Tyrone Shoelaces

In my opinion part of the reason for that was we were playing with two water carriers in central midfield. Neither of them are particularly good at getting up to and beyond the forwards. There were times when we were playing with a back 7 if you include the goalkeeper. With Cantwell also playing deeper that left the forward 3 players to do a hell of a lot ! I think Ismael realised early on that if we were going to score more goals at least one of the central midfield players needed to be able to get forward more and link up forward play and join in with attacks. If that is his thinking I agree with him.

Hedges is better on the left.

Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues

I was there. The handball was on or around the half way line mid way through the game. It was game over after that and we got battered. Dumb football. Like that Kevin Ball “ tackle “ on Dunny. Brain dead. Whatever chance the dingles had of getting something out of the game went with him.

Only his mum would agree with you there.

His lack of pace would be shown up more out wide. Kargbo would be faster running backwards.

Leonard - I thought we were getting a finisher. He’s missed more than his share of chances. He doesn’t look a finisher to me and apart from that he offers very little in the way of pace or physicality.

Henrikkson appears to have caught the “ stupid yellow card “ disease off Buckley. In the WBA game another ref would have carded him twice. He needs to smarten up sharpish.

That’s goalscorers for you - that’s all they think about. Fair play to the lad I think he’s a really good finisher, he can put the ball in the net with anything.

You can get years like that. No club has a conveyor belt of young players ready for the first team. You can’t rely on things like that.

If you’ve got a disc problem you’ve got a friend for life one way or another.

The Elgins - Stay In My Lonely Arms

I wouldn’t have Dennis back even if he offered to play for free. The guy’s a waster.

I don’t bother with ignore, a flick of the finger and they’re gone for the time being.

Play him on his natural side and he looks a much better player. Playing him on the right means he’s coming inside into heavy traffic most of the time.

Roll ‘em up like Tommy Briggs used to.

An ex-team mate of mine, a very good goalkeeper, had a brain haemorrhage at 21. When he recovered he became a referee as he could no longer play. Incidentally his son played in goal for Rovers youth team when they played the Utd youth team in the Beckham, Scholes, Neville era. He never went much further in the game.

You might be able to see our next loan signings.

Harry Nilsson - Everybody’s Talkin’

A very good summing up in my opinion. I agree with nearly all your conclusions

It’s his eye for a pass and his ability to regularly deliver the pass at exactly the right pace, place and time that sets him apart from any other midfield player playing in the Prem at the moment. What’s he got you can’t teach players.

All the tests they ran on Pele as a young player showed the same thing. He almost had eyes in the back of his head. You can have real “ football intelligence “ without being anywhere near ready to go to Cambridge or Oxford. Wayne Rooney had it at 17. He just didn’t have much non football intelligence. Back in the day I remember listening to Malcolm Allison talking about this. He illustrated the point with a bit of play regarding George Cohen and Bobby Charlton. Charlton had the ball and Cohen was making an overlapping run. Instead of passing the ball more or less into Cohen’s run Charlton passed it yards further forward, almost to the byline. This compelled Cohen to cross the ball as soon as he got to it. Allison explained - “ That’s Charlton pulling the strings, he’s knows Cohen is a bit of a ditherer on the ball, so he’s passed the ball there to give George only one option - cross the ball “.

Modern footballer for me. He can run a bit, tackle a bit, head the ball a bit, pass the ball 20 yards. Has he got the “ X” factor ? Can he make play ? Not that I can see.

That’s what a stand full of away fans buys you.

Hottest day of my stay so far. We’re further down the coast, nearer to Almeria, but it was 39C on our terrace yesterday.