Derby ‘Pride’ County v Rovers: Sunday 8th March 2020

Late out! Must be a few things being said.

That’s as bad a half I’ve seen from Rovers in sometime. Drog and Steve had it right . Derby are walking through Rovers brittle midfield , especially after Travis got his booking .

Travis off. Mowbray has written today off by the looks of things.

Buckley red card
This is awful

Never had a chance today with mowbrays team selection. I knew it, the supporters knew it and worst of all the players knew it! They aren't thick and with that midfield and attack the players knew they were swimming against the tide from the off. It's disheartening when as a player you see a team sheet go up that you know doesn't have a chance.
Memo to Mowbray... picking a bad player in hope will not make him any better! You've bought two pups one can do half a job despite being massively over priced and overpaid but the other is just a write off! Good luck explaining that next time you are in Pune.
Oh and TM should apologise to the travelling fans.

That was

Highlights.
Not even watching them myself

Dreadful day out . TM got this one wrong and to be fair , he’s admitted the balance of the side wasn’t right .

Rovers are limited even when playing at full tilt . The fact that they’re only 3 points off the play-offs and a rank average team like PNE are in that sixth spot, tells you all you need to know about the general standard of this league.

I am saying nothing about today. Despite what happened the play-offs are still within reach.

Drog said:

Poor old Trav! He'll have his work cut out! A very attacking line up but at least 4 of his teammates in midfield and up top either don't have a tackle in em or won't track back! Still no Lenihan either yet it seems TM doesn't deem it necessary to protect the defence from midfield.
All this against a team which appears to have been inspired recently by Wayne Rooney. Whose going to keep him from running the show? Wouldn't the psychology have been to select Johnson to team up with Trav in the centre against his old teammates AND his high profile replacement and keep one of the strikers for second half duty?

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If I could see it why couldn't the Manager? Two free shots from central midfield made it 2-0 before HT after Travis was outnumbered and by-passed both times! Insult to injury when then the inept BB missed a sitter to give me full points in the predictions league. I'm heartily sick of Mowbray giving him chance after bloody chance! Surely the untried Jack Vale could NOT have contributed less to today's performance than Brereton? I can only assume Mowbray (and Waggot too) is so desperate to find positives with his two howler signings that he's needing to go for broke before their next visit to Pune.

Agree with CLW-BRFC. Bad day at the office. Move on ASAP.

I bet the Rovers ‘Final Four’ ticket offer is witnessing bumper sales this morning

Any chance that some of these games will be played behind closed doors?

It would appear unlikely at the moment

But then again........ https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11129623/all-six-nations-games-axed/

Seems the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

It's an exercise in crowd control is all. I'd wager by the end of the month there'll be no large gatherings allowed. On the plus side, that should mean most of our home games go ahead...

Who can remember 'Spot the Ball' in the Telegraph? I do hope they are putting all those tv screens to good use at Brockhall this morning. Derby TV 45 seconds and 2.27 in particular. 'Spot the Midfielder' being the new version. Carbon copy goal as Travis is easily by-passed with a simple square ball and with no other bugger in sight! "GET GOAL SIDE!" of your opposite number always the mantra in my day.