It's hard to be that great prop in the rovers squad, Mason in his first game was seen running from deep, making dummy runs and offloads, great, we all thought. Didn't do it again, like he'd been told not to.

Joel Clinton, when he runs from deep he doesn't give an inch and often comes off worse, there's a great vid on that video sharing website of him 'kocking himself out', he got injured last week doing same thing, bad to see the injury but good to see the effort. Fed up of our forwards standing still waiting for the pass, Vella takes 8 yards to pick up any pace, with him standing still the defence are on him before he has got going, could be so much better.

But Larry had already read my stats link, which showed a 9:4 ratio in Dowes favour and commented that the contracts reflected the differential.

Fair enough. Still like the rather plausible hot tub Machiavellian scheming scenario though.

still think he should be backup not first 17

Decent squad player, good workrate, unspectacular but solid enough. I would guess he's not going to be a massive earner so why not?

colin brown and tim lumb should be in the list of boo boys.

anth chambers>?

Oh yeah forgot those.

Remember Paul Eastwood getting lot of criticism too, although I didn't think he did a bad job on the wing for us, though I was only about 12 IIRC. And Paul Rouse used to get stick too.