I imagine it's the opposite - he's retired so he's simply stopped being paid and his contract has been terminated. If he expects the contract paid up I'd fine him every time he misses a (gruelling) rehab appointment.

Hasn't Fleck retired?

Before Adam Wharton. After Adam Wharton. He really, sadly, is that good.

Renown talent factory? But they've literally bought him from someone else's Academy (and first team) and you've said as such in the headline. I don't care enough about that poxy club to research whether they bought Olise and Eze too, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.

Not, if possible, it needs to be a priority.

You'd have been livid if that header had gone in.

£22.2m in, £1.28m spent. Tells it's own story before you delve into the wage budget being slashed by approx. 20%.

We went away to Boro, who have won 4 of their last 6 (with 2 draws against us and Southampton), and completely neutered them. We had 2 good goals chalked off against Ipswich and they only scored because our GK is shite.

We definitely watch different games. We nullified Boro away, we played Ipswich off the park on Friday and we've hammered Sunderland today. We're no longer exciting to watch, but we're much more solid.

They've just taken 6 points from 2 games when they deserved, at best, 1. That's luck.

Yeah, one of the worst teams to come to Ewood this season - didn't have a sniff. Clearly they're an incredibly lucky team.

I think if JRC was just less injury prone he'd be playing in the PL. Chrisene made a massive difference at LB - Pickering's lack of pace was killing us.

Sadly he does - I've lost count of the number of games where he's clearly out on his feet, but they don't take him off.

He got a goal and an assist today.

I'd like him to be fit for those 6 games.

He didn't look that good against Ipswich. Every now and again, like today, he looks like a really useful player that warrants some of the hype he gets (Luton interested in him etc).

Season tickets are counted as part of the gate.

I imagine it was because he was on a hattrick and Eustace bottled taking him off. After CB, #10 is our strongest position - we have about 5 players lined up to play there, but Szmodics is never subbed off.

We beat Ipswich with a less biased ref. Sunderland had Jobe Bellingham (a midfielder) leading the line today - they were toothless.

Yeah if you won't play him now the he has to be sold in the summer.

In the sequence of play that inspired that comment, Brittain gave him the ball - Markanday played him right back into trouble - Brittain gave him the ball back then Markanday got bullied and lost it 30 yards out to spark a Sunderland attack.

Dolan is the MOTM btw - the one game in ten where he looks really useful.

LOL Markanday is just shite.

We don't need them sneaking into the playoffs. That's a shocking loss for them.

We'll start a Go Fund Me page for your bar tab.