Tyrone Shoelaces

We did well to get 0. We were never in it from the first minute. A total embarrassment.

The European Cup winners cup and the European Super Cup were Mickey Mouse trophies ? I wish we’d won one of them ! The bloke was a winner . In football you need to put your prejudices to one side if the want to see the real picture.

None of them were what I’d call a tap in. Gallagher’s should have been but the two Dack fluffed would have been great goals if they had have gone in. The keeper was on top of Hedges pretty quickly. The best chance in the game was their fourth goal.

I used to know the chief exec at my local rugby league club. He said “ Never give the buggers a reason for losing. Never give them an excuse for not performing ! “

All of those managers could get the cheque book out and buy players to fit their way of playing. We can’t.

The trouble with this “ journey “ and “ project “ talk is that the players buy into it. All of a sudden next weeks match isn’t all that important anymore. We’re on a journey so there’ll be another game after this one and another after that one. If we score first we’ll give it a go, if we don’t - well there’s always next week. The long time football mantra of not looking beyond doing everything in your power to win the next game has been stood on it’s head.

Fergie would take the No 9 shirt and wear it himself before he’d play either of those.

I just saw this comment on the Rochdale site. It’s from Shaun Reid who was Peter Reid’s brother and a combative midfield player for the Dale back in the day - “ Time these players rolled up their fecking sleeves and showed some bollox. Don’t care about tactics, Don’t care about how many fecking passes. Don’t care how nice on the eye or playing the right way. Show some Desire and fight. Get together and play ugly .”

Let me know when they decide to go for it.

We’d be 100% better, that’s for sure. And one or two would be down the road.

Butterworth looked really promising until he had that long term back injury. After that he wasn’t the same player. Having had disc trouble myself I’m not surprised.

I blame them both. First rule of goalkeeping - do not parry a shot back into the danger area.

Only Burnley could lucky enough to be the one team Coyle had any success with.

We got out enthused again.

If that would have been me the captain would have had me by the throat. Pathetic half hearted attempt at nothing. Some managers would have subbed him after that.

I remember Brian Clough parading Ian Storey-Moore around the Derby pitch on the Saturday. He signed for Man U on the Monday !

The Chicken Chokers hire and fire - not the fans.

He’s got none of the tools you need to be a striker. What’s he like in goal ?

Like our midfield letting their guy walk through them to get the shot off. Who was it thinking - “ Shall I track back ? Nah, fuck it, I’ll let somebody else do that “. Typical I’m afraid.

Just saying like it is. Nobody can lose you a game quicker than your keeper. He needs to get his act together.

He wouldn’t need to be.

Only the Chicken Chokers. Lets put it this way - if by some miracle Big Sam rocked up at Ewood on Monday morning the derby game would take on another complexion all together. I’d actually fancy our chances.

He threw one in last week as well.

Mm. Would they be interested in a swap ? JDT for Big Samm?

Why have we got so many players injured. I reckon that’s about half a team missing.