Had a good chat with a Dons leading light a few weeks ago about Paul Cooke. He has settled in really well, his attitude his first class and they are really buzzing about what he brings to the club and especially his efforts in bringing about a more professional attitude and responsibilty to the lads who have not played at his level. It does appear the the blokes influence is paying off.

Cookes vision is excellent. He seems to pick out players to pass to that others don't consider as being as part of the play.

And another thing about Sunday.
We lost the ball on about 4 or 5 occasions just taking it in on basic drives.
Now I know there is a lot of ball targeting nowadays, but I thought that was slack.
Apart from that and a tendency to want to fight and get banned, everything, apart from the defence issue, was just great.

Waterman was swinging punches. Did he get put on report?

It all went slightly pear-shaped discipline-wise but I suspect there was some needle in the tackle. I think the Waterman incident may have been as a consequence of his ragging one of the Ornits with a throw . I seem to recall we got the penalty when Waterman had been throwing punches anyway, so it must have been as retaliation. I didn't see the ref signal on-report, but it was at the other end of the ground from me so....

As regards the ref, he should have yellow-carded players earlier to defuse the situation before it got out of hand. That
was the way I saw it.

I didn't see him signal that anyone was on report

He didn't.

As for the 'drops'.

A lot of the tackles from my point of view were aimed high, whether this was a deliberate ploy, or not, I don't know.

I'll help you out...it was

They came out in the second half to rattle us and it worked, up to a point, things got niggly and some rose to it. They shouldn't have done, but thats easier said than done, i was only watching and not on the recieving end

You got my tweet on the matter then?

Waterman was throwing punches because a certain Mr crook. Was trying to remove one of his eyes without any form of anesthetic whilst in the tackle.alledgedly. Causing much disgruntlement to Mr Waterman

I could tell something Paul Crook had done had rattled the lads, but didn't realise that it was that.

The same allegation was made about Rochdale when Oldham beat them. They tried the rough house stuff. We don't need that garbage anymore we have too much talent IMO.

We've got talent, then the 'enforcers' so to speak. Our players won't resort to that though.