Exiled_Rover

I'll tell you what, it's news to me that Blackburn is in the back of beyond. Everyone wants to leave so they can be closer to their family.

Wood and Salt are playing for England. Green and Turner are away with Australia (I think). Don't think Buttler will play. So it's not our strongest team at all. Well done ECB, as ever.

This hurts my soul.

Genuinely, can you two just get your own thread? Or just start DMing each other. Either or.

Lancs through to the Blast Finals day. Shame it's sandwiched between two England T20 internationals so the best players won't be there.

Gallagher paced, perhaps. Doesn't look quick.

I'm obviously on record as thinking he's a very useful player - he HAS to start though and we have to start playing to his strengths (crosses into the box - a novel idea). If he's unhappy he'll be off though - as suicidal as that is to shift him on, I can see him being a very difficult character around the building if he's unhappy. He's a big personality.

At some point someone has to pay the piper - to the tune of £200m and counting, and the kickbacks from every contract and sale wouldn't pay for a single one of their extravagant parties.

Cos Rhodes is going to have to play?

The ball couldn't come back any quicker than it does with Ohashi upfront - which is the only merit we'd have in playing the equally slightly Tyjon as the 9.

17 year old Tyjon.

Every other team in the league has multiple attacking options. We've decided 2 CF is enough and we can sell the other one. Injuries? Loss of form? Nah, we don't account for those. It's criminal what these people are doing.

Being relegated to a 'Plan B' role is why he's disappointed. He's simply not an impact sub - he struggles to get up to the speed of the game. We looked our best when he was starting games and then Ohashi was coming on against tired legs on 60/70 minutes.

"This Japanese lad can't hold the ball up for toffee. Let's sell that big Senegalese lad and open up the pathway for that tiny English lad - I'm sure that'll solve all our problems."

How does one find Iceland v Azerbaijan on the telly...?

"Hi mate fancy taking a 70% paycut to play at a team where you put no effort in for 6 months? No? No bother then, have a good weekend".

Absolute suicide, but hey it's all about saving cash.

The opposite - Wrexham were sniffing around for a CB in that price range (they were after a bloke from Bristol City for £2m and told to jog on).

I'm not confident saying we've drastically regressed until I've seen the players actually play.

Where do they get those figures from? e.g. even going off Transfermarkt, Derby's CF cost £6.9m and their RB £2.5m. Was Travis free? Carlton Morris free? No loan fees paid for Beck, Brereton-Diaz et al?

I mean he hasn't played for 9 months and it's still £40k a month at 35 when you're unemployed. He might.

I'd like him to start wearing trousers long enough to cover his ankles - and to start wearing socks.

So did Hyam escape without having to make a hostage video?

As people keep pointing out to me - it's more to do with the fact that Hyam is noticeably worse at LCB. I'm not sure why that is.

He better hope we don't loan anyone south of Birmingham. This lot wouldn't pay his M6 Toll expenses.