By making players mentally and physically weaker?

Not so long ago teams would just get on with it without all the tiredness and moaning, and we used to have colder winters.

I'm not sure it's quite as simple as that. I've watched in the UK before on the season package. It seems to be quite random.

Who? ? Did someone add a new Christmas Tombola number??

For all our swashbuckling that often gets criticised. Stokes and Curran were both out tentatively pratting around.

These guys would have turned a young Messi into David Batty.

Winter is coming.

At least they aren't going to make people watch all day and lose by 20 runs. With 3 rabbits in the team it could be over very quickly. Every cloud.

I shotgun 4.

I can't see this being a classic. Hoping they are terrible and grinding out a point or a lucky win is our hope. A point would be dissapointing and only serve to keep Mowbray's run and ego going. 3 draws in a row is obviously the same points wise as winning 1 and losing 2. It's pretty much mid table borefest form. I'd rather play to win and lose unluckily from a psychological point of view. The bubble has burst. Our Talisman is out, the weak minded players are all devastated, the negative manager has a ready made excuse for the season petering out into mediocrity. We have strikers that can't score. We have a team that doesn't seem to know what they are doing most of the time as they don't play together in a known system. There's no hope regarding an upcoming transfer window. We're seemingly relying on a guy that's hardly been given a chance suddenly morphing into the new Dack (Buckley). There's more than just speculation about our best player leaving (Tosin). It's not looking good. The end is nigh. If Huddersfield want this game they will take it. I was going to say 2-1, but I suspect we'll set up very negatively and as we're a team without any real goalscorers - where are our goals going to come from? We are even really crap at set pieces so it's not like we can even play 'that kind of game'. 1-0 to them.

Here's how I'd rate them: Christian Walton- 6 (OP rating is way too harsh, he's made no fewer errors than Raya did and looks way more solid on crosses. I don't have the same fear when we get hoof-balled at the end of games as I did last season) Tosin Abarabioyo - 7 (He's been class, Though I'm taking off a point as he's not our signing - so ultimately he is going to go back to City or somewhere else soon enough and we'll be back in the shit). Bradley Johnson - 5 (Had a flash in the pan game with a great goal and an assist recently, but I won't let that gloss over that he's mostly looked like a liability and a lazy pie eater to boot) Lewis Holtby - 6 (You could argue that he simply hasn't played enough to get his fitness and consistency up. He's looked good in patches, but mostly little end product). Sam Gallagher - 5 (Meh, he's an almost zillion star striker and he's hardly scored any goals. He's looked alright occasionally and even shown a good turn of speed and he's a trier at least. One massive thing in his favour is that he's better than the zillion pound striker who shall remain nameless) Stewart Downing - 7 (Admittedly he's been better than most of us thought, but I think some people's rating are a bit high - I remember that he looked absolutely knackered in at least a couple of games. Though yeah, he's been decent enough, playing in various positions). Greg Cunningham - 5 (He was okay and looking like he could be a solid player before injury, better than our other option at left back. Though I think his absence has turned him into Roberto Carlos. Again, another loan signing means he could be recalled at any time so I'm taking a point off)

Brentford's goalkeeping coach recently moved to Arsenal didn't he? Surely he'll be recommending that Raya follows if he's that good.

He could be the next, er...Connor Mahoney. ? Who?

One for a turgid second half of the season.

Summer Sizzler - get your half season ticket and help us pay for a glorious summer of 1 year extended contracts.

I can't remember to be honest. All the crap is blending in to one these days. ? There are far too many hangers on in football and ultimately it's the fans paying all the wages. Do we have a throw in coach?

I haven't been there since the 90s. ? What have they done to the place?

Can anyone remember who was given the sponsor's MOTM?

What were Peter Reid and Joe Royle doing at our game the other night? I can only think that it was business rather than pleasure. Scouting? Also, regarding Brereton, I was trying to think who would actually want to take him on loan? - It would have to be a struggling team of a lower standard with the money to at least pay some of his wages. I could only really come up with Sunderland. Go on Tony, stop being such a wuss, get on the blower to your neck of the woods.

Archer is like the new Devon Malcolm. Fast, capable of devastation yet ultimately a bit all over the place and generally crap at batting.

It's been a few years since that 'new Blackburn team' wind up that I vaguely remember.

"Bring the Noise" (The Stingies all dressed up like Public Enemy with megaphones etc.) 10% cash-back if you bring drum, horn etc. ?

What would Bob Willis say about this crap? ?

How pissed will Brad be getting on NYE? It's also his 26th Birthday. It's quite tragic how he'll spend his physical peak year on the sidelines.