Rockford's Love Child
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It is a trip to Cumbria tomorrow night for Rovers in this rearranged fixture. The wheels have fallen off for Barrow in recent weeks (no pun intended) culminating in their thrashing at PP in the FA Trophy. Their poor run of form has coincided with the loss of several key loan players and top scorer Byron Harrison, who fortunately for us is still out with an ankle injury. However, despite the opposition's current problems I am not expecting a repeat of the fixture ten days ago. I think this game will be a real battle, probably settled by one goal.
In terms of selection, I think Cook and Norwood will return to the starting line up. The only other real dilemna for Mellon is whether to put Connor Jennings straight back into the side in the number ten role: he is a better player than Mekki, but Adam did well again on Friday night and probably deserves to start. Elsewhere, Adam Buxton could be recalled but I think Vaughan will keep his place.
With Lincoln away at struggling Braintree, I don't think we will gain ground on the leaders tomorrow and it may be a case of Rovers requiring a victory simply to stay in touch at the top. For a routine fixture I think about 400 Rovers fans would make the trip for this one, but after the euphoria of Friday night that figure might be higher.
Prediction: narrow victory for Rovers, either 1-0 or 2-1.
In terms of selection, I think Cook and Norwood will return to the starting line up. The only other real dilemna for Mellon is whether to put Connor Jennings straight back into the side in the number ten role: he is a better player than Mekki, but Adam did well again on Friday night and probably deserves to start. Elsewhere, Adam Buxton could be recalled but I think Vaughan will keep his place.
With Lincoln away at struggling Braintree, I don't think we will gain ground on the leaders tomorrow and it may be a case of Rovers requiring a victory simply to stay in touch at the top. For a routine fixture I think about 400 Rovers fans would make the trip for this one, but after the euphoria of Friday night that figure might be higher.
Prediction: narrow victory for Rovers, either 1-0 or 2-1.