Red card

[Sammy Chung was King]

How many times have some of our fans written Billy Sharp off? He was apparently past it years ago according to some.
The guy was drawn into a trap, unfortunately he fell for it. Sometimes things happen for a reason, it’s there for somebody else to step up and score the goals we need.

Billy even at his age would score goals, if he’s given the right service. He hasn’t had the creativity around him that he’s had in our past teams or when he’s been elsewhere.
I don’t think his age is a factor, but definitely think he should have known better. Wimbledon feared him being on the pitch and drew him into getting himself sent off.

[Padge_DRFC]

It’d be interesting if we’d signed ‘AN Other’ senior pro in the summer with no previous affiliation with the Rovers to see what the assessment would be.

I think Billy gets a lot of slack because of our history together. We’d be more critical (in my opinion) of any other senior player who’d come in the summer who’d had the input Billy has had this year.

That being said, he’s had big impact on some games, Walsall h, Bradford a, Kettering single handed, and I don’t think he’s been utilised well enough by Grant.

Experience is the most overvalued commodity in football.

What a ridiculous comment.

Why is it? Our most experienced player is useless now. So much so he's having a part in every goal we've conceded since coming back.

[dickos1]

His experience though is one of the main reasons we reached the playoffs last season along with Anderson, Ironside, adelekun, Rowe, etc

[GazLaz]

It’d be interesting if we’d signed ‘AN Other’ senior pro in the summer with no previous affiliation with the Rovers to see what the assessment would be.

I think Billy gets a lot of slack because of our history together. We’d be more critical (in my opinion) of any other senior player who’d come in the summer who’d had the input Billy has had this year.

That being said, he’s had big impact on some games, Walsall h, Bradford a, Kettering single handed, and I don’t think he’s been utilised well enough by Grant.

Experience is the most overvalued commodity in football.

What a ridiculous comment.

If you ever trust me on anything I say about football. Trust me on this.

I’m not saying experience doesn’t have a value, just that it’s over valued.

[roversdude]

Adam Clayton came as an experienced pro and got nothing but dogs abuse on here

[ncRover]

If Billy is losing his rag and head butting people then I’m afraid he’s not bringing much experience to the table.
Had we signed someone like Street in the summer and an able bodied defender instead of Wood then perhaps we’d be comfortable by now.
Does the mere presence of Wood make any difference like some suggest? Probably not.

I think experience and a spread of different ages across the squad is essenetial. Players in their late 20s/ early 30s can offer that. Signing players pushing 40 is just ridiculous.

[dickos1]

If Billy is losing his rag and head butting people then I’m afraid he’s not bringing much experience to the table.
Had we signed someone like Street in the summer and an able bodied defender instead of Wood then perhaps we’d be comfortable by now.
Does the mere presence of Wood make any difference like some suggest? Probably not.

I think experience and a spread of different ages across the squad is essenetial. Players in their late 20s/ early 30s can offer that. Signing players pushing 40 is just ridiculous.

Wood made a massive difference last season
If he never plays for us again we got good value just for last season

[GazLaz]

If Billy is losing his rag and head butting people then I’m afraid he’s not bringing much experience to the table.
Had we signed someone like Street in the summer and an able bodied defender instead of Wood then perhaps we’d be comfortable by now.
Does the mere presence of Wood make any difference like some suggest? Probably not.

I think experience and a spread of different ages across the squad is essenetial. Players in their late 20s/ early 30s can offer that. Signing players pushing 40 is just ridiculous.

Wood made a massive difference last season
If he never plays for us again we got good value just for last season

The whole squad last season was poor till the "10 in a row" drama. Wood was good in those 10 games (and Gills + playoff first leg). But so were Anderson and Olowu at the back. Wood didn't make a massive difference up to then because the whole team, including him, were poor. So we've paid him two years wages to look good in, essentially, less than half a season. I'm presuming he will be earning more than the average L2 player given his profile. He has been a disaster this season.

The difference last season was made by Craig, TLT and Hakeeb. Not Wood. Ironically, two of the three are very inexperienced players...

[dickos1]

Wood missed the majority of last season but he came back against Tranmere and from then onwards we looked a different team,
The experience of him and Anderson together for almost all of the remaining 15-16 games made a massive difference.
A year on maybe it’s too much but there’s no doubting last season wood had a massive impact on us reaching the playoffs

[GazLaz]

Wood missed the majority of last season but he came back against Tranmere and from then onwards we looked a different team,
The experience of him and Anderson together for almost all of the remaining 15-16 games made a massive difference.
A year on maybe it’s too much but there’s no doubting last season wood had a massive impact on us reaching the playoffs

Wood played 30 games last season, and we looked good in about 10 of them!

[dickos1]

Nah not having that gaz!
If Anderson and wood hadn’t of come back in for olowu and McGrath last season we would’ve ended up bottom half

[GazLaz]

Nah not having that gaz!
If Anderson and wood hadn’t of come back in for olowu and McGrath last season we would’ve ended up bottom half

Olowu played in half of the “10 in a row” games and was great.

JM was poor when he played admittedly but he didn’t start many games.

[dickos1]

Alongside wood in all of them though.
That Salford away game last season was the turning point, I posted at the time that it was a proper performance where we battled, fought and scored proper goals.
Even though we only drew it was the performance of the season so far

[ncRover]

If Billy is losing his rag and head butting people then I’m afraid he’s not bringing much experience to the table.
Had we signed someone like Street in the summer and an able bodied defender instead of Wood then perhaps we’d be comfortable by now.
Does the mere presence of Wood make any difference like some suggest? Probably not.

I think experience and a spread of different ages across the squad is essenetial. Players in their late 20s/ early 30s can offer that. Signing players pushing 40 is just ridiculous.

Wood made a massive difference last season
If he never plays for us again we got good value just for last season

More value than someone who could have played more than twice the amount of games in the same period?