Let's see if I can make up my 5 point penalty! One we should win but who knows this season. 2-1 should do it. I fancy Richards to score or John Jules.

Should be a good win, as we owe Sheridan one. Next 3 are all winnable, but we don't seem to turn up v the lesser teams down the bottom. Let's hope this is the start of us turning the bottoms teams over. 4.0 Butler first goal, James if he doesn't start.

Could not connect on Safari and had to use Chrome! A little surprised by Copps starting and Richards on the bench. I'll stick with my prediction for the last game with Rovers winning 3-1 and Sims scoring.
It seems Swindon attack mode is a long ball to the wings - hope we do not get caught out on the counter with too many of our guys attacking as we did against Gillingham, but I still want the pace and liveliness we showed in that game.

Rovers 4-1 Swindon
John-Jules to score

C'mon Rovers ⚽⚽⚽⚽

Swindon don't look relegation material. They put up as good a footballing performance as we have seen in the first 45. Indeed their chances have been rather more clear cut than ours. Commentator + Joe Wright summarising not keen to recognise their undoubted quality.

Despite the score, Rovers were out-played for long periods of this match especially in the second half, a fact not acknowledged by the commentary team. As I said at half time they put up as good a performance as we have seen, certainly from a side we have beaten. For long periods in the second half we could not get the ball and when we did manage to win it back we often lost it again fairly quickly.

It was fortunate that James finished his two chances expertly as most of our attackers were well contained. Of the subs, only Richards really added significantly and Okenabirhie was again hopelessly out of touch.

Although the penalty looked a generous gift from the ref, it was hardly less than they deserved.

It put the individual footballing skills of our players to a very severe test and Swindon’s outshone ours alarmingly frequently.

What happened to the team that played on Saturday? Tonight it was back to the slow, boring, negative play as against Northampton plus many more bad passes and lost balls and not many real chances created.
Swindon certainly did not look like relegation candidates except for being unable to take advantage of what we gave them. The penalty certainly looked like a gift from the ref.
I'm certainly glad James was not at left back!
Even Whiteman's passing was way below his normal standard, as was most players'. Sims seemed to have lost his spark again, and if his hamstring is serious, it is probably the last we have seen of him.
I give some credit to Amos for that shot that brought out that spectacular save by their GK - I thought it was going in.
However, playing badly and winning can get you promotion!

The answer is we need a complete team of full backs.

In some ways its nice to see John Marquis near the top of the scorers table , but telling that there arent any from Rovers

Rovers should take an interest in Kyle Huddlin of Solihull Moors. Quite a big lad and scores goals

It's good to see lots of comments,

but I'm OK with more than one sentence at a time.

I suppose when it comes to strikers, you can mark one man out of a game, but it makes it more difficult when there are several potential scorers.

It would be very difficult to out jump Kyle Hudlin. He's 6' 10 ". Looks bad news re Sims. I guess he would have gone in January anyway. Which full back will fill in for him I wonder? I've Never rated Reece James that highly but he seems to be proving me wrong. Only hope Taylor stays fit and Gomes returns soon.

In normal jobs people do improve with experience and good training and perhaps it does not happen as much in football because the quality of the educational skill in a sporting sense is not that good. Experience has often been the main qualification of managers until relatively recently. Taking your coaching badges is a part of the process for would-be managers, but management in football is still a job where most have been good footballers and until recently some would say that you could not manage without that background.

With people like Mourinho, Wenger and in our case SOD that template is changing, but it is far from the accepted norm.

So I suppose that we are seeing in James a reflection of Moore’s ability as a coach.

I wonder how long it will be before his teaching has an effect on some of the others.

It would not be too difficult to outshine out-of-form Oke at the moment and the front man for Swindon impressed me. I have not heard of the Solihull striker, but he sounds as though he would be in demand if he can control a football and use his height. DM knows the Midlands scene, so perhaps he is ready to pounce.

Rovers 2 (James) : Swindon T 1
>>>>>>> Scorer > Score > Result Bonus > Total > Pts B/F > O/all
Donaldo>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 3 >>>> 0 >>>> 3 >>>>> 52 >>>>>> 55
PDXMickey> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 3 >>>> 0 >>>> 3 >>>>> 39 >>>>>> 42
BVZ>>>>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 3 >>>> 0 >>>> 3 >>>>> 13 >>>>>>> 16
Crazy>>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 35 >>>>> 35
Mooligan>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 3 >>>> 0 >>>>> 3 >>>>> 45 >>>>>> 48
Cheltenham 0 >>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>>>>> 0 >>>>>>>> 0
Nookie>>>> 4 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 3 >>>> 0 >>>>> 7 >>>>> 49 >>>>>> 56
Selby>>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 19 >>>>>> 19
Lanza>>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>>>>> 0
>>>>>>>>>> 4 >>>>> 0 >>>>> 15 >>>> 0 >>>> 19 >>>> 252 >>>> 271
...and Nookie takes the lead.

Big games over the next few days in this division, Hull Pompey tomorrow at 17:30, then Peterborough Ipswich Saturday. If they draw and we win our next 2, we go top 😁
But its us we're talking about 🤣