Match Day Thread Doncaster Rovers v Hull City

Nah, he was **** and should've been dropped last week.

 

Definitely be gone if we don’t go up, same can be said for a fair few more.

 

I won £35 off him scoring anytime.

 

I've just watched the highlights. Mags claimed the goal immediately and told Greaves that. It's very clear. What isn't clear from the camera angle is whether Greaves headed it down onto Mags' head. It does look like it though.

 

I think I read something last week that said Magennis needed one more goal to equal his best ever return for a season. Looks like he's got it now. Shades of Eaves getting one of Bowen's.

 

BURN THE WITCH.

 

I don’t... even if you were being sarcastic I couldn’t tell the basis of it.

 

Just pointing out the irony of 5 goals in 2 games after some fans calling for him to be dropped prior to Wigan.

Similarly ironic, the calls to replace him with Emmanuel then when the manager does precisely that against Donny he's all of a sudden clueless for doing so - even though Wilks had run out of legs by then.

 

What would you have done to stop them overrunning us in the second half? You do agree they were?

 

Oh I get you. I can't say I've seen anybody calling for our top goal scorer to be dropped, must have missed it. Even so, a player who's out of breath, no matter how good, needs bringing off and he did need to come off against Doncaster.

 

I'd have put Emmanuel at right back to play his usual game and pushed Coyle into midfield and use his discipline to stop the overload out wide.

Beyond that, don't think there was a great deal of options on the bench.

I've said before I think McCann wanted Whyte and emmanuel to drop back to a midfield 5 out of posession, but it didn't work. Think you need more of a physical presence up front than Keano as the out-ball.

Crowley has maybe also proved some of his out-of-possession shortcomings in previous games and the reason Birmingham prefer Toral, who's hardly a workhorse either, so didn't really see him having an impact - though as a replacement for George would have been useful had the sub been possible.

That said, Doc and George stay on and we'd likely have held out. 11 men on the pitch in that last period, we'd likely have held out.

There's loads of folk criticising McCann's changes and rigidity, but I think he lost it about the same time the ref did and what we really needed was a leader with a steady head.

 

They were. Check the Wigan thread, and the numpties on the Radio/HDM board.

There was even someone said wilks wasn't a wide player in the first half against Wigan. Dunno whether that was sarcasm or not....

 

Magennis ain't pretty, not Championship standard but does a job in this league and has had a decent enough season for me.

 

Doncaster boss Darren Moore reveals tactical chance he spotted to come back (against Hull City)
These are words we will never hear McCann say sadly!