Honestly for me it's not an exaggeration when talking football. Play off semi final, penalty shootout, your star striker on £40,000 a week turns to the manager and said he doesn't fancy taking a penalty, they go on to lose the shootout. Thats the kind of moment a striker should thrive on, in football terms it's pure cowardice to me. He seemed fearless here I think his time at Boro clearly not in favour with the manager whilst the fans were desperate for him to play really damaged his confidence. Once he rediscovers that he'll fly again. In human terms though Rhodes still comes across really well on someone that cares about the fans and often seems to make kind gestures to young fans.

Sheffield United come out on top in the steel city Derby. Great goal from Joao in his first appearance of the season but as we saw often makes the wrong decision on the ball. Interesting that he got the nod ahead of Rhodes who looks broken, sad to see he looks like someone that doesn't enjoy football anymore. The Wednesday fans aren't keen on him after his show of cowardice in the play offs. Seems he needs another move lower down the league to a club where he's the main man to reinvigorate him.

Not sure either way, he could be a perfect sub or he could be just as useful from the start. Mahoney always looked handy from the bench but woeful when he started. Earned a chance to start though

The problem would go very deep Boro. As mentioned earlier there is talk that Huddersfield may shut their academy. Our current place on the football totem is a way below them currently like it or not, if 'smaller' teams in the top league start doing that then the burden has to be on the lower leagues to nurture talent (which will then be cherry picked) or the standard of English football just drops and drops further. Sad sad times

Apparently Premier League Huddersfield are set to close their academy and will just have an under 18 and under 23 team Presume they will just poach players from us little feeder clubs

3-1 and Grayson sent off for kicking out

HOORAY FOR ME

What's happened to Nuttall he's gone right off the boil

Whilst he's in a hot streak you've got to consider giving the lad a chance As said pace and power will make up for a lot in this league and for that alone could be more effective than an immobile Graham

Nuttall have any pace? If so throw him a chance against Bradford and Kilgallon!

No matter the level knowing how to put the ball in the net is a great skill to have, hope he gets a chance

Need to win a couple of league games now or Tony could go into this under a lot of pressure. On the flip side, was the last manager to see us beat them Big Sam? He could really win over any doubters if we put them to the sword

I'll be in disneyworld whilst the tie is played, give em hell!

Honestly would have rather avoided them, just highlights how far we've fallen to face them as massive underdogs

Mulgrew is such a classy player but I've never seen him play a game at the back and not get caught out, he should be in front of the back four but not sure we can accommodate him there or have anyone else to play at the back!

Some decent passing on display there, Mulgrew pathetic for their goal though.

A clean sheet would have been nice but it sounds like we did our bit and their keeper kept it respectable. Job done

Perfect, that's what you want from these games

The captain at the back doesn't seem too amazing at organising the defence

Yes we're going to win the Carribean Cup! edit - no we're not

Bloody hell thats a manic 9 minutes

So is this the league cup or some lower league thingy?

Looks like his twitter may have now been hacked and posting messages he sent to a girl saying how badly he's messed up and wants to kill himself. Not a great 24 hours for him here

Are you bantering?

Problem is keepers like him breed a lack of confidence. Defenders not trusting their keeper is dangerous and Raya has to make sure he has the respect and trust of our lot which isn't always easy for a young lad