At what age shouldn’t you be bothered about playing?

I was trying to find the video. Something like ‘I know he’s been out a long time, but you can’t leave a player like him out’.

You disagree with Mowbray then, as he pretty much said that he would have one in his Sky interview on Saturday...

Exactly. The actual talent is only part of what makes a top end career. Commitment, not letting the riches and hangers on turn your head, avoiding injury etc.

We can’t possibly tell if he’s going to be a world star when he’s playing for us in the second division. He could well be a David Beckham-esque loanee or he could be a Jack Wilshire or Jermaine Pennant who were lauded as the next big thing in the game at 17.

God love you Phil, but you aren’t half prone to hyperbole

It was absolutely vital that this transfer worked out. £7million is an enormous amount of money for modern day Blackburn Rovers in an FFP environment. Has it worked out? Would we sell him in for a profit in January? Not yet and no. But there is undoubtedly a vast improvement and he is now contributing on a regular basis, so long may it continue.

Both the BBC and The Times are calling them ‘Chorley Town’

Great day for Chorley, but Christ Wigan keep hitting new lows., At the start of July they were the form team in the Championship. Now bottom 3 in League 1, a whole team sold and beaten at home by a club bottom of National North.

Good Rovers man is Neil Yardley, and I think a decent commentator, but the website writer adds nothing and often drags Neil down to his level. So unless they get a player in an odd time to co-commentate, like they have with Armstrong or Dack, let Neil just do it on his own.

From Cole’s autobiography being serialised in the Sunday Times. SWag by name, SWag by nature, it seems...

I remember getting to the team news with 1 page on a match thread in a lot of late Bowyer/Lambert/Coyle era games.

Amazes me that people still think this club works like others.

That’s fine K-Hod, but it needs to be enforced swiftly as one person can completely de-rail a match day thread, which is terrible for the board and can only drive folk away from bothering with this place at all.

Sky can only show 8 midweek rounds on the red button per their contract. “ ‘cos COVID “ there are 14 midweek rounds this season, so some weeks will be no red button.

People seem to think he’s been terrible ever since leaving us. Been more mixed than that. He was at Stoke for five years and they were comfortable enough in the PL for the most part.

I’ve no idea on that score and neither has anyone else re intentions, financial motivations etc. However, on the field I personally felt time was catching up with him before he left, that’s football, it can very quickly move on from you, IMO, of course.

Because we now have ‘optimum owners’?

‘A lot of IMOs’, well yes kind of the point of the board, no? He was poor by his standards in the closing stages. He’s certainly not a poor footballer or someone prone to inconsistency or any way out of his depth as a PL footballer of many years standing. So yes, that it was the physical demands catching up with a 36 year old non defender/goalkeeper is a fair assumption to make.

Thought he was excellent until lockdown, but looked well off the pace after the resumption. Not a massive surprise as legs can go seemingly overnight at his age, so that would be my worry, but needs must, I suppose.

We were supposed to have a new style of play last season? What was that then?

The way it is round here, especially the BBC. Ian Chisnall was hated by a lot of Blackpool fans for never saying a word against Oyston on Radio Lancs.

Any reason you liked this post Phil? Matt certainly isn’t painting a picture of a club with ‘optimum owners’?

Do sides promoted with an ‘arsehole manager’ earn less?

That’s what everybody will have to do as he ain’t going anywhere (or next season either, I’d wager).