QPR need snookers to get into the playoffs.

Millwall are sill in with a shout but if Rovers win their last 2 games Millwall would have to win theirs and improve on our results by a 6 goal difference. If Rovers don't win then it's irrelevant as far as we are concerned what Millwall do.

He won two free kicks in a row, from the second of which Lenihan scored the third goal.

Matt - it's very close to the end of the M65 and junction 29 on the M6. It's easily walkable from Lostock Hall station and a bit further from Leyland station. The 111 bus from Preston to Leyland will run right by it. I can walk to it from home! It would be hard to think of anywhere else as close to the centre of the county. This from Lancashire's press release - Lancashire will continue to use the club’s current outgrounds across the North-West at Liverpool CC, Southport and Birkdale CC, Blackpool CC and at Sedbergh School once the new facility has opened.

I did post it at the beginning of December when it was announced but it got lost around the Ashes. I don’t know where the plans are with planning permission but there was some unsurprising local grumbling at the time.

There’s a link in the Academy thread to an 18 year old who Everton are releasing, who hasn’t played for the first team. It’s just another lad being brought into the Academy to see how he does. May turn out to be a Dolan or one of the many others who didn’t make the grade.

I’ve been parking in and around Mill Hill for around 50 years and have only once had a problem. Parked just on the other side of the canal bridge on Albion St (when you were still allowed) someone broke a rear window to pinch 3 bags - unfortunately them they only had wet towels and trunks as I had taken my the young lads to Waves before a game. I’ve never seen any other issues parking just outside the restricted signs. But at least once every season I have seen car windows broken on Albion St between the canal and Livesey Branch Road - don’t park there.

I think it was Deepdale that 1864 Roverite was referring to.

Ayala scored one at home against Hull early on in the season. And then there was Dolan against Derby, albeit from Dack's cross from a corner rather than straight from the corner kick. Adding Wharton's at Coventry and Van Hecke's at Bournemouth and 5 doesn't seem too bad to me. And there have been some headed goals from free kicks as well.

Train at 18.22 getting to Preston at 18.40. It will be rammed mind......

I thought there was a fair chance of the Bournemouth game being moved for Sky but clearly not.

Not that hard Rigger. Won 2-0 with goals from Vale after 4 mins and Brennan after 94. 8 unbeaten and the form team in the league with 4 wins and a draw in the last 5.

Should Everton go down they will be in danger of a complete collapse. A big new stadium to pay for, losing Usmanov’s sponsorship money and apparently none of the players have relegation clauses in their contracts.

Apologies - I had somehow moved from the Rovers game to the QPR one! We do indeed have all the stand.

That's curious, as I looked on the PNE website just before and could buy seats in 3 blocks of the Bill Shankly stand.

As an aside I see that North End are continuing to put home fans in to the Bill Shankly fans reducing the capacity for away fans. I had assumed that they were just doing it as a tit for tat for the Blackpool game for when they gave them less tickets than us for the reverse fixture. So the allocation for Rovers fans will be much reduced.

One possible advantage we might have is that Blackpool have their real derby against the nobbers tonight. I was in Preston at 3pm and there were already police all over the place.

It's a bit previous to be writing off a player like Hedges who has played less than 1.5 games so far in total minutes with only one start.

I watched the last 20 minutes or so of the QPR game and they never remotely looked like scoring in that time, against the worst defence in the league, one which specialises in conceding late goals.

Sorry Gav, I read it as both were gone!

Gav - Mavis Staples is still alive at a sprightly 82.

He fooled you there Chaddy.

Yes - why would you think they didn't?

Nowt Gav. Stokes might yet make 100 in a session.

Err no, 16th just below Swansea. Although to be fair, as well as the points deduction, they have suffered from not being able to bring players in and losing a few.