Tyrone Shoelaces

Tell your wife to hide all your sharp knives.

Rochdale have already decided that they’re going to lay a new pitch in mid season.

I’m with you, I fancy us to get something here. Our current formation is made for away games.

There’s playmakers and then there’s spear carriers for me. Tronstad, Taylor-Hickman, Forshaw, Montgomery, spear carriers. Cantwell, Morishita, Baradji, playmakers. Tavares, Henrikson,- wanna be playmakers.

Dale And Grace - I’m Leaving It All Up To You

Toth, a fit Wharton and Carter, Hedges . With Tronstad that’s basically a whole defence out.

Then we had Cantwell, who is normally available for selection, out for what seems like 2 months and he’s not even back up to speed now. Toth was really looking the part, now we are back with Pears. Montgomery was good for 20 minutes at the end of a game and then we lost him. It’s as soon as we get one player back we lose another one. I don’t normally shy away from criticising the managers at Ewood but I think Ismael is getting a raw deal at the moment. Just putting a competitive team out there is an achievement. If things are as bad when we get some of our better players back that’ll be another story.

Forshaw wouldn’t be playing 3 games a week if Tronstad’ hadn’t have got injured.

The number of players we have out injured is killing us at the moment.

Playing Alebiosu in a back four would negate a lot of his attacking opportunities. Not to mention the point that non of the centre halves are good enough to play in a two.

Over half of the squad “ he put together “ are in the treatment room. Given the teams we are having to put out at the moment I can’t see us pulling any trees up.

I see Mark Wood has had to return home. I always thought it was a risk given the amount of bowling he’d have to do on hard Aussie wickets. It was a risk worth taking though in my opinion.

He was described as being “ in imperious form “ in my paper today.

If I had to put my finger on one thing - they don’t know how to leave the ball. They have to play at everything. Nothing is more dispiriting for the bowler than to see the batsmen not play at something you’ve put a lot of effort into.

This will only end one way.

I agree with him regarding Anderson. A hard working player but he hasn’t got the passing ability that Wharton has. Another instant pass yesterday that created the Palace first goal. You could see how he spotted what was on the cards a couple of seconds before everybody else.

I take it you weren’t “ entertained “ then ? Chaddy and Gav will be along shortly to tell us how we don’t understand modern Test Match cricket !

The Coasters - Shoppin’ For Clothes.

That’s what I couldn’t understand. How good do you have to be to run around a bit ?

No shit Sherlock.

I don’t remember either of Vale, or Leonard for that matter, doing much in the way of putting themselves about.

Me too.

He won’t get us out of this division the right way. Just an handy lad to have on the bench.

I’d stick with the 5 at the back, which has served us pretty well given the amount of players we have had out recently. When Pickering came to Rovers his “ highlight “ video showed him almost exclusively operating as a wing back. I’d give him I go, or Ribeiro. De Neve ? Nah, not again.

Steve Cropper, one of the men behind the “:Stax “ sound. Superbly economical playing on “ Green Onions “.