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Front 3 of Taylor, BRE and Ismail

 

Cheers Rochdale for another winner.

 

Part of his 5 year plan mate to make out we have no money and Mr Rupp won't put his hand in his pocket.

Mr Rupp to Bowyer" I want a cup run"
Bowyer" ok,.. "

 

Well that was terrible really, but I suspect we didn't really want to play in this game.

Keeper looked a bit nervous, but didn't really have much to do. Actually, neither did our back four.
Anderson looked like he was somewhere else. Reeves busy and good to see him back. He would have quickly realised that Oteh and Patrick aren't the sort of players to read his passes, and Anderson is not the one to help him out.
Ismael had a decent game, as did Cooke. Lively and forward thinking.
Patrick did ONE thing of note - a lovely nutmeg. That got me all excited (see previous post), but really he looks like he plays the game wearing roller skates. To say I kept getting him, Anderson and Oteh mixed up, doesn't mean I'm a racist, it just means I know a crap player when I see one. Oteh should be fined for that penalty. It was far worse than that young lad earlier on in the competition who missed trying to be cocky.

Subs were as pointless as the second half.

Please Donaldson and Vaughan get fit again. Please O'Donnell don't ever get injured.

 

In a fiver acca, paying just over £75.

 

Not fair when you play rochdale and bolton on same night.....great reporting

 

I look upon these games as finding one for the future.Given our lack of quality in depth,I'm glad Reeves came through and made a point that he could..but we need a couple more to prove they can take the opportunity to step up.

 

Didn't know that, but still have zero interest.

It's a redundant cup.

 

Here we go mate we went to Oxford in the quarter final, I think the original game was called off at the last minute because of the state of the pitch,.
Rahic bought the traveling fans coffee snd burgers, and paid for fans to travel to the replay for free.

31 January 2017 Quarter Final Oxford United A 1–2 Hiwula

 

ah right. There was a carlisle JPT game as well, but obviously a different one.

 

I thought we came out and played some decent stuff, without doubt the turning point was that sloppy penalty miss, score that and it's game on, but our heads dropped, Rochdale made it 1-1 and never looked like losing, a few huffs and puffs in the Rochdale box second galf but. not a lot of creative football.

 

I agree with your above @Faithful Bantam but when they were offered 12 months contracts the squad was very bare, was Bowyer thinking better having the likes of the above mentioned on board and try and bring better quality in or just hope we can get better signed on.
I believe Bowyer has faith in Devine to prove himself, I personally can't see the lad being a regular if I'm honest but although the above are not the quality we need to move forward imagine where we would have been with our desimated midfield resently.
So for me they are players who will be bench players if when the likes of Palmer, Devitt, Prichard, Cooke, etc are fit again.

 

Surprised by this comment, I watched the full game and don’t remember us going long at all, in fact one of their goals came out from us getting caught out trying to play it out. The only long balls I remember were Reeves switching them play and most were accurate. Think the stars agree with me as well as we made more passes and had a higher success rate, not that it matters just definitely was watching a different game to me.

 

Their keeper pulled off some good saves, maybe that was another one of the differences between the two sides..

 

If he had composure in front of goal he would've been at the top level no questions. Great movement and lightening quick just needed about 7/8 chances to bag a goal. Shows finishing can't be taught just comes naturally to some players.

 

I went against Man City, I'm a much bigger fan than you.

 

I hope we took it seriously, we could bring Doyle back if we win it.

 

But how high can you pi$$ up the wall, NM ?