We've scored 4 goals in 7 games Chaddy. Working hard clearly isn't enough with the players we have on the pitch. Dolan is not a centre forward but I completely agree his future lies on the left.

For the obvious reason that recently Dolan has been terrible up top, and Brereton has been terrible out left (which I know is where his best form was but not any more). I think you’d get more out of Dolan on the left than up top, whilst getting no less out of Brereton up top. However given the choice I’d play Leonard as you say. But if he’s not going to play Leonard, and he’s not going to go with the Szmodics / Dack option , my third choice would be BBD up top.

Except Ipswich have played Plymouth twice this season, lost 1 and drawn 1 so I’m not sure Plymouth wouldn’t grind results out in those 10 games as they have done all season. To be fair, Ipswich have taken 42 points from the last 48 available, which is phenomenal.

Yep. I edited my post ending after I posted it as it read like I was bashing Dolan when it’s not really fair on him to ask him to play there regularly.

If we aren’t going to play Leonard or Brereton up top , I’d rather play Szmodics there and put Dack in Szmodics’ position. Dolan is completely ineffective there. Szmodics will make more intelligent runs in behind and Dack can either pick him out or arrive late in the box and offer a genuine threat. We won’t lose anything in ‘presence’ as Dolan has none there. ( he needs to be careful he’s not ruined by being played out of position)

Ok. I’ll let it drop until the next time I see you randomly blame the company secretary for probably messing up the whole season (which is how this started). Then the cycle will start again.

I agree with all your rating except Mola. He has only figured for any significant period of time in 2 league games. The 3-0 loss at Burnley and the 4-1 loss at home to Preston. In one of his two cup appearances he also started and got shredded in the battering against Notts Forest. How bad would he have had to be to score a 2 or a 1 ? 😀

Again, so it’s the taxi drivers fault if he’s late if the desk forgets to give him the correct information for the job?

You admit you don’t know why there was a delay, but you’re happy to absolve blame from the person who has accepted responsibility based on no evidence to the contrary that he wasn’t even somewhat responsible.

At what point in my last few posts have I ever refuted that? Are you believing that everything was hunky dory at 10pm but the company secreteary decided to just go and do other things rather than sign the paperwork and start uploading?

We do agree. We both agree we don’t know what caused the delay for the O’Brien paperwork to be submitted late. You’ve clearly said that to me 4 posts above. All I’m saying is stop blaming Silvester and absolving Broughton when we clearly have no idea who is to blame. The only reason I’m critical of GB for January’s mess is because he basically said “blame me”.

Exactly. I don’t know. You don’t know. So stop talking as though it’s fact that it was Silvester’s fault that the paperwork was late, and that Broughton has no blame attached to his name, when we don’t know why there was a delay in uploading it. And before you just go around in a circle and say “it’s not Broughton’s job to upload the paperwork” , go back and read my taxi analogy.

Hypothetically, because Silvester needed further information from Waggot, Broughton and the Players in order to submit the paperwork and they took almost an hour to confirm that back to him? Otherwise why did we do nothing for an hour? Do you honestly think Silvester just put his feet up and dossed about playing Angry Birds when he should have been uploading paperwork?

Stop stating that as a fact Chaddy unless you have information that can fill in the lack of activity in the final hour which I posted about here. We have no idea why the paperwork was submitted late, and we have no evidence it wasn’t partly down to Broughton. For all we know blaming the secretary is like blaming the taxi driver for picking you up late when the desk forgot to give him all the information needed about the job. “Well it’s his job to drive the car here”. GB may have accepted responsibility because, well, it was his responsibility which caused us to start submitting the paperwork late.

69 point with our goal difference was simply never going to be enough after Tuesday night. We needed 6 points earlier, we need 6 points still. I don’t think we will get them, but the requirement in y head is not affected by tonight.

Only thing I've learned from that is that Waggot showed up at Charlton when they were in the Prem, and by the time he left they were in league one and drastically doing cost cutting measures.

When the weather is nice I'd probably go to the Fanzone and watch the second half of the early kick-off, except that the big screen within the fanzone is so blurry its almost unwatchable. To be fair they've now got bottle bars to ease the queues, and the queues for the pints does actually move fairly quick and have a queuing system in place. It's has been a good idea and does attract a lot of people, especially for those with kids. Everything else in your post about match day is spot on.

FACTS ☝️

Losses when he starts - 35% Losses when he doesn't start - 36% FACTS

Neither bother me and it's good to get opposition views. Whenever we've had Preston fans on here they have generally been gobshites, but these two aren't that bad. They have to accept if they post on here they are going to get stick at times, but any time it's gone OTT the rest of the posters seem to get Gav back on his leash. Not sure if Longsider1882 has got DM's, cos he hasn't got any stick visible on the board to make him decide he might leave. Bit of an odd reaction from him yesterday.

"Hi Greg, we still need info from you, Steve and the player to complete this form. We've only got about an hour left to submit" "No problem Ian. Let me contact Steve down at St Andews and I'll get back to you". (60 minutes of inactivity ensues)

Everton then play Brighton away and City at home, so they could be almost gone by the time they hit the last 2 games. Whenever I see them they seem to have no spark or quality. If they lose on Monday I think they’re going down.

I'd missed this until @Sweaty Gussets pulled you up on it but how can you tell me I CLEARLY don't know what's going on and to read up on it, and then post this when the timeline is out. 21:48 was the last contact with the EFL in relation to the contract, but we didn't make another move until 22:54. Why did we sit on that for 66 minutes before we then started submitting documents? Also, could other documents not have been submitted during this period whilst the playing contract was amended? The answer will be "Well that's Silvester's job to submit things", but what do we think he is doing? Watching the post game interviews? Making a brew? I'm not having he missed it because he just did nothing for around an hour and tried to rush it in the last 10 minutes. Something causes a delay in that hour, and I suspect it's because GB and SW have to be involved in agreeing something. We simply do not know what as the club have not properly outlined what happened. The only official thing we have is Broughton accepts responsibility, which I take at face value and suspect he is at least partly culpable.

I commented on how against Coventry City last week there were clearly a large number of Season Ticket holders absent. It seems a lot of people either can't or don't make mid week games. Indeed, a often have to rush back from wherever I've been working, get home and go straight down to Ewood to make midweek games.If I didn't have a season ticket for all season I image some of them I'd just sack off. If we had "weekend only" season tickets, then midweek games would need to be priced incredibly low else we would have about 6k or 7k home fans actually attending.