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.

I was going to say that's a bit rich after the one he blazed over the bar right at the end. But to be fair he mentions it and I think it's all a bit tongue in cheek.

How do we know that’s down to how JDT has developed him? He was outstanding in most of his games pre World Cup. He then didn’t play till April and has come back playing equally as well. No one is saying he should have played every week and been burned out. But in some games he surely would have been beneficial to have come on for 45 minutes here and there, especially as we all generally agree that Morton has had to play far more football this season than he was probably expected to.

Where? Please show me these ‘many’ posts that show people are ‘more excited’ about criticising JDT than the prospect of his potential development.

He didn't get better by not playing. We thought he was good from his brief appearances, and since he's started he's actually probably been better than we hoped. And as for the bit in bold, did you miss my last paragraph above? No-one has ever said play him every minute and run him into the ground have they?

Why are those of us who have watched us struggle all season, whilst a player who looks levels above what we have hasn't been picked, 'armchair fans'? I'm personally getting a bit fed up of these comments from "fans" saying JDT has done right by the player by not featuring him from October to April and it hasn't cost us any points or a play off place. Those same happy-clapper-fans would be lapping up JDT as bold and brave had Wharton starred all season and got us in the play offs. There is a middle ground here. He needs looking after but in those game when we were awful first half, he would have been a far better option to bring on than what we had, and if even one of those games had resulted in a win we would still have it all in our own hands.

Also, idiots running on the pitch during the game towards the end. One numpty did it from the home end at Preston. We had 2 do it last night. Why?

I have no idea, and as much as I've read there is a big void in the story. Now apologies if I missed it in the EFL report, but if you know fill us in on what happened in that hour. Why did we not start submitting the paper work until just before the deadline?

Fair points. Its just unlike Venkys to inform the manager he’s going to be left high and dry 6 months in advance. They normally leave them hanging.

He’s done it all season. He’s a one trick pony. The lad next to me said don’t let him on his left foot seconds before Pickering did let him cut in on his left foot. It really wasn’t that difficult to stop from when he picked the ball up.

I find it slightly difficult to believe that we would bring in GB and a new recruitment team, as well as a new manager. Then spend £5million within a few weeks of them arriving, only to then have no money for them once they have finally assessed the squad after 12 months.

Greg Broughton. After January, you’ve proven to be another incompetent buffoon in the Venky’s saga. None of your kind have ever walk, and are rarely pushed, so you’ve probably got a summer to prove m opinion if you wrong. Actions will speak louder than words.

Just one more thing I’d like to add to the debate before I retire for the night. Sky Sports. Stop putting us on the box FFS.

I don’t think we were better defensively or offensively, but I don’t think we were worse. Apart from 20 seconds of calamity from Carter and Pickering, and a moment of brilliance, I never once felt like they looked like scoring. I think we were even in those aspects, although for once I thought we clearly won and outfought Burnley in the middle of the pitch. That’s a huge kudos to Wharton.

Not at gaining points. No.

Things have levelled off. You could see the results were outstripping the performances in the first half of the season. Now it’s swung the other way,

I’m going to get banned at some point but honestly fuck off. We got a reply back from the EFL an hour before the deadline. You really think the paperwork was ready, but the club secretary was slow and did other things instead and happened to run over the deadline? Bollocks. It’s meant to be a relatively simple (minutes) job to complete what we needed to send, and the EFL reply was back by 10pm. There surely was some delay that meant we were on the very last minute which caused the problem of Silvester submitting the papaerwork. However some idiots seem to be absolute in absolving Saint Gregg of any blame, despite the fact he hasn’t said otherwise and has taken full responsibility. He was out of his depth and he has cost us royally.

Nail on the head. Broughton and his team have properly fucked us over in January, and led to possibly the worst 6 days I can recall since the two cup exits in 1993.

Yeah. Weaker and in worse form.

Yep. Just drove down and it’s dead bar police cars and vans.