The Rotherham United Courier
Squad15 Jan 2035
Will Smallbone damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market15 Jan 2035
Hull City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rotherham United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad15 Jan 2035
A fracture rules Jack Fisher out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rotherham United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Jan 2035
Defences have started doubling up on Shea Lacey
19 goals and a season average of 7.54 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market15 Jan 2035
Lenny Agbaire puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rotherham United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Jan 2035
Ar'jany Martha in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rotherham United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom15 Jan 2035
Freddie Lantz will join Rotherham United for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Freddie Lantz has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Rotherham United have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match13 Jan 2035
Rotherham United get the job done against Leeds United
A 2‑1 win over Leeds United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings15 Jan 2035
One of those days for Shea Lacey
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.61, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Ar'jany Martha
- Market A long bet from Rotherham United on Michael Moore
- Market The Will Smallbone story refuses to die