There’ll be more clubs in for Swift further up the food chain. He’s a better player than Rothwell, more consistent for a start.

Swift won’t be coming here. He’s mid table Prem level.

Maybe they won’t be bothered about that. He can always sit on the bench. He won’t be playing for us, that’s the point. Having said that I’m not bent out of shape. He had his strengths but he also had his weaknesses. Yesterday at Luton would have found him out. The first player that I saw do the same thing was Roy Vernon who went to Everton, followed by many, many more.

Top player. Him and the lad at Huddersfield are Prem players in the making.

Not sure about Cantrell, he’s got the reputation of being a big time Charlie.

it’s a bit like us selling Fred Pickering to Everton when we were up at the top of the old First Division. Only difference is Fred was the best centre forward in the UK when the likes of Bournemouth were turning out at Rochdale and Halifax.

Too soon I’m afraid.

Medals in a drawer are secondary to £ in his bank account. Same goes for most/all players.

Thanks Tony, watching that was like having teeth pulled. Instantly forgettable.

Indeed, is he any better than Alan Mahon was ?

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t be bent out of shape with Rothwell leaving. He doesn’t do enough often enough for me. It’s the timescale factor that is a problem. It doesn’t leave us much time to bring in a replacement.

He wouldn’t have been much use today. The ball was in the air as much as it was on the ground. It was a two pair of shin pads game, one down the front of your socks and one down the back.

They could easily go down.

Zeefuick started of on the right hand side up front, he couldn’t get into the game. Having said that not many players could. Second half he played left back. Defensively he wasn’t too bad but on the ball he ran into trouble a couple of time in dangerous areas of the pitch. He gets a bit carried away when he’s in possession. Running it instead of passing. Buckley did his best to play his football in a war zone. Our most influential attacking player. I was surprised when he was taken off with about 20 mins to go. Johnson didn’t feature much on the ball but he was an effective presence in midfield and his height was a big help when we were under siege. Gallagher was basically on his own up front and struggled to get into the game. It was a bit too physical for him. Second half he was running towards their goal with one of their centre backs in tow. When the ball was passed to the far side of the field about 40 yards away the centre half took advantage of the dopey officials and elbowed him in the chest/neck area. Game over for the lad.

It showed me he would have done the square root of nothing in a game like that. It needed real battlers not fair weather footballers.

That brought back some memories, it was like playing in the Rochdale Amateur League Div 2 back in the 1960’s ! It was a low intensity war not a game of football. No wonder the ball burst, it was probably crying. They are a real ale house team, they’d rather fight you than play football. Wimbledon Crazy Gang mk2. Something left in in every tackle, every headed challenge began with a push. Most teams have a shithouse or two, they had about seven ! Total windup merchants. You need men to play in those sorts of games and today we had some men. Last season they’d have walked all over us. Not a day for the Khadra’s or Rothwell’s, they’d have just been kicked out of it. The back three and the keeper earned their corn today, they were magnificent. Nyambe was good in defence. Edun they targeted with constant high balls until that tosser kicked him out of the game. I wasn’t impressed with the new lad on the wing and he wasn’t much better at full back. He ran the ball into trouble too often for me, you can’t do that at full back. JRC was ok without doing anything special. Travis, and Johnson to a lesser extent, blocked up the centre and fought fire with fire as best they could. Buckley keep trying to play football and was probably our best attacker. I wasn’t impressed with Butterworth, he’s a bit like Rhodes was - he only plays when he gets the ball. Gallagher was doing his best to be a one man attack until he got filled in off the ball. That should have been a red card all day long. As someone else said he can’t even hold up the ball when he’s in space. Putting Ayala up front was a bollock, he can’t run. He made Chris Samba look like Craig Belllamy ! All in all a really hard fought for and well won point. Anybody who thinks otherwise has never played in a game like that.

Class act a couple of years ago.

He’d be ok on the bench but he’s not a starting player.

Decent squad player if they can get him on a free. If there was a decent fee involved I don’t think they’d be so keen.

You need to look after yourself off the field. Look at Ronaldo and Messi. I don’t know about Owen but Whiteside liked a drink too much for his own good allegedly.

Very good player at this level if he’s fit and motivated.

You don’t get many Wayne Rooney’s. He was a man at 17.

At some point he must have read the Gary Player quote , roughly “ The harder I work the luckier I get “, and decided he was going to work hard. He’s never looked back from that moment.

Great header. You can’t fault his effort, he’s always showing for the ball.

Crossing the ball on the run is a dying art in football.