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Watford and Burnley for automatic. Boro, Sheff Utd, WBA and Norwich for play-offs.

And if we lose the opening fixture it won't be the end of the world. I don't expect us to win every game. However I expect to see a gradual improvement under JDT and GB that 5 years of Mowbray didn't produce.

If we can keep Batty and sign Bowler and play them both against QPR we might get a cricket score. I'll get mi coat. Well someone has to try to lighten up the doom and gloom on here.

Lovely goal. Ruben Rochina-esque. Who did he do that against? Leeds or Sheff Wed?

OK. Calm down and have another piece of lemon drizzle cake.

Nice video about the Kardashev Scale. Narrator sounded like Pat Condell.

Naughty???? Iceman needs a months ban for that. Had me fooled completely.

The expression "The elephant in the room" is often associated with Rovers' owners. However in this case I and millions of others can see the elephant in the room, Bruce. You and millions of others cannot see it. I fully expect you to reply that it is you who see it and I don't. Fair enough. We shall have to agree to disagree or, rather, admit we don't see eye to eye. I'm going to leave it there. I wish you well. P.S. I admire your scientific knowledge. Astronomy is fascinating.

That last sentence.......I have often thought the same. As to "a God of some sort"I cannot help but look at the natural world here on Earth and marvel at its design and its workings and its beauty; something structural in the midst of chaos. Look at the DNA helix formation. Also science can detect, explain and demonstrate matter and energy but it cannot do the same for things such as love or hate. You can measure electricity but you cannot measure love. You can see the effects of love or hate but not measure them. Anyway, as you say, this is more for WDWY forum. I read an article a long time ago about two American scientists, one an astronomer and the other an anthropologist who together set out to demonstrate that life could exist elsewhere in the universe. Amazingly they came to the conclusion that there probably wasn't because this planet and its set up is likely to be a complete freak; an entity that really should not exist according to the laws of the universe as they saw it. I know, I know.................a load of baloney but their conclusion amazed me.

Yes. I used Wiki. Like Jim, mea culpa. Also forgot to include his championship games with MK Dons.

Quite right, Mellor. He's played 17 league games and 1 cup game.

Just the score and then a blank sheet. People at the club really seem to care.

Yes. No surprise. We are Venky Rovers who cannot organise a booze up in a brewery. Who is in charge of club information distribution? Bring back Mr Grooby. All is forgiven.

And the elephant doesn't even know we are in the same room as it stands, smuggly smiling to itself.

He said to him "This is X thousand per week. Decide today. If you need one or more days to think about it, the figure will be reduced by £1000". That's Waggott's way.

Let's hope there is a young Henning Berg somewhere in Scandinavia that GB has his eye on.

I watched most of the 2nd half on you tube and I thought we gave a good account of ourselves against tough opposition. I think all our players were "ok"; no-one stood out as good or bad. It's good to see players like Vale, A.Wharton, Leonard and Garrett given regular playing time. We DO need a few incomings, permanent or loans, to bolster the squad. Still, I'm pleased with today. It's not all doom and gloom as some would have it.

Queens Park were the biggest and best team in Scotland when we played them twice in the FA Cup finals of 1884 and 1885. They remained amateur for 152 years and gradually became almost insignificant; one of the worst teams in the league together with Berwick Rangers,Albion Rovers and Stranraer (amongst others). In November 2019 they voted to turn professional. Look at them now; no longer languishing at the bottom. I am intrigued by this change in fortune. I shall follow their progress with interest. P.S. Owen Coyle is their manager.

Of course you'll have to get a bus into Preston first.

So that explains why " 45572 Eire" was a "Jubilee" Class railway engine among all the engines named after countries or states of the British Empire. The Class was introduced in 1934.

It certainly is a golden oldie, Mike. I have the record (vinyl) of Gerard Hoffnung addressing the Oxford Union sometime in the 1950s where his version of "The Bricklayer" was hilarious. He also tells an equally hilarious story about written replies to queries about holiday accommodation from Tyrolean landlords. e.g. "There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects".

I once saw an alien from Neptune something on You Tube (I think) where the image was a leaf on a plant in a garden. Successive images withdrew x10 each time. You could see the gradual withdrawal from the garden, town, county, country, continent, planet etc. Planet Earth disappeared and so did the sun as I marvelled at the extent of the universe. The second half, however, was more intriguing as the images returned to the leaf and continued into the matter of the leaf and so on to the atoms which make up the leaf which looked like a whole new universe. My point is it's not just the extent (going outwards) of the universe that we marvel at but also the inner make up of matter itself. We are somewhere between the smallest and the biggest of existing matter. Perhaps that awe is why I bow down to someone/something greater.

Bit of both really. As I was typing I realised DF was Finance Director but, another sip of wine and.......

They're just sussing us out, seeing what we have. And then they'll turn it on and blast us out of sight.

What the hell is an FD? Gregg Broughton is a DoF. It must stand for fooking dickhead.