Official Match Thread Doncaster Rovers vs Southend United

[Tommy2holes]

Or Doncaster are just that much better

Donny have just done things the right way.

Closed the play and looked inventive and lively. Basically everything we are not

 

[Ricey]

Kightly scores but flagged for offside... if anyone cares?

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

I have this down at the bookies for 4-0. Took a leaf out of Aussie cricketers who regularly take a punt against themselves as some sort of consolation.

did you get ****e odds though?

 

[Shrimper]

Reckon we need 3 wins to stay up. Should be fine.

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

Offside goal.
Cox almost scores.

****ing hell we are also a bit unlucky as well as lacking.

 

[Harry Bullocks]

Kightly scores but flagged for offside... if anyone cares?

Well it would give us a zero goal difference

 

[ESG]

Robinson has scored.

 

[Barling Magna]

Doncaster had 10 shots on target to our one. Hmmmm........

 

[Harry Bullocks]

Glass empty, off to pub for refill

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Robinson has scored.

About time.

 

[BlueBore]

Glass empty, off to pub for refill

Empty, or half-empty? ;-)

 

[RHB]

Judging by how poor charlton were when I saw them against posh the other week, I think a lot had been made of getting a draw against them. Its not like we won or played them off the park.

I was there and we competed and deserved the point. Charlton weren't poor, we just battled harder.

 

[Austin the Shrimper]

This season can’t end soon enough

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

did you get ****e odds though?

It matters not now

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Hav'nt honestly thought of us struggling to stay up this season up to now.
But if we lose to Pompey on Saturday, ( considering our home record is rubbish ), then I will begin to worry.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

It matters not now

true

 

[Chrisb]

Hav'nt honestly thought of us struggling to stay up this season up to now.
But if we lose to Pompey on Saturday, ( considering our home record is rubbish ), then I will begin to worry.

Me too, thought we were safe but don't feel that now.

 

[Grapevine]

That was the worst I’ve seen from Southend this season.

The whole episode was non sensical.

Klass hasn’t pulled up any trees for the 23s all season and hasn’t started a first team game since October. That’s just so random to throw him in tonight in a role that :-

a) isn’t really what he’s equipped to do - he has 1 goal all season for 23s as opposed to Hutchinson’s 17 from exactly that position...
b) meant our best attacking player (Cox) had to move out to the left

He rests Kightly after a good performance centrally Saturday but then uses him early on as a sub out wide ?‍ I know he struggles but he only played 70 mins Saturday!!!!

Macca simply contributes nothing. Literally nothing but stays on the whole game where we are simply dire in an attacking sense.

Finally at 3-0 down he has Kelman Hutchinson and Wabo all of whom would benefit massively from even 15 mins first team football under no pressure and al of whom have a history and reputation for scoring goals and he opts to use none of them and only makes two subs!!!!!

Harry Lennon simply can’t be fit as why take him if when you’re CB gets injured you bring on Turner ahead of him? Worse still once it was 3-0 with one sub left and not using your three attacking youngsters why not give him 15 mins to ease him back in?

I despair tonight. Worst £10 I’ve ever spent.

 

[southendkid]

I was there and we competed and deserved the point. Charlton weren't poor, we just battled harder.

Their main striker was suspended and their other striker had been sold to Huddersfield the week before, the top scorer after that has 5 goals for them. We battled hard but that wasn't Charlton at their best.

 

[Barling Magna]

The failure to play Hutchinson, Kelman or Wabo as a sub in this match when we are 3-0 down is inexplicable to me.