kevinhectoring

Not so sure

Not the message people want to hear but I think what you say is right. And if we do get promotion, I’m guessing life in the championship would be no better. If not worse …

That’s really bad news. The guy is 35 and a big unit - if he’s back the end of Feb then he’s not really back until April and he’s out of touch. We’re then reliant on Bradley and from what we’ve seen so far he’s half the player. If we’re to get the best out of these older players they need to play enough to keep in good touch, but not so much that they break down. You said rightly that NML is fitter this season. But he’s getting too many minutes and is being pushed too hard. He’ll hit a wall and either lose form (already happening) or worse. Warne needs to give more thought to this. We saw from Curtis Davis end of last season how badly it can go wrong

Cashin is the worst he’s constantly jumping around heading the football. And he’s not exactly a featherweight. They should dock his pay no way that’s fair wear and tear

We have no respect for the elderly in this country. He’s probably the most experienced defender in the division, and yet we have him running up and down the left touchline like an excitable 20 year old linesman, just waiting for a serious soft tissue injury to take him out for the rest of his playing career. When he comes back his role in the team needs to reflect his strengths and his vulnerabilities

There was a hedge outside the ground before the game

Not wanting to detract from Rooney’s potential but: if these ratings put Rooney above Nyambe it puts a large question mark over all of the ratings

Well after all, why can’t they get off on receiving sparky texts from their manager. What more could a man want ?

Wildsmith is the best keeper we’ve had in years They all make the odd mistake. He went about 8 games beginning of last season where he was literally perfect

Not exactly convincing. bird’s assists for the first and third the highlight. Encouraged to see Vickers looking ok and surprised he was given stick on here. Don’t think we’re resting the senior citizens enough. Amazing to see Collins scoring all these headers !

It’s both. Fozzy at CB might help

I feel his relationship with the club has changed since Warne took over Would be sorry to see him go but get the feeling it might be best for him. (Tho the football we’re playing now suits him better that the hoofing we were up to early season.) £2m would be a good price on any basis and I’m not sure we’ll quite get that

We saw last season how NML needs to be rested. He now needs a proper break then a period of being used more sparingly. If Warne perseveres with him, he’ll disappoint or worse get injured

This would be a great return but we ALSO need to win most of the 6 pointers, when they come along.

As soon as the points were docked, there was talk of the possible ‘miracle’ of Rooney keeping us up. Rooney himself got that talk going (I said at the time that was foolish but hey). If you think, against that background, he could walk away without damaging himself, I disagree. And so evidently did his advisers. What he did do was get very public with the ‘Mel Morris is a $hit’ line. Lots of people said that of Morris of course. But it sat very poorly in Rooney’s mouth because despite Rooney’s lack of coaching badges, experience and ability, Morris (what a fool) had sacked Cocu then demoted LR to give Rooney the honour of learning his trade as our manager. It was shabby by Rooney to stick the boot in, just as shabby as his hotel room antics and his bell ringer bullying. He should just have put his nose to the grindstone and tried to do his job better. He was awful, here, at DC and at Birmingham.

Come to think of it, Saudi is most likely his next and last managerial appointment. I don’t think he’d cope with China

Longer we linger at this level, less likelihood the lads lift us to loftier leagues

He did that. He did that not out of the goodness of his heart but because the plan was to secure for Rooney a berth as our manager for evermore under the good offices of Mr Kirchner. It may also have been joint ownership with Kirchner. We had a lucky escape. Oh and his (the agent’s) version was that the advance was a loan to Kirchner

It’s a sad story really. Rooney is in the thrall of toe rags most notably his toxic agent who has forced him through 3 managerial nightmares all for the sake of the money (which the agent shares). Rooney was a brilliant instinctive footballer but - as we saw - he doesn’t have the temperament or the acumen for management. Not does he have the acumen for punditry. Same thing happened in a rather different way to Bobby Charlton but it was much easier for him to find a place for himself in the world of retired football icons. No idea what Rooney should do now. perhaps buy a flock of sheep and drive them down Irongate?

Well with players coming back from injury, I’m not sure Sibley will get a start. Whatever the stats might say

With Fozzy and Hourihane both on the pitch after all the football we’ve played, we were bound to be pummelled (as you put it). The miracle was Collins’ ability to play so well and to cover so much ground after the recent schedule. It was a massive effort by him

You suggest that avoiding relegation with that squad and no points deduction would be an achievement. It was a squad that would ordinarily have been challenging for promotion. A good manager would have given us a decent chance of avoiding relegation even with the points deduction.

I’d miss his class. Loved to watch him alongside Shinnie

Id say we have at least 3 players who’d be comfortable in the championship and one good enough for the PL

Was surprised Sibley came on when he did. Would rather have seen Ward at that stage. Or Fornah, wherever he is. Less said about their second goal the better …