Tyrone Shoelaces

I like the way we are set up now. It’s a coherent way of playing that suits our playing staff. If we can ever get this team on the pitch we’ll be looking good for the play-offs. Problem is - we can’t. Toth Alebeoso, Carter, McClouglin, Wharton, Hedges Baradji, Tronstad Cantwell Gudjohnsen, Ohashi.

Would you have him back ?

I know, but it’s a big step up.

Well in spite of everything we usually do.

Regarding Cozier-Duberry, he was really poor for us last season. Championship full backs had him weighed up pretty quickly. Keep him facing down field, don’t let him turn with the ball and he’s out of the game.

I can never understand that. If we manage to clear the ball it’ll only come straight back again because we have nobody down field.

The back to front baseball cap tells me all I need to know,

Redcar and Marske, both on the North East coast if my memory serves me well.

Maybe the training is more intense than we realise. If Ismael goes off training performance when he’s thinking about selection it could be players are going all out on the training pitch. I see Morris is out injured at the moment.

Taking the goalkeeper out of the equation I would suggest that centre halves do the least running of all the players. Regarding Hyam, I always felt he was playing within himself. One of the reasons why he never got injured.

City let him and Palmer slip through their fingers apparently.

He’d have stopped the ball, got down on his knees, and headed the ball in.

I just watched it again on YouTube. Brilliant free kick bent around the wall with the outside of his right foot right into the near top corner. It’s really hard to get power into the shot using that technique but Cubillas did. The goal he scored earlier in the game wasn’t too shabby either. A right foot thunderbolt from 20 odd yards out into the same top corner.

He earned the right to tap that in because nothing is a lost cause as far as Yuki is concerned.

Cubillas was World class for Peru that night. We had a Scottish welder that was giving it large before the comp started. We didn’t see him again for a month !

I had the feeling he was an athletic type of lad that was “ manufactured “ into a footballer. He’d no six sense in the penalty box, he always seemed to be back on his heels when chances cropped up.

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We seem to specialise in producing centre halves. Any forwards we bring through appear to get snapped up by bigger fish before they have played more than a game or two for us.

Gallagher played up front for us for years and never looked like the finisher that Gudjohnsen is. If you don’t think some of his goals are quality finishes you’re hard to please. He makes what are tricky finishes look easy. I agree the rest of his game is a bit shaky but the lad can finish alright.

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How many of his goals could you see Sam Gallagher scoring ?

I can’t see us spending real money on a player that will improve the first 11 in a hurry. They’ll use the academy lads coming in at the back as an excuse not to sign defenders. O’Riordan will probably stay at Donny now. Baradji is knocking on the door for a start so that’s midfield taken care of. Up front we may get a loan signing. That’ll be it.

I was at a “ do “ for a relative so I got to watch the second half of the Spurs v Liverpool game. Do people really pay big bucks to watch walking football ? The number of stood still from me to you back to me back to you 10 yard passes was unbelievable. The players are robbing a living. The red card was a red card in today’s football but the Liverpool player made a complete meal of it.

He’s a finisher, simple as that really.

Brilliant.