Using his left foot too

Two disappointments for me tonight. I don’t think Gallagher will be any more effective in the middle than out wide. He can’t control a ball with any part of his anatomy, can’t beat a man, has no tricks, and his heading is weak and directionless. Oh, and a bloke six inches shorter pushed him around. Rothwell - fabulous bit of skill to set up Bucko, but he could have had four assists for them losing the ball needlessly in the middle of the park with us pushing forward.

Well, this isn’t going to the BRFCS script is it? An excellent, deserved win. I thought Carter had a great game and did brilliantly for the second goal.

Glad it’s not just me. He seems to make every throw in arrive at someone’s midriff or armpit.

Carter terrific, Butterworth really good, Chapman rubbish.

Nyambe far too narrow for that

They’d do even better with Coyley or Wee Duggie as manager…

I am by no means convinced the failure to tie Nyambe and Lenihan down to long-term contracts is down to incompetence. Given their time in the first team, and when they signed their last ones, they must both have been on decent money, certainly well above the likes of Travis and the like. Apart from Dack, it wouldn’t surprise me if they were now in our top five earners. Offering increased terms over several years actually commits the club to cumulatively huge future outlays, given how contracts are essentially unbreakable for clubs. There’s clearly a target been set on what the wage bill must come down to, and the Dack experience has shown “protecting asset value” by long expensive contracts is by no means a certainty. With three young centre halves in and around the squad, plus JR-C and Pike (??) coming through, maybe India has decreed it’s not worth committing to several million over the next four years for maybe, at best, several million in transfer fees for Nyambe/Lenihan.

Sums up SG for me: first touch a bobble, second touch takes him too wide, misshits his shot.

As were Dunny and The Axe?

Bit revisionist. His scoring pedigree was in League 2 and his loan at then Championship Bolton had been a bust. Personally I thought Mowbray was nuts when he talked about 5’6” AA who never scored inside the box being our future centre forward.

It seems like only, ummm, 3-4 weeks ago that everyone was hyperventilating about wages being 180% of turnover and way above clubs around us. So it’s not really surprising that headcount is now nosediving; FFP projections must’ve had that ratio coming down substantially to be acceptable/believable. It doesn’t look like contracts are being terminated, and hence having to be paid off, which perhaps explains why the Coventrio are still here.

Wow! I’m loving all this because he made it all happen himself. The boy deserves everything good coming his way.

This is the problem of not having a proper CEO, most managers will keep spending until someone stops them. As any Armstrong money will go to fix FFP for the next cycle, it doesn’t matter if we sell him at one minute to midnight on deadline day.

Despite the house rule on here that everything has to be awful all the time, there was a lot to like about that. I love that the first time I see two youngsters, they combine to score against Dirty Leeds.

I agree with you on tool!

Definitely not mine, but witnessing only 5 promotions in 55 years of support tells me that expecting/demanding promotion is very likely to end in disappointment, especially with owners who don’t know what division we are in anyway. Staying up and hoping that will take us a year closer to an end to this nightmare will do for me.

The game is played much faster with higher intensity now, so more muscle injuries. Jim Brannigan was never going to pull his hamstring as Nyambe does because he never went down the wing and never had to race back.

Thanks for posting that Chaddy. Always interesting to hear the real inside stuff. Danny Graham certainly doesn’t think Mowbray got us relegated, sounds like it was a night/day transformation when he came in. DG certainly had his gripes with TM, but it all sounds to have been handled in an adult fashion, or as much as football ever gets adult.

And everywhere else!

Me too. The first three things I learned to shout at a match were “Get stuck in!” “Get rid!” and “Give it Eamonn!”

4th - Eamonn Rogers

He also says he wasn’t fit and, when he did come on, wasn’t good enough. Call me old-fashioned, but those are two fairly reasonable reasons for not giving a player starts at the time.

It’s hard to follow evolving plot lines on here, given that losing him was a bad thing and now signing him is a bad thing, but, given any player with an ounce of potential would do anything to get away from the Moggasaurus, I’m unclear if this means that Chapman is a gifted player who can’t wait to blossom under ANO Manager or, in fact, a brainless oaf, unwanted by other clubs, who couldn’t give a shit about his career other than making a few more quid?

Personally, I prefer the one where Mowbray has morphed from someone who only bought duds to someone who has bought an succession of fabulous players who only look duds because of how he uses them! I’ve watched both of Ben’s Copa appearances and seen pretty much exactly how he was at the start of the season in essentially the same role. Of course, it probably helps having Chile’s golden generation around him as opposed to our lot. I get the impression it’s more his personality and what he’s done to get there this summer that has won the Chilean nation over rather than his footballing prowess.