bluehobbit

one of the best shot stoppers ive seen at BP also very good at pens and one v ones. dodgy kicking and not great on crosses but id have him back in his prime now!

well the rumors are growing shame that vale keeper saved his effort at weekend would have liked to see him drill another goal in never seen a player so lethal from 20 yards at this level nearly all of his goals were from that range

hmm still not convinced by Brown. He looks to be filling out physically but his passing is still awful and he isnt comfortable with the ball at his feet. Tarky has been great so far much just did the basics yesterday and did them well

why??? id be interested to hear why you would change a team that had 20 shots on goal 10 on target

end to end at times dont think we will see too many 0-0 scorelines with this squad Montano excellent early on fantastic touch and cross for the goal and played some more decent balls in Mills struggled with Myrie Williams just couldnt match him for pace but OK on the ball and posative going forward. Tarky and Grounds did OK with the physical threat of vale but Grounds overplayed a bit too often which led to the pen. Defence still a worry really. BUt vale didnt play football so it was just a case of being strong and they were. Brown did well overall - Huges was in full pantomime villan mode trying to wind him up and get him sent off. Huges is a decent footballer but a grade A knob and his pen wasnt great HAHAHA Dayton i didnt think was in the game much but great finish for his goal Smith and Wes worked themselves to death and really turned midfield into a battleground JCH - Beast! Held the ball, pace to burn caused Vale all sorts of problems and unselfish for Roonys 2nd, His time will come Roony - Great performance leath in the box worked really hard. Give him service things will happen Baxter - nice little caemo with the game won still time for 20 smash at goal... but we looked better with 2 out and out forwards.

play him as a forward and then try it..... being played as a CM just isnt his game

Me to. If Smith gets license to roam. Mellor can sit a little deeper and who knows that might just be the balance we need. Mellor looked decent last season as CM. Its annoyed me slightly that LJ has said he didnt want square pegs in round holes and the straight away we start with a young lad whos never been given a run in he prefferd position shoe horned into CD

AS long as this isnt "jobs for the boys" i dont mind - if he impresses fine - but have we not got enough midfielders

Maybe mellors injury will be a blessing and most peoples major team concern will get addressed

Thought tarky did well yesterday may only complaint was he sometimes took too many touches seemed like he never wanted to be rid of the ball untill he took someone on. Other than Smith hes the only latics play to come out the game with any credit

In fairness tarky had two good headers and thats about it. Sid had an effort inside the area under pressure and sent it well over... we didnt create enough and had litle quality on the ball.. It was frustrating but the manner of the defeat was the real issue it was just like last season under Dickov

Awful today.. as others have said just like watching Dickovs team. Hoof ball and no one to win it. Tarkowski did well but hes tendency to overplay could be a problem but well played overall today and looked our best chance of a goal which is sad really. Byrne looks way over the hill despite being only 31/32? can barley move and doesn't look match fit Brown should not be a first choice right back at this level - awful on the ball and often a week link Smith covered every blade of grass but cant do it on his own - needs someone alongside him Baxter is not a CM - i don't want to ever see him here again - hes lethal in the last 3rd play him there!!!! Mcdonald and Rooney AWOL - that strike force will never work if the ball is played in the air constantly. Neither showed any great movement off the ball either Dayton - poor lacked effort. Montano not sure why he was taken off - wasn't great but better than Dayton and had a couple of promising situations SId - some lively touches early on but didn't find anyone with his crosses Lots for Johnson to think about hes talked the talk but that was dire today. Walsall pressed us quickly and we couldnt handle it - if thats all a team needs to do for our passing game to dissappear this is going to be a long slog of a season. Back to the drawing board

dont think we will see JCH for a bit shame i was looking forward to watching him

slim i reckon

hes looked better as a forward - id keep him up there chances permitting

Dont do what the guy at stockport used to do and repeat every sponsers name twice . ..."thanks to todays match sponsers manchester airport - manchester airport toadys match sponsers" i dont know why that sticks in my head or grates so much but it really used to wind me up... Everybrand corprate sponser got a double mention and it was really annoying.. Huddersfield announcer used to read out nicknames when they came out here "comes Clarkey....and Boom Boom Mcoom - thought that was a bit cheesy to be honest

hmmm hes played right back a couple of times - gave away a pen in one game still not seen enough from him to suggest hes worth a contract - he has some ability on the ball so like Lee it might become a strangth for him but he doesnt seem strong enough cant see it working as a defender i hope it goes well for him

fine with this big chance for him, looked very lively at the end of last season if he can find some end product he may do very well. All on him now

DOnt know if anyone has posted about this yet but how the hell are we rated so highley. Crap facilitys in the main and i would have though we were diffcult to get to - as for the atmosphere..... http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rate-the-grounds-survey-results-4414950

to me we seem to have signed a lot of creative players who might be ok on 1 game in 5 i think we could be a little lightweight time will tell

and whats wrong with that?

always hated him when hes played against us but keep things together and gets up and down well how many midfielders do we really need tho. Thats all we seem to be being linked with are we going the flase 9 route

do we get any money on a per click basis from advertisers or the like?? if we do thats why they will be doing it i suppose to try and up the level of traffic the website is godawful and ive stopped looking at it completely in the last few months its badly designed, low on content and difficult to navigate its easier to wait for news on the bbc or MEN

Clev is never going to reach his potential his level of opponent is shocking

JJ and Davies were both very good players I think we had JJ when he was very young now hes developed hes probably a damm good championship player