Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: City v Doncaster Rovers Saturday 30 July 2022 @ 3.00pm

Well done to the Doncaster fans - 1900 ish is fantastic support - made for a great atmosphere pre-game.

sadly that emotion spilled into the challenge that has broken Osadebe’s leg. Poor lad. You knew it was bad from the second he went down and others were calling the dug out. Thoughts with him tonight as that’s a horror injury.

Think Donny will be top seven and it wasn’t a bad point. The break killed the mood and first half was a slog.

Fat, lazy Tomlin is an utter disgrace to the game. Pathetic antics. Deserved to go. Donny parked the bus and dug in thereon in like anyone else would.

Our gameplan seemed to be cross to Oliver and hope for the best, but Donny’s physical CBs dealt with him well.

We looked really solid. Crichlow in particular was impressive. Lewis’ save in bottom corner second half was cracking.

offensively we still look limited with this set up with one up top. Chapman will hopefully start next week. Not sure If East and Sutton will be starters long term.

Halliday saw a lot of the ball. Think Hendrie’s crossing is marginally better though. That said, he looked perfectly solid at RB.

Smallwood kept it simple and hit the post with a nice free kick. Walker tried but they were tough to break down.

At least we didn’t lose like Stockport and Mansfield, but we need to be better. I think we will be

 

Christ you really are pathetic. 1 game and writing us off....yet you said judge after 10 games.

You continue to embarass yourself. A clown of a poster.

You would be nowhere to be seen if we knicked a winner .

 

Yes it was 2 footed. Even if there was no intent it was dangerous and out of control. No doubt in my mind it was a straight red card.

 

Up to the injury we were doing everything right and looked dangerous every time we broke, some of the refereeing calls were weird to say the least,
It's not the end of the world by any means.

 

As soon as I saw it , real time I guessed it was a leg breaking tackle. Winning the ball, at pace with a two footed out of control follow through is a sending off as clear as day. They refs day just got worse and worse. He permitted timewasting , feigning injury , which allowed them to do it even more. Their two corners in the last two minutes with 5 big lads able to come up for a corner and yet they took it back into the corner to waste more time. A tactic they will regret? Awful stuff if I was a Donny fan.

 

Yesterday was one crazy afternoon.
Certainly a match day memory but for all the wrong reasons.
Interpretation and application of the laws of football ruined by one individual in my opinion.

 

The sad thing is we are gonna have another season of sub standard refs to put up with first game in and it’s all about how bad the ref was ................ if he can’t see that as a red card then in all honesty he shouldn’t be allowed near a football pitch full stop

 

Pretty much my view of his performance if you can call it that! He lost control of the game from the off. He should have been flashing his yellow card to clamp down on the time wasting. It doesn’t matter if he adds time on or not; it is disruptive to a game of football and it doesn’t allow the game to flow. This automatically builds up frustration in the players and fans alike.


19,300 came to watch a game of football, and they were subjected to the stop start game that no one wanted to witness unless you are a Doncaster fan, who were celebrating their 0-0 victory at the end frustrations boiled over, and that was entirely the responsibility of the ref not doing his job. Doncaster manager can also take responsibility, to send a team out to deliberately defend with every single player for 90 minutes is a disgraceful way to manage a team. The EFL need to investigate this match, they can then show new recruits how not to referee a game.

Ravencliffe definitely went through our Player resulting in a double break. The tackle was reckless and dangerous. He should have been walking to the dressing rather than the subs bench. Their manager knew they had dodged a bullet hence why they took him off.

All in all a very frustrating game, the centre half pairing looked good. We were a little bit slow, but that will come, I still think we need a fast winger as an option..


It was awful watching Emmanuel leaving the field like that, he is a great character in the team and had already made some promising runs. We will miss him while he recovers..

I suppose we will have to get used to teams who come to thwart us rather than trying to outplay us, so they had better get ready. Onwards and upwards.

 

A fair amalgamation of what 99% of contributors believe there Roger. It’s eye opening to think Doncaster’s Director team were , on face value , embarrassed to face their hosts post match. As you say there is something seriously wrong from top and it seems the bottom of their club.

I wholeheartedly agree that Madden was extremely poor. I can’t make my mind up what he was trying to achieve, it certainly wasn’t his application of the new directive either in spirit or enforcement. He somehow tried to make outsiders believe he was somehow “ impartial “ , so far in as much he dithered and dallied decisions and boy did they play on it. The Tomlin farce was frankly that. If he had clamped down on their antics from minute 6, there would have been a completely different tone to the game, because they wouldn’t have had the freedom to behave like they did. The 6 minute yellow card, cop out, guided and supported their behaviour for the remaining 100 mins of stop/ start play.
Doncaster fans on their forum seemed to somehow believe shit house play by opponents was something that got them relegated last season……so it’s for them a lesson learned…They will do the same. Awful , awful stuff to watch, inadvertently supported by a weak referee.

 

Almost every time a Doncaster player went down on Saturday they were clutching their head, forcing the ref to stop the game. I don't know how refs are supposed to deal with that given the current rulings but something needs to be done as Saturday was a mockery of a football match.

 

That's the spirit Dave. We have the old Dave back !!

Unfortunately I've exhausted all the potential excuses and don't have enough friends to risk losing two so will have to attend. Plus I've got to do a speech as "surrogate father"/ punk & post punk musical mentor & guru to the bride.

I did consider "faking" a covid test and going on the sly, but despite what they say on the internet, lemon juice, orange juice, coca cola etc don't do that.

My excuse that I had to attend a re-enactment of siege of Vicksburg didn't cut the mustard either.

 

So we could beat our L2 attendance record for the 2nd home match in a row!

 

I'm quickly approaching 70 years old, I am just as mad as ever, onwards and upwards for the "lads".

 

Can we promise one thing??
If we don't win 3-0 can we all keep calm and not lose our heads??

 

Watching them last night you could be playing them in L1 next season