Dismal. Dire. Yep, Doncaster are at home. Whatever it is that’s enabled Rovers to become invincible on the road – winning four games from four – yet again fizzled and dissolved away when it came into contact with the kryptonite soaked pitch of the Keepmoat. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 0-2 Oldham Athletic: 250 word match report”
A cup upset in name, but not in character. Rovers, confident in attack and cool and collected to a man, brushed Watford aside as they eased into the League Cup third round. Continue reading “Watford 1-2 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Away game equals away win. Is it too late to rent out the Keepmoat, reverse all our home games, and treat League One as an extended UK tour? Continue reading “Colchester United 0-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
Great news, we have finally proven the theory that if you lock ten monkeys in a number of rooms for a month or so, eventually they will produce a football fanzine. It may be a week late, but at last it is here. Issue 71 of popular STAND fanzine will be on sale at Rovers match away at Colchester United at the weekend. the fanzine will be on sale outside the away turnstiles from about 1:45pm. And if you miss us on the gates, look out for the bright red popular STAND bag inside the ground. Continue reading “popular STAND fanzine issue 71”
After the debacle against Port Vale at the weekend, Paul Dickov got the reaction he was asking for as Rovers grabbed a well-earned point against Preston.
The big talking point was the early exit of Rob Jones (who it appears is destructible after all), replaced by Liam Wakefield after picking up what looked to be another neck injury in the first minute.
But the makeshift defence, which included a game at centre-half for Reece Wabara, held out well with Marc De Val running the show from midfield and James Coppinger showing glimpses of his brilliance throughout.
The first half passed by with Coppinger the only player to go close to a goal with a shot from the angle deflected wide and a couple of long range efforts flying over, but it remained goalless.
It was going to take something special to break the deadlock and that’s what Chris Humphrey did on the hour, against the run of play. The winger smashed a superb volley past Jed Steer from 25 yards into the top corner to give the visitors the lead after a corner wasn’t cleared.
Despite Rovers pushing forward it appeared to just be one of the nights when Coppinger, Kyle Bennett and Cedric Evina all saw chances go begging as time ticked away for Dickov’s side.
However, Nathan Tyson came off the bench to replace Furman and the striker poked the ball home after a goalmouth scramble two minutes into added time to send the Keepmoat faithful home happy.
by Chris Donald
After successive away wins Rovers wrapped themselves in a nice fluffy blanket, hit the snooze button and went to sleep. Sadly they were three down before realising the ringing in the background was the alarm going off and they needed to get up and go to work. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-3 Port Vale; 250 word match report”
So, if it didn’t already need confirming, Doncaster Rovers and Harry Forrester do actually “score when they want”.
In one of the least interesting games of football you’re ever likely to experience, Rovers scraped through to the second round of the League Cup in dramatic, if not fortuitous fashion. Continue reading “York City 0-1 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
It began in untypical opening day fashion with Rovers looking lively from the off. This attacking style was rewarded on eight minutes as Harry Forrester slotted Curtis Main through to coolly dink the ball over the onrushing keeper for 1-0. Continue reading “Yeovil Town 0-3 Doncaster Rovers; 250 Word Match Report”
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