Like whispering school boys. Very sad.

Is he injured?

Bloody hell, I hope we win tomorrow.

It would be unfair to write him off at this stage. I could absolutely see him working in hospitality at the Etihad.

You have a very dark mind. I like it 😉

I can see Mowbray and Venus being introduced to the OT crowd sometime in October.

Smallwood, Chapman & Magloire all on the score sheet today. How we inserted buy-back clauses. 😉

Joey Barton is the bellend's bellend.

Why was this game moved to Sunday?

Guesses for the middle row: Citeh player is a Brightwell? Norwich = Rob Newman? Spurs is Gordon Durie. Sheff Utd = Michael Tonge? No idea on the Coventry player. No idea on Arsenal player.

Getting in the play-offs in the Championship isn't some unattainable target that is only the preserve of the parachute-money clubs. Barnsley/Luton/Hudds proved that in the last couple of years. We nearly proved it until Mowbray did his annual post-Christmas meltdown. Mowbray's 3 month success last year that took us to 2nd spot was built on strong defence. If the 3 matches this season are in any way indicative then JDT appears to play a system that is hard to score against. (The 'low block' and how well it worked in pre-season was referenced by one of the players a few weeks ago - can't remember who). If that remains true for the season then the play-offs are well within our sights (as they are for any team who can keep regaular-ish clean sheets). Talk of 3 year plans is therefore redundant. Barnsley's manager took them from the relegation zone in October when he took over, to the play-offs 8 months later. He did that with a couple of additions in January. Their squad was inferior to ours. If the manager is good enough in the Championship then success can be very quick. It's a very competitive league where practically anyone can make the play-offs. We have good players. What we're short of is numbers, and hopefully that will be rectified in the next few weeks. Play-offs should absolutely be the target this season, with or without BBD.

🤣...that was kind of the idea! Oh well, based laid plans and all that...

How many can you name without cheating??! I struggled with few on the middle row.

Misery loves Kompany

1-0 down to Elton's boys. I think it's going to be a long, long time before they're back in the Prem.

Great pass midweek for one of the goals. Pinged it from 50 yards on to the lads foot.

Any transfers on the RADAR?

Tell Jim, he's the one who doesn't know his arse from his acronyms.

Excellent japery

I've thought exactly the same, especially with the interview he did with Clem on the BBC. JDT predicted the next question and Clem said something along the lines of 'i'll just let you interview yourself' and JDT just said 'exactly' 🤣

Phew! Glad someone put you right. We don't want a repeat of yesterday, it was a bit awkward watching that unfold.

I may be reading to much into this but what he says about Rovers fans paying 'a lot' of money to watch Rovers was quite telling. It was as if he knows it's too much but didn't want to say it too loud in case Waggott heard! 😉 Great interview though. He comes across as passionate and single-minded.

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You appear to have said the same about Buckley in the past...but not so much now. It's probably fair to give these young lads a proper chance to sink or swim before writing them off completely.