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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Rovers found themselves on the A12 lay-by for a Saturday afternoon clash with Colchester United. Ahead of the game, a friend had asked whether we were worth a nudge in his accumulator. I said we’d bagged a comprehensive win last weekend and were facing a team languishing at the bottom of the table. So, no.
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Colchester, as you’ll see as we move forward, is a town of bold claims. Its first is that it is Britain’s oldest recorded town. Not oldest town you understand. Just the first that someone felt compelled to write about.
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Doncaster returned to Colchester for the first time since Good Friday last season when they fell to an emphatic 4-1 defeat. Continue reading “Colchester United 1-1 Doncaster Rovers; 250 word match report”
It’s supposedly a mark of a good team, to play badly and still pick up a win. So we must be bloody excellent having somehow scraped a 1-0 win in a match largely controlled by the visitors. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 1-0 Colchester United: 250 word match report”
‘Like butter through a knife, butter through a knife,’ yelled the fella behind me as Colchester ambled through the Rovers defence to score their fourth goal. Whilst Rovers had not quite been so bad as to reverse the laws of physics, they had plumbed new depths of awfulness in a torrid ninety minutes in which they managed to make the third tier’s worst club look like Barcelona. Continue reading “Colchester United 4-1 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”
After losing 2-0 and 4-0 in previous matches, optimism was in short supply at the Keepmoat for Darren Ferguson’s first home game in charge, but anyone expecting a Halloween horror show was sorely disappointed. Rovers didn’t miss a trick and duly gave the fans a treat. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Colchester United: 250 word match report”
“We’re going to win today” I’m told before the game. We all agree. Continue reading “Doncaster Rovers 2-0 Colchester United: 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”
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