Kiddy -Matchday Thread

Scan read bits of this thread ... All I can say I as a previous known moaner of board, Mangers and the club in general ,its bloody great to see games like today, it was tight for the first half but i love the fact DC and the team dont panic, i say it often to fans around me , if we just play Our football we will WIN our games , our squad isn't awesome but its better then every team we now face the same as it was today, we didn't panic we just played untill the class gulf came to be proved ,we dominated Today IMO a few scares yes but that will happen. But lines led the midfield and sprayed the ball about well, bliss whilst never looking amazing fought battled and caused confusion,Ellis finished like Ellis can, mcrystal and Parkes were Typically demanding and solid , brown was superb, just a great team effort... Again .. Just like Friday, 8 goals in two games we are bang in form & the Look on the team and DC tells me its gonna be a top effort from our team , we cant do more than that ... Great support UTG

Scooter played nearly every game of the title winning team of 1989/90, where we only lost 5 times and let in 35 goals.

We currently have lost only 5 and let in 33.  It wouldn't be fanciful to suggest we might not lose any more.

Coincidence?

www.not606.com/threads/harrison-to-be-used-as-a-striker.228615/

this is link contains a quote attributed to JW used in the Post in 2013. It shows Wardy saw Ellis as a winger who he might use up front if he had to. However, since the majority of EHs youth team matches for Rovers were as a striker I don't think DC can be seen as the first person at the club to recognise he is a striker first, winger second....Curtis, Walsh & co knew that! DC prefers to play round pegs in round holes and so all things being equal, will play Harrison more often as a front man than a wide man...but you have to be flexible when your options are limited and there may come a time when wingers are in short supply or too off form to be considered ahead of him.

Of course in DC's first game it was Harrison who provided the only decent cross of the game in the last minute for Mohamed to head in...and in his post match interview he alluded to the fact he thought it was Santos! After that though I think you have to be fair to DC and recognise that if he does not see EH as a winger but as a striker and then look at the relative league experience available in the squad in the strikers position then you are going to play two of Harrold, Gillespie, Clarkson  & Beardsley ahead of him if you are scrapping for your lives and want to select " horses for courses". Even Mohamed had played more Football League games up front than Harrison had! So the "freezing out" was to some extent natural. The placing of Ellis on the transfer list I put down to the fact that DC had only ever really seen him when his "head wasn't quite right"...all that baggage over Ellis coincided with DC's arrival so he never saw the Ellis that burst on the scene, listened to what his manager said and earned that three year contract in the first place. It may have taken the best part of two seasons to straighten out but at least it has been!