Rovers Match Reports
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FOR THE OFFICIAL CLUB PICTURES OF ROVERS versus Radstock, click the link below:
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FOR THE OFFICIAL CLUB PICTURES OF ROVERS versus Longwell Green, click the link below
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For the official club pictures from the FA Vase tie with causeway in the 2009/10 season.
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MOST RECENT MATCH:
Saturday August 28 - FA Cup
ROVERS 1: 0 Radstock
ROVERS survived a first half turning over by a Radstock side that should have been out of sight by the break. Visiting striker Twaine Plummer missed a number of chances and both Simon Hill and Ian Patchett were forced to make goal saving clearances. In the second half Rovers were the better side and deservedly won the game thanks to Joel Hawes near post strike from a Danny Jee hook-back in the 67th minute. Radstock finished the game with nine players as they had both George Pawley – the games best player in the first 45 minutes – and Matt Cowell, red carded. Simon Hill was outstanding in a Rovers side shorn of three regulars with skipper Rob Norrish at a wedding and both Shaun Goff and Ben Mammola at the Reading Festival. Rovers now visit Frome Town in the 1st Qualifying Round on Saturday, September 11. Star Man Simon Hill (Willand Rovers)
FA CUP Extra Preliminary Round - Saturday August 14
ROVERS (1) 2: 0 (0) Merthyr Town.
ROVERS produced a superb all-round performance to put Merthyr Town out of the FA Cup. The Welsh side had trouble with motorway traffic and did not arrive at Silver Street until 3pm and the match did not kick off until 3.45. The visitors started brightly and had the lion’s share of the ball in the first quarter of the game but then Rovers found their feet and., after a fortuitous goal just after the half hour mark, never looked back. That slice of good fortune came when the visiting keeper planed a clearance straight at the feet of dean Stamp who coolly looked up and drilled a slide rule pass into the empty net from 25 yards. With Shaun Goff, Ben Mammola, Simon Hill and Jake Wannell, putting up a mighty effective screen in front of Brian Cann the veteran Rovers stopper was rarely called into action and, after those first ten or fifteen minutes when the Welsh side had a coupe, of half chances, they were rarely given a sight of the goal. The game was sealed in the 57th minute when Shaun Goff’s free-kick sent Stamp away in the inside left channel, he reached the bye line before cutting it back for Ben Mammola to half volley home. With Carl Cliff-Brown outstanding in attack and the back four showing no hang-over from the midweek nap hand defeat to Street, Rovers keeper Brian Cann was rarely troubled and the home side were very good value for the victory and a place in the next round. As with all such superb all-round team displays singling out a star-man is a difficult task but Simon Hill’s contribution was magnificent throughout.
Goals: Dean Stamp (33), Ben Mammola (57).
Rovers team: Cann, Wannell, Mammola, Hill, Goff, Patchett, Ansell (Doble), Norrish (capt), Pocock (Rogers) Stamp (Hawes) and Cliff-Brown
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