smudger63

Great player. He broke my heart at Villa Park in 74.

Alot of hype about him. Shown in small flashes that he has talent, but a lot of hard work and a very long way to go before he gets to anywhere near the level of a Premier league player. Has zero interest in tracking back and defending, and that will have to change for sure. Not helped last season, being in a squad that didn't want to be here and had lost all interest in making any kind of effort though, which clearly rubbed off on him, because he seemed to have exactly the same mind set as the other wasters by the end.

Its always been the way of the club to want a local mercury reporter that it is "club friendly". Even going back to the seventies. That now extends to radio leicester too. People lambast Ian Stringer on here, but he would ask the difficult questions if he felt they needed asking, which would and did upset people at the club. It does feel like the club are using the new guy at the Mercury as an extension of their own in house media at the moment though. That needs to change if he is to be taken seriously by fans with a mind of their own.

He did, Rehan also done well with the bat if i recall correctly, and Bumble Lloyd was commentating for Lancs tv, and raving about him. Strangely this season, listening to him on the rest is cricket podcast, Bumble doesnt seem impressed, and favours other spinners in the game, most notably at the moment Liam Dawson.

He was scoring some worldies at the start of the season in particular, but his overall performances were never great all season, and got worse the longer the season went on. By Christmas he had totally checked out and couldnt give a toss.

I wouldn't play Hull and Mike in the same team, that's basically giving away 80 runs before we even bowl a ball!

Adam Whitty has done some commentary on the T20 in the past, along side Rae, and he was shite then too, so I wouldn't hold your breath when it comes to him improving. Last night's commentary was simply embarrassing. If they had to get rid of Rae, at least replace him with someone half competent, rather than a very poor version of Laurel and Hardy.

Really, I thought it was Dum and Dummer! Shockingly bad in my opinion.

Clearly not offside in the modern game where they go on phases of play, but the guy who scored has already gained an advantage on the defender by getting in front of him for the cut back. The phases of play rule is yet another nonsense rule that they've brought in.

Which isn't saying much. Both teams were bobins, and the game was worse!

I wouldn't say Rodgers instilled a loser mentality. For all his faults, until his final season, we done well under him, and maybe if the board had backed him in the January transfer windows of the 2 seasons we dropped out of the champions league places in the final week, we maybe would not have not dropped out, and had 2 seasons of champions league money to put into the accounts. Rodgers chucked his toys out of the pram at the start of his last season, because the board wouldn't back him, much as he has done with celtic this season. He checked out long before he went, and should have been gone long before he was that season, because his checked out mentality filtered into the players, which is why we went down with a team that shouldn't have been anywhere near the bottom three in my opinion. From that point, the lack of leadership, accountability, and basically having any idea of how to run a football club, at the top of the club, has created a lazy, here for the money, I don't care attitude amongst the players, which does indeed mean they have a loser mentality!

He checked out months ago, along with Fatawu and most of the others.

Very likely, they may well come in for Hamza too.

If we are able to hang onto him (unlikely) he would be the perfect player for us to build the defence around. A leader, and a proper defender, of which we have been sadly lacking. He would be ideal for Nelson to play along side too, and learn his trade. Although I would be surprised to see Nelson here next season too to be honest.