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I acknowledge nothing, I have my opinion and views which we are all entitled to , I do not and will not justify them to you,
Enough said I think

 

You mean he was a free agent like 90% of all of the signings at this level.

 

Until they see him play

 

You've done nothing but hammer him for weeks and now you're questioning the decision to drop him?

You seriously can't make it up

 

Actually at work listening on radio so just regurgitating shite put out on radio Leeds - apologies to Hornby!

 

We already know THEY talk heap big shite.

 

Our back 4 look all over the place since he's come back in. I can only assume that Hornby was a much better communicator.

Unfortunately R'OD has another year, so he's going to be our number 1 next season too.

 

* For a while, yes.

Could that be because the whole team looked much better for a period?

 

Did they though? We looked more solid, for sure. The communication between keeper and back 4 sets the tone for your performance, defensively. It just looked better with Hornby there. ROD isn't bad in terms of shot stopping, but he doesn't give me any sense of being solid at all.

 

He was flapping about in the wind at Carlisle though.

neither are good enough for a promotion contender next season tbf, but we’ll make do until the summer

 

He was, but in fairness, Carlisle had a strong, swirling wind behind them. That was a bad half, but in the main, the defensive organisation between Hornby and his back 4 were better than I've seen it with ROD between the sticks.

 

O donnell was brilliant tonight.

 

What a weird thread. Made some great stops today. Haha f we are going to star this then Wood, Vernam, Crankshaw and Watt were all terrible today.

 

When was his last 'poppadom hands' moment, out of interest?

 

You are talking rubbish . O’Donnell was man of the match tonight. We could have shipped 5 if not for his brilliant saves. Neither of the goals were his fault.

 

Seems extremely unlikely, but I am prepared to stand corrected.

What do you think Hornby contributed that caused the defence and therefore the whole team to look better?

 

personally I think they had more confidence in him, thus giving them the freedom to play better

 

He stopped shots any decent keeper would have stopped, However he does have some fault in both goals, He was slow to react on the breakaway for the first not been on the edge of his area and not seeing the danger then caught in no mans land ( you either meet the ball first or stay on your line and make the player beat you ) and for the second was a fault he has shown before and not coming out for the cross either taking or punching away, Hornby is good at both these ( sometimes rash on coming out but better than hesitating )

 

They are both bang average keepers but one is captain. So he’ll start.

 

Both very average GKs, we yearn for better but have to remember were in league 2 and there both probably as good as its going to get for league 2.