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Quinton De Kock made himself unavailable for today’s game vs West Indies for personal reasons. Before play today cricket South Africa issued a directive that said all of their players must take the knee before the game, which they did. To an outsider it looks like racism is still rife in South Africa. I would imagine this episode will reopen old wounds. I just don’t get what goes on in some peoples brains.

Stokes is back for the ashes series.

5 years of Mowbray for what exactly? 5 years and £100m of Venkys money totally wasted in my opinion. He just shows total disdain for any suggestion that we might do better.

Yes, it’s excellent. The most successful sides are the sides that go at the opposition from the off and never let up. Respect the opposition always, but never believe they have a right to beat you. Always believe that over 90 minutes you can impose your own game and get the better of them whoever they are. No other way is going to make you successful IMO. All this talk about the opposition being ahead of you, or having more funds than you, gets you where exactly? It’s bollocks and will never get you to the top of any league.

At the last count Mowbray thought we were some way behind competing against PNE. I remember when we had managers who demanded that we were better than the opposition.

Yes, - I didn’t mean I thought we’d go down, I merely meant that when we look back at the programmes from this season it would be so very obvious what a poor squad we had.

I can’t imagine Mowbray will know where to start after that performance. It wasn’t just an off day. Individual performances were very, very poor, up front we posed no threat whatsoever, midfield was completely awful and the back four were anything but convincing. We couldn’t maintain any shape, we couldn’t lay a tackle on a rather boring QPR side. If you look in any old programme and look at the relegation seasons, you’ll see the squads and realise how poor they were. I suspect we might be doing that in a few years when we look back at this seasons programmes.

Can we rely on the owners to get involved now?

Tony’s post match presser should be reassuring

This looks like a relegation side.

No shape whatsoever. We’re all over the place.

I don’t see how that will do anything but accelerate the fall in demand for the newspaper.

I’m not convinced Parky is tight enough to be a regular test bowler.

I fear you’re right. The batting is a shambles.

They are no different to any other club - apart from their catchment area. That’s the only difference. As you say, their fans deserve no more than anyone else’s fans and a hell of a lot less than others. If NUFC was situated in Bury, they would become Bury.

Sky are bringing out a 4K TV that doesn’t need a satellite dish, a set top box or any cables other than the power cable. You can pay for it interest free over 48 months. I reckon it will appeal to a lot of people. https://www.whathifi.com/news/sky-glass-tv-confirmed-with-built-in-sky-q-and-dolby-atmos-no-box-no-dish-necessary https://www.sky.com/glass

It’s kept the dingles in the prem as well.

You need to look at the returns over the whole contract, then see how much of any sale fee is “reinvested”?

You’re certainly not on your own about the central mids going AWOL. surely when the teams struggling especially away from home, you would go to a solid 4-4-2 with all four midfielders working as one across the park wouldn’t you?

It’s a regular occurrence. The last game we could have conceded twice in the first two minutes. Not good enough.

Is this the Blackpool who were in league one last season, playing 4 years in charge Tony Mowbrays Blackburn Rovers? Really?

2-0

Predictable really

He’s a good striker simply because he’s got 3 goals Gav? and “I” don’t know how to judge a striker? Ill refrain on the Rhodes comparison.

Gally needs selling to some other club and replacing with a better striker.