They’re not walking to Blackburn, they will have stayed overnight somewhere nearby. They’ll be up for it. As you say we need to start at a high level of intensity and get our foot on their neck.

Upton Sinclair said this about a similar situation - “ It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it “.

There’ll be plenty of applicants, in-spite of the chicken chokers.

After the game or before ?

And err, Portsmouth.

We once lost 5-1 at home to Workington !

I thought the “ rumour “ that he’d applied for the Hull job was in the public domain. Once he’d had the close season knock back it’s become pretty clear he was looking for a way out. Every time a job came up in our division his name was “ linked “ with it. No smoke without fire in that respect.

Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee

Sam And Dave - You Don’t Know Like I Know

Yeah, he’s in his armchair now. Pipe and slippers time.

In his early games there was always bits and pieces of his game that looked promising. He had a decent touch and as I said earlier he could pass the ball nicely etc. Plus he was a giant who won lots of balls in the air. I was prepared to give him more time. The sending off at Burnley seemed to affect him badly and it took him months to get going again. Since Xmas he’s possibly been our best player and the other night he looked unstoppable. It’s hard not to like the lad, he’s one of those players who seems to really want to be out there.

I think that’s definitely had a bearing on it.

Back to the form that got him into the Scotland squad.

Just watching that little clip again. That’s a great chest trap/pass down to a supporting player when he was penalised for being pulled over early on in the game Regarding defensive headers - I was alway taught to head wide, long and high to clear the ball. Wide = away from from the danger area and high = to give yourself time to get out at the ball. He does those things really well.

He’s doing well with Orient but that could easily be like Mowbray doing well and getting us promoted. We had the best players by far and we still made hard work of it at times.

The football world is a small world. Derby would have known he’d thrown his hat into the ring for several jobs earlier. That would have told them he was available.

Gueye is an unselfish player as well. When he passes the ball to a team mate he’s always looking to get it to where you want it. The right amount of pace on the ball so you can make the best of it. He’s not like some players, even at pro level, who only “ lend you “ the ball. I E they aren’t bothered until they get the ball back.

I hope I’m wrong but I think we blew our chances in the window.

It won’t be high on our priority list at the moment.

ACD in a nutshell.

And most enthusiastic.

As long as we are aware of that and react accordingly we’ll do ok.

The Impalas - Sorry ( I Ran All The Way Home )

Great technique, control, and spatial awareness for the second goal. Any top striker would have been proud of that one. The scissor volley wasn’t bad either.

It’s pretty obvious that the powers that be would have known Eustace was looking for a way out for a while. A clued up board would have already got a short list of likely candidates. Of course that will change as time goes by, for instance Robins might have been on it, but he won’t be now. Names will come and go. Given the speed that they had JDT’s replacement in the club I wouldn’t be surprised if a new guy was in place by this time next week. There’s a lot hanging on this Saturdays performance. A repeat of last night and the temptation to hang fire will grow.