Tyrone Shoelaces

Yes you’re right. I’d forgotten about Foden. I’m still not convinced about him being a real playmaker for England though. I’m reminded of Tom Carney at Rovers. He never seemed to make it for us as a playmaker whenever he was given the chance.

We’ll live to regret that. Just what we are short of - a playmaker.

It’s not very often you see “ charismatic “ and “ Mowbray “ in the same sentence.

Yes, the everlasting “ added degree of difficulty “.

They get smaller gates than we do.

Put your CV in, the Chokers will snap you up.

Do you take “ The Sunday Observer “ ? There was a good review of that album in last Sundays edition. The music scene in Liverpool is still great. I remember going watching “ Faron’s Flamingoes “ in a pub during the Beatles weekend. The lead guitarist had got lost in the crowd and they were waiting for him to turn up. Eventually Faron said “ is there anybody here that can play lead guitar ? “ One young bloke in the audience said” Yeah, I can “. So he got up on stage and plugged in the guitar. Faron said to him “ Johnny B Goode in the key of whatever “ . And away they went. The real guitarist turned up after about 5 numbers.

Absolutely. I was in North Yorkshire last week. Gorgeous countryside. Plus it’s not full of wildlife that’s trying to kill you !

That’s were the focus has to be on signing established players who may have fallen by the wayside like Dack and Rothwell. The guys you can get for reasonable fees. This guy might have a good eye for a player, like Peter Taylor for Brian Clough or like Bowyers dad had at Rovers - allegedly of course. We’ll soon see.

Me too. Like any other appointment he’ll be judged on his signings. I can’t say that I’m too happy that the club appear to have chosen to put all their eggs into the youth development basket. That’s a recipe for more stagnation. In my opinion of course.

To have any chance of promotion you need to be hanging on to your better players for a while.

Yes but who is going to be scouting the Armstrongs and Brererton’s ? Neither of those came through our youth teams.

At the moment the youth side of the club is going well, as evidenced by the number of home grown players we’ve brought into the first team. It’s in finding the next Dack or the next Rothwell were the expertise was required.

That’s what worries me. As some one said earlier - is the plan to become the next Crewe Alex ? Develop young players and continually sell them on ? That policy got Crewe a good reputation but it didn’t get them very far league position wise.

What, in his usual cast of thousands ?

Nope, they do it every time.

Dack might not even be in our starting 11. He’s nowhere near were he was before the last cruciate injury yet.

I don’t see why Kane’s ability to reach the ball is an issue here. If you get tripped in the penalty area it should be a penalty. I remember a game on tv were the ball had been cleared out of the box and the centre half had a kick out at the striker, they’d been having a ding dong all the game. The ref gave a penalty.

The guy who used to write about my local rugby league team was banned from entering the ground by the clubs directors because he was on their case. He ended up going in through the turnstiles with a false beard and clear glasses.

I’ve never seen him have a good game for England. He looks overawed by the experience. Bowen looked more of a threat out there.

Well done Matty - 300 pages and counting.

Yeah, I thought he was badly at fault for their goal.

Lacklustre display by England. Germany passed us off the park, especially in midfield. England stole a point in the end. Grealish did more in 15 minutes than Mount did in the whole game. Saka ? What is he for ? Stirling really poor tonight. I don’t like two defensive midfield players along with Mount in midfield, much too defensive. Southgate too cautious, just like Mowbray, we’ll never win anything with him running the show.

Getting over run in midfield. I missed the start and I only realised Mount was playing after about 40 minutes.

Common sense isn’t it ?