Match Thread Rotherham United vs. Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 5th Oct (1 Viewer)

If only we had somewhere to put suggested teams for Saturday

Buzzing for this in the morning

Day not off to a good start.
Trains to Brum cancelled until 9.30.
Will miss connecting train - in the words of Lloyd Bridges - I picked a bad day to give up glue sniffing.

Jobello is out according to twitter. Kast to start then?

larry_david said:

Jobello is out according to twitter. Kast to start then?

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Yes, just seen Jobello's tweet must have been injured in training. Time for Kastaneer to take his chance.

no_loyalty said:

Yes, just seen Jobello's tweet must have been injured in training. Time for Kastaneer to take his chance.

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Acl

larry_david said:

Jobello is out according to twitter. Kast to start then?

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Out for the season

Kasta on the right replaced by Wakefield 60th min.

KeresleyArmpit said:

Kasta on the right replaced by Wakefield 60th min.

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Agree with this but probably be after 30

Sky Blue Pete said:

Acl

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Incredible. Why does this keep happening?

Can't see Kastaneer lasting 90 minutes.
Wonder who he'll play there for the last 20 minutes or so?

KeresleyArmpit said:

Kasta on the right replaced by Wakefield 60th min.

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Didn't see this when I posted my last post. Think you're right.

Saturday’s League One action sees Rotherham United going up against Coventry City at the New York Stadium. A close game is expected to be in order as both sides fight for the points on offer.

After dropping down from the Championship with a reasonably strong squad for League One level on paper, Rotherham were expected to be amongst the contenders for promotion but the side haven’t made a good start to the campaign. Indeed, after 9 matches Paul Warne’s troops have only managed to take 12 points and that has them coming into this game stationed in 13th place.

Rotherham really haven’t been in great form of late and they need to start picking things up, or questions are going to be asked. They’ve now won just 1 of their last 7 games and even that came against struggling Bolton and whilst there’s clearly quality present in their team and the potential to be doing much better; it’s results on the pitch that count and The Millers simply have to start winning sooner rather than later.

Nonetheless, with Coventry City in town that won’t be an easy task this weekend, with the visitors arriving with their tails firmly up. Indeed, after some smart summer recruitment, The Sky Blues look to have constructed a squad that could give a promotion push a real go and early signs are very promising.

Alongside Ipswich, Coventry are League One’s only unbeaten outfit and have taken an impressive 20 points from 10 games. Many often state that if you win your home games and draw away you’ll be there or thereabouts come the end of the season and that’s something Mark Robins’ troops have followed almost to the letter in the action we’ve seen so far; winning 5 of their 6 home outings and drawing all 4 of their games on the road.

Ultimately, this fixture looks like one of the more interesting matches in League One this weekend and it should be a very competitive game. On the one hand, Rotherham would normally be expecting to win this type of match but they aren’t really playing to full capability at the moment, whilst on the other, Coventry arrive proving very hard to beat and will view this game as a good test of their credentials.

All things considered, we find these two too difficult to separate and feel that backing a draw is the best way to play as far as the betting is concerned. As impressive as Coventry have been this season, they’re unlikely to end their streak of away draws in this trip to Yorkshire and Rotherham still represent a tough team to travel to, despite their issues and that has us believing a 0-0 draw could well be on the cards.

https://www.freesupertips.com/previ...ntry-predictions-betting-tips-match-previews/

clint van damme said:

Can't see Kastaneer lasting 90 minutes.
Wonder who he'll play there for the last 20 minutes or so?

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Bring Westbrooke on, and move O'Hare wide right?

no_loyalty said:

Bring Westbrooke on, and move O'Hare wide right?

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Possibly. Another option in addition to Th a Wakefield option Kersley mentioned above

If we aren’t losing I’d like to see Bapaga get 20 mins. It’s the one downside to the strength in depth is lack of opportunities for young players and when better than early on when we are doing well?

no_loyalty said:

Bring Westbrooke on, and move O'Hare wide right?

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You read my post on the other thread - plagiarism !

Need the 3 points really-a draw obviously means we are unbeaten still but I would have preferred a loss v Doncaster and three points today or vice versa.

Putting a string of wins together would be nice. Saying that I would settle quite easily with around a two point average per game.

Just feel we need to put some more points away for insurance for when we do lose a few. That's if the current form continues throughout the season.

It definitely feels like we are up there contending with the automatic promotion places but there's a long way to go yet.

Sky Blue Harry H said:

You read my post on the other thread - plagiarism !

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Plagiarism is a word I made up.

Adge said:

Need the 3 points really-a draw obviously means we are unbeaten still but I would have preferred a loss v Doncaster and three points today or vice versa.

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So basically 3 or 4 points are better than 2?

Timperley said:

So basically 3 or 4 points are better than 2?

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Timperley said:

So basically 3 or 4 points are better than 2?

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Yeah. :emoji_blush:

Kelly on the bench - positive news!

Sky Blue Harry H said:

Kelly on the bench - positive news!

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Or desperate news.

Whos in instead of Jobello? westbrooke or Kasta?

Otis said:

Or desperate news.

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Turn that frown upside down Otis!!

stevefloyd said:

Whos in instead of Jobello? westbrooke or Kasta?

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Kasta

That’s quite a young team, with not much experience in it.

fatso said:

That’s quite a young team, with not much experience in it.

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More or less the same we have had for a few games

Seems an odd bench given that we could have put either of Wakefield or Bapaga in the squad as cover for Kastaneer. Or could have had Biamou in there to go 4-4-2

In Robins we trust

Manchester_sky_blue said:

Seems an odd bench given that we could have put either of Wakefield or Bapaga in the squad as cover for Kastaneer. Or could have had Biamou in there to go 4-4-2

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Biamou is injured. O'Hare could go wide if needed with Kelly or Westbrooke going into the middle. Baka can also go wide left so there are options

Two full backs on the bench instead of a winger?