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Be careful, the main line is undergoing about 6 months of severe disruption.

Interesting. A thread descending into all kinds of abuse and bickering. A thread that has no substance whatsoever. Nice one Waggy.

After the Spurs and Palace games, anyone still think the priority is a centre half or midfielder?

Whatever you like. What about a greatest ever club benefactor poll?

I think to be fair to everyone, a Christmas break after this left winger poll, is the way to go. I'll let this poll go until the end of this week and then close down until January. There's more than enough footy over Christmas to keep everyone busy. Then in January we can have the two strikers and the poll for the best of the lot.

I think what you are seeing, is the academy under 19 side replacing the reserves. Seems the right way to go, to me. If the reserve side was full of first team squad players, the over 18's wouldn't get a game at any time. On top of that, not many of the big clubs play their first team squad players in the reserves. There doesn't seem much point, the reserve games are usually the last place to make a judgement of a player.

I understand the clamour for a centre half, but one new central defender isn't going to sort out the defence. We'll still be shaky. Whereas one striker could keep us up, virtually on his own.

The defence, while certainly not being the best, is performing better because of the improved fitness of the whole squad. Bothroyd, Jansen, Gally, Stead or Dickov haven't proved that they will score enough goals to keep us up. So, to me, it's vital that we find someone who is going to score 10 goals or more between Jan/May.

Didn't include all positions, I reckon these are the ones Bob is thinking about.

I'm not sure without going back through loads of pages. Are you thinking about subs? [i will go back through all this thread, when we've finished].

Yes Waggy, without wading back through all the votes again, this is by far the most overwhelming victory. Whether that's because of the quality of Duff and/or the quality of the opposition, you've got to work out for yourself. BTW chaps - shall we plough through Christmas and new year with this poll, or take a break and come back in January with the striker and best ever player polls? What does anyone think. I'm leaning towards a mid winter break.

Your joking aren't you? Nice sunny morning? Remember this year? Yeah, but I didn't want to tell Paul it's crap if it rains. There's always Weatherspoons though.

Did they check the 2 tickets history or did they just ask and then proceed with your tickets without checking?? they asked for the account numbers and then checked which matches we had attended.

I thought Saturday was a day, where we were crying out for an Andy Cole. BIG BIG mistake.

That's the busiest the lines have been for a long time. I got two £27ers after being number 28 in the queue.

p.s. get there early, watch some of the warm up, the toss and generally soak up the atmosphere.

Finally managed to get through to OT by phone after three emails weren't replied to. I'll be applying for the Friday too Paul. A packed Old Trafford on a nice sunny morning in the ashes test is marvellous. You wont forget it.

F.A cup third round draw: cardiff v Rovers

Good post Theno. We shouldn't get carried away too much. Too much of when we win we're good - when we lose we're terrible. I think the truth is, we're much better as a side than we were. Unfortunately, we were so poor, that even a percievable improvement means we are still poor. As everyone says, we need to stay off the bottom 'til the new year and hopefully strengthen then. If we can't stay off the bottom, then it might be too late. There is hope though, where there wasn't a month ago.

C.H. wants the tie at Ewood.

Colin Hendry would love to see Rovers V Blackpool, according to Radio Lancs.

So it is. Brotherston deserves more recognition than he's getting on here. I really hoped someone would put a case forward for him, but there you go. Hopefully it's not too late to get someone to put something down on here, so as to keep some memories of him alive. Having said that I voted for duff. There was a problem here for me. I think it's one position where we don't really have a true great. Duffer comes top of the next catageory - he was the best. Not a great, but the best.

Stead still unfit. Bothroyd back from suspension. Team news from official site

Final result: Who should go into our team of "greats" Jimmy Forrest [ 107 ] [54.31%] Tim Sherwood [ 90 ] [45.69%] Total Votes: 197

Time to vote in the last of the midfielders.