Pre-match there were two topics of conversation on the away terrace. One, the realisation that the twitter hashtag for the match was #hardon, the other a swell of optimism as Danny Schofield appeared to be absent. There was an audible dismay as he walked to the bench just before kick-off.
Harrogate started on top but Rovers grew into it and on 25 minutes a cheer went up accompanied by a chorus of ‘we’ve had a shot’. Two minutes later we had another and it was curled in by Aidan Barlow. He tried again a couple of minutes later but shot just wide.
In a dream start to the second half, Rovers scored again. Good work by Barlow and Kieran Agard led to a cross being pushed out as far as Luke Molyneux who smashed in through a crowd of players on the angle from around 12 yards.
On fifty minutes it was more like the Rovers of late with a slip in our area leading to a succession of scrambled shots, Harrogate finding a finish through Luke Armstrong.
When we concede one, another often follows, and on the hour Tom Eastman slotted a low drive in from the edge of the area. We had a lucky escape seconds later when Jonathan Mitchell was beaten, the Harrogate forward pulled the ball back for his team-mate to fire at goal but it was headed wide off the line. We held on for a point as Schofield was berated by the away following.
by Mike Follows
popular STAND fanzine 
Can’t believe the way we set out to play and the half time talks must be non existent one win now in last 12 matches what is happening to our football club and I go home and away deflated