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Thanks again Tony, I didn’t get to see the match but your report makes up for that.

We used to have a saying about players like Khadra. “ He dribbles when he comes to a pair of feet “.

I know that, I meant which one of the series. I’ve seen them all.

Rochdale had a super fan who collected money for them for years. When he died he left all his estate to the club. I heard about £250k. They’ve bought a new electric scoreboard with some of it. They also commissioned a bronze full size statue of him sitting down. It’s placed in the seat he always sat in, I passed it the other day when I was finding my seat at the Rugby League.

According to Mike Jackman’s book he started 1 league game and was sub 3 times, he was sub 1 time in the FA Cup and started 2 games in the League Cup. No goals.

No excuse for him to be off side, he’s quicker than most centre halves he’ll be playing against.

What is more worrying is it’s not like he’s missing lots of chances. The chances aren’t coming for him.

Yes, 4-1.

Yes, I was at the Rochdale game but I was down the other end from the incident. It was complete mayhem for about 10 minutes.

He’s done great to come back so well from that serious injury he had.

As we are seeing injuries come thick and fast at this time of year, in the position Newcastle were in there was no point in taking the risk. If the guy didn’t want a move it made sense for them to hold on to him.

I agree that the attacking side of his game has diminished the longer he has been in the side.

Lowe was terrible, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing the first time I saw him play. I thought an England U-21 captain would have something about him. He had nothing apart from decent athleticism. His contributions were minimal. I never saw him have a good game.

That’s true. Lots of pacy players are.

I don’t think Newcastle would be prepared to loan him out, it wouldn’t be a question of wages. After all they hardly need the money do they ?

To be honest that was the signing I was hoping we would make in the window. We need a Travis with more ball skills. They don’t come cheap but they are out there.

Which one ? There’s been a few.

Something has to change.

Buckley’s the nearest we’ve got to that.

Players like Khadra don’t really give any thought to passing the ball, if they do pass they just “ lend you the ball”.

Every team needs a Travis but he’s need somebody near to him that he can pass the ball to that will do the business. I’d have Buckley playing next to him and Dolan up front in Buckley’s place

We could have just kept Carter. We knew Ayala would go missing, we also knew Lenihan would get more than his share of cards.

I wouldn’t want to go into the play offs in this form.

I suspect that Ayala is one of those players who has to feel he is absolutely 100% fit to play. He’s not one to turn out when he’s carrying a little niggle or a slight knock. Some of those players you mentioned would play on one leg if they had too. Moran and Hendrey were the same.

Khadra hasn’t got a pass in him. He’s just a runner with very little end product. I’d rather have Dolan in the team personally. Van Hecke I’d have back, Khadra - not for me.