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Your Bristol Rovers v Ipswich Town Match Reports

SuffPunch added 22:17 - Feb 14 £10 wasted on ifollow. I wish the players cared as much about promotion as the supporters do.
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DifferentGravy added 22:24 - Feb 14 Somebody please teach Leif Davis to play the ball and not the player. He missed so many tackles throughout the game getting involved in a personal vendetta. The whole team need to learn to head the ball as well. Aluko, Davis, Humphreys, Burns, Burgess, Harness were absolutely dreadful......and thats simply too many players to carry. The constant rotation is unsettling and we look completely out of sorts. Be lucky to make the playoffs.

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Billysherlockblue added 22:37 - Feb 14 Shameful guys. Ye were to put it mildly TERRIBLE. BUNCH OF NON TRYERS. AND GOD I LUV MY CLUB.
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Eeyore added 22:43 - Feb 14 Collins was best player tonight. He is just 25 and would have been a good buy. Poor performances particularly from Harness and Burns. Humphries is not yet good enough for a top of table team. Unlucky that Luongo is not fit. Once Ball, Luongo and Evans back we will consolidate 4th place. It’s looking a bit like quite a few seasons where we are told our players are the best in the league, they do ok in the first half of the season, then even bottom of the league players start to look superior. We plummet down the league. However, I think that this time we will recover and do well in last 10 games. Finishing on a high, we will have a good chance in play offs.

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Eeyore added 22:51 - Feb 14 Low ratings for defenders are silly. They did OK and kept a clean sheet. Aluko was good. It was the midfield and strikers who couldn’t produce the goods. Burns is nowhere near the standard that saw him break into the Wales team. I would now play Jackson in place of him. In fact anyone in place of him. He gets knocked over by a gust of wind. Best player in Div 1 last season. One of the worst this season.

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timleatham added 07:47 - Feb 15 Thought I would sleep on it before posting my thoughts on last nights display. In conclusion we are clearly not a top two team as we struggle to break down teams who put 11 behind the ball. Our central midfield lacks creativity and offers very little in the final third. In a game when we needed creativity and flair our team selection was poor and hopefully McKenna will now park Aluko and Harness who do not offer enough in the final third. Burns was a big disappointment and should not be marked out of a game by players of the calibre at Bristol Rovers. The only creativity came from Leigh Davis who really needed to stay on the pitch for the full 90 mins however strange that he was taken off and not Donacian for Clarke (who should be playing ahead of Donacian in a game when the oppo are going to be negative and just play on the break). We need a Plan B and stop keeping with the same rigid formation which does not create enough. So for the next match Broadhead, Chaplin, Clarke, Jackson need to start for Harness, Aluko, Donacian, Burns, and Humphreys needs to have a break and we need one of our other central midfielders to get fit for once!!

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Maltster added 10:20 - Feb 15 We keep hearing how good our squad is BUT in true only Morsy Walton are championship quality. Donacien has stopped playing with Burns, 90% of his passes are backwards or sideways. Humphreys is toweak and like Harness he gives the ball away to often. Bluntly we are unlikely to reach the playoffs and if we do we are unlikely to win. How sad after the start of the season

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timleatham added 19:33 - Feb 15 Thought I would sleep on it before posting my thoughts on last nights display. In conclusion we are clearly not a top two team as we struggle to break down teams who put 11 behind the ball. Our central midfield lacks creativity and offers very little in the final third. In a game when we needed creativity and flair our team selection was poor and hopefully McKenna will now park Aluko and Harness who do not offer enough in the final third. Burns was a big disappointment and should not be marked out of a game by players of the calibre at Bristol Rovers. The only creativity came from Leigh Davis who really needed to stay on the pitch for the full 90 mins however strange that he was taken off and not Donacian for Clarke (who should be playing ahead of Donacian in a game when the oppo are going to be negative and just play on the break). We need a Plan B and stop keeping with the same rigid formation which does not create enough. So for the next match Broadhead, Chaplin, Clarke, Jackson need to start for Harness, Aluko, Donacian, Burns, and Humphreys needs to have a break and we need one of our other central midfielders to get fit for once!!

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Robert_Garrett added 20:05 - Feb 15 On any other day we were due two or three goals at least. But its not happened again and we seem to take far tp long to go forward but tippie tappie it around and let the opposition reform. Time to roast the opposition and not be nice to them!"
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Maltster added 15:37 - Feb 16 Yes our defenders keep passing the ball to themselves while the oposition get themselves sorted out. Nowonder burns and co keep running into a briack wall of defenders
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