Tyrone Shoelaces

There will always be gems to be found in the lower leagues. My local Club, Rochdale, brought quite a few through over the last few years. Craig Dawson to name just one. tI's being able to spot them that's the secret. That and being able to mend them if they're a " broken toy " sometimes. The guys that have lost their way, just like another one Keith Hill fixed, Grant Holt.

Only in theory.

You can put Walton in with them.

I think " Dolan cementing a place " is being a bit optimistic. Another quiet game against Forest and he'll be on the bench again.

I don't know about that but I could see them finishing higher up in the league than us, even with our 7 point start.

Dido Harding would beg to differ.

Those of us old enough to remember had a great time " looking up rather than down " when we won the Prem. As a result of only looking at what was going right and ignoring what could have been Improved upon, from a position of terrific strength, we began the gradual decent that ended in relegation. One of my managers favourite sayings was " Never mind what's going right, that'll take care of itself, today we work on what's going wrong ".

He'll have time to bring a couple of players in also.

Or a Givet or two.

How did that get past Mimms ?

I'd swap Mowbray for Hughton tomorrow. The Forest game has just got a whole lot more difficult. It's just gone from Wycombe Mk2 to Cardiff Mk2.

I think that might be a season too far for Charlie.

I'll bet you didn't think so at the time ! I didn't.

I don't think he's Prem standard either.

He'd have to improve as a defender 100%. However if you're the sort of football manager that thinks John Stones is the answer at centre back you may well be right.

Another bad day at the office.

I agree that he's got to be handled with care until he's physically capable of playing 90 minutes regularly.

Where was Mimms going - to buy a pie ?

You've got to be making more than one good chance per game if you've got the likes of Gallagher, Brererton and Rothwell getting on the end of them.

I think he has a big future also. Especially in todays football were the ability to pass the ball accurately is becoming all important.

There's a reason why crossing the ball has gone out of fashion. It's seen as something of a lottery and therefore wasteful by the " Keep Ball " lovers of possession based football. What I meant by alehouse football was the long ball down the middle type tactics. They have their place if you have the players to exploit it.

That " Three Billboards Outside Ebbing " is on again soon. That's well worth watching.

He's a much of a one as Brererton is, with added goals.

Yes I agree, sometimes you have to play a bit of alehouse style football if the passing game isn't getting you anywhere.

That's a good point. Having said that under those conditions even the footballing teams aren't going to chance playing it out from the back. Maybe we should have expected the game to go that way and made plans to get at them more directly.