Agree with the team selection but think we will lose 3-2. I have no idea what the crowd will be but doubt it will hit five figures.

Everything But the Girl - Each and Every One

The Jam - I Need You (For Someone)

Best wishes to the lad. He’s had a bit of a rollercoaster the past couple of years.

Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There’s Someone

Think it’s Diaz

Happy days Tony 😂😂😂

I always thought the smaller school-sized pitches across the road from Blacksnape, know locally as Sett End or Roman Road, were even more exposed to be honest. However I once played a game against YMCA in Mellor in the middle of December and it was easily the coldest I’ve ever been on a football pitch. The pitch was very exposed to the elements and it was driving hailstone (no joke when you’re bald like me!) We won 11-0 that day and our keeper, Steve Walmsley, needed a welder at the end of the game.

It must bring back memories for yours and @arbitro’s generation of when it was first built eh lads? 😂😂😂

Jason Donovan - Sealed With a Kiss

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - (Love Is Like a) Heatwave

Paul Weller - Broken Stones

The Magic Numbers - Mornings Eleven

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

Brilliant den. The kids inside the boundary rope blocking off the Gloucester fielder made me chuckle too - they were great days watching Lancashire in the one day competitions.

Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air

RIP Mike Hendrick, ex England fast bowler, who has died of cancer at the age of 72. Good seam bowler was Mike.

I was lucky enough to work with him for a while on a homeless project in Motherwell and he was a brilliant guy. He did enjoy a drink by all accounts but I don't know whether the 'long battle with illness' relates to that or not.

Yeah there's a thread been started in the football section mate. Ally was a terrific guy who did a lot for the homeless up here in his spare time.

Status Quo - Living On An Island

Yeah I meant on covid grounds mate - crikey when you think how long the players were away from their families in the old days this lot don't know they are born.

Alice Coltrane - A Love Supreme

They should delay the Ashes for at least a year mate.

I think the white collar looks great tbh. It’s my favourite away kit since the Time sponsored black and red striped one of the Souness promotion season.

I believe ex Rover Ally Dawson passed away today at the tender age of 63. We never really saw the best of him after he suffered a horrendous head injury while playing for Rangers but I still have fond memories of his time playing under the Don. RIP Ally