Rovers Return.

With previous trips to Rotherham and Huddersfield the programme has a sort of retro feel. True Huddersfield aren’t in our league, give it time, but these outings to places we used to visit but haven’t for a while is a sign both that we’re making progress and that these clubs got away from us but now we’re back.

I wouldn’t imagine either Millers or Rovers were expecting us to be peering down at them from the upper reaches of the table but we are and would have been higher still were it not for an uncharacteristicly slow start and then conceding again when we got level. No wonder Danny Cowley was livid when interviewed after the game on Tuesday.

Cowley turned his ire on the EFL on Tuesday as well he might regarding the situation around Bury and Bolton Wanderers. He extended every sympathy to those clubs but I can’t say I share the general goodwill and forbearance in the press and on the TV. I can’t recall anyone doing so particularly for us when we looked like we were going out of business. Similarly when City became the first football league club relegated out of the league, thus saving Burnley I think it was, Des Lynam declared it was a good day for football. Thanks very much.

As far as I’m concerned if a club is not ready for the league programme at the start of the season or an owner has not been declared fit and proper that’s that, you don’t compete in the league that season. Am I being too simplistic? As for calling a game off because it’s not good for your younger players, since when was that allowed?

Time will tell what the repercussions are for this period and indeed if there are any for Danny Cowley. It would be a supreme irony if he became the only one censured as a result of all this.