Are we safe yet? I’ve not looked at the table as we’re bloody awful. I presume we’re in the lower half of the table? Get rid. Start again. For God sake, just for once, pay over the top, get a good one in. After all, the definition of insanity.... and no one thinks our owners are insane surely? (£200m up in flames)

I’m good mate. As is the old fella. Thanks for those kind words. Merry Christmas.

I think you should be. We’ve a player there. Sure, the £10m quote might be a little previous, but the guys got something about him. A bit of class.

Fair enough. We shall see my man. I’ll not lie, I had massive doubts about TM. And I still have. BUT... You just never know! He’s a good guy, and sometimes the good guys get what they deserve.

Fascinating. Glad you enjoyed it so much. Any chance you and Chaddy could get a room or a divorce?

That’s got to be one of the biggest pitches in the championship surely? Storm Dan kicking off there.

This. Top notch. MoM tonight imo. A right pain in the arris.

Always liked em. My lads. Up the Rovers!

It’s the future I tell you! Just needs the likes of Klopp and Pep to get on board the bandwagon! Seriously though, it’s the Championship, not the top flight. There are numerous examples of teams going up by being organised, well drilled, working hard, sticking with a plan and with the same players in order to do so. We’ve tried every permutation under the sun, with Dack now out I’d give 442 a go. I seem to remember it being moderately entertaining to boot.

This. Along with 4000’s post. Why buy two strikers for so much money if it was never the intention to play them both, in their normal position at the same time? Why buy so many midfielders when apparently there isn’t one amongst them that can play the Dack role? Fully understand that you go with one up front when Dack is fit, but don’t we “need to have different ways of playing”? Putting Brereton and Gallagher out wide does neither of them any favours - evidently. I’ve said it for months (not on here admittedly!) but no defence would fancy playing against Graham and Gallagher with a team whipping crosses into the box. Or Arma, maybe even Brereton would benefit from playing with a strike partner (why haven’t we even tried this?). We just don’t have that in our locker it would appear. Downing can cross a ball though. Rankin Costello? Chapman? But your limiting your options when there’s only one striker to aim at. I’d go 4-4-2 and to hell with it. Get organised, disciplined, stick to the system and let the other team worry about us for a change. Wide men drop back in when we don’t have the ball and help the full backs / midfield.

Top top fella TM. Time for a change though.

The Illicits were great last week. Fontaines DC. Oh yes.

He's done it since he's been here, it grates. It's an excuse to fail. It's a cop out. Players mindset will be all wrong - "well we're not going to get a bollocking so long as we try - manager did say they're probably better than us after all".

This has to be up there.... I can’t / won’t listen to this again

AC/DC - Night Prowler

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Fishes Eyes

Primal Scream at KGH a week today. Which’ll be nice.

"....And it's Live!!!" Just feck off Tyler. I know it's bloody live. Jim White. "It's all so unbelievably exciting!!" (as opposed to Bob Mortimer on the Athletico Mince podcast "doing" Jim White, which is just superb)

Ref wasn’t called Derek was he?

Danny Graham should start up front. Every single time. Preferably with Dack behind him. Anything else is just wrong. G’night.

See I'm at it now! It's a common mistake!

Goalkeeper - might be similar to Raya. Don't know yet. Right Back - would start with Nyambe. JRC and Bennett can cover. This will do I suppose. Big season for Nyambe. Centre Half - the one I was hoping for and the one that would have been my priority. An experienced 30+ year old who could organise the defence, get them set up and switched on. I don't think we got that and we certainly didn't have it before. But we did get a 6 foot 4 centre half in from Man City, rated by their manager. Leaving us with Lenihan, Williams (looks comfortable enough in there for me), the aforementioned Tosin. Also Nyambe can cover, plus there's Grayson - and maybe even Mulgrew yet. But we're one short for me if Mulgrew does go. So maybe we will bring in a free agent? Don't know. Left Back - Cunningham sounds just the ticket. Bell, Hart can cover and Williams of course. Upgraded Midfield - Johnson and Travis every week. Upgraded through Johnson. Plenty of cover and bodies here. Evans, Smallwood will do a job but you'd hope their playing time will be limited. There's also Downing, Davenport, Bennett. Attacking Mid - Dack, Butterworth, Buckley perhaps? Can take from the pool of other midfielders and forwards if need be. Forwards - Graham, Gallagher, Armstrong, Brereton, Samuel, Chapman So in summary more than enough cover up front and in midfield. Where you fit them all in I have no idea and there is a lack of width for me, but that's not how we set up. Defence: improved the left back position. Right back; as you were. Centre half is clearly the concern. I see that Cunningham and Williams played at Bristol City together so hopefully they'll have a good understanding. Would have loved to have seen that Kevin Moran, Craig Short, Henning Berg type brought in but there you go. We shall see.

My old man says Best was the one. That’s not belittling anyone by the way. Sir Tom was a top fella by all accounts, he was in the army with my wife’s late grandad (rip) who also said he was a top bloke, as was he. Ronnie was a lovely fella, captain of England. Dougie, another really nice guy. Still goes to Ewood of course. So to contradict myself I really wouldn’t worry too much about who was the best. They’re all absolute legends.

Sorry if I wasn’t explicit enough, when I said “two up top” I meant two strikers. Anyway, we digress.

Massive call that, whoever the manager is.