Tyrone Shoelaces

I could do a couple of games a week easily on my paper round money. Sometimes more. Rovers and Rochdale regularly. Any of Utd, City, Dingles, Bolton, Oldham, Bury on the bus now and again. My local rugby league team if it was against Saints, Wigan etc.

To have one of the least effective players on the pitch as your captain is a mistake. That's not going to inspire anyone.

He's not marrying your daughter, I'd have him instead of Mowbray tomorrow.

I think next season would be a season too far for him. He's another who can go for me.

Me too. Not Bothered anymore. Mowbray and his merry band of wasters have sucked all the interest out of the club for me.

Holtby can go now for me, he's a show pony.

I didn't watch 'the game. Just reading through the comments on here make me really glad I didn't. The manager is dog shit, the way we play is dogshit, most of the players the dogshit manager has signed are dogshit. I'm sick to my stomach of continually reading about this lot phoning a performance in. Have they no pride or self respect ? They'll all roll in tomorrow for " training " as though nothing has happened. At a real club the chairman would be waiting for the manager first thing in the morning with his cards already made out. I can't bear to listen any more of the bollocks that comes out of his mouth. He talks like he's just come along as a neutral observer. Why do we lack ideas and energy ? Why did we kept banging the ball up to their centre halves ? Get to the bloody touch line and tell them " The next one of you that does that again is coming off ! " Trouble with that is they'd probably be glad to come off. The wasters.

Well we found out he's not a winger and he's not a centre forward. I wonder what he's like in goal ?

Dyche plays the same 11 every week if he can. Whoever has to be brought in as a replacement the system stays the same. If you're going to play ale house football you definitely need two up front to chase down all the long balls. It seems to work for them.

Our lot do their share of standing around also, that's part of the problem.

It's the modern game matey. They'll be blowing up when the ball goes above shoulder height like they do in 4 a side soon. British football, which used be the most physical in Europe is now becoming the least physical. One thing that struck me in the last World Cup was that England players were going down appealing for free kicks that they would probably have got in the Prem but the foreign refs were just waving play on.

Regarding Brererton, what would you say his natural position was ?

That's how the Dingles play. It seems to work for them. What do we do in training ? You'd think they odd full scale practice game would find out if it works or not. Having said that given the number of games we are having to play means we can't play those games at the moment.

The Dingles have played the same system all the time Dyche has been there. If they can they play 4-4-2 almost irrespective of the opposition. They had two up front yesterday against Liverpool away. He also knows his best 11 and when guys have to be brought in as replacements they know what the system is.

That team would walk this Division. If they played our current 11 it'd be like the Dingle rout, 5-0.

I had a drink on my birthday, March 14th. Then the virus started to lock everything down. Since then I've not touched a drop. I can't say I've missed it. It might be different the next time I go in a pub. It does wonders for your bank balance.

He's turned it around for two games ! Let's not get carried away.

" Enjoying seeing Rovers getting beat " ? I don't think my wife would see it quite like that on a Saturday night, or the cat. It takes me whilst Monday morning to start smiling again.

No, sorry.

We won 1-0 on the 21st of March 1987, Colin Hendry scoring the goal. The team was - O'Keefe Price, Keeley, Mail, Sulley Miller, Barker, Ainscow, Sellars Hendry, Curry No subs. Regarding the game on the 12th of December 1987 That one was also a 1-0 win with Chris Price scoring the goal. The team - Gennoe Price, Hendry, Mail, Sulley Dawson, Barker, Reid, Ainscow Garner, Curry Sub - Johnrose came on for Dawson. Looking at that line up it could have been an early attempt at playing three centre halves in Dawson, Hendry and Mail with Price and Sulley as wingbacks.

"Black Peas" ! Now you're talking. There used to be a bloke in Rochdale that had converted one of those ice cream tricycle's you used to see at the seaside to hold hot black peas. He used to go all around town with them. He'd stop at the end of our street and ring a bell. People would come from every house with a bowl or a pan. Monday night at around 6-45 where I lived. With some salt and vinegar they were fantastic..

I don't know wether this true but a Wiganer I worked with swore it was. At the old Central Park the players came out of the stand behind the sticks through a tunnel. When they re developed that stand the builders forgot to replace the tunnel. Nobody had realised whilst it was being built that there was no way for the players to get onto the pitch.

His appointment was another bollock. That was obvious at the time.

Homesick ?

I've got a pal who was equally red eyed. He's involved with FC United now for the same reasons.