Tyrone Shoelaces

The injury didn’t happen at ‘ Boro, it happened at Ewood against Boro. I was there. He got in a tangle with Juninho and the Brazilian dragged him around. LeSaux’s boot and foot stuck in the ground but his body and leg kept turning. He ended up with his foot at 90 degrees from where it should have been. He did well to come back from that.

I think LeSaux crapped on us from a great height after he came back from that very serious injury. I was there the day he did that. Juninho spun him around and his boot stuck in the pitch. He must have had the best of medical treatment. Extremely good player but I’ve no respect for him as a person.

I take my hat off to them. We used to be able to move that quickly in the transfer market etc once upon a time. Now by time the carrier pigeon has flown to Pune it’s normally too late.

Nice version that I’ve never heard before. Sounds like the other guys are singing on it, I can’t really hear Freddie.

Jim Smith used to tell a story about the Dailly transfer. He’d heard through the football grapevine that Rovers were interested in Dailly. He mentioned it to the chairman at Derby who said “ If they come in for him tell them not a penny under £ 2 million Jim “. Apparently Hodgson phoned up a day or two later and offered £ 5 million straight off the bat. Jim Smith managed to haggle the fee up to £ 5.25 million ! I remember watching Hodgson’s team in Italy. He had Zanetti, Djorkaeff, Ince and Aaron Winter in midfield and they were really poor to watch !

Yes that’s right.

That’s what usually keeps teams up - beating the teams around them, especially at home. Along with the odd totally unexpected win or draw against one of the big teams. The fat lady isn’t singing yet but the orchestra are tuning up their instruments.

Which Bond movie ?

Promoting stand ins because they’ve won a few rarely turns out well.

Looks like it. Plymouth were at Rochdale at the weekend. Still pretty impressive recruitment though. Makes me wonder what have happened if Preston would have scored from the pen they should have had and got a 1-1 draw

Roy’s got a nice line in watches - Rolex Daytona.

That’s how you effect a change of manager. One out, one in, all within 24 hours. Then we have the Chicken Chokers.

I suppose a lot depends on what team we put out. I can’t see any of the key players being risked, especially if we’re still in the top six.

What about Jansen !

All his signings were shit apart from Stephane Henchoz. That takes some doing. I reckon if the criterion of a Rovers manager was “who wasted the most money “ Hodgson would win hands down. Even Kiddo got a couple right.

And Freddie.

I thought that was Johnny Kidd.

It’ll be interesting to see who they get in.

That was a good sub to bring on when everybody else has been running around on a very heavy pitch for an hour.

Howard Kendall’s promotion team won 12 league and cup games 1-0. Just saying.

Crap draw but eminently winnable.

Then they fall off a cliff over Xmas and New Year. How many Christmas’s have they ruined lately .

I agree regarding the 10,000 lost fans, it could be more to be honest. I’d say a good half of those will never come back no matter what. They’ve found other things to do on a Saturday afternoon. You could offer them free admittance and they still wouldn’t come.

I’m expecting a crap away draw at somewhere like Millwall or Brentford.

Try “ Gaviscon “, it works for me.