Tyrone Shoelaces

Andy Morrison - how we could do with somebody like him in the side now.

Given our inability to put the ball in the back of the net 13th is probably about right. Get somebody in who can actually score goals and no doubt the odds will change.

Joe Cocker - Delta Lady

Or train at facilities like ours.

I’m my usual pessimistic self when it comes to Rovers. I feel it won’t be a season to write home about unless we can get our attacking play improved massively.

We didn’t look any fitter than the Accy lads on Saturday.

The Rolling Stones - Take It Or Leave It

Otis Redding - These Arms Of Mine

I agree with that 100%. That was the first time I’ve seen Markanday I think, he can’t be any more than 5ft 6ins tall. In fact take the back four and Gally out of the equation and we have a lot of small players.

He’s a big lad alright. I thought he coped well with what was a pretty physical Accy side. They looked like they were playing for the town hall clock at the start of the second game. One of two tackles went in early on that didn’t belong in a friendly.

The Norwegian guy has the No 6 shirt but he doesn’t look like a “ physical beast “. Sygurdsson must have been bought to fill one of the wide positions.

I was over on the other side but it looked a poor goal from where I was. Not just the keeper, left centre half and left back must have still been in the changing rooms.

I agree with you regarding Wharton, he could make a massive difference to our ability to play a more passing based game. He’s always ready to relcieve the ball and he knows we’re it’s going next before he gets it.

Yeah, the Hull at home game springs to mind. We played that like it was a pre-season friendly..

Our Achilles heel last season was our complete inability to come from behind in games. Maybe the Millwall game has got that monkey off our backs ? One of the few pluses from the games at Accy was we came back from 2-0 down in the second game to get a draw.

The Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back

They had a vote in Manchester Council in the early 1970’s wether they should demolish Manchester Town Hall and replace it with a multi storey car park. The Town Hall only survived by one vote ! You’re right about the Cavern, the air vent was to be for a branch of the underground that never got built. So they demolished it for nothing.

I think he means Tic-Tacs.

The Aussies must hate playing at Headingly. So next time they don’t have to.

But we don’t play with quick tempo enough of the time, that’s the problem. When we do we look ok as when we scored our two goals yesterday. Most of the time we’re taking the ball stood still because the passing isn’t good enough.

Maybe they had a spare seat or two on the plane now that Wharton and Ennis have pulled out.

We’re really obvious in our play. So predictable and easy to play against. As you say we don’t move the ball quickly enough. We are content to play in front of teams all the time and rarely get up the sides of our opponents. When we do it’s taken us so long that our opponents are all back in position. Our set pieces are a bad joke. When did we last score from a direct free kick ? Until these things changes - we’re just treading water.

Once he allowed the striker to roll him out wide he was struggling. As you say he should have just put the ball out in the first place. He’s making a habit of getting too close to the guy he’s supposed to marking. You need to be close enough so the player can’t turn with the ball but not that close that he can roll you.

Two good passes and it’s good to see someone carrying the ball forward from the back instead of just passing it square. He was at fault for both the Accy goals though. Especially the second one, he got turned by the centre forward out wide, ran in his wake into the penalty area, then attempted a tackle from behind that was never on.

We don’t make enough chances to score enough goals. Especially with the blunt instruments we have up front at the moment. We made two chances for Gally yesterday and he fluffed them both.