JBFC II

Its all about balance. We've made huge strides in numerous areas over Pearsons tenure and considering the financial limitations hes overall done OK I'd say. However, today again showed how many basic things we are still getting wrong, which is frustrating to see from such an experienced manager

I'm sure you were praising Pearson when things were going well, in the same vein he has to take some criticism when we are playing poorly and getting comfortably beaten by reading without a shot on target?

What's a penalty? And how do we get one?

Must be why so few rovers fans turned up. They all thought it was a trip westwards and so are currently somewhere in the Atlantic trying to make the game…

290 of them there tonight, fair play to all who went, one hell of a midweek trek. Can't imagine we'll hear many of then crowing about their away support tonight though...

Wasn't the lack of trains known an issue before tickets became available?

We've sold 250 thus far apparently, I think our good form persuades a few more London folk to make the journey. Could be looking at 400 plus with a win on Saturday

Realise its almost getting boring praising him but my God what a player. Ran the show today, best teenager in the football league right now? His potential is huge and its a joy to be able to watch him in a City shirt, sublime player

Compare that to our 22k home fans against Sunderland on the first day of the season, with a similar ticket price offer (£15 to £10). Mind the chasm...

Offensively he provided good support on the overlap down the right, and acted like a right back by getting out wide and making himself available. Got caught a couple of times in the first half, let their forward player have way too much space to get their only shot away and was turned too easily a couple of times. Don't think he's a ling term option there, but he did a job against the reserves of a lower league club

Doesn’t look like it, a lot of the comments are about his attitude and lack of desire. Seems like he’s a talented player who doesn’t have the work ethic to go with it and disappeared when things got tough, we’ve had a few of them in the past few years for sure!

And Wimbledon fans celebrating wildly on their Twitter page because they have sold him…

At least the 350 of them that got in saw a few goals. Bet the 10000 locked out were gutted to miss out on the action…

3.50 for mine!

A friend of a friend who works at the club. Sounds very vague I know but I have no reason to doubt it. Looking at the state of Covs pitch I’d be very surprised if it went ahead there, so a neutral venue makes sense, even if it would be a logistical nightmare I’d imagine

Don’t take my word for it yet! As far as I’m aware stuff will be announced this morning, but the club are keeping the details very quiet

Tickets have been taken off sale. As far as I’m aware it’s going to be played at a neutral venue with only people who have pre purchased tickets allowed entry, not totally sure where though

If you'd bothered to read the opening post before replying you'd see that the OP has copy and pasted it out for us!

They come on sale at 10am tomorrow, so I doubt there would be anything about them in there yet!

Yep, straight from their twitter. Not massively surprised vince would write something like that considering his straight talking nature

FGR pulling no punches here!

Because we have a category 2 academy I don't think promotion is possible and thus it is just kudos (and presumably a trophy!)

Nah, thats Dean Windass. You know, the guy who stopped us getting to the Premier league after we'd finished 4th in a league they could only dream of being in...

Fair play to them. Let's not forget, they're still a division below us, they've scraped promotion ahead of Northampton on the final day. The gap is still huge in every way possible, them spending a year in league one won't change that

A comment from their Twitter page, they really don’t help themselves do they? ’We could probably fill out a 30,000 seater for occasions like this. Absolute sleeping giant we are, get us the new stadium @waelalqadi and we will be premier league in 10 years.’ Plenty of comments underneath saying that them selling out on Saturday is ‘proof they need a bigger stadium’. Who’s going to tell them that selling out a restricted capacity once a season isn’t proof you need a bigger ground…