Tyrone Shoelaces

Some the strikers I played with you’d need a chainsaw to get the ball off them if a penalty had been awarded. Greedy bastards.

I’m not bothered about another pen- I was there when John Coddington took his pen. No miss would come near to that. I just don’t want another red card for our opponents.

He can’t get us back in a game when we go behind - ever, and he can’t halt a death spiral until it no longer matters. As I said the other day, we’ve been rewarding failure for too long. We get bullied and out enthused most of the time and I’m tired of saying it.

He should be back here having treatment on the injury.

That’s a pretty small side height wise.

There’s a lot of potential at Bradford if he can get it right.

It was a night for the captain to take the ball and blast it through the keeper into the back of the net. It’s as much about temperament as much as it’s about technique.

They need the conditions to be right for ale house , I mean direct, football. One look outside the house last night told me Spurs wouldn’t fancy a night on’t Turf one little bit.

What about playing in our first team ?

We’ve had roughly speaking two good months Gav, other than that - business as usual. In fact from the point of view of scoring goals this is the worst death spiral of the lot.

I’d prefer Buckley Instead of Rothwell and maybe Hedges instead of Dolan.

If anybody thought he might be stopping at Rovers after this Summer, I think they’ll know the answer now.

I like Nyambe a lot as a defender but when your opponents go down to ten men you can’t persist with playing five at the back. Somebody has to go off and logic suggests the players who are least likely to bring you a goal.

I think he plays Gally for his defensive headers. It can’t be for his goal threat. His one strength is running on to balls played in front of him. Teams just play deep and deny him the space nowadays.

It’s not just the defeats - how many goals ? Most of the time we’ve played like drains.

When you’ve got 8 players who rarely if ever get into the last third of the pitch you will have a good defence. You will also find chances and goals thin on the ground. The 3 up front have to be clinical with the few chances that come along and we aren’t

It’s not just relegation form, it’s bottom of the table form.

Waiting for the ball up front will get you nowhere. You’ve got to be proactive.

Given he hadn’t played one first class game it’s not a bad assumption.

Set pieces have been shit since Charlie left.

You were sacking him earlier this season.

How do we know that Markanday would have been any better than Dolan, Poveda, Khadra ?

Neither will we unless something changes.

Well done Tony, it’s taken me whilst now to get the courage to read this.

10/10