Number of children per household! Bloody hell. I was watching Michael Palins latest documentary about Nigeria yesterday and honestly it's absolutely mind blowing how many children people have over their(commonly between 5-20! Per wife, but a man can have more than one wife...) I think they estimate Nigerias population alone is heading for around the half a 500 million mark. It's country's like that that make all our attempts at being more environmentally friendly seem futile

The FA Cup died years ago when the top PL clubs started fielding reserve teams. The argument that it’s necessary to scrap replays to reduce the fixture schedule is not the true reason. The reason is that the European Super League is being brought in via the back door.

Agree - their results have improved but everything I've seen of them (including when we lost at Hillsborough) indicates that they are a very poor side. They were getting absolutely battered by Norwich until they scored from two corners, so I'd match them with three centre backs and back us to have more quality.

By pipeline i was meaning the stock pile of good forwards has completely gone after Sammie. Graham was brought in whilst Rhodes was still here then Dack whilst DG still here, AA and Brereton were loaded onto the books with Dack still here and Szmods comes in whilst BBD still here. That kind of thing. It's the one area of the pitch they've actually invested in since they arrived and no surprise its been the most consistently successful, if only they'd applied it to other areas as well.

Not wanting to give the egg and that lot any credit but the few transfers we did make last summer (yes they were mainly trash) were all made under the radar with limited gossip. We must be signing some players this summer. We have to.

Bargain bucket names Presuming we'd be playing 5 at the back Jensen from Lincoln Phoenix Patterson at Fleetwood/Gent to play left wing back as an attacking option to Pickering Liam Bennet at right back a bit more industrial than Brittain, Sorensen from Lincoln a similar idea Freddie Draper a young target man who may come on with a bit of support - also a great goal celebration McAtee from Barnsley as a bit of a Dack attacking midfielder who scores a few. All completed punts but have a bit to them and could come on with coaching. Good ages. The key next year provided we stay up is to try and spread goals a bit more through the team. Any serious money we do spend for me needs to be on the middle of the team (Keeper, centre back, centre mid, striker etc).

No matter how we approach this game, it is an absolutely must win for Wednesday. That should make it very open. I would stick with 3 at the back to counter the alehouse tactics from Wednesday freekicks, throwins and corners.

Peterborough chairman has confirmed that Posh missed out on £100k with Szmodics not announced as POTY. They will also get an additional £100k when Sammie makes an appearance in a competitive fixture for Ireland.

You’ll have to describe the top.

I remember buying a pair of diadora 'explorer' trainers from Gibsons sports in Blackburn back in mid 80's. Illuminous green 😁, just googled them, can't find any pics.

People wear trainers for everything now. I remember getting my first pair in about 1966. Light Blue “ Adidas “ leather ones , I can’t recall the name. I must have been the first in Rochdale. I had to order them specially from our local sports shop. Pre season we’d been training on our local pitch and we went to the pub after for a shanty. I didn’t bother taking them off and when we walked into the pub it was like I had two heads ! All the old blokes were staring at them and muttering into their pints of mild. Remember when you could actually ask a shop owner to order something for you and they would ? I was looking through some of my mums old photos the other day and I came across one I’d had taken by one of those freelance photographs that lurked around main streets in the day and pubs at night. They’d take your photo for a small fee, take your name and address, and post the photo on to you later. Oliver Reed plays one in the film “ The System “ which is all about similar guys at a seaside resort. It’s on YouTube if you ever have a spare 90 minutes. I’d be about 19, I think I’d just been for an interview, and I was wearing my Sunday Best. Navy blue 3 button mohair suit, a sort of paisley tie and a light blue silk pocket hanky. Made to measure at “ Mr Senior “. Everybody my age dressed like that then. Casual clothes were only just emerging on the scene. You’d wear a suit to go to the football !

The EFL won't bite the hand that drip feeds it therefore after a bit of posturing nothing will happen. The big 6 run football in this country in conjunction with the biggest paying tv companies and for me the sooner they all do one to their nonsense money laundering Super League the better. Take their plastic fans with them, football will survive just fine.

Random sunny Saturday morning tune, enjoy:

The Earls -Remember Then

Common sense or money, I wonder which will prevail.

If the EFL had any balls they'd say no problem, no premier league teams in the EFL cup and by the way you can stop entering your U21 sides in the EFL Trophy. Hopefully common sense prevails and they'll do a u-turn.

The train to Morrow has gone today.

Ha ha calm down Abbey lad. It’s tomorrow 😉😂

Imagine scoring two goals as good as Carbone did in that game and still getting a paggering! Le Tissier did something similar a few seasons earlier if I remember correctly.

Today ? I'm working shit ..thought it was tomorrow.

Need some BIG performances today

We played some great football that year under Roy! And after years of injuries Gallagher really came good and was a different class. Shame it all went to 💩 the following season

The Members - Sound Of The Suburbs

A new manager bounce for Rotherham today would be perfect.