Welcome to Flying High

The Great Escape: Part 2! Bristol Rovers 1 - 2 Brighton & Hove Albion	Posted by David Snowball at Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Bristol Rovers 1 - 2 Brighton & Hove Albion By Colin Snowball What a great night last night. The transformation from the team we saw at MK and against Swindon is unbelievable. Who would ever of thought that Gary Hart would be our saviour?! He had a great game and, as you've probably seen, made both goals with great crosses. Andrew’s header for the second was particularly impressive too, considering that "Footballer", "never" and "hole in my arse" are words contained in many phrases heard about him! I hadn't rated Gary Dicker much before either but he impressed last night by being very calm in midfield and playing simple balls out of trouble whenever necessary. Dean Cox went off with a bad injury before half time and judging by the way he hobbled onto the pitch at the end of the game, he won't be playing on Saturday. Owusu was also injured towards the end but hopefully he isn't as bad as he's been a different player recently too. I feel sorry for Craig Davies. He so badly needs a goal and you can tell that he wants to be loved. He came on as sub near the end but looked lacklustre and at the end came over to the fans but was largely ignored, probably due to the fact that Calvin Andrew had dived into the crowd and was being mobbed - not a bad reaction for a Palace player! Hinsh got better as the game went on but at one point in the second half he slipped and went down holding his knee. You could tell by the look on his face and Tommy Elphick's reaction that he thought that he’d done his ligament again but after treatment he got up gingerly and hobbled on. I thought that it was a dead cert that he’d soon come off (El Abd was immediately warming up) but soon after he sprinted across the area to make a last gasp tackle to save a likely goal. I wouldn’t mind betting that he'll be back in the treatment room very soon, though. Credit also to Adam Virgo who had a great game with Elphick in the back four (Borrowdale too, come to that) but Bob Booker made a special point of acclaiming him to the crowd at the end and he put in a number of crunching tackles. It really looked like it meant something to him which was great to see. Having seen their goal again, it was a deflection that wrong footed Kuipers but apart from a couple of saves, he didn't have a lot to do, the defence doing a great job of protecting him and it always seemed to me that we were the more likely winners. Credit all round then, except to my usual whipping boy Tommy Fraser, who, I think, just doesn't contribute enough but perhaps I'm missing something. I see that there was nearly 700 Albion fans there. A great turn out and a brilliant night for us all. I really don’t believe that all of the plastic Premiership fans that you see everywhere can ever experience the emotions that we do on such occasions. My voice has gone this morning from all of the singing! I'm off to Huddersfield on Saturday for more of the same! Labels: Bristol Rovers, Colin Snowball, League One
> There is currently 0 comments. Click to post a comment... links to this post