Flairs ? Not for me mate, I never wore them.

I used to get really bent out of shape with refereeing decisions , off sides , cards etc. I don’t anymore. There’s no logic or common sense to any of it. I just take the rough with the smooth. In 50 years I’ve only honestly seen a couple of games in both codes were I thought there might have been something going on.

Mowbray’s recommendations ?

I don’t think “ accidental “ and “ common sense “ comes into it anymore. My rugby league team had a similar incident last weekend. Our opponents winger is running at our winger, he tries to sidestep, looses his footing and slips over. Our guy was making the tackle around the waist/chest area. As a result of the slip he grabs the guy higher than he wanted to. Complete accident, nobody hurt etc. The very young “ elite path “ referee gives a penalty “ contact with an opponents head “. No common sense involved - thems the rules. One of our other guys has a word with the ref and gets 10 minutes in the sin bin for his trouble. They score 2 converted tries while he’s off and the game has gone.

It’s the same in Rugby League. The common denominator - SKY TV and Sky Money.

Another issue is the position he plays. If you’re winning you don’t normally want to swap your centre halves unless it’s around 4-0 or 5-0 and if you’re losing you normally want to sub attacking players. It’s hard to give a young centre half 10 or 15 minutes.

Harper’s shite now. Last I heard he was on loan from Ipswich to somewhere, Crewe rings a bell.

I haven’t seen the incident. I’ve seen tackles in current football that wouldn’t have even been a foul back in the day get a red card now. The game has gone, you’re right.

I think Leeds are gone, they relegated themselves with their latest managerial appointment.

I think that’ll be enough. I can’t see Leeds getting anything at Brentford.

I remember Shearer saying Broomes was going to be the next Bobby Moore. Sounds like he never saw Moore play.

The new Mike England then. He had it all.

We don’t do cup ties like that any more.

Another one to add to our winger collection.

He seems to get injured a lot.

It’s not enough if we play with 3 at the back, especially if one of them is Ayala.

Typical Venkies “ added degree of difficulty “ to anything they do. Who with any sense would want to work with Venus and Lowe ?

What was that Spanish winger called that Souey bought - Javier Pedro ? He lasted whilst half time in one game.

You don’t often see “ quality “ and “ Maceo Rigters “ in the same sentence.

That may be true but anybody really think that Sharpe knows what’s going on ? He’ll know when it’s all cut and dried and not before.

Who else is there Jim ? Didn’t that fast bowler at Lancs break down the other day ? What is the problem with our fast bowlers ? They all appear to be crocks.

We need to appoint some players next.

Sorry, just seen that. I was at that game. Was it really 2008 ! It was bloody awful day all round. Cold and wet, drizzle etc. End of May as well, isn’t English weather great.

Stockport have played at the new Wembley. I went to the Rochdale v Stockport play off game there a few years ago.

Crazy. We need to have a good look at him back here before we decide to sell him. We don’t want to make the same mistake as we did with O’Connell.