sonofabee
Well-known member
Orient Match Reports
Couldn't give a flying one what Rowlands thinks to be honest. Perhaps if we didn't spend 90 minutes calling him a **** he wouldn't be so fired up and produce performances like that. Why not ignore him instead and let him know he's not even worth our attention? Then spend that time and energy cheering for our own team. Or perhaps too many people just enjoy calling other people ****s.
A crowd of us old sceptics in the New road agreed not to boo Rowlands until after we were 3-0 up as knew he was likely to raise his game and hurt us - we were right but don't think we envisaged just how much of an impact he'd make. Scored a superb goal, ran midfield, talked and influenced the ref into not not even booking him after the only nasty challenge all night. It was cynical, 100% meant and yet hands on both shoulders of the ref after helping Adam up was enough to forge a relationship where he was in the cretins ear prompting him the rest of the night.
We still need to find that extra nouse, nastiness and influence that name players make the most of - unfortunately Jon Douglas lacks the subtlety and doesn't court refs like so many other seasoned pros we see here week in week out.
