Dreams of 1995

What I don’t get is that Gallagher at right back shouldn’t have happened. But, we were looking good for a few minutes and he takes him off? It doesn’t make sense. He’s lost the plot frankly.

Is Gallagher at right back?

Hahahaha, nah four tet isn’t Dub. Electronic music has a whole load of different genres to it, some good...some terrible. “Dubstep” is an example of terrible music imo, whereas Dub is a version of reggae. I wouldn’t even know what category to put four tet in...his albums are quite varied really, ranging from the quite surreal to rock type electronica. He’s good but do understand it’s an acquired taste! Back in my late teens / early 20s I was a big rock n roll fan.I frequented a famous Brum nightclub called Snobs. I think electronic music scene goes hand in hand with what youd call the “mod” scene these days. It’s a shame Blackburn never capitalised in its standing in electronic music because it pioneered rave culture in its early days.

I wouldn’t judge bicep on that track lads, it’s a four tet remix and much more of an acquired taste!! So, aside from blasting out some four tet “parallel” tonight after being reminded, we have had a Dub night. This music genre imo is the most underrated and the U.K. has an unbelievably talented Dub scene. Seriously hoping there’s fans of this genre about Introducing Gentlemen’s Dub Club with my favourite track: I’ll also put a little plug here for a chap called Kiko Bun, he’s up and coming big time in this genre and has a great track with Loyle Carner but this is my favourite even if not strictly dub:

Four Tet remix a Bicep track here. This was played in the same year at Boomtown as the Carl Cox set I posted. Early hours of the morning, pitch black with the immense production always on offer there. Love Bicep myself and think "Glue" is one of them tunes that is rightly overplayed. @The Hypnotic DJ Sneak was a great set. A head bopper. An album I would highly recommend to you electronic heads is the new-ish Chase & Status Album "Return 2 Jungle". I don't think there's a bad track on there frankly. Irah's vocals on it top it off. They also do a remix of Original Nuttah which is a must for any D&B/Jungle fan. This will be a very good topic.

You have excellent music taste my man! I’ll let you know my thoughts on DJ Sneak later, it’ll be our background music when making tea 😎 Congo Natty was mind blowing. We worked it out today that was the clash. Nanci and Phoebe performed with him - starting with a crowd rendition of Three Little Birds following a death of a friend of theirs before 45 mins of wobblers. I don’t think there’s a record of the set online unfortunately.

Me and the Mrs relived a great set from 2019 tonight. Only got to see a bit of this due to a clash - we can't quite remember who the clash was though...either Chase and Status or Congo Natty which tells its own tale as to the state of us............ For the younger audience I will say. If anyone has ever been to Boomtown this stage is quite the experience when the sun goes down. We were sceptical about Carl Cox but fuck he delivered with a banger.

In a bit of a funky mood this morning. This guy is a mixer, trust me. For the fans of this type of music skip to about 32 minutes for one of the best drops in music history. You will not regret it.

Sunderland are a toxic club. Rodwell was the same there. Yeah he arsed about the contract signing but when here there was no real issue with him, he put effort in on the pitch and did his job. There’s just something about Sunderland that I don’t like.

Probably being pedantic Jim but standing at 6 foot 5 and 18 years old I would consider him a man. No doubt they are still learning, and are a long way from the finished articles, but constantly hearing "2 kids on loan" I am left scratching my head wondering whether we have signed some 15 year olds or 2 Premier League centre backs who you can have a pint with

Lovely signing. A uni friend of mine sings his praises. Crewe have a good academy and have churned out some decent footballers in the past - notably one is currently first choice in our rivals' midfield. Hope he turns out similar. Quite the young team we have going at the moment which is nice to see. If we can tie down Nyambe to another 3 years we'll be in good stead long term.

Might seem pickety but why do you constantly refer to them as "kids"? Brainthwaite is a 6 foot 5 18 year old with Premier League appearances. He's hardly a kid. He's a fully grown man. You throw kids around in every post you talk about him but, personally, as a 27 year old I would think I would give any kid a run for their money. Put me up against the man that is Branthwaite and I would be thrown around like a rag doll. The same goes for Harwood Bellis, who has played in Champions League games and is a 6 foot 2 19 year old man. While they might not read this and it is irrelevant to them you should pay them the respect they have earnt and refer to men as men and stop trying to disregard them as kids. They are probably bigger and wider than you are.

Braithwaite is a good en. Never looks phased by what is in front of him, dives in at the right time, stands up at the right time. Everton have a real player on their hands imo. Elliott has looked off the boil lately. I think he needs a full 90, try and get a goal and some confidence. They weren’t arsed about football. Wasting time again, 10 men behind the ball. They had some decent spells but overall very anti football. Ugly wins still get you 3 points.

Oh well. We had a perfectly good goal disallowed last game. This game we got away with a penalty. It’s a game of swings and roundabouts. Fantastic away win and on to the next. No point going over old ground.

Problem is that the refs tend to even them decisions out. We will either miss a stonewall decision or he will give them a real contentious one.

Does anyone remember years ago, when it had quite a bad snowfall, and we were one of only a couple of games on? That includes Premier League too, as we were a Prem club at the time. “We will respect the legacy”. They are scoundrels. This is what they have brought us too. Our pitch used to be fantastic given the area we are in.

I am hating every minute of this

Proper sick to the back teeth of this. The changes are just mind boggling again imo. This is a waste. A talented team being ruined by a system that isn’t working.

Maybe in the UK Tyrone but in some parts of the world Tattoos have been in culture for hundreds if not thousands of years! A friend of mine had the old-style tattoo in Chang Mai, known as "hand-poked", which is performed with bamboo. The bloke who did it had been tattooing his whole life, his father before him and his father before him. They only did traditional tattoos but it was an art passed down generations. Culture shifts and changes. In European culture, particularly Scandanavia, people were having tattoos as far back as the early 200s! Same with Germanic culture, Gaelic culture etc. It was only really the "prune ages" (as I call them) when people decided to become very judgemental on their neighbour did such prejudices come to form. You know, the same era that used to see sex before marriage as a sin, or childbirth outside of marriage as a reason to throw a woman into a mental asylum - that generation. Fortunately I think we have seen past it now. I think tattoos are here to stay. For good reason as well.

He was. Doesn't mean he is as good as people are making out. Frankly I wouldn't want him.

People need to chill out about Balcombe. He made a decent double save but other than that his kicking was awful and he had nothing else to do. Other teams' players will always look good when you play as awful as we did

It is the blatant lack of desire that is starting to wind me up. If we don’t make play offs this year he simply has to go. The only problem being that we are also in a poor state of affairs in terms of playing staff after this season. It could be a very rough summer. He has had his chances. You can’t defend the indefensible and simply put he’s getting it wrong far too many times.

A real Football Manager loss - enormous amount of chances but not much of substance. What is more likely with our board is an under reaction. The premier league are playing their kids in this cup this year, it’s a real chance for some success. It was more of a surrender than it was a competitive performance. Fuming isn’t even the word. There is always the danger of overreacting after them types of losses but our board won’t react at all. Mowbray is here for the long haul. He doesn’t care. He’s just once again surrendered our chances of silverware because he is trying to be something he isn’t. Why were there nearly more players out of position at the end than there was playing in their natural positions? Fucking play your players where they became pros at - stop trying to be smart and doing things out of the ordinary. Just play the damn game of football. Done with it for this weekend. Don’t want to see another football until the next game. Mowbray is driving me crazy.

This Doncaster side are fucking terrible as well. Worst team I have seen at Ewood in a couple of years. Embarrassing. Team selection baffling and the subs were even worse.

Disgusting performance so far. Mowbrays subs have killed the game.