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That last bit only makes it all the more likely for me...

I'm sorry am I reading that right? He has only played 3 games for their u23s? For an u23 team that are 6 places below our u23 team? Really hoping we can chalk that up to being involved with the first team squad, which I'm aware he has a bit, so not being made to play u23 football much. I don't want to have to chalk it off to injury as...well we know about our injury problems in defence. Either way though he might be lacking a bit of match sharpness, and we know how long Tony takes to bed people in, especially if there is a sniff of a fitness issue. (Unless they're carrying some sort of injury and then they can have at it)

Depends on how much he was playing. Maybe he is just better than that level and due for a loan a bit higher up.

So Fleetwood have been keeping tabs on our goalkeepers. Not enough to have realised Leuts wasn't up to much, though he does have previous of being decent in that league.

You can get around the staged payments stuff with amortisation and accountancy trickery of the sort. Just got to be competent. Oh wait...I see your point.

Tbh whoever is his editor clearly isn't fit for purpose either. I could proofread his work better in my sleep. Accuracy at the LT was horrendous even when I did work experience there. At 15 they had me proofreading obituaries one day. Which is a bit scandalous in itself, but I used to find and fix a ton of errors. You would think more care would have been taken.

That would be the extraction from arse I referred to. I don't mind him either (terrible command of the language, mind, but good analysis and output rate) and understand why he has been up TM's arse too, but up his arse he has nevertheless been until recently.

Not when our defence is threadbare. It would be a severe misallocation of funds, again.

I figured the same, I was just pointing out how far off the pulse his finger is. But at least he seems to have extracted it from Mowbray's arse.

He had reported the clause passing either before or at the same time as he reported the bid...

It was remarkably predictable that it was going nowhere, wasn't it? My immediate reaction was just 'knew it'. More window dressing.

And yet you seem fine with this.

Get over what? We are a significantly larger club than Doncaster in all regards - historically, financially, current status, playing squad. This result is a fuckup and I have no idea what you're trying to argue here. It's embarassing. If we are no better than them at the moment on the pitch on a given day, that only enhances the embarassment.

That's a wider phenomenon than Tony Mowbray and Blackburn Rovers, sadly...

I don't, no, but I'm going to predict it will be along the lines of: It's only the cup, we can concentrate on our promotion push now It's not Tony's fault the players can't finish their chances We had to rest too many players and have too many injuries But just look at how many (off-target) shots we had! 20 to their 5, and we had 68% possession, we were just unlucky (ignoring the shots on target stat obviously) The pitch wasn't suited to our style of play. We will do better when we are back at... *checks notes* Ewood Park... One game doesn't change anything It will all come good soon, we need to be patient Blah blah fucking blah, ad infinitum.

I rage-quit the FA Player when the commentator described us as 'a minor scalp, we can maybe say'. Fuck off, not only are we a full league above them but we are, as you say, repeated winners of this trophy, have real significant heritage in the game, and have only spent what, 3 or 4 seasons at the level Doncaster currently are? Meanwhile...they're fucking Doncaster. Their greatest achievements are that they once won the third tier we were embarassed to be in, and once won the Football League Trophy we are usually in too high a league to be entered in (our u-23s have been entered into it once though). This result is an embarassment for us. Right now I feel like it's going to be very hard to give a fuck about the rest of the season. I'm sure I'll fall back into the trap of dreaming again at some point though, and put myself through the same torture every Saturday, sometimes twice a week.

Absolutely. Said it many times and so have others. All well and good passing it around the edge of the box looking for an opening, but if nobody moves to draw players out of position there won't be any openings.

Terrible Buckley, just terrible.

To each their own but honestly I just think you or anyone that doesn't see it is talking absolute bollocks. Been a bit poor second half mind.

He has goals and assists. Until he got dropped a couple of months in they were fairly impressive too. Has more of both than Rothwell and this has been Rothwell's best season for that, with much more game time than Dolan I'm sure.

BB having a mare.

I don't go memorizing everything so can't describe them to you no, but he created several openings for players if they had more nouse about them. We only created one clear cut chance as a team all game, but in the positions Dolan found himself in he did excellently. He has however been quiet this half and made a couple of poor decisions with the final ball. But also teed up Downing. These spectacles are not rose tinted. If anything I'm a miserable git, especially right now! But this lad frightens defences.

Wow from their goalie there. Brilliant. Should be level.

This Rovers side. So many games where we knock on the door all game but never find the key. Meanwhile we leave ours wide open.

.....I'd suggest actually watching the second half mate.