These dollopers have had us up in 5th and 6th for quite a while. And there's likely to be no real budget to replace them with non-dollopers in the summer.

Watched Alien: Romulus the other night. Thought it was really good, the best Alien film in years.

Do we think it's managing the famous Blackburn Rovers, or touching Harry Pickering's hand, that is giving Valerien a stonking erection in that first picture?

What a blinding player. By which I mean he made me want to blind myself.

Do you mean under pressure? He has two players closing him down, and even the tweet you've posted describes it as under pressure. It also doesn't go out of play, but his final pass is to the opposition as he's ran out of options. He made a mistake for sure, there was an opportunity briefly to cut the ball slightly inside then play it to the man moving forward in the middle. But nobody is perfect and for sure you could find a clip of Wharton doing something as bad. I do think Rice is a little overrated from what I've seen, but I'm going to be honest and say I've seen far too little to make a judgement.

Moreover, a perfectly harmless letter. I would understand if the letter actually contained anything objectionable, but I can't even see the problem. It's only one or two cloud shouters as far as I've seen, but it's one of the strangest things I've seen people complain about on here.

What a bizarre reaction to a pretty standard letter saying he's happy to be here, respects our history and wants us to be committed and resilient going forward. The club has been a right mess lately, but you're just looking for something to get mad at now. I actually thought you were being sarcastic at first.

Personally, I can't wait to find out what aspect of his speech will be identified as being used too regularly and become an inane stick to beat him with when things don't go well. Will he be a 'you know', type? Or a 'absolutely', '100%', 'give it a right good go', 'in that way' aficionado? Will he say Blackburn instead of Rovers? Or will people just get annoyed with his French accent or marginally imperfect English? What absolutely non-football-related thing will it be? Exciting times, looking forward to seeing what loads of people get their knickers pointlessly in a twist about!

Travis and Dolan don't need any effort or commitment bringing to their game. Cantwell and Buckley do. So it could be good for them in that sense, if they can rise to meet the challenge.

Seems mad our new manager is signed to a longer deal than most (all?) of our players. How come we can give him a deal til 2028 when it could very easily go tits up with him (and you need to pay off a manager when that happens, you can't simply bench him), but seemingly not to even our best, most reliable players? Even Kargbo and Ribeiro only got relatively short deals and they only just rocked up.

I think we'll get bummed playing a high defensive line.

As much as I hate those pricks, I disagree on this. Lowe won his first game as caretaker, so it makes sense to keep him for the second. He won that too, so it makes sense to keep him for the third. He lost that convincingly, so now it makes sense to make the appointment. I don't see much of a problem with how this has been handled, we won 2 out of the last 3 after only having won 2 of the last 11 (in the league). It worked, and also gave time to conduct the process more thoroughly (in theory...fuck knows what they actually did it in practice) and for more candidates to become available or make their interest known.

Quite a lot of those carrying injuries.

Higgins not playing seems odd. Didn't play for the u21s. Then again, Sergeant isn't starting either, but at least he's on the bench. Maybe resting them since they played Saturday, but Higgins was subbed off last match and doesn't make the bench, whilst Sergeant played the whole thing and makes the bench. Did Higgins take a knock against Manure?

Not so far. Very strange indeed how we are using him. The highest wage at the club allegedly, has come not fully fit, and yet the most we have given him at U21 level is 45 minutes when he first arrived, and we have him largely sitting the bench, only coming on once for a 34 minute cameo. With one start in the cup, and 66 minutes in his legs there. He clearly should be getting 90 minutes, or close to, in the U21s. If he isn't fit and ready to start very soon it will really be a waste of a money and our marquee signing from the window. I mean, there are only 12 games left now, and I'm presuming he won't start the next game either, which would make it 11 at best.

The problem is it's Crewe in League Two. Playing well and scoring goals for Crewe in League Two is precisely where we found him two seasons ago. We can't learn anything from this loan spell. It can act as a bit of a reset from him, but realistically he isn't going to threaten our first team squad before he shows he can also do it at League One level. Where he has failed to make an impact very recently.

That was last season

I really wish you'd been right here and not me.

I'd actually misread/missed that part of your previous post and not realised you were saying you couldn't do blue and white, sorry. Thanks for the info though, that's a shame.

Exclusive: Bethnal is Buckley

He's poor, but that's pushing it. The fact he plays so much exposes him though.

Honestly those are the ones that scare me the most. I'd rather play a team in indifferent or even great form lol. I've seen us end way too many losing streaks, and winning streaks! With Rovers I've learnt to expect the unexpected results!

Surely you know by now that Rovers are the best team to play if you're in terrible form?

We know.

If you'd found out about him through other means (a Nixon link for example), and he wasn't an ex player, you wouldn't be interested based on his CV. People want Duff because they're letting their emotions rule, not their logic. Nobody is saying he might not turn out great, pretty much any manager could, but he doesn't have the CV for this job and we should have higher standards.