Rovers recorded their 23rd league defeat of the 2022-23 season when they lost to Walsall at the Bescot Stadium. Rovers fielded a strange-looking side with several changes from the previous game against Colchester United, and also named only five substitutes.
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Another day, another defeat as Crewe Alexandra, who hadn’t previously won away this calendar year, strolled off with three easy points. The damage was done in a six-minute spell in a first half controlled by the visitors.
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Rovers and promotion-chasing Town served up a match settled in the visitors’ favour thanks to the sort of individual errors and attacking toothlessness that have blighted Rovers’ season.
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Six days can be a long time in football, especially at this time of the season. Jeered off after a Boxing Day battering at Tranmere, Rovers earned a standing ovation on New Year’s Day after beating in-form Carlisle United 2-1. It was perhaps Rovers’ best display of the season to date.
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This match represented everything that has been wrong with Rovers over the last two years.
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Northampton and Rovers came into this match separated only by goals scored, but a scoreless first half showed which team had the greater quality, and it wasn’t the home team.
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After 90 minutes I was expecting to write about a disappointing homecoming, missed chances and League Two’s physicality. I was also going to say that the season had a long way to go, and Rovers are still a work in progress.
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The departure of Richie Wellens during the week before this FA Cup second round tie meant Gary McSheffrey, Rovers Under-18 coach, was in charge of his first senior match. The signs, though, were positive early on at a rain-lashed Keepmoat Stadium.
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A timely delve into our archive, finds this piece from issue 82 of the fanzine when, as Rovers hurtled towards relegation off the back of a 17 game winless run, John Coyle took a look at seasons in which the club has faltered after Christmas.
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After Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Scunthorpe, Grant McCann promised to freshen things up for the trip to Shrewsbury Town and there were three changes, one of them being for the injured Herbie Kane. Sadly Rovers seemed anything but fresh in a dismal first half; they were lethargic and ponderous instead. Continue reading “Shrewsbury Town 2-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
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