Ours to lose IMO. We're better than rovers, end of. They have decent halfs and a couple of decent 3/4's but realistically our forwards should be well on top. Stop campese and we stop rovers. I see our wingers getting peppered with high kicks all game though and if we don't defend these then rovers may well win it

Barista is hyperventilating stop it.

Leave her be, derby week is the only excitement she gets these days

Anyone know if you can move wherever when in the stadium? Know a few of us rovers fans that are now worried because it says Leazes Stand on their tickets. Plonkers.

With the ticket sales being so high on the Saturday, I'd doubt they will allow people to swap stands.

I have tickets for Leazes West corner, will I be able to move into the Centre of that stand?

Yeah the whole stand is unreserved, once you in you can move about, but you can not move from one stand to another

Thought so, just wondered why my tickets specifically said Leazes west corner .

Having re-read my original post I fail to see where I have offered an opinion on Sio being out or in but obviously I cannot ' interpret' your thoughts.
Thanks for posting that Kelly, Lunt, Burke and Salter will be returning, this should certainly strengthen an injury hit squad. Pity Goulding ( you inadvertently forgot him, although to be fair there were a lot to remember) isn't back because I reckon most fans would class him as Rovers number centre at present
You do realise the club had to take loan signings to replace first choice Tilse and Allgood (long term injuries, unless of course you know different) and of course especially at this stage of the season the choice is hardly over whelming.
I could of course have included various fringe players on the injury list, the equivalent of Naughton, Hadley and Lancaster (who by looking at other threads the vast majority of posters would not include in your first seventeen) but I suppose you needed to include because that would have only left Westerman in what is looking your strongest side this season.
I would be amazed if Rovers can get any near in this derby but hopefully come the final derby this season (assuming we don't meet in the CC which I believe AP is targeting according to media reports) then I fully hope and expect revenge in what will be a very one sided match at this weekends MW.

To be fair, you certainly need a win to start to 'even' matches a little in this MW series

With the exception of Lunt and Burke, pretty much on the money, then, certainly on Sio. Wasn't aware of Michaels injury so swap him for Westerman and it's 5 apiece with Rovers all-conquering backline at virtually full strength. Yikes.

lunt will play unless chester wants to go with 4 forwards on the bench (assuming, of course he's been able to scout the RL world and find 4 fit forwards to sit on his bench) to counter our pack