How can they be a ‘BRFCS Rep’ if the owners of BRFCS know nothing about it? * Though looking through the last minutes, it would be ironic if the person who left the forum after calling anyone with an issue with the owners ‘tremblers’ being this place’s ‘representative’

They never, ever learn and it’s cost them about a quarter of a billion quid.

Not particularly arsed about what he did at Ipswich, but it certainly is true that he went back on his word in joining us as a player. (Partially our own fault as we pissed about getting the transfer over the line and Fergie swooped).

TM goes today, new manager wins his first game and said FB imbeciles will be praising the owners’ wise decision making and how though they ‘respected the job he did, it was definitely time for a change’. Always the way, so best to ignore their claptrap.

Don’t think Ste is on it anymore

Tris? Though he doesn’t even post these days, never mind run the place!

That’s the interview managers give when they’ve run out of ideas and are pretty much asking for the sack and payoff. Either he’s heard he’s on the verge or even he’s under the illusion that we are a normal club where bad results = sack.

‘Something to believe in after the mad years ’. Why, what has he done that Bowyer didn’t do?

‘Understood to be displeased’, they medieval monarchs?

A muddled manager that has lost the plot has nothing to do with it then? The league table isn’t just a pure reflection of each playing squad’s quality or else footballers may as well manage themselves. Top 6? Probably not, due to his appalling recruitment in defence. But inadequacy of recruitment aside, this collection of players shouldn’t be getting to late February with the only target being 50 points either.

A green seamer in England will often flatten out after day 1 and be good to bat on day 2 and 3, or clouds at Headingley or Trent Bridge can quickly move away negating the big swing. Problem with a pitch like this if it is turning square from the first morning is it will only get worse and worse.

There’s always these uber-positive fools on social media, but they don’t matter in normal times - it’s the crowd in the ground that usually have the measure of a manager. Without that seemingly the only insight is Facebook groups and they are getting a prominence they generally don’t have (doesn’t make it any less infuriating to read like!)

Just think of the ‘Big x’ ticket bundles Waggott could flog for these upcoming relegation battles... beats mid table, doesn’t it!

4.45pm it is, then (which is just after the close at the cricket too 👀)

Are there 14 better squads?

Ideal world, pitches should offer a bit for the seam bowlers throughout, good for batsman once they are through the new ball and should spin days 4 and 5... obviously with regional variations, more spin in Asia, more swing and seam in England, for example. Spinning like this so early is taking the piss slightly, but I still prefer it the old feather bed Asian pitches were 550/4 declared was followed by 500 and the inevitable draw.

“I mean, who we gonna get?”

They are potentially decent signings, but they are so poorly coached and conditioned that we’ll only really know if someone else gets a go with them.

So people would turn down a Dyche, a Howe? Who gives a flying feck, they have no connection to east Lancs, they are mercenary professionals appointed to do a job

I take it we shouldn’t expect to see any green seamers for when India come here in the summer then? It’s just what home teams do, when they know the away side is out of their comfort zone with the conditions.

So all that hoo-hah about this ‘progressive, attacking football’ has led to pretty much the same amount of goals as usual, further away from the top 6 than the past two seasons and losing almost half our games...

In fairness, it wasn’t as unplayable as the second test, we were in decent shape at 74-2. Alas too many of our players just don’t have the technique in playing spin - which is no surprise as most of the Championship season these days is played outside of high summer when pitches take turn, and clubs that do prepare pitches that spin - Somerset, for example, get fined for doing so!

‘Best interests’ 🙄 It’ll certainly be in some people’s...

Seems a bit 2 + 2 = 5 here. Totally plausible scenario at a normal club, I just don’t see it as having unfolded like that here. Who ‘told’ him for a start?

Ste B was always on it, but I don’t think he joined as a brfcs rep, just a private citizen!