I think the linesman thought that Pickering's slide to try to intercept the cross, had played Crooks on. You can see that on the Sky highlights. Pickering clearly wasn't playing him on but you can see why the linesman was pointing to a player. At the time Crooks put the ball in Pickering's legs were level but nowhere near when the cross was played.

Mike Cheston was there.

I have just had the agreed minutes for Monday's Forum. I wasn't clear when I typed the above that this was going to get in them but it has: - ND asked about the decision to let John Buckley go out on loan to Sheffield Wednesday. GB replied that John had been keen to go out on loan to get more game time. He had fallen behind Jake Garrett in the manager’s view and that it was unanimous that the players development was the priority knowing the cover that the club had in this position.

I have just received the approved minutes, so they should be on the website in the next day or two. Steve Waggott wasn't at the meeting. He has been on holiday and I think is back tomorrow. We did of course raise the issue of the Cardiff game (I think you might mean Blackburn End!) - everyone was unanimous in their opposition to the stand closure.

Gregg came to the Fans Forum on Monday night. He spoke about the feeling that the squad had one too many midfielders in. Alongside that John Buckley had fallen down the pecking order a bit and was keen for a loan move to get some game time. So effectively I think it was a bit of both.

There is a long-standing Academy and under 21s thread a bit further down the front page.

I certainly remember seeing him play for Santos in a friendly against Sheffield Wednesday in the mid 70s. It was during the 3 day week and the game was played on a Wednesday afternoon - the ground was still full.

I saw Tony Field play for 4 different clubs. I used to watch Southport play in the old 4th Division regularly on a Friday night with mates from school, and he stood out head and shoulders at that level. Than at Rovers. Then I went to university and watched him at Sheffield United. Finally my now wife and I went to see he brother in New York 8n the late 70s and saw him play for New York Cosmos. Pele was a team mate although I can’t remember whether he was playing in the game I saw.

Be fit? I don’t know now but he did have an injury.

Can a mod rename this thread to reflect the new name?

He was injured in the Walsall game and he hasn’t played since.

They get younger every year unleaded........

Firstly Farington is much much nearer the centre of Lancashire than Old Trafford, especially if you’re considering the old county boundaries that the county game is based on. In fact for quite a bit of old Lancashire Sedbergh is closer than Old Trafford. Secondly Farington won’t be much less convenient than Old Trafford for many in Lancashire to get to by public transport. The 111 bus runs from Preston to Leyland every 12 minutes passing Preston, Lostock and Leyland stations. I’m off to Old Trafford tomorrow for the Hampshire game and I will need a bus to Preston, train to Manchester and tram to Old Trafford to get there. I’m also about 2 miles from the new ground, on the 111 bus route!

I think Coventry will give an away club up to 3,000 tickets. If that's true, you should be fine as we will not sell that many so they should go onto open sale. They will go on sale to ST holders first as Watford tickets are but will almost certainly be opened up later to anyone. Have you been to Ewood before? Are you on the club's database?

Not a great start for the Yorkshire clubs in the Championship - 5 out of 6 in the bottom 6 with 2 points between them. And Sunderland are the other team down there.

It was the 4th league game in. We won the first 3 then lost 3 and Reading was the first of those. Sadly, I was there on a Tuesday or Wednesday night.

Are the goals a different size in the league then? And they were against a Premier League goalkeeper.

We scored 10 at West Ham last season.

There are main deliveries of all three shirts to come after the initial 1,000 of each. I'm not sure exactly when but it should be soon.

Before my time as a game attending fan I'm afraid. At that time I was at home on the farm near Rufford and too young to be getting to games by myself. So I only ever went a couple of times when my uncle could take me and didn't start regularly attending until 1967 when I was old enough to get there myself.

I thought he had a perfectly decent game but many others disagreed.

I thought I had made it clear that there is a balance between a kick-off time that most fans can get to and a final whistle that isn't too late for others. You are clearly in the latter category in that you don't want a game to finish too late but when I was working I was very much in the former as it was very difficult for me to get to Ewood for 7.45. The fact that right now it doesn't bother me personally is nice for me but still doesn't solve the issue for many other fans. Kicking off earlier will upset as many fans as it will please, in my view.

Well obviously not, but that wasn't my point. Normally I bring a friend who is nearly blind and we park behind the Blackburn End. Very close, for him, but it means sitting round after the game. By the time we are let out and I've taken him home to Longton it's usually close to 11pm by the time I get home - probably be later this season.. Last night I reverted to the place in Mill Hill I've parked since the 70s, which is a 10 minute walk. The good news is that my friend had an operation on his eye yesterday so hopefully hindsight will improve a bit. In truth it doesn't make a lot of difference to me what time the evening kick-offs are, being retired. I know it always used to be a rush to get to a night game after work and that is the balance that has to be found between those like you who don't want a late night and those that struggle to make it for 7.45 or 8.

You need a new watch 47er. The game finished at 9.45 - I was back in my car in Mill Hill at 9.55 and home in Penwortham by 10.20. I thought the first half 5 minutes was if anything not enough. There were 4 goals, a short injury break for Gilsenan and some time wasting by Walsall. And the second half was 8 minutes, not 9 and that was with 3 goals and 9 substitutions. Incidentally I see the clock was left running at the end of each half, which didn't used to be allowed. I assume that the rule has changed and that's for the better for me as everyone can see how long is left.

Not especially. He played a couple of fine passes but also lost possession 2 or 3 times leading to Walsall attacks that a better team would have punished us for. Zak Gilsenan was excellent and deserved his man of the match. He did a fair impersonation of Roy Wegerle. The small crowd allowed me some phone signal at half time and I had a brief look at this thread then. Buckley got some stick then but I thought he had a decent game - he played one of the passes of the game early on and made the best tackle of the night too. He was far from perfect but for me I thought he was fine. I can’t agree about passing to Ennis - if you’re in a scoring position put it away, don’t over elaborate. Maybe if we were 3 or 4 up yes, but not at 3-2. Garrett had another excellent game - the standard view on here is that he is not ready and needs a loan out but most times I have seen him I have been impressed. He doesn’t stand out for defence splitting passes like Buckley and Adam W but he’s always available, always involved and took his goal really well. Brittain seemed to play the same way as JRC, we’ll forward and leaving Barnes exposed, which didn’t help the defence.