Mattyblue

This Oz side is top quality. Most aren’t at this level, Duckett isn’t an issue.

Duckett’s is nearly 50. He’s certainly good enough.

I’m not particularly arsed about the England football team, club before country every time for me, but I do enjoy how the country has a jolly old time when it’s major tournament time. But I shouldn’t support them because of the government and the FA? So I shouldn’t support Rovers because I have no time for Blackburn with Darwen Council or Venky’s?

‘He came with some issues from Plymouth’ you can interpret that anyway you want. Niggles, lack of fitness, poor set up down there compared to here.

BBC aren’t interested.

Agreed. The best pundit for the EFL is Don Goodman and he’s in the commentary box, it’s often amateur hour when it goes back to David Prutton and whichever cliche spouters they’ve brought in this week (Christ knows how he got that gig by the way, but says it all of how important the lower leagues are to Sky).

I assume Leeds will be taking advantage of there being no £30 away price cap in the Championship and will back to charging c£40…

Our match day prices are fairly middle of the road, no real issue there. It’s STs where we are falling down as reflected by our sales that are I believe are only in front of Rotherham in the whole division. Whereas haven’t they always had daft matchday prices at Hillsborough? Sure I remember paying over £30 for a night game there in the Bowyer/Lambert era (and lets face it we are never a Cat A opposition, well we are, but not priced as such!).

Shows you don’t need much, just folk that care.

Maybe because they can separate the government of the day from a football (or cricket etc etc) team?

At least the pundits pretend to look interested in the EFL, I’d be potting that Woozencroft instead who sounds like he’s there under duress, pining to be back on talksport anchoring another fascinating discussion on Tottenham’s latest draw.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/15866334.nostalgia-trip-shops-new-chapel-street-mill-hill-early-60s/ Congregational Church. The cultural vandalism in the 60s and 70s was insane. The amount of beautiful Victorian buildings bulldozed is unfathomable looking back now.

Have we ever put in a top performance in the first kick about of pre season? I can’t remember one, so expecting anything at all is expecting too much. A pure fitness exercise, even the game format is a clue to what the respective managers want to get out of it.

To be fair just like you can’t judge our team on the back of a mid July kick about, you certainly can’t judge one with six trialists playing.

Needs a jet wash.

‘Fido has gone to live on the farm (no, it’s not a farm we can visit… right off to Austria for that friendly we go’.

Chilton, Chapple, Allott (has he finally stood down?). All seems very jobs for the boys down there.

‘All night games are Cat C’… few months later… ‘err except Sunderland as they’ll fetch a few!

Overcrowding in concourse areas from memory… not exactly what you want to hear about that stand, is it!

Smudge has always been a nickname for Smith, no? Dirty blacksmiths and all that?

The capacity of the Leppings Lane end has been reduced again too as it’s failed yet another safety certificate- needs condemning.

Cat A+ out of cold storage? Think of the ‘revenue quantum’s’!

‘Lancashire are now a corporate hospitality company with a cricket team bolted on’ Michael Atherton.

We haven’t see the prices here for the Leeds game yet! 😱

Even better, more time for us to crash through that 9k barrier prior to the meeting. Swag will be chomping on a celebratory cigar, Birdy beaming in his free shirt. (Nah, like Gooze said it will end up being 7 thousand and something, but he’ll still have hit his stretch target).