The Voice - Match preview #45: Doncaster Rovers vs Bradford City Saturday 26th April 2025 12:30pm

Hawksworth not a good day but we live to fight another day. We weren't good but Walsall trying to outdo us. Have a glass of red and next Saturday we will hammer Fleetwood and finish on a high.

 

Agree
When the pressure has been on we've seen the weaker sides of quite a few of our players unfortunately

 

Disgusting behaviour by some of our so called supporters today after we missed the penalty. I hope they lose their loyalty points so that better behaved supporters can replace them next season. It totally justified Doncaster’s decision to only give us the bare minimum of tickets.

 

As usual you lack balance.

Baldwin has proven himself good enough in numerous matches. Even you admitted in your own thread that you might have been wrong about slating him (or words to that effect).

Yes, he was an absolute idiot today, but during our good run he was key to how solid our defence was.

I agree that Byrne has been disappointing.

 

watching from the stand. Found out this morning he wasn’t in the squad

 

That's more to how we set up as a team.
If we are lucky to get promoted - would you like them to be part of our div 1 team? I think we would struggle big time if we relied on them.

 

what happened? The cameras didn’t show anything. Obviously not too serious as their keeper never left the goal area so he wasn’t worried about them coming on to the pitch

 

They've conceded more goals than us and are three points behind us.

I'm not certain what you mean. No-one I know has called them terrible this season and out of all the teams, they've arguably underachieved the most (unless they do go up automatically) - you only have to go on their forum which makes ours look like calmness personified.

 

Not with Smallwood back. Let's remember that the both the Swindon and Chesterfield lapses also coincided with players literally been ill.

The fact we've the second best defence suggests normally we're OK and even today we limited a team that creates chance for fun

 

What did they do? React to goading from the Donny fans in a heated moment? Oh diddums

 

You've just tried to convince everyone that Rory McArdle was on a par with Byrne and Baldwin. I don't think it's me that's lacking balance m8!

 

Will do matey, I am sure we will get there in the end but why oh why do we make it so hard for ourselves? That’s the beauty of football I guess!

 

Who cast him off ? He left of his own accord, he was out of contract because we didn’t offer him enough because he was just bang average. , he said so himself so let’s not please play with facts.

Even more bizarre in 23/24 we conceded 59 goals with Platt IN IT .
This season we played thus far, one game less and conceded 45 , WITHOUT Platt.
County have conceded 47 thus far , two MORE goals than our “ poor” replacements over a full season (minus one game )

Using your discipline he’s not as good as you are trying to pretend using any available stats .

 

Listening to Alexander's interview it was certainly the most critical of individuals he's been all season. It was interesting when talking about the penalty taker as he seemed to be implying he thought someone else should have taken it who took penalties at a previous club and scored goals, the only 2 players on that pitch that have been regular penalty takers at a club are Mellon who was 3/3 at Morecambe and Leigh who was 7/8 at Accrington. If I had to guess which one he was implying I would say Leigh with him being the more senior player but both should really have been wanting to take it.

 

Surprisingly way better than last….. 14 goals better in fact.

 

I think people are missing the sarcasm in Botswana's post. That's how I read it.

 

Yes clearly it didn't look like there was a 'Plan B' penalty taker once Sarc went off. It's pretty amateurish imo if as seems to have been suggested, it was just left to the players on the pitch to decide. I was right behind the goal and didn't feel confident when he started his run up

 

It's called sarcasm.
Maybe your humour sensor has been deactivated.

 

I doubt it . But hey we can all be wrong … I can’t be bothered checking posts but my facts are correct.