only 6700 at hillsborough, though! and tickets at 12 pounds. i know it's only rochdale ... and it's tuesday night ... and only the league cup ... and times are tough and all that ... but c'mon!
I was wondering that myself pook. Think how much fun it would have been to be able to say you were at that game while the pigs were getting upset...
Re: O9/1O Fixtures August 2-2 H Barnsley 3-0 Rochdale LGCP* 1-1 A Peterborough FLC Wed 19 19:45 A Newcastle FLC Sat 22 15:00 H Scunthorpe FLC Sat 29 15:00 A Plymouth FLC O-2-O *Cup Match
Re: O9/1O Fixtures August 2-2 H Barnsley 3-0 Rochdale LGCP* 1-1 A Peterborough FLC 0-1 A Newcastle FLC Sat 22 15:00 H Scunthorpe FLC Sat 29 15:00 A Plymouth FLC O-2-1 *Cup Match
Re: O9/1O Fixtures August 2-2 H Barnsley 3-0 Rochdale LGCP* 1-1 A Peterborough 0-1 A Newcastle 4-0 H Scunthorpe Sat 29 15:00 A Plymouth FLC 1-2-1 *Carling Cup Match
Re: O9/1O Fixtures August 2-2 H Barnsley 3-0 Rochdale LGCP* 1-1 A Peterborough 0-1 A Newcastle 4-0 H Scunthorpe 0-2 A Port Vale LGCP* Sat 29 15:00 A Plymouth FLC 1-2-1 *Carling Cup Match
so much for the anticipated cup run. i've always wished jeffers the best (at wednesday, anyway), and have thought those on his back fairly harsh; but he'll deserve the stick he gets for this.
I was watching the replay of the Jeffers incident on Sky Sports News last night. What actually happened to him? He seemed to be bleeding quite profusely from his forehead - did he cut himself when he headbutted the Vale player, or did he headbutt the Vale player because the Vale player cut him? I couldn't tell. Jeffers has always been a bit of a live wire, even when he was at Everton, and I just hope that Laws's threat to transfer list him calms him down a bit. We need all the players fit and healthy and available if we want to build a foundation for a playoff run this year. If we keep on having things like this happen, we'll end up with more results like yesterday's. Having said that, Vale's first goal was a screamer. No goalkeeper - not even Kevin Pressman in his prime - would have saved it.
apparently it hasn't been good to see, though. by all accounts he was wank v rochdale, and it seems he was well off the pace against port vale, as well. right back in the first half, and pushed up in a more forward role in the second ... utterly ineffectual in both. some folks are talking as though he's done. cursed by electrickeeper at palace, he was. and when leckie curses one, one stays cursed. right mido?
Re: O9/1O Fixtures August 2-2 H Barnsley 3-0 Rochdale LGCP* 1-1 A Peterborough 0-1 A Newcastle 4-0 H Scunthorpe 0-2 A Port Vale LGCP* 3-1 A Plymouth FLC 2-2-1 *Carling Cup Match
good win on the road today. just a point out of the playoffs right now... and we should be two higher considering the blown points against barnsley. heard gray went out with an injury. hope it's not serious.
It's so strange that we get spanked by Port Vale - who are at the bottom of League 2 - and we then turn around and put the beat down on Plymouth. I hope we stop this inconsistency. Having said that, it's still a good win. It's nice for us to be up at the right end of the division early on, only four points off the top. Also, I read that Simek might be off on loan somewhere to regain his fitness and get his edge back. I think that's a good move... send him to League 2 for a couple of months, rebuild his sharpness, rebuild his confidence with a run in someone's first XI.
Re: O9/1O Fixtures September 2-2 H Nottm Forest Tue 15 19:45 H Middlesbrough FLC Fri 18 19:45 A Sheffield Utd FLC Sat 26 15:00 H Cardiff City FLC Tue 29 20:00 A Crystal Palace FLC 2-3-1
that's two more points amiss. i was hoping for 3 from forest, 1 from boro, and 1 from our curly-tailed neighbors at the sty. after struggling for only a draw at home, there's a real chance of coming out of this week with only 1 point. that'd be a real let down.
according to the soccernet gamecast, late in the first half hinds has been brought on for beevers: "... reason: serious injury" it doesn't say anything more than that, but the commentary had been coming up with three or four every minute, and there had been a very long gap between the prior entry and the substitution one. in other words, it seemed that he'd been down a very long time. i don't mean to make more of it than it is (and obviously i don't know what it is), but i've never seen a gamecast commentary actually say 'serious' about an injury. sounds like it might be nasty.