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Match report from last night https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/september/16/report--rochdale-3-2-rovers-under-21s/

Start today for Duru - won 4-2

It's amazing isn't it. For well over 100 years playing left footed players on the left was deemed to be ok but then some revolutionary geniuses decide that was a load of bollocks and we'd all been wrong all along. What next? A return to using long throws, mixing up long and short passing, putting crosses into the box if you have a 6'6" centre forward? Russell Martin et al must be turning in their graves - I know they're not physically dead but (hopefully) professionally. I know the game has to evolve but the best coaches mix up the proven 'old' styles with new ideas. Frank, Iraola and others seem to understand this and are all the more impressive because of it. It also gets the best out of their players as they play to their strengths

Baaaah humbug…Here he is!!

Thanks Professor Dictionary 👍🏻

Substitute of for have and I get your point.

That option being to spurn any chance of building an attack by repeatedly standing offside.

We must have the tackiest most wank club shop ever. The 150th anniversary clobber they put together is absolutely disgusting. The only thing that's actually worth buying is that T with the white stripes on the shoulder and the badge in the middle. The rest of it id even be refusing on my own stag do and prefer to wear a wedding dress

That’s fair. Plus Gueye gives us another option if we’re going all out for it in the second half.

Nice return for Connor McBride, our former striker. He was shortlisted for PL2 player of the year (I believe Cole Palmer was amongst the names on the shortlist) after a great season of goals, playing alongside Sam Burns. Following year, he got a first team pre-season appearance and scored a deflected free kick, I think. But it was all downhill from there, in terms of his career. It is negligent to be fielding young Tyjon as a lone forward, if he was there. He doesn't have the strength or the mobility for it. Last season, I believe, he was run into the ground trying to plough a lone furrow upfront.

Surely we arent potentially criticising a player for being available every week?

He reminds me of John Buckley and that’s not a good thing.

Mm, certainly nobody seemed to have that “ X “ factor but there was a lot of young players out there and it showed the longer the game went on. We’d no real idea how to get back from 3-2 down, it was just hit and hope. Very easy to defend against.

He did ok at first but not unexpectedly faded as the game went on. He was getting caught in possession quite often. He should have been subbed off on the hour. I’d say he’s a decent prospect and he has youth on his side.

Ah bollocks I was going to get it for my Dad for Christmas with our names in, but I've just gone on and seen it's offline. Ah well.

I wouldn't class any of them as great prospects. I doubt any of them will make championship level

From the tiny bit I saw, Isaac Dunn looks a great prospect

Precisely. Many more absent performances like today and Arsenal will look elsewhere.

If I were Tyjon’s agent I’d be telling him to sign that contract asap before we change our minds !

You could argue that if you’re a centre half and you don’t miss one game in 50 for injury or suspension - maybe you’re not putting yourself about as much as you should be ?

I hope VI has the confidence and conviction to not play Tyjon if he doesn't deem it beneficial to the team in the short term. I've made my feelings on this clear, I have no interest in blooding him this year to improve him on the chance that he signs a contract, especially if it's at the potential expense of Championship points. Sign and play. Otherwise, best of luck.

How many “ crunch “ matches did we fail to win ? I’m going back a few seasons now.

A left footed player on the left hand side, who’d have thought it ?

The game passed him by. I’m still waited for that “ Wow “ moment that tells you there’s a special talent there. Wharton took me about 5 minutes.

He missed a sitter in the second half when it was 2-2. If I was scout for a lower division league team looking to loan a left back in January I’d be looking somewhere else.