Tyrone Shoelaces

I queued up all night outside the ground to get tickets for the City game in the late 1960’s.

Why is it astounding ? It’s just par for the course as far as I can see.

Who says we’d have seen any or the money ? Remember Armstrong ?

Indeed, any job that involves “ responsibility without power “ isn’t worth having for long.

He’ll have his hands full keeping them up but if they were to go down they’d be favourites to come straight back up.

I’d never watch another team although after the appointment of Coyle I walked away from the club until he left. Not because he was an ex Dingle but because he’d failed badly everywhere he’d been apart from Burnley. It was so obvious he was going to fail badly at Rovers. I have the added burden of being a season ticket holder at a struggling, bottom tier, rugby league club. When they both lose, on Saturday and Sunday, it really ruins your weekend.

All any striker wants is good service. Without that any striker will struggle. At the moment the service to the strikers at Rovers is mediocre at best. We don’t make enough clear cut chances. Our play is too obvious and too easy to play against. We spend most of the game playing in front of teams.

My mum has a saying - “ What can’t speak can’t lie “ . Look at the film.

Only one of those was a contested header.

That was only because we’d nobody else fit to play there at the time.

Add into that equation our “ wingers “ coming inside all the time.

Neither of them is very good at jumping for contested headers. If they get a header in space they’re ok but so is everybody else.

They put the ball in front of him so he could attack it. We don’t play that way.

5’-11” is tall ? Well I suppose it is in Bangkok.

I know it was only a cameo but Markanday looked very handy in amongst the shambles that was Rotherham away. I

He’s cup tied.

I look at signings like this - Is he better than what we’ve already got ? Potentially I think he is - but we’ll have to see.

Okay, let’s talk about our latest signing. You go first.

It’s common sense. You get around the side of the defenders and get them running back towards their own goal it’s really difficult for them to watch the man with the ball and the man they’re marking. Look at the goal Dack scored on Saturday. Morton got outside the defence, turned them around, and Dack just held his run and let the defenders run away from him. Come inside and most of the time the defender can watch the man on the the ball and the man they’re marking.

Maybe Saka is our new mystery signing Jim. I’d be thrilled for him to play on the “ wrong “ wing.

When you’ve got Mahrez I can see the point. We haven’t.

All I hope is If he’s left footed - play him on the bloody left getting around teams. Not on the right running inside into trouble.

Kenny, Hughes and Souey didn’t want to be at Rovers long term either, that’s why they all bailed out.

You mean bored like I was watching us lose 4-0 at Rotherham ?

Last time we played that Ronnie and Dougie were the 2.