and wear no amber at all – chose that moment to leave. City’s only real response to going two behind was a Solano free kick that aimed itself at goal but was straightforwardly plucked out by a well-sighted Sullivan.

Duke made a fine save from a Sharp effort and then Woods put a low speculative effort wide after Sharp had teed up the chance, but the evidence of City’s continuing awfulness didn’t need to be highlighted by Doncaster’s own brand of pass and move frippery. The evidence was best served by the astonishing frequency that City – cultured players and all – gave away the ball without pressure. The defence did this a lot, but the likes of Koren, Garcia and Cairney were also culpable. Ashbee looked like he had forgotten what football was at times.

Cullen had a late effort go right at Sullivan, Garcia saw a drive deflected over (though he claimed via a hand, which Mr Mason noticeably laughed at) and then Koren swatted high and wide a free kick that brought back memories of Dean Marney’s memorable incidences of hole-digging.

City should have got a second deep into the added four minutes when Dawson’s long cross was headed past Sullivan by Garcia, only for James O’Connor to hack clear. A 3-2 defeat would, however, have looked close and thrilling and perhaps a shade unlucky. This game wasn’t close or thrilling and City were not remotely unlucky.

Doncaster were good value for their win, that’s not in doubt and, even though their town can’t fill a small stadium for a major derby and the price of tickets bordered on pickpocketing, it does no harm to suggest they might do well. They have a good manager and a tight-knit squad. Our squad does not seem tight-knit. It doesn’t play or act like a team. And 18 months have now passed since any City side has won away from home. If this is an example of how low City’s away form can sink, then it’ll be a while before that wretched stat is put to bed.

from Amber Nectar....

'Tiger nation' indeed , sorry we couldn't hear you at t'uther end even though the wind was blowing towards us!
'Dismal crowd' , sorry but many thought you weren't worth coming to watch in these tough times..........they were right!
What a disparaging plank this twat is, 'Ull are nowt and moreover with that sorry excuse of a team you more than proved it.
Now I remember why I can't stand that sad 'chav' pathetic army of yours. Some fooker is making a fortune out of those daft baseball caps the majority of your planks insist on wearing.
YOU ARE DULL, YOU ARE DULL ETC................NOW FOOK RIGHT OFF.
3 points to the Hoops RTID