All things Rotherham United

Rotherham fans made their way down the Sheffield parkway, cutting across the steel city, travelling in their thousands to Hillsborough Stadium. However, they could have been forgiven for thinking they’d made a wrong turn and ended up in a farmers field, such was the state of the pitch of the Owls.  The pitch would play such a big part in the events that were to unfold this afternoon. Prior to kick off both teams were in fine form. Wednesday were on a run of 4 successive wins which all included clean sheets. The Millers were also in similar form to their South Yorkshire counterparts, 5 wins from 5 and 5 clean sheets in a row. The Owls lined up with a 3-5-2 formation, with their midfield maestro Luongo sitting in the middle of the park waiting to pull the strings. The Millers made two changes from their 1-0 win over Wimbledon with skipper Richard Wood coming in for Mattock and Ladapo replacing the injured Will Grigg. The game started with the blistering pace you would expect from a d...

Perhaps it’s the striker’s recent run of form or antics of other forwards at the club. But one thing is for certain, the long injury lay off for Will Grigg has definitely got some of the Millers fans worried for the coming weeks. Turn back the clocks to the start of January and everything seemed peachy at Rotherham. Smith was in fine goal scoring form and his seemingly perfect partnership with Ladapo had helped Rotherham on their charge to summit of league one. However this would be short lived with Ladapo’s transfer request coming as a shock to both club and fines alike. Cue the run of disappointing results that saw the Millers drop from top of the league down to third. Now third position on paper doesn’t look so bad, however teams around them were picking up points and Wigan had several games in hand to boot. It was at this time that the manager turned to Freddie and asked him to basically put himself in the shop window (aiding Rotherham’s promotion bid at the same time). January cam...