Doncaster (H) pre-match thread

[TonyN11]

No problems here

5-2 

[Chelmofox]

6 minutes ago, TonyN11 said:

No problems here

5-2 

You think we can score 2?

[LCFCCKEANO]

What I want

Ravizzoli

 

Coulibaly (Joseph if fit)

Souttar

Kangasniemi

McFarlane

 

Page

Smallbone

Doyle

 

Howell

Alves

Riis

 

Think it’ll be-

McCarthy

 

Aluko

O’Hora

Souttar

Thomas

 

Lundstram

Page

Reid

 

Burns

Riis

Cullen

[Tomo260]

Leicester 1

Doncaster 2

 

We'll have 70% possession so it's absolutely fine. Just another 10 games we'll have 75%

[Dan]

8 losses out of 8 on Saturday home games in 2026.

 

Peterborough felt like free money. We save our absolute worst for that kind of game. The fact we've beaten the teams in 1st and 3rd, but we've been routinely hopeless for this season and last at home in the games against teams down the bottom. We don't just not win but we seem to get very well beaten.

 

We are substantially worse at home than away. Away, we seem to just draw all the time. At home we routinely lose to absolute crap like this.

 

If Martin is still in charge - another pretty comfortable defeat. 0-2 I'll say. I don't know when it'll come but I do think at some point we are going to get an absolute shellacking. It's the one thing that hasn't really happened to us in this era. We've not let in 5 in a game since 2021 - which is a bit of a miracle tbh.

[Pita]

Another loss   

[em9999]

Im going 4/2 Doncaster 

[Vindaloo FOX]

2-0 Doncaster 

[em9999]

Wouldn't suprise me if we went 3_0 down again 

[Corbee]

LCFC 1-2 Rovers 

 

Drifting down league with zero fight 

[HitchinFox]

If Grant McCann sets his the team up like he normally does, we have more than a chance. He wants his sides to dominate the ball and dictate matches and often tries to create overloads in the opposition third. 

We might finally be able to play through a team, like we did at Stockport, rather than desperately try and play around a 9-man low block with endless Brussell Ball.

 

 

[AKCJ]

Ravizzoli

Joseph Kangasniemi Souttar McFarlane

Smallbone Page

Cullen Chaplin Alves

Riis

 

I think this is just about the only starting 11 that would interest me.

Edited Tuesday at 09:23 by AKCJ

[kingpowerout]

I think Doyle showed enough at the weekend to get a start in this 

[lcfc sheff]

Is everyone back from injury bar Joseph?

[TheLittleBigMan]

Got offered a free ticket for this. No ta.

[funkyrobot]

13 hours ago, LCFCCKEANO said:

What I want

Ravizzoli

 

Coulibaly (Joseph if fit)

Souttar

Kangasniemi

McFarlane

 

Page

Smallbone

Doyle

 

Howell

Alves

Riis

 

Think it’ll be-

McCarthy

 

Aluko

O’Hora

Souttar

Thomas

 

Lundstram

Page

Reid

 

Burns

Riis

Cullen

If he plays the ghosts Cullen and Reid in the starting 11 together again I’m going to call the police 👮 

[TrentFox]

19 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

If he plays the ghosts Cullen and Reid in the starting 11 together again I’m going to call the police 👮 

Ghostbusters, surely? 

[Rusko187]

Difficult one here, like you never want your team to lose... I love this club (even though it's really testing me), but you know the greater good is that a loss is needed to force an issue. 

 

So I guess, I'm hoping and expecting a loss and I feel terrible for saying that. He needs to go and unfortunately a positive result prolongs his tenure.

[LVFox]

                       Ravizzoli
             Aluko Souttar Kanga 
JJ/Burns Smallbone Page McFarlane
                Cullen        Alves
                          Riis

[OntarioFox]

winnit

[filbertway]

What's Howell got to do to get a start. He looks absolute phenomenal on the ball. So direct and the ball sticks to his feet. He was blowing a bit so no chance we'd get 90 of him till he's given the opportunity to build up his match fitness, but I don't understand how he's not one of the first names on the team sheet.

[LCFCCKEANO]

1 hour ago, funkyrobot said:

If he plays the ghosts Cullen and Reid in the starting 11 together again I’m going to call the police 👮 

Thought his post game interview about some players needing to step up quickly felt aimed at the younger lads, hopefully I’m wrong but I think it’ll be an experienced team Saturday 

[Richmondfox]

Thomas will start again along with Okoli, Reid, Cullen and Burns. 
 

The line up and formation doesn’t really matter due to them playing Martins tactics to the letter.

 

The only way it will change is if the players have a unified mutiny and ignore his tactics completely. Go for it with quick attacks. Too many of his mates and yes men happy to be out and about. 
 

The players with some connection to the club are too young to speak out for risk of being benched and the yes men are happy taking the wage. 
 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Anyone know how long Joseph is expected to be out for? 

[funkyrobot]

If he starts both Cullen and Reid then we are starting with 9 men, when you consider 3 of those 9 men will likely be McCarthy, Thomas and Okoli, we are staring at another embarrassing defeat