Tyrone Shoelaces

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.

He doesn’t run with the ball, he runs after the ball.

You’re not setting the barrier very high with Wood.

You don’t often see the words “ owners “ and “ predicted “ in the same sentence. I’ve long since given up trying to guess what the Chicken Chokers are going to do next.

Exactly, he wanted to play a system without signing the players to do so.

Looks like he could fill in on the right wing as well.

I don’t think so.

That’s the chances you take when you loan a City player I suppose.

He must have been near to -17 in the game against Hull. He was completely ineffectual then.

Yes, that sub appearance was really disappointing. He’s had a back injury that kept him out for a couple of years. I had a back injury that affected me when playing but that was after 60 minutes or so. I’d be fine when I came on at first. So no excuses there. I was really impressed when I first saw him play. I even thought to myself “ we’ve got another David Speedie here “. Since then I haven’t seen much of that.

That’s amazing.

If he played like that every week there wouldn’t be a problem. He was really poor against Hull.

It’s significant that a club playing at Burton’s level don’t appear to want him back.

That’s the first time I’ve seen him play his weight in the air and he’s 6ft 4 inches tall. He must have read what was being said about him on here !

Thanks for that Tony. The stats bear out a lot of my thoughts. Is Gallaghers 29 a record ?