What the hell does the team travel on? I'm sure it's not the first time it's broken down on the way across the Pennines? 6.5 hours journey, no wonder the players didn't 'turn up' for the first 15minutes. Bit of a farce that the kick off wasn't delayed either.

The coach apparently ran out of petrol, Rovers arrived at the stadium at 19:20 according to twitter. What time would Rovers normally get to a venue?

Extremely amateurish mistake from a professional sports team, petrol?! I wouldn't expect this if it was Sunday League! !

why blame rovers blame the coach firm i dont think craig sandercock says to the players im just going to fill the coach up then we will get off

Probably fair to say it cost us the 2 points.

I'd fully agree with that.

Talk about rotten luck this year i can not believe it

Where did I blame Craig? I mean the actual coach/bus whatever..

Referring to the game, some shocking individual errors didn't help the cause to make it 26-0 but it's naive to suggest this delayed factor didn't have anything to do with it. Ridiculous.

you said it was very amateurish of the club when its nothing to do with the club there blameless

The club should hire a more reliable coach firm because it isn't the first time it's happened, is it?

Teams ideally turn up about ninety minutes before kick off.
Forty is awful preperation.

It might have even contributed to Ben's hamstring strain.

Could well have done. Older players need to warm up slower, particularly after sitting on a coach for six and a half hours? Really?

It's far too much of an extrapolation to say this is the reason we lost, but either way it's very, very bad.

Running out of fuel? Jesus. Wept.

Are we sure the coach driver wasn't an fc fan

Not unless the coach was stolen

Ok then are we sure the fuel wasn't nabbed out of the tank it's like flying to a destination sorry people were just gonna have to wait for the next plane to come along cos we run out of fuel shunt happen disgraceful

Ok then are we sure the fuel wasn't nabbed out of the tank it's like flying to a destination sorry people were just gonna have to wait for the next plane to come along cos we run out of fuel shunt happen disgraceful

You weren't even there. How can anyone possibly say that? You wight have lost by 40 points if the bus had been on time

how do you know it was the same firm

Not implausible to suggest that arriving at the normal time and utilising the normal pre match procedure would have countered the poor 25 minutes rovers endured at the start of the game

Neither is there a proven cause and effect. IMO Rovers would have had the adrenaline pumping with the stress and excitement of the delay, boosting their performance at the start of the game. Without this they would have been 38 down after 25 minutes rather than just 26. Just as plausible.

Yes the adrenaline regularly hits when sat on the M62 for hours on end. A positively uplifting and inspiring experience


Funnily enough the last time it happened was away against the same opponent and we conceded 68 points, go figure. I guess that's cause and effect enough

You've started poorly in plenty of games this season

Yes Jake and uve finished poorly in plenty of games this season cue what a fab merger team we would have

A team which starts and finishes badly?

Neither team is capable of regular 80 minute performances. Neither have the quality of players. I doubt even the best players from both teams would be good enough to win SL unfortunately