Keith Hill's new signings!

I don’t really know enough about the various new players positions yet to make a decision on team selection OM, other than a few obvious ones but the interesting call you’ve made there is leaving our captain Lowe out of the team. It will be interesting to see whether KH keeps Lowe in that role or decides to give it to someone else. My personal view would not be to leave Lowe as captain because frankly I haven’t seen any leadership from him and certainly not since we’ve been forced to field our youth players. On that basis, who would KH be likely to give it to? Leaving the keepers out of it, that would mean only Luke Murphy or Hobbs of the original senior players, neither of whom I think are deserving of it. Could he perhaps give it back to Brockbank? Unlikely, so who should have it or does he keep Lowe in the team purely because he’s the man with it now? The best option for me would be O’Neil if he was to be brought back but at this moment in time we don’t know that he will. Decisions, decisions.

Good point, whites, I’d forgotten about Hall, though I think Darcy needs to be brought on gradually. I suppose it does depend on Hill’s system. I imagine 4-3-3 could see the wide attackers come more into play. Anyway, isn’t it great to be discussing football again? 

Careful Chip, he'll have you gardening, or painting at his place after the game. See if you can tap him for a few pints though... 


Absolutely no problem buying Chip a pint wots and you too anytime and you don’t even have to come round and help me paint my new greenhouse!! It’s a wooden one by the way. I’ll let you know my seat number chip, it’d be good to meet up but I was considering going into the Rotherham main stand because my daughter might be with me and I’m not sure I could inflict some of our fans actions and language on her? Then again, it might be good for her to get the atmosphere in the Wanderers end so if you’re going to be in the Wanderers end I probably will too on reflection because this time I want to shout the team on seeing as it’s our first game with Hilly and Flicker.


Anyway, cobblers to all the negativity about the team having to work up to results, we need to win from the start and that means at Rotherham. There’s no time to work up to results if we’re going to have any chance of staying up. It’s managements intention to do it and it’s also mine to support it. We played for draws under Parkinson (still didn’t get them though) and I don’t want to suffer that again. I want us to go out to win every game, the players need to be challenged to win every game and if we do get beat or have to settle for a draw then it will be because we weren’t good enough, not because we didn’t try as was often the case under Parkinson.