By MikeyB
November 1 2006

A Penalty converted by Gaetano Giallanza was enough for Darlington to grab a 1-0 over Rovers. It was Dave Penny’s first game in charge and they deserved to win. Rovers never really looked like scoring as they picked up more injuries, exactly what we didn’t need!

John Achterberg		Sam Russell
Steven Jennings		David Rowson
Shane Sherriff		Darren Holloway
Carl Tremarco		Patrick Collins
Chris McCready		David Duke
Kevin Ellison		Simon Johnson
Chris Shuker		Clark Keltie
Jason McAteer		Kalu N'goma
John Mullin		Carlos Logan
Steve Davies		Gaetano Giallanza
Gareth Taylor		Barry Conlon

Chris Greenacre (for Ellison 11 mins)		Neil Wainwright (for Conlon, 61 mins)
Ian Goodison (for Jennings 30 mins)		Michael Cummins (for Keltie 61 mins)
Danny Harrison (for Davies 86 mins)		Mark McLeod (for Johnson, 89 mins)
	Unused
Mike Jones		David Stockdale
Gavin Ward		Ville Vaisanen

Steve Davies 59		37 Barry Conlon
John Achterberg 67		51 Clark Keltie
Ian Goodison 86		59 Simon Johnson
Jason McAteer 86		78 Carlos Logan
		90 Mark McLeod

NONE

 

 

	90 Mins	Mark McLeod
	89 Mins	Mark McLeod  Simon Johnson
Danny Harrison Steve Davies	86 Mins
Jason McAteer	86 Mins
Ian Goodison	86 Mins
	78 Mins	Carlos Logan
	67 Mins	Gaetano Giallanza
John Achterberg	67 Mins
	61 Mins	Michael Cummins  Clark Keltie
	61 Mins	Neil Wainwright  Barry Conlon
	59 Mins	Simon Johnson
	51 Mins	Clark Kelie
	37 Mins	Barry Conlon
Ian Goodison Steve Jennings	30 Mins
Chris Greenacre Kevin Ellison	11 Mins

 

54%	Possesion	46%
4	Shots on Target	4
2	Shots off Target	4
12	Fouls	20
6	Corners	2

 

 

"I'm just glad it wasn't a league game. They're horrible nights when there windy, but thats when you role your sleeves up. You might not be able to play your football, but you can scrap. Punters have paid there money to watch us and want us to go all the way. The least they deserve is a bit of sweet, blood and tears. Hopefully that will be back against Milwall and we can get back to winning ways. It will be an awful lot better, take that from me.

 

We're not ruthless enough. We don't get enough second balls and that worries me a little bit. We didn't get the tempo of the game, and I think one or two of them thought 'oh its only Darlington and its going to be easy'. It doesn't matter who you play, we're not good enough to switch off.

 

It didn't help with the injuries as i was trying to give one or two lads a rest, but we still had enough on the park and we didn't do it. We couldn't score and the referee gave them a goal. If there was going to be a penalty decision then it should of been for Davo. He stayed on his feet when he could of gone down. Whats wrong with him having a shot and then, if theres no benefit to us, a penalty? We're telling people not too dive bu sometimes we wonder if it is best to dive. If you get a touch in the box, go down.

 

It's easy to blame the referee, But I'd get into trouble if I said what I wanted too. Its a big disapointment for me. We've thrown it away by not being ruthless enough with a helping hand from three officials.

 

Jenno has tweaked his knee and Kevin had a recurrance of the injury he got last week. We'll have to wait and see how they are."