This match represented everything that has been wrong with Rovers over the last two years.
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Colchester United 3-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report
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.
Continue reading “Colchester United 3-0 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report”Editorial: Managerial hope not hate
When he was still a player, Gary McSheffrey dated a girl at our university. He even turned up for a Christmas Ball once, wearing a pair of remarkable brogues, and thus without prompting everyone who saw him in Lincoln’s Engine Shed that night remarked, ‘he’s smaller than you’d think… nice shoes though’. To the point that it became a catchphrase among our friendship group, used whenever he popped up in any of our football-watching lives. ‘I see your lot have signed McSheffrey, what’s he like?’ ‘Oh OK… smaller than you’d think… nice shoes though’.
Continue reading “Editorial: Managerial hope not hate”Grimsby Town 1-3 Doncaster Rovers: 250 word match report
After last week’s embarrassing FA Cup exit to non-league King’s Lynn, Rovers made the short trip to the seaside as they travelled to Cleethorpes to take on Grimsby Town.
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I’ve done several of these reports before and struck lucky with great games, high scores and talking points, but today my luck ran out. The immaculately observed Remembrance Day silence ultimately proved prophetic for pathetic Rovers.
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I can’t remember when I last saw Rovers beat Gillingham. Maybe I never have. Thankfully that run ended here as Rovers served up a very visual depiction of a work in progress.
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It’s not often you come away from a Rovers home defeat pleasantly surprised, but this 1-0 reverse against Stevenage was one such occasion.
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A day for questions; will Danny Schofield have already put his stamp on Rovers? Will we show signs of improvement? And why is every Crewe fan behind that goal a dark-haired teenager in monochrome clothing?
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In the dark rain of 6am you leave the house, clutching your scarf and convincing yourself today it’ll be better. By 2.57pm, you’ve had some beers, a beach ball bounces round the away end, the guy next to you is brandishing a gnome. Optimism abounds.
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After losing midweek’s must-win game against the basement boys Hartlepool United, Rovers welcomed table-topping Leyton Orient to the Eco-Power.
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