I'll go for a resounding 3-0 victory
Marquis with the first
7784 crowd
https://audioboom.com/posts/1358258-brentford-vs-doncaster-rovers-final-minutes
1-0, Copps to score in Fergie time. 7981
I don't think that poor refereeing has been a prominent feature in the 6 away games which I have seen since the turn of the year.
Comparatively speaking we have declined somewhat over the last 3 months and especially more recently and reflecting on the success of the whole season may provide a perspective, but it does not secure our place at the top of the pile.
In all probability earlier in the season we would have had sufficient drive, determination and ability in reserve to have won at Crawley and Colchester and to have got a draw at Wycombe. So perhaps we began to coast before promotion was secured. This was particularly evident in the first half display at Leyton, but we had enough there to wake up and win in the second half.
As Fergie has said a continuation of this terminal decline would not provide the launch pad for next season. It's not quite the same as the dreadful end to our penultimate Championship season (2010/11) when we avoided relegation, but won only 1 game in the final 3 months, but then of course we followed up with a disastrous start and ultimate failure of a campaign in 11/12.
We need no more losses and at least 4 points in the last 2 games and if I had to choose, 3 vs Exeter would be my preference rather than having to rely on crushing poor Hartlepool.
So 1-0 and Marquis with 7,250 on Saturday please on the back of a convincing performance.
If we had converted our pens the job wud had have been done ...simple
Up to N.Yorkshire.
Back to Donny
Jet lag .
Baby Lanza drags me all over .
Don't know where she gets it from
RTWD
I really need to remember to get these predictions in - next season I'll be better!
2-0 to us, Marquis to score, 7722.
I might cry if we lose again.
5-1 victory to the mighty Ziggers. Williams first goal. Marquis if he doesn't start. Crowd of 8765. Hope HMP Plymouth only draw tomorrow as, if results don't go our way, it could be the worst promotion after giving away the title.
2-1 victory, Williams if he starts otherwise Marquis, crowd 7777
A nervous 1-0 win Rowe to score crowd 8765
2-1 to Rovers. Marquis to score, Williams if not playing. Crowd of 7425.
Rovers never go for the easy route. It will all come to the last nervous minutes of the final game so going for a 2-2 draw manderville to score if starts if not copps if starts otherwise marquis ,crowd 8357
Rovers1 Exeter1 Marquis to score Crowd8099
Rovers 2-1 Exeter
Marquis to score, if not playing Williams
Crowd 8,456
C'mon Rovers
Happy Bank Holiday weekend everyone.
Come on Rovers.
Full lanza turnout
Rovers 3-1
Marquis if not playing then may
Crowd of 8666
Come on you reds🔴⚪🔴⚪
If it is Ok im putting prediction on now
2-0 rovers rowe to score
8658
Wasn't sure why Marquis was left on his own up front. Copps is good but a second striker he isn't. Presumably the idea was to get the lion's share of possession but with passing like ours in the first half that wasn't on. Exeter were tight, tidy and scored with a well worked routine. Brilliant equaliser from Copps after excellent work by Rowe and it looked on again. Rovers were certainly more focused in the second half but once the penalty was given, despite Lawlor saving twice (?) no-one got back and it went in. After that it was mayhem and we ended up with four forwards on none of whom could break down the Exeter defence. Not a good performance but fair play to Exeter, like Wycombe and Plymouth they did what they had to do. Happy to be promoted and you never know, if we win at Hartlepool and Grimsby stick it to Plymouth......
Just noticed that Hartlepool managed no shots on or off target in their game with Cheltenham today.
Bottlers! pleased we're promoted but the season's ending poorly. We should have had this league wrapped up by now it's pathetic! We haven't played well since Grimsby! Pompey 6-8 weeks ago were 17 points behind us. Hartlepool are bound to throw everything at us, think we'll finish 3rd if I'm honest.
I really dont want to talk about the game but I to question fergie team selection.
Hes done a great job at getting us promoted at the first attempt.
Great finish 26.
Fantastic ball from MOM MCULLOCK.
What I need to mention is our pathetic fans how exited when the 3rd goal went in .
They should hang their heads in shame.
We had to drive back to N.yorks for a function never considered going early infact stayed for the players walk around after the game.
RTID
Lanza, are you me in disguise?
Your thoughts are the same as mine.
Mass exodus when it went to 3-1 but we have seen that before I suppose.
Wrong to start with one up front today, Williams should have started especially in a home game.
Marquis was isolated most of the time.
I barely spoke on the way home, really disappointed.
I have to question DF with the mysterious decisions since promotion was secured.
Players out for the season making sudden comebacks etc.
Did he think it was going to be easy to wrap the title up with what have essentially been fringe players making up the team?
I am going up to Hartlepool next week but fully expect Plymouth to win at Grimsby.
The run - in was against a whole string of teams chasing the play-offs, all relatively solid in defence and good on the break.
They seemed to be a challenge that we should have dealt with, but I certainly underestimated the quality they put up and perhaps DF and the players did too. So it was not simply that we faded and I think we did, but that we needed something extra to maintain existing momentum. Perhaps even more of the same just might have been enough, not to win them all, but to carry us over the line. But it wasn't there.
The highlights reveal an atrocious defensive performance.
Lawlor did not move soon enough to give him a chance to stop the first goal and I wonder whether his line of sight was obscured by one of our defenders. If so, how did that happen?
For the penalty there were only 3 or 4 defenders coming in on the follow up that were awake enough to challenge the second and third strikes. Other teams have a mass of bodies in the way almost immediately. Where were the other 6 or 7 members of the team? Organisational failure.
Third goal. How many times have we seen this type of individual naivety?
We shall get punished even more seriously next season for these types of defensive lapses and it implies chaotic organisation. When we were scoring more goals we probably ignored them but now they are staring us in the face.
Incidentally we were congratulating ourselves for winning when we played badly - the alleged "sign of a good team" - earlier in the season without really examining what needed rectifying.
The team that win playing badly, scraping through, riding their luck, game after game are now top and it despite my criticisms, it would be very unfair, if they in all their negativity were to snatch the title out of our hands in the eleventh hour.
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posted on 27/4/17
I'll go for a resounding 3-0 victory
Marquis with the first
7784 crowd
posted on 27/4/17
https://audioboom.com/posts/1358258-brentford-vs-doncaster-rovers-final-minutes
posted on 27/4/17
1-0, Copps to score in Fergie time. 7981
posted on 28/4/17
I don't think that poor refereeing has been a prominent feature in the 6 away games which I have seen since the turn of the year.
Comparatively speaking we have declined somewhat over the last 3 months and especially more recently and reflecting on the success of the whole season may provide a perspective, but it does not secure our place at the top of the pile.
In all probability earlier in the season we would have had sufficient drive, determination and ability in reserve to have won at Crawley and Colchester and to have got a draw at Wycombe. So perhaps we began to coast before promotion was secured. This was particularly evident in the first half display at Leyton, but we had enough there to wake up and win in the second half.
As Fergie has said a continuation of this terminal decline would not provide the launch pad for next season. It's not quite the same as the dreadful end to our penultimate Championship season (2010/11) when we avoided relegation, but won only 1 game in the final 3 months, but then of course we followed up with a disastrous start and ultimate failure of a campaign in 11/12.
We need no more losses and at least 4 points in the last 2 games and if I had to choose, 3 vs Exeter would be my preference rather than having to rely on crushing poor Hartlepool.
So 1-0 and Marquis with 7,250 on Saturday please on the back of a convincing performance.
posted on 28/4/17
If we had converted our pens the job wud had have been done ...simple
posted on 28/4/17
Up to N.Yorkshire.
Back to Donny
Jet lag .
Baby Lanza drags me all over .
Don't know where she gets it from
RTWD
posted on 28/4/17
I really need to remember to get these predictions in - next season I'll be better!
2-0 to us, Marquis to score, 7722.
I might cry if we lose again.
posted on 28/4/17
5-1 victory to the mighty Ziggers. Williams first goal. Marquis if he doesn't start. Crowd of 8765. Hope HMP Plymouth only draw tomorrow as, if results don't go our way, it could be the worst promotion after giving away the title.
posted on 28/4/17
2-1 victory, Williams if he starts otherwise Marquis, crowd 7777
posted on 29/4/17
A nervous 1-0 win Rowe to score crowd 8765
posted on 29/4/17
2-1 to Rovers. Marquis to score, Williams if not playing. Crowd of 7425.
posted on 29/4/17
Rovers never go for the easy route. It will all come to the last nervous minutes of the final game so going for a 2-2 draw manderville to score if starts if not copps if starts otherwise marquis ,crowd 8357
posted on 29/4/17
Rovers1 Exeter1 Marquis to score Crowd8099
posted on 29/4/17
Rovers 2-1 Exeter
Marquis to score, if not playing Williams
Crowd 8,456
C'mon Rovers
Happy Bank Holiday weekend everyone.
posted on 29/4/17
Come on Rovers.
Full lanza turnout
posted on 29/4/17
Rovers 3-1
Marquis if not playing then may
Crowd of 8666
Come on you reds🔴⚪🔴⚪
posted on 29/4/17
If it is Ok im putting prediction on now
2-0 rovers rowe to score
8658
posted on 29/4/17
Wasn't sure why Marquis was left on his own up front. Copps is good but a second striker he isn't. Presumably the idea was to get the lion's share of possession but with passing like ours in the first half that wasn't on. Exeter were tight, tidy and scored with a well worked routine. Brilliant equaliser from Copps after excellent work by Rowe and it looked on again. Rovers were certainly more focused in the second half but once the penalty was given, despite Lawlor saving twice (?) no-one got back and it went in. After that it was mayhem and we ended up with four forwards on none of whom could break down the Exeter defence. Not a good performance but fair play to Exeter, like Wycombe and Plymouth they did what they had to do. Happy to be promoted and you never know, if we win at Hartlepool and Grimsby stick it to Plymouth......
posted on 29/4/17
Just noticed that Hartlepool managed no shots on or off target in their game with Cheltenham today.
posted on 29/4/17
Bottlers! pleased we're promoted but the season's ending poorly. We should have had this league wrapped up by now it's pathetic! We haven't played well since Grimsby! Pompey 6-8 weeks ago were 17 points behind us. Hartlepool are bound to throw everything at us, think we'll finish 3rd if I'm honest.
posted on 29/4/17
I really dont want to talk about the game but I to question fergie team selection.
Hes done a great job at getting us promoted at the first attempt.
Great finish 26.
Fantastic ball from MOM MCULLOCK.
What I need to mention is our pathetic fans how exited when the 3rd goal went in .
They should hang their heads in shame.
We had to drive back to N.yorks for a function never considered going early infact stayed for the players walk around after the game.
RTID
posted on 29/4/17
Lanza, are you me in disguise?
Your thoughts are the same as mine.
Mass exodus when it went to 3-1 but we have seen that before I suppose.
Wrong to start with one up front today, Williams should have started especially in a home game.
Marquis was isolated most of the time.
I barely spoke on the way home, really disappointed.
I have to question DF with the mysterious decisions since promotion was secured.
Players out for the season making sudden comebacks etc.
Did he think it was going to be easy to wrap the title up with what have essentially been fringe players making up the team?
I am going up to Hartlepool next week but fully expect Plymouth to win at Grimsby.
posted on 30/4/17
The run - in was against a whole string of teams chasing the play-offs, all relatively solid in defence and good on the break.
They seemed to be a challenge that we should have dealt with, but I certainly underestimated the quality they put up and perhaps DF and the players did too. So it was not simply that we faded and I think we did, but that we needed something extra to maintain existing momentum. Perhaps even more of the same just might have been enough, not to win them all, but to carry us over the line. But it wasn't there.
posted on 30/4/17
The highlights reveal an atrocious defensive performance.
Lawlor did not move soon enough to give him a chance to stop the first goal and I wonder whether his line of sight was obscured by one of our defenders. If so, how did that happen?
For the penalty there were only 3 or 4 defenders coming in on the follow up that were awake enough to challenge the second and third strikes. Other teams have a mass of bodies in the way almost immediately. Where were the other 6 or 7 members of the team? Organisational failure.
Third goal. How many times have we seen this type of individual naivety?
We shall get punished even more seriously next season for these types of defensive lapses and it implies chaotic organisation. When we were scoring more goals we probably ignored them but now they are staring us in the face.
posted on 30/4/17
Incidentally we were congratulating ourselves for winning when we played badly - the alleged "sign of a good team" - earlier in the season without really examining what needed rectifying.
The team that win playing badly, scraping through, riding their luck, game after game are now top and it despite my criticisms, it would be very unfair, if they in all their negativity were to snatch the title out of our hands in the eleventh hour.
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