Tyrone Shoelaces

I wouldn’t swap Solksjaer for Mowbray so that should tell you all you need to know.

It’d be a gamble fitness wise and Newcastle aren’t in a position to gamble.

It’s not a picnic with all the Covid hoops to jump through. Then play international football a day or two after.

One thing about Saturday’s game - nobody will have come away saying they didn’t enjoy the match. They’ll be back after that.

I take my hat off to him, he must really want to play for Chile if he’s prepared to go to all that trouble.

I heard he’d gone back to Norway for a short break.

I remember little Jimmy Johnstone running the great Keith Newton ragged in an Scotland v England game just prior to the 1966 World Cup. I reckon it cost Keith a place in the final 22. Sir Alf went with Gerry Byrne of Liverpool who wasn’t fit to lace Keith’s boots. I think he ended up getting 1 cap in a friendly whereas Keith was a regular England full back for about 4 years. At that time Johnstone was a World class winger, unstoppable on his day. Fergie and Mike Harrison were a great combination. One a tricky dribbler the other fast and very direct. Every team back then had at least one really top class winger, some teams had two.

That’s the nature of the beast with wingers I’m afraid but when they both click it’s great to watch.

That’s a blow, we play them next.

There’s a list of about half a dozen potential contenders for the Villa job in today’s paper. Hasenhuttl, Gerrard, Fonseca, Hjulmand, Frank, Terry etc. I find it strange that Dyche isn’t even in the running.

They’re missing Raya.

I could be wrong but I think we’ve won quite a few games this season when we’ve been behind in the possession stats.

Big Dog will be disappointed.

We’ve got Bristol City away up next. Home form W1 D4 L3. Scored 6 goals. If we can’t go for it in this game when can we ?

I was talking about how we got the ball to the bye line for the winger to put that cross in. Also about how difficult it is for defenders to mark up once they’ve been turned around to face their own goal. They lost Brererton completely.

Great stuff Tony, I bet you enjoyed doing that.

If he’s going to Rangers he might as well stay on the bench. In my book the lads who played yesterday have the shirt. It’s theirs to lose.

Lukaku and Werner being missing is handy also.

Brererton’s goal was a classic example of what wing play brings. We got in up the bye line, the blades defenders were all turned around and facing their own goal. Easy for Brererton to lose his man for a tap in.

How would you feel after playing so well you get left out and have to watch Gallagher bumbling up and down the wing ? I’d be really pissed off if it happened to me. Sometimes I think he only plays Gallagher to give us some height when we’re defending set pieces. Not that he’s much good at defending.

You sound like our Tony. Rovers best performance for years and you want to change things right away. To bring Gally back you’d either have to drop one of the two lads who played so well out wide yesterday. That’s not how you motivate players.

What Mowbray has never had is a coherent way of playing and a settled team. He’s too keen to tinker with the team to suit our opponents. I was listening to the Blackpool coach on Radio Lancashire tonight. He said before they played us he’d had Rovers watched. He was expecting us to play in a certain way when they played us but he found on the day that Mowbray had changed our system to try and combat Blackpool’s style.

Like Kipre signing for West Brom.

He was interviewed briefly on Radio Lancashire at about 5-55. You’d have though we’d just lost 3-1. He’d talk a glass eye to sleep.

Mm, I think Lenihan might be disappointed. He’s not Prem standard in my book.