PS I’ll try and update the stats today.

Im still not convinced we've turned the corner. We are still way too vulnerable in defence and weak in midfield and attack. We were helped by a Galbraith masterclass on Saturday. Looks like Gardener may be playing tonight so little confidence anything is going to improve. It depends how much the Cambridge manager has learned from watching us on Saturday and how Wellens builds on the positives to come up with a more consistent 90 minutes play. Its vitually impossible to predict the score or result these days as Im sure the updated table will show. I cant see us winning 2 on the trot so Ill go 2-2 . Galbraith, Hiwula.

DPL points now updated on previous thread.

I thought about it overnight and came up with what Donaldo hopes - a 2-1 win with Hiwula scoring the first. I'm hoping for a bigger improvement in our goal difference, but more than 2 goals in consecutive matches sees beyond hope!
I have a dental appointment just before KO an so will miss the first minutes.

I'm still not very hopeful but will go "cup half full" today. 2-1 win for Rovers. Dodoo / Galbraith. Fingers crossed!

comment by DonaldoRover (U5032)
posted 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
DPL points now updated on previous thread.
-----------Sorry Donaldo, I've got some missing😊----------------------------------------------------------

Rovers 1-1 Cambridge
Dodoo to score⚽

HT: Some of the team have been "not bad"; we have even seen some good moves and enterprising forward play. Gardner has to be seen to be believed. You could pick spectators form the crowd at random who would be no less effective and Wellens is seriously at fault for even recruiting him, let alone playing him. Bostock is not much better. He uses his "experience" to avoid responsibility.

those 2 apart, there have been some encouraging performances which makes a change.

Same old story. Why on earth start with Gardener? He should be on leave permanently.

Isn't it wonderful - we draw 1-1 against a team that did not have a single attempt on target!
Ignoring the OG, Gardener is a disaster as Donaldo and Nookie say.
Bostock occasionally shows some quality, but such times are becoming rarer. On Saturday he was continually playing backwards, and tonight he added many instances of complete brain fade. He created so many chances for Cambridge that a better team may have got goals.
Saturday we took three of our chances, but tonight we wasted too many. Thank goodness for Galbraith's strike.
I got more encouragement from the first 60 minutes on Saturday, and tonight was a game we should have won. However I'm not without hope that we can stay in League One.
On iFollow one could not judge whether all the off-sides were true, and I give credit to Cambridge for playing that game well, but criticise our lot for not learning and better timing runs and passes.

I’m in a bit of a hurry this morning and I put these comments together after the match and did not post them, so apologies if they repeat what is above.

I assume that Gardner had some footballing skill once, but it very difficult to discern now and Wellens and his Talent Identification Manager must take the blame for recruiting him and Wellens the responsibility for putting him in the team. Off balance, swinging your foot at a cross when facing your own goal is a bad mistake in any standard of football, but it caps off the man’s performances. Anyone who saw him in the Wimbledon game would be amazed how difficult he found it to play a part and to have picked him again was not sensible.

Bostock plays no constructive role in the team, passing the ball backwards and sideways 8 or 9 times out of ten. He even passed it backwards when just outside his own penalty box once, straight to an opponent almost laying on a goal. How can Wellens select a player who never tackles, just coasts around and only very very occasionally risks a penetrating forward pass. He calls for the ball and repeatedly does nothing at all with it! He is also good at pointing upfield to encourage his team mates to be constructive, but his contribution varies between zero and 1 or 2 out of 10 at the most. It is no wonder he has had so many clubs

Most of the rest tried at least, within their limitations, and that was pleasing.

This was a match against very moderate opposition who moved the ball around very comfortably at times. It is 2 important points lost and as the home side, although we did at least not give up, but as an aspiring escapee from the bottom 4, we should have found a way to beat them. If we cannot beat such sides we won’t stay up.

For once there was the semblance of a pattern to Rovers play, but the improvement needed is increasing whilst the time available diminishes.

Let's hope RW learns his lessons and ditches both Bostock and Gardener and builds the team round Galbraith. What views on Barlow (he seemed busy and industrious with a habit of being in the right place to score pre season) and what should the midfield be?