In his pomp I thought Paul Scholes was a superb player, ripped us to shreds on a few occasions. Thierry Henry was another.

Mogga in today’s LT... “It should be a really good game and I hope the fans recognise the importance of this game and we get decent numbers in the crowd.” Hope he’ll be in Waggott’s ear too. As only an increase in season ticket holders will see the increase in crowds we all want (with a few offers till May, of course)...

According to wiki he is now playing for Real Monarchs (Real Salt Lake’s reserve team)

Orr revealed the way Kean has handled himself calls for a great deal of respect. "The gaffer stood out there tonight and took a lot of stick, I've got nothing but admiration and respect for him," Orr said. "He's done everything he could to push us in the right direction and motivate us. "The tactics, training, everything - one man who can look in the mirror and say he's given everything is the manager. "I'll speak for the dressing room and thank him for what he's done, he's taken things on the chin that he shouldn't have had to. "The supporters voice their opinions in whatever way they want towards the owners, the players and the manager. Sometimes a line can be crossed and the way the gaffer's handled things is exemplary. "He's certainly the best I've worked with as far as managers go. "It's easy for people to pass the buck but the reality is the group of players fell short, it's us that need to take responsibility. "We've let the gaffer down because everything he's done has been geared to pushing us forward and we haven't done that."

Danny Murphy in that debacle against Peterborough, 3-0 down after about 25 minutes and I think he was hauled off before half time. Didnt lift a leg, that’s why I always want to throw something at the TV when he bangs on about ‘work rate’.

Unless it's a purely business decision. Sign him up on a new contract for peanuts and flog him to a League 1 club in the summer...

He isn’t the standard required for a club with aspirations of top 6 in the Championship. Simple as that.

Bizarre one that. He’ll never make it at our level, won’t attract much in the way of a fee as he’s a lower league standard player on a one year deal. I had just assumed he’d be finishing the season at Southend and then ta ra. Gladwin next then, I assume?

The 5-0 at Coventry (was it Boxing Day '95 in the snow? Orange ball!) was the game when it really came home to me that we had thrown away our chance to be a sustained player at the top of the Premier League. Big mistakes had been made that summer. Ray getting the job, no (proper) signings. A team that had fallen over the line needed refreshing from a position of strength and we blew it. Obviously it wouldn't have lasted for ever, football was changing and we wouldn't have competed with the oil clubs, but we had a chance to really build the club up as the powerhouse outfit of the region outside the Manchester and Liverpool sides. In the blink of an eye it had gone

Rodwell has done well, but it was against two of the poorest teams in the division, Was it Swansea away that he was pulled over the place and looked anything but a centre half? He's probably grown into the role since, but lets not get silly re Mulgrew.

There is no doubt that the club is now infinitely better run than any other time between 2011 and Relegation vol. 2. However, for me he hasn’t as yet understood our fanbase/catchment area. He sees a 31,000 ground, a PL pedigree, fantastic training ground and academy, so expects *relative*success to bring folk flooding back. Williams understood from day 1 that though we have an extremely loyal core - this past decade has proved that, our floating fanbase is not at a city club level, so you have to work bloody hard first to get them in, and then keep them. A sniff of success at Waggott’s former club Coventry and their wide fanbase across the city and Warwickshire will swell their small core crowds immediately and substantially. Doesn’t work like that here and I hope he’s finally working that out.

Nobody else have a real feel of schadenfreude seeing those protests last night?

Or even more galling, that lot have a well organised branch set up. O2G - Does the club have any plans relating to this ? As I personally think we are missing a trick. https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/fans/supporters-clubs/

No it was definitely a standard 3pm https://www.worldfootball.net/report/premier-league-2005-2006-blackburn-rovers-fulham-fc/

Obviously plenty from the 90s. So I’ll go Tugay. Celtic away (still can’t believe we lost that game), Salzburg away, Charlton away in Curbs last game. Absolutely ran the games. Probably loads more with that bloke, but they’ve always stuck with me

Morally not the done thing in this country, perhaps. But if there’s nothing in the regulations about it, what are they trying to achieve?

As an example, Wolves have dozens of affiliated branches in this country, loads abroad too. Now Wolves do have a very big fanbase across the midlands, but there is no reason why we can’t replicate it on a smaller scale - have a Darwen Branch, Ribble Valley, South Ribble etc. https://www.wolves.co.uk/fans/supporter-clubs/#

Of course they could. I thought we had a canny PR operation these days? They could’ve even helped his new approach, I.e pre match interviews with fans outside the ground, by inviting him to Ewood/Brockhall to do a few interviews for the channel. Costs nowt, but shows the club in a good, open light.

All very Trelleborg-esque for me...

As does Rich Sharpe going by his 'Talking Points' article...

The fact he is now behind Nuttall says Mowbray has been scrutinising his form too...

Come on S8, 'he's great in training', has been rolled out for every struggling player since day dot, means nowt.

Exactly right, if it wasn’t for the price tag he’d be in the U23s already. Obviously the last few months have only reinforced the strangeness of this signing. But no shame in that for the lad, he is where he is development wise. Sitting on the first team bench will do little for him, he needs to work on his game by playing 90 minutes every week in a positive environment like Johnno’s team - Nuttall is the ready made example for its merits, so make the switch immediately and we’ll see him next season.

BB would’ve been ambling about on the right wing

The EFL clubs need to look at their own ridiculous decision to allow so many matches to be shown on red button/ifollow, that is the real threat, not some lad posting a shaky 5 minutes of footage after a match... usually with the main action like goals missed to boot.