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Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being A Friend

Decent day for England in the end. 350ish will be a very decent score on this pitch.

Everything But the Girl - These Early Days

RIP John Savident, who played Fred Elliott in Corrie for many years.

RIP Paul. Its striking to note how many of the players on those photos are no longer with us, and it doesn't seem that long ago either 😞

Everything But the Girl - Care Less

Chairmen of the Board - Give Me Just a Little More Time

The Style Council - One Nation Under a Groove

The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'

The Jam - When You're Young

Charles and Eddy - Would I Lie To You?

I'm happy enough with the short term approach from Eustace, and it will be interesting to see how he develops things once we've assured safety (which we will). An earlier poster said he reminds them of Mark Hughes - I hope they are right. One of Sparky's first home games - it might even have been his very first one - was a miserable, turgid, 4-0 defeat to Boro where Tugay got sent off and the players looked like they had never kicked a ball in anger before . One can only imagine what would have been posted on here about that period but things worked out rather well in the end.

Walrus Gumboot - Perils Of a Small Town Life

We're not playing them away.

John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band - Working Class Hero

The Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout

Yeah this sums it up for me really. I agree with Gav that I prefer this team to that one that lost in WI, but they got themselves into a fabulous position where they didn't need to take risks in this last test. Lots of mistakes were made but we simply needed to bat long, partly to score enough runs, but also to give the bowlers a rest. It took a special sort of idiocy to lose that heavily from that position. And don't get me started on that crazy declaration at Edgbaston last year that, in my opinion, cost us the Ashes. Our best batter was still at the crease and we had less than 400 on the board FFS! So, in summary we need to retain a bit of pragmatism at times, hand-in-hand with the aggressive stuff.

Best wishes to Mogga. He's had some tough times away from football, I do hope the treatment has come early enough for him.

Gene Clark - So You Say You Lost Your Baby

Oh dear…

Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me

Barbara Dickson - Another Suitcase In Another Hall

450, although feels like a lot of runs, is probably a par score. You can still get 5/1 for the draw in this match and that looks like good value to me.

A bit late to the party with this one but sad to hear of the untimely death of the BBC Radio DJ Steve Wright. Sounds like he died suddenly at home. I know he had piled on the pounds in recent years so one can only speculate that it was a heart attack or stroke. He was a master at his craft, that's for sure. RIP.

Simon Fowler and Oscar Harrison - Argyle Street