2-0 rovers, butler with first, 7027 crowd

1-1, Rowe, 6826

Rovers 2-1 Whiteman scoring first. I feel being moved to a Friday night will have an impact on the attendance so I'm going for 6888

1-0 rovers marquis to score if starts if not Butler crowd cheap tickets but bitterly cold 7999

Overnight I was thinking 2-0 which seems popular, but this morning I'm going with 3-1 to the good guys. I assume Copps will be rested, but think a mid-fielder will score the first. Whiteman if he starts or otherwise Rowe. Guessing the crowd is more difficult than who will start - as Urhred says, cheap tickets vs. cold weather. The BBC website says there is no snow, so I'll say 7272.

2-1 Rovers
Rowe
6766

Rovers to win tight game 2-1 baudry to pop one in crowd 7197

Rovers 3.1 first goal May. Tommy if he doesn't start. Crowd of 6789.

Rovers 2-1 Rochdale
Marquis to score
Crowd 6.789

2-1 to Rovers. Marquis. 7014

Mr nobody .
2 nil.
The greatest striker in the football leauge

1-0 DRFC
Marquis
6780

Great result good crowd and 3 out of 3 over Xmas. 3 clean sheets and Fergie gets a reprieve for another week

Well done Uthred the Viking - within 2 of the attendance. I should have stuck with 2-0!
Good first half, but big drop-off in the second - Lawlor was somewhat busy at times.
A win is a win!

One peach of a goal from Whiteman and one fluke from May, but then if you don't shoot you don't score! Rochdale played some lovely football and Lawlor made some great saves. We certainly were under the cosh for a big chunk of the second half until Blair replaces Copps. This change gave us a lot more attack down the right not to mention some stout defending when it mattered. Rochdale continued to press to the end but they ran out of time. May got MoM but, for me, Lawlor got us the points. My companion would have picked Marquis who sweated blood from beginning to end.

Good game.
Good team performance.
May got mom .He didnt have a bad game but there were 9 men better.
They had some glorious chances....bad misses and top keeping stopped them scoring.
Mason mom 4 me excellent balls into box.
Albi . Marquis was magnificent although boo boys are gathering.

Marquis my MoM lightly ahead of Mason and Lawlor but every player contributed well again tonight.
Good to bring Blair on to give Dale something to think about down the right and to rest Copps for the last half hour with Peterbro in mind.
When was the last time we won three in a row without conceding.
Things are looking quite good again.

At least we go to the same game hound.
Some near me must be watching a diff game.
2 full backs playing well also.
Both very young I just hope the fans give them a chance.
I will continue to give May time but for me he is just not good enough.
As i said last week i dont think 26 is 100%.
No.one mentions Butler now everyone just expects the same every week from him.
I wonder if df ever rues that silly tiff that cost us.
Baudry still a bit airy fairy for me.

On Baudry, the thing I see is his positional sense.
He reads the game really well and doesn’t seem to have to do desperate stuff.
A bit like Bobby Moore but obviously not at the same level.

The Rochdale manager was critical of his team when I thought he would praise them for their enterprise in the second half; there were certainly spells when they seemed to press hard.

As for May it was his quick thinking that kept the move which led to the first goal alive; with the ball in no-man's-land he was the first to move and prod it through to Whiteman. It was also the speed that he got on to the ball that brought his goal. He is invaluable and when I have seen him works just as hard as Marquis albeit in a different way. A bit like Lawlor, he is probably better in situations where he just reacts and does not have time to think.

It is good that the defence is looking better overall though and heartening to see DF giving Garratt a good run to establish his confidence. Is he managing the same with Mandeville? I can imagine that he is not too happy and with some justification if you compare his position with that of Garratt.

I like him hound just think hes not quite on it right now.Baudry that is.
Masons dead ball delivery last night was some of the best i can remember.

Brilliant set of results for us today to, still 10th!

I agree azza, I didn’t think it would happen.
Hope we can get something at Peterbro now.