Cherries: Howe determined to turn tide in 'huge' Rovers clash (From Bournemouth Echo)

Great news if tommy and Charlie are winning their fitness battles, no coincidence their absence has coincided with our drop in form. 3 points Saturday put us back on the mix, winnable game at Stevenage midweek, back in top six.

MK Dons have been having a v bad patch but 'slipped it across Donny' to re-start their season, let's hope we can do the same.

C'mon u Reds

Hopefully, the manager gave a friendly wave to Ryan Lowe...with all five fingers!

sea poole wrote:
Hopefully, the manager gave a friendly wave to Ryan Lowe...with all five fingers!

All five fingers! One in the middle would suffice!

“Doncaster are a big team, very strong at set-plays and long throws coming into the box is one of their main strengths.

Cant see us winning this one either then, with their giant players against our small midgets. They wil damage our GD even more. Anyway we can always hope they have another off day. So maybe a draw if we are lucky.

Another nail biting afternoon lies ahead, just recovering from the Orient rubbish, things can only get better, Please come on someone is due are once a season mauling,

With Eddie saying this is a pivotal ( crucial ) game on Saturday,maybe we are going to field a stronger team than expected,let's hope so.
ALLSOP
FRANCIS ELPHICK COOK DANIELS
FRASER McDONALD O'KANE RITCH.
PITMAN PUGH
would be nice!

raybren wrote:
With Eddie saying this is a pivotal ( crucial ) game on Saturday,maybe we are going to field a stronger team than expected,let's hope so.
ALLSOP
FRANCIS ELPHICK COOK DANIELS
FRASER McDONALD O'KANE RITCH.
PITMAN PUGH
would be nice!

Bet he picks Hughes and not Macdonald, would like to see Donal have a game, Pugh has been off his game since that flu and was awful at orient, would love to see Fraser for more than five minutes,

raybren wrote:
With Eddie saying this is a pivotal ( crucial ) game on Saturday,maybe we are going to field a stronger team than expected,let's hope so.
ALLSOP
FRANCIS ELPHICK COOK DANIELS
FRASER McDONALD O'KANE RITCH.
PITMAN PUGH
would be nice!

looks a good team. I'd keep grabban up front and have pugh and ritchie on the wings. havent seen enough of fraser to be convinced, all hype until he does something here

jakeysredd wrote:

raybren wrote: With Eddie saying this is a pivotal ( crucial ) game on Saturday,maybe we are going to field a stronger team than expected,let's hope so. ALLSOP FRANCIS ELPHICK COOK DANIELS FRASER McDONALD O'KANE RITCH. PITMAN PUGH would be nice!

Bet he picks Hughes and not Macdonald, would like to see Donal have a game, Pugh has been off his game since that flu and was awful at orient, would love to see Fraser for more than five minutes,

I'd like to see Donal in the mix too, noticed he was on the pitch for a kick-about before the Orient game so hopefully he's fit and close to being back in the squad, certainly a good option if Marc is having an off day, but I can't recall EH using him since Notts County.
Worried about the size of their squad but hey tommorrow's another day and we do have a lot of pace and skill in our team so 3pts please boys, let's get back up there UTC!

Unfortunately, I cannot see anything changing tomorrow.
.
Tomorrow is a massive six-pointer as defeat tomorrow and a win for Sheff Utd will end any hopes of automatic promotion. I cannot see Sheff Utd slipping up tomorrow to be honest.
.
So a win for us is absolutely vital
.
It is not a case of being negative, it is a case of saying: look we have two key defenders out, we also have no target man up front to change the style and shape and subsequently give to oppostion something else to think about.
.
We are also without Arter of which compounds the situation more.
.
I suppose another way of putting it is that if we had not had the injuries we now have we probably would not be sitting on the back of four straight defeats.
.
Plus the fact that Donaster will be hopping mad after their defeat in mid-week. The worse thing that we can do is let them take the lead, if they do they will just sit back and put us in their back pockets and see the game out. ie Sheff Utd all over again. plus the fact they are big, strong side and they will over power us physically.
.
WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD in order to open then out.
.
Unfortunately, by the time Elphick and Daniels get back to match fitness we would have run out of games to catch up. They need at least one reserve game before hand. I cannot see them being back until the game after the Stevenage game. By which time it will be too late as we would have run out of games to put any potential promotion crusade back on track.
.
Unfortunately, this the reality of the situation and not negativity. I would like you all to see this in that vain of thought.
.
I have posed the reasons why i cannot see us winning tomorrow. I will now listen to and accept any reasonable evidence for people saying that we are going to win.
.
Regards

TedMacsCherryPants wrote:

jakeysredd wrote:

raybren wrote: With Eddie saying this is a pivotal ( crucial ) game on Saturday,maybe we are going to field a stronger team than expected,let's hope so. ALLSOP FRANCIS ELPHICK COOK DANIELS FRASER McDONALD O'KANE RITCH. PITMAN PUGH would be nice!

Bet he picks Hughes and not Macdonald, would like to see Donal have a game, Pugh has been off his game since that flu and was awful at orient, would love to see Fraser for more than five minutes,

I'd like to see Donal in the mix too, noticed he was on the pitch for a kick-about before the Orient game so hopefully he's fit and close to being back in the squad, certainly a good option if Marc is having an off day, but I can't recall EH using him since Notts County. Worried about the size of their squad but hey tommorrow's another day and we do have a lot of pace and skill in our team so 3pts please boys, let's get back up there UTC!

Doncaster have some very large players, they will use bully boy tactics in defense also, I am no huge fan of Fletch ( only because he has come to the end of his career ) but I think this is the game for him, Tubbs will have to start along side him for it to work though, if we send the ball in from the wings Tubbs will never get them but he will latch on to Fletches knock downs and knock ons. Im sure EH will do what he thinks best and we will truct his judgement because he has proven time and time again that he knows what he is doing,

smhinto wrote:
Unfortunately, I cannot see anything changing tomorrow.
.
Tomorrow is a massive six-pointer as defeat tomorrow and a win for Sheff Utd will end any hopes of automatic promotion. I cannot see Sheff Utd slipping up tomorrow to be honest.
.
So a win for us is absolutely vital
.
It is not a case of being negative, it is a case of saying: look we have two key defenders out, we also have no target man up front to change the style and shape and subsequently give to oppostion something else to think about.
.
We are also without Arter of which compounds the situation more.
.
I suppose another way of putting it is that if we had not had the injuries we now have we probably would not be sitting on the back of four straight defeats.
.
Plus the fact that Donaster will be hopping mad after their defeat in mid-week. The worse thing that we can do is let them take the lead, if they do they will just sit back and put us in their back pockets and see the game out. ie Sheff Utd all over again. plus the fact they are big, strong side and they will over power us physically.
.
WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD in order to open then out.
.
Unfortunately, by the time Elphick and Daniels get back to match fitness we would have run out of games to catch up. They need at least one reserve game before hand. I cannot see them being back until the game after the Stevenage game. By which time it will be too late as we would have run out of games to put any potential promotion crusade back on track.
.
Unfortunately, this the reality of the situation and not negativity. I would like you all to see this in that vain of thought.
.
I have posed the reasons why i cannot see us winning tomorrow. I will now listen to and accept any reasonable evidence for people saying that we are going to win.
.
Regards

The cut & paste artist srikes again.!!!!

smhinto wrote:
Unfortunately, I cannot see anything changing tomorrow.
.
Tomorrow is a massive six-pointer as defeat tomorrow and a win for Sheff Utd will end any hopes of automatic promotion. I cannot see Sheff Utd slipping up tomorrow to be honest.
.
So a win for us is absolutely vital
.
It is not a case of being negative, it is a case of saying: look we have two key defenders out, we also have no target man up front to change the style and shape and subsequently give to oppostion something else to think about.
.
We are also without Arter of which compounds the situation more.
.
I suppose another way of putting it is that if we had not had the injuries we now have we probably would not be sitting on the back of four straight defeats.
.
Plus the fact that Donaster will be hopping mad after their defeat in mid-week. The worse thing that we can do is let them take the lead, if they do they will just sit back and put us in their back pockets and see the game out. ie Sheff Utd all over again. plus the fact they are big, strong side and they will over power us physically.
.
WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD in order to open then out.
.
Unfortunately, by the time Elphick and Daniels get back to match fitness we would have run out of games to catch up. They need at least one reserve game before hand. I cannot see them being back until the game after the Stevenage game. By which time it will be too late as we would have run out of games to put any potential promotion crusade back on track.
.
Unfortunately, this the reality of the situation and not negativity. I would like you all to see this in that vain of thought.
.
I have posed the reasons why i cannot see us winning tomorrow. I will now listen to and accept any reasonable evidence for people saying that we are going to win.
.
Regards

With your prediction success rate this season (& previous) then that is a nailed on 3 points for us!

Kinsonite wrote:

smhinto wrote:
Unfortunately, I cannot see anything changing tomorrow.
.
Tomorrow is a massive six-pointer as defeat tomorrow and a win for Sheff Utd will end any hopes of automatic promotion. I cannot see Sheff Utd slipping up tomorrow to be honest.
.
So a win for us is absolutely vital
.
It is not a case of being negative, it is a case of saying: look we have two key defenders out, we also have no target man up front to change the style and shape and subsequently give to oppostion something else to think about.
.
We are also without Arter of which compounds the situation more.
.
I suppose another way of putting it is that if we had not had the injuries we now have we probably would not be sitting on the back of four straight defeats.
.
Plus the fact that Donaster will be hopping mad after their defeat in mid-week. The worse thing that we can do is let them take the lead, if they do they will just sit back and put us in their back pockets and see the game out. ie Sheff Utd all over again. plus the fact they are big, strong side and they will over power us physically.
.
WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD in order to open then out.
.
Unfortunately, by the time Elphick and Daniels get back to match fitness we would have run out of games to catch up. They need at least one reserve game before hand. I cannot see them being back until the game after the Stevenage game. By which time it will be too late as we would have run out of games to put any potential promotion crusade back on track.
.
Unfortunately, this the reality of the situation and not negativity. I would like you all to see this in that vain of thought.
.
I have posed the reasons why i cannot see us winning tomorrow. I will now listen to and accept any reasonable evidence for people saying that we are going to win.
.
Regards

With your prediction success rate this season (& previous) then that is a nailed on 3 points for us!

Just read John Williams' article from 5th March on the B.B.C. Sport website. That just about hits all the nails on their heads. After all, whoever thought we would beat Tranmere 3-1 in Howe's first game in charge.

smhinto wrote:
Unfortunately, I cannot see anything changing tomorrow.
.
Tomorrow is a massive six-pointer as defeat tomorrow and a win for Sheff Utd will end any hopes of automatic promotion. I cannot see Sheff Utd slipping up tomorrow to be honest.
.
So a win for us is absolutely vital
.
It is not a case of being negative, it is a case of saying: look we have two key defenders out, we also have no target man up front to change the style and shape and subsequently give to oppostion something else to think about.
.
We are also without Arter of which compounds the situation more.
.
I suppose another way of putting it is that if we had not had the injuries we now have we probably would not be sitting on the back of four straight defeats.
.
Plus the fact that Donaster will be hopping mad after their defeat in mid-week. The worse thing that we can do is let them take the lead, if they do they will just sit back and put us in their back pockets and see the game out. ie Sheff Utd all over again. plus the fact they are big, strong side and they will over power us physically.
.
WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD in order to open then out.
.
Unfortunately, by the time Elphick and Daniels get back to match fitness we would have run out of games to catch up. They need at least one reserve game before hand. I cannot see them being back until the game after the Stevenage game. By which time it will be too late as we would have run out of games to put any potential promotion crusade back on track.
.
Unfortunately, this the reality of the situation and not negativity. I would like you all to see this in that vain of thought.
.
I have posed the reasons why i cannot see us winning tomorrow. I will now listen to and accept any reasonable evidence for people saying that we are going to win.
.
Regards

I cannot disagree with any of this comment. Those accusing our friend from Lincoln of negativity need to take their rose coloured spectacles off and get real! We had a good run after EH & JT came back but now we're on a dreadful run as bad as the one we endured under Groves.
Tomorrow is about bottle. The players either have it or they don't. Do they want to win and get promoted or not? No more excuses. Get out there and play Donny off the park and show the fans you're serious.
Since hitting the top spot a few weeks back the performances have been rubbish. Almost as if the players thought they'd already won the league and just had to show up to get the three points. EH & JT need to stamp on that stupid attitude and remind everyone in the team that they've won nothing so far.
UTCIAD!

The Renegade Master wrote:

smhinto wrote:
Unfortunately, I cannot see anything changing tomorrow.
.
Tomorrow is a massive six-pointer as defeat tomorrow and a win for Sheff Utd will end any hopes of automatic promotion. I cannot see Sheff Utd slipping up tomorrow to be honest.
.
So a win for us is absolutely vital
.
It is not a case of being negative, it is a case of saying: look we have two key defenders out, we also have no target man up front to change the style and shape and subsequently give to oppostion something else to think about.
.
We are also without Arter of which compounds the situation more.
.
I suppose another way of putting it is that if we had not had the injuries we now have we probably would not be sitting on the back of four straight defeats.
.
Plus the fact that Donaster will be hopping mad after their defeat in mid-week. The worse thing that we can do is let them take the lead, if they do they will just sit back and put us in their back pockets and see the game out. ie Sheff Utd all over again. plus the fact they are big, strong side and they will over power us physically.
.
WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD in order to open then out.
.
Unfortunately, by the time Elphick and Daniels get back to match fitness we would have run out of games to catch up. They need at least one reserve game before hand. I cannot see them being back until the game after the Stevenage game. By which time it will be too late as we would have run out of games to put any potential promotion crusade back on track.
.
Unfortunately, this the reality of the situation and not negativity. I would like you all to see this in that vain of thought.
.
I have posed the reasons why i cannot see us winning tomorrow. I will now listen to and accept any reasonable evidence for people saying that we are going to win.
.
Regards

I cannot disagree with any of this comment. Those accusing our friend from Lincoln of negativity need to take their rose coloured spectacles off and get real! We had a good run after EH & JT came back but now we're on a dreadful run as bad as the one we endured under Groves.
Tomorrow is about bottle. The players either have it or they don't. Do they want to win and get promoted or not? No more excuses. Get out there and play Donny off the park and show the fans you're serious.
Since hitting the top spot a few weeks back the performances have been rubbish. Almost as if the players thought they'd already won the league and just had to show up to get the three points. EH & JT need to stamp on that stupid attitude and remind everyone in the team that they've won nothing so far.
UTCIAD!

I'm sure they have already done that this week and will be fired up for it tomorrow. 3 - 0, 3 points....

Let's just think back to end of October, no one would even think we would be in 7th just 2 points off the play-off's with still these number of games still left......
So let's all get behind the boys and give them some real support....

when you get the likes of Arter stating you are certainties for promotion it was a bit of a stupid statement.

All clubs are still going to drop stupid points as the nerves sets in as the season end is getting nearer and Sheff United with Danny Wilson in charge i guarantee will drop stupid points his teams always do in the last part of the season.

You have the easiest run in on paper against teams in the bottom half whereas we have the hardest with all the top sides to play but all the bottom sides will be fighting for everything so it wont be as easy as it looks on paper. It is still up for grabs for all of us to make it and the bravest and the teams with the most nerve will do it. I still believe Tranmere will drop out the top 6 and maybe Coventry or Walsall will sneak in or MK could go on a good run to get up there.
In all honesty i havent seen any team to frighten us but i do think when you and us are on our day we are the two best footballing sides in the league.

Realistically, Play Off are our best hope of promotion but Football is a funny old game (cliche'd I know!), but we could go on another mad run of wins?

I'd love us to go up through the Play Offs.I want a BIG day out with 30000 Cherry Fans! COYR

Echo.Please sort this site.eeved with missing out letters etc.Surel its not that hard to sort?

Oh.Nothingfrom Pete Woodley of late.
Hope Mr Grumpy is OK?

smhinto wrote:
Unfortunately, I cannot see anything changing tomorrow.
.
Tomorrow is a massive six-pointer as defeat tomorrow and a win for Sheff Utd will end any hopes of automatic promotion. I cannot see Sheff Utd slipping up tomorrow to be honest.
.
So a win for us is absolutely vital
.
It is not a case of being negative, it is a case of saying: look we have two key defenders out, we also have no target man up front to change the style and shape and subsequently give to oppostion something else to think about.
.
We are also without Arter of which compounds the situation more.
.
I suppose another way of putting it is that if we had not had the injuries we now have we probably would not be sitting on the back of four straight defeats.
.
Plus the fact that Donaster will be hopping mad after their defeat in mid-week. The worse thing that we can do is let them take the lead, if they do they will just sit back and put us in their back pockets and see the game out. ie Sheff Utd all over again. plus the fact they are big, strong side and they will over power us physically.
.
WE MUST TAKE THE LEAD in order to open then out.
.
Unfortunately, by the time Elphick and Daniels get back to match fitness we would have run out of games to catch up. They need at least one reserve game before hand. I cannot see them being back until the game after the Stevenage game. By which time it will be too late as we would have run out of games to put any potential promotion crusade back on track.
.
Unfortunately, this the reality of the situation and not negativity. I would like you all to see this in that vain of thought.
.
I have posed the reasons why i cannot see us winning tomorrow. I will now listen to and accept any reasonable evidence for people saying that we are going to win.
.
Regards

are you for real??