That’s a very expensive windscreen.

Not a lot. I’ve only seen him in the cameo at Accy but the second coming of David Batty he isn’t. He’s also another short arse in a first team squad of small players.

When you’re busting a gut in defence and you see the forwards missing easy chances it doesn’t do anything for team spirit.

I wouldn’t put Pickering in “ success story “ group. So that leaves us with 5 permanent signing out of how many ? Any decent manager would get 50% of the signings right, a good manager would get about 75% right. Tony got about 10% right.

I think that’s pretty obvious. Once the rug was pulled from under our feet it was “ take it or leave it “.

Hedges- another one of Tony’s inexplicable signings. He must have signed about 30-40 players for us and you can count the success stories on the fingers of one hand.

Not good enough I suspect.

Goals change games. It’s as simple as that really.

At least they gave him some money to spend. Just a shame he lumped £5 million on Gally.

He over stayed his welcome here - by about 3 seasons.

When he played against Liverpool I felt sorry for him. He looked lost.

The last time I remember things being this bad up front was when we ended up playing Chris Samba up front. A great centre half but he looked like a fish riding a bike as a striker.

Maybe JDT will get his boots down out of the loft ?

Mm.

It’s rained not stop for two days in Rochdale. Get the sprinklers on, we need to play these when we have some real strikers and not two kids.

Mm, better than “ Penny Lane “ ?

He’s going to wake up one morning and think “ I can’t do anything under these circumstances, it’s just impossible “. Maybe he already has ?

I must have missed that game.

Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band - Hollywood Nights

There used to be a guy who went in one of the pubs I frequented that was his absolute double. Same looks, same build. The first time I saw him I thought it really was Ryan. Eventually I went up to him and said “ You look just like”, before I could go any further he replied , “ Yeah I know, Ryan Nelsen, he’s a footballer I believe “.

Anybody fancy Hedges leading the line ? At least he’s taller than 5’ 6”.

I was behind those goals, roughly in line with the photographer.

Ronnie, Dougie, Fergie, Newton, Harrison, McEvoy, Byrom, George Jones, Joyce, Sharples.

It’d be nice to have just one of our summer signings out on the pitch at some point.

Some of us said so at the time.