Match Day Laughing Gas v Wobbling Wombles.

[worried womble]

RefWatch; Ref for Gas game (played 4 times at the Mem, lost every one) is Brett Huxtable, 31, a builder from Devon. First season as a FL ref. Sounds like something out of a Mark Twain novel and looks like it too - all crooked yellow teeth, fat belly and dreadful ginger hair. Says his tradesman background 'makes it easier to talk to players'. Well Brett, that kind of folksy shit might go down well in the impoverished coal-mining slums of Bristol, but it's not going to work here in leafy SW19 - we cultured Wombles know the difference between a Cappuccino and a Macchiato, and we don't think a Mocha is some new kind of fucking tractor.

Reffed Wombles once, the 1-0 win away at Posh in October (3Y). Reffed Gas once; 3-2 home win over Reading U23s in the Checkatrade in August. Hates the scum. Reffed them this month against Gills & they lost. Hates them. In 21 games this season he's given 78Y &2R - high Y.

AnagramWatch: Brett Huxtable = Ax Belt Her Butt.
KettleWatch; Newport v Grecians. Fantastic return to form at Brisbane Road on Boxing Day - 10Y & a crazy penalty. Welcome back Trevor!

 

[Wombletom]

4 games at the Mem resulting in 4 defeats. This could easily be a 5th defeat
I'm banking on us bouncing back from our Boxing Day reverse at Southend.....narrow away win

 

[womble76]

I would love a point but on current back 4 form I feel this will be another loss.

 

[Gassy]

Not sure why we're laughing gas? Until Coventry we've been on a dreadful run of former ourselves!

Tight game, but fancy us if Clarke sticks to the basics, like we did against Coventry.

 

[GasAttacK]

This should be a good game and I think it could go either way. Both sides could make a case for why they're favourites going into this.

As Gassy says above we'd only won 1 match in 10 over 90 minutes prior to Boxing Day. Hammerings against Millwall and Charlton were followed by defeats to non leage Barrow, L2 Portsmouth and L1 strugglers Chesterfield and Shrewsbury. We also draw 2-2 home and away with L2 Crawley before finally seeing them off in extra time. Our form had been getting steadily worse culminating in our worst performance of the season in our last away game at Shrewsbury. Thankfully there was an improvement against Coventry so I'm hoping Clarke keeps the same team but history tells us that probably won't happen.

Wimbledon have one of the best away records in L1 having lost just 3 times all season. They've picked up more points on their travels than they have at Kingsmeadow. However, despite winning their last home game 4-0 they have lost their last 2 on the road without scoring so maybe confidence won't be sky high. That said, Rovers have only kept 2 clean sheets all season and have conceded 19 goals at home - 2nd worse record in L1 - so I'm sure they'll find the net at least once tomorrow.

Not sure why but I expect this to be an open attacking game. Rovers 2-2 Wimbledon

 

[07.05.16]

Other than Charlton we've performed well in every home game this season. Confident of a win.
3-1 gas. Hartley, Taylor, Gaffney.

 

[GasAttacK]

Other than Charlton we've performed well in every home game this season. Confident of a win.
3-1 gas. Hartley, Taylor, Gaffney.

Not sure about that. We weren't great against Rochdale, Walsall or MK Dons and if you include cup games we were poor against Yeovil and Barrow. We drew or lost those games and I couldn't say we deserved to win any of them. I'm not complaining, our home form has been very good overall but I don't think the 5-1 drubbing by Charlton was our only poor performance at the Mem.

 

[GEORGE]

Hopefully a good game and Wimbledon bringing 500, crowd should be in region of 10 thousand.

 

[NorfolkWomble]

Didn't realise Rovers had such good attendances.

 

[07.05.16]

Didn't realise Rovers had such good attendances.

They've been gradually increasing in recent seasons. Average of 9200 this season i believe.

 

[Aber gas]

I adore Matty Taylor.
That is all..
Oh and choo choo.

 

[GasAttacK]

First half fairly even but we should have had 3 or 4 in the second half. Taylor had a shot saved by the keepers legs shortly before the first goal and he should have completed his hatrick with a free header from 6 yards out. Bodin also had a glorious chance which the keeper again brilliantly saved with his legs after great work from Leadbitter down the right.

Decent in the first half, excellent in the second. Another deserved win and a great way to finish a memorable 2016.

 

[GEORGE]

Best game of the season yesterday and while I think we deserved to win Wimbledon were pretty good.

 

[Gassy]

I actually thought the first half was pretty rubbish if I'm honest. I thought Wimbledon just shaded the first half and they looked a very well drilled and organised team. Their 2 upfront were a constant annoyance just purely from their height and strength.

2nd half I think we took them to the cleaners a little bit, we upped the ante and really should have scored 3 or 4.

Credit to Wimbledon though, a tough opponent and never really gave up. A very hard working team who constantly close people down within seconds.

 

[womble76]

Funny how people see games. Ardley says you bossed us all over park whole game. One of our worst performance of the season. Not that we were so awful but that we let you dominate us. We are in the middle of a blip