17-09-2018, 13:01
Well done SaltergateBorn!
Absence makes the team grow stronger! If we are doing well by the end of October we'll have to crowdfund to send you on a world cruise.
My comment on Lee Shaw would be that even the greatest strikers miss the occasional sitter. Really poor strikers don't tend to even be there for sitters. I'm still holding out hopes for the lad too.
My worry is midfield. Weston injured ....... Carter taking time to recover ........ Weir fairly obviously only under consideration due to lack of alternatives. One little point - on here, on Bob's, everywhere, there seems general agreement that Rowley is physically weak. Why don't we strengthen him up? More than forty years ago when I was leaving college, a Yorkshire Rugby Union team wanted me to go and play as a centre for them, because I was a good crash tackler. At the time I was 6' 3" but only a fairly athletic 12 to 12 1/2 stones. They were going to put weight and muscle on me. They were going to find me a physical job (no pro' rugby then), feed me up and torture me in the gym to add that weight and muscle. Back then they were confident they could do it! (The idea of the gym was too much for me and I said no!) If in the days of amateur rugby they could have transformed me, why can't we now add a bit of muscle and a few pounds to Joe Rowley? We are a professional football club ffs trying to develop potential professionals.
Absence makes the team grow stronger! If we are doing well by the end of October we'll have to crowdfund to send you on a world cruise.
My comment on Lee Shaw would be that even the greatest strikers miss the occasional sitter. Really poor strikers don't tend to even be there for sitters. I'm still holding out hopes for the lad too.
My worry is midfield. Weston injured ....... Carter taking time to recover ........ Weir fairly obviously only under consideration due to lack of alternatives. One little point - on here, on Bob's, everywhere, there seems general agreement that Rowley is physically weak. Why don't we strengthen him up? More than forty years ago when I was leaving college, a Yorkshire Rugby Union team wanted me to go and play as a centre for them, because I was a good crash tackler. At the time I was 6' 3" but only a fairly athletic 12 to 12 1/2 stones. They were going to put weight and muscle on me. They were going to find me a physical job (no pro' rugby then), feed me up and torture me in the gym to add that weight and muscle. Back then they were confident they could do it! (The idea of the gym was too much for me and I said no!) If in the days of amateur rugby they could have transformed me, why can't we now add a bit of muscle and a few pounds to Joe Rowley? We are a professional football club ffs trying to develop potential professionals.