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That was embarrassing. The sending off was the last thing we wanted. After that it was all ten behind the ball and they shut up shop. Whilst they had 11 out there we had a chance of catching them on the break. After the sending off there was no chance. We could have played while midnight and not scored. The goal we conceded was poor, all of Wharton, Kaminski, and the left back have to sort it out between themselves. Last week we were under siege and we sent Ayala on as a centre forward. Like a fish riding a bike. Tonight we had Swansea under siege and we bring on JRC. Can anybody explain that. Apart from the new left back nobody did themselves justice really. Nyambe proved what a good defensive right back he is on a couple of occasions. Rothwell - as I said the other day - doesn’t do enough often enough. In the first half he was non existent apart from getting himself booked for a petulant challenge.

That’s exactly why Bournemouth bought Moore.

To quote Graham Taylor - Do I not like that. Three midfield players up front. I’d take a 1-0 now.

Declan Rice is everything Pogba could/should be but isn’t.

Let me know if you find it. We were down there on holiday years ago , pre sat nav, and we spent an hour trying to find Symonds Yat with no luck.

Me too. I liked a bit of rough and tumble as a player but not when the ball was 40 yards away.

Maybe because people are letting them get away with it.

Stanley Matthews was notorious for it. Having said that players were on £20 a week then.

I’m a bit disappointed we didn’t make more out of the fact two of our players were fouled out of tomorrow’s game by that pub team at Luton.

Mm, It’s just made the game a good bit harder. He’s a better bet than the guy that’s just gone.

A pal of mine played semi pro for Netherfield and later Great Harwood. He had his cheek bone fractured in a similar incident with a well known thug of a player. He was a joiner and he was off work quite a while. He was one of the first players to take his assailant to court and he won the case.

Steve Agnew played for us many years ago.

Yes Mimms was in goal. I had the same view of that foul as the camera. It should have been a free kick. The City player ( Steve McMahon ? ) went right through the Rovers player.

Mm, not a good day out. Rickie Holden led us a bit of a dance that day out on their left. Just proves you don’t have to be a flier to be effective out wide. Of course today he’d be playing on the right and coming inside all day.

Dobson definitely played left back.

Newall and Phelan OG according to the record book. Our team was - Flowers.Sherwood, Hendrey, Moran, Marker, Anderson, Atkins, Dobson, Wegerle, Newall, Wilcox. Ireland came on as sub for Marker. Cowan was an unused sub. Make a team out of that lot. I can’t. No wonder we lost.

Was that the game were we were 2-0 really early on ? David White got a hat trick ? Me and my youngest son watched it from the Main Stand in amongst the City fans !

They’ve been playing 10 men from the 3 rd minute.

Not a pitch for trying to run with the ball.

My lap top has a mind of it’s own. Now and again it likes a blast of italics. It’s behaving now.

They play very much like Rovers did last season, pass it around until you lose it style football. If we press hard we should be able to take advantage of that.

I’ve never been one to talk us up before games but we really should win this one. Swansea are in the doldrums at the moment. We could do with Fisher throwing a couple in for us.

Wayne Rooney’s come along about once every 10 to 15 years. Like Gazza.

I could be wrong, no inside information, but the injury to Edun didn’t good going off his demeanour as he left the pitch.

That’s before we go into what we do about the manager.