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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Beleaguered Rovers manager Danny Schofield made five changes to his squad for the last home game of the season, including dropping Jonathan Mitchell in favour of Louis Jones.
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Typical, you wait ages (well, a couple of days) for a match report and then two come along at once. Thanks to our editor’s terrible memory, both Danny Dickinson, and first Katy Bateman wrap up Rovers latest defeat.
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In truth there were few surprises here. Stevenage were hunting automatic promotion against a Rovers side not looking like they have a win in them, with an injury list as long as this wretched season has felt.
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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.
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After a poor run of form, Rovers needed to win. Hopes weren’t high, but they had the first chance; Kieran Agard controlling and firing, but Max Crocombe saved.
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Since the fixture list was released last June, this was a game I’d been looking forward to.
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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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I’ve read Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’, but never seen it performed. But I don’t have to, I support Doncaster Rovers. Each game I’ve watched, this season and last, an interminable wait for something, anything to happen for this team, and yet it never does.
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