Tyrone Shoelaces

Yeah I can always count on you to lower the tone. Smiley Face.

You could make a nice little video of his misses. Having said that the two goals he got against Blackpool were good finishes. The second one especially. I liked how he veered out to the right slightly away from goal to put the tracking defender behind him so he either had to slow down or foul him. At the same time that move drew the keeper over slightly leaving a bigger gap on the keepers right hand side to put the ball into. Clever.

I'd have him on the bench. He gives us another dimension to our forward play. I know it's not much help at the moment but players like Dolan gee up the crowd and get them going.

At our level you're not going to get full backs equally adept at attacking and defending. If they were that good they'd be playing in the Prem. We need to decide what we want from the full backs and set out to play that way. 4 at the back- two fullbacks who are primarily defenders. 5 at the back- two full backs who are good on attack. You can't have your cake and eat it in football. Get some wingers on the pitch and then your not relying on your full backs to make play all the time.

Rothwell needs to learn that you can get the ball forward by passing it a lot quicker than you can by just running with it.

I thought we had enough guys who aren't strangers to the treatment table without wanting to add to them. Regarding Dolan I'm delighted with what I've seen so far. However we shouldn't expect too much too soon. It's easier to run people ragged when you are fresh and they've been playing for an hour.

I'm not impressed with Lenihan, reaching out like that is really dumb defending. You're giving your opponent a chance to make a meal of it and the officials a decision to make, As for Bell ? Even schoolboys know not to clear the ball into a danger area. He had time to let the ball come across his body and then clear the ball left footed down field. He's brain dead.

According to todays paper Leeds have just signed Robin Koch a 24 yr old German central defender from Freiburg so that could be their interest in Kipre is over.

I would agree that Dack has the skills to perform that role but playing him deeper would mean most of the goals he scores would dry up.

I saw worse as an young amateur player. One guy got a bad break, he was crying out, it was cold and wet but we couldn't move him. We sent for an ambulance but the security guys couldn't find the key to unlock the gates to let the ambulance onto the pitch. Eventually they found the keys and got the gate open only for the ambulance to bog down on the pitch. We had to get the poor bloke onto a bench and carry him to the ambulance. Then we had to push the ambulance back onto the road. All in all in must have taken about 3/4 of an hour to an hour to get off the lad off the pitch. I've never forgotten that one.

Yeah, Rovers were playing Fulham at Ewood years ago The game had only been going about 2 minutes when their centre forward and our centre half both went up for a Fulham goal kick. Our guy heads it back down the pitch, their guy comes back down, stumbles, and goes over badly. You could hear the crack on the Riverside. The guy was an experienced striker aged in his late 20's and he never really played again after that ! A really innocuous incident that you saw many times in a games in those days that went badly wrong.

Could be his leg Stuart. I've seen it happen before if you land awkwardly and if your weight goes up your shin bone.

I've just seen the goals. What was Bell doing there. It was as good as a pass to Donny ! Under 11 left backs don't make mistakes like that.

Thanks.

Is he back at Brighton ?

Yes, very true. 60% athlete, 40% footballer. Having said that we should have made more of him by now.

I wouldn't like to have to play against him. Not many players will beat him in a foot race. He'll be great as a centre back when they ban heading the ball.

Do we do " nils " ? I thought there was a rule we had to give the opposition a goal start.

Warnock was head and shoulders above any full back we've had at the club for a good while.

Exactly, we all thought Matty would come back from the bang on the head but he didn't. Recovering from serious injuries can be 50% physical and 50% mental. Some players can do it and some can't.

If I were Dack I'd be signing whatever contract Rovers put in front of me. Who's to say he's going to reach the same levels again ? Looking good in training when your mates are deliberately taking it easy against you is one thing, doing it against opponents who know you'll be vulnerable to a bang on the knee is another thing altogether.

When I was out in Spain last year I was looking at shirt prices out there. Malaga and Granada are the two local teams. Really nice shirts but quite a bit more expensive than our shirts

That's better, I'd probably buy that Stuart. How much are you asking ?

I'm just hoping they bring out a shirt worth buying for once. The blue in the photo is the real Rovers blue. That's a good start.

Nice header from Lenny.