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We know those two things already. The LT will have just updated ‘planning to meet’ with ‘has met’ in the articles. Indeed, the Telegraph would have been delighted to nab a post India interview so quickly and would have been all: ’EXCLUSIVE- Mowbray speaks post India’ etc.

More of a When Saturday Comes man myself...

Those quotes won’t be post India. The LT will be doing what they do every summer, conduct a fairly wide ranging interview with the manager after the last game and then sprinkle bits of it in each day’s paper for as long as possible.

All hail the benevolent Venky's! Can you imagine in our heyday going on to their boards and pontificating on how their tinpot organisation was run, how greatful they should be to Ingleby or whoever for keeping the lights on and what response we'd have got?

Interesting hat Mogga's comments are also being published on the offiical site... https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2018/may/tony-identifies-transfer-requirements/

Hameed's form has fallen off a cliff, so it looks as if he'll be learning his trade at county level for the forseeable (if he can even get into the Lancs team!).

Could well be. Though he is busy at the moment, fresh from his residency on the Shrewsbury forum, here he is giving his pearls of wisdom to devestated Swansea fans; https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/swanseacity/forum/223520/michael-laudrup./#189

Rightly let go? Behave yourself, the guy is and was a class act at this level.

‘Sympathetic’.

Pitch invasions were a fairly regular occurence until probably the mid 90s, then they rapidly died off, for example there wasn’t even an inkling to do it at Anfield 95 or Deepdale ‘01. They are back with a vengeance now - Man City fans seem to be on their pitch every week. Social media generation. I assume Wembley pitch invasions will be next?

Boos, ‘off, off, off!’ ‘where were you when we were shit?!’ Villa Park sounds familiar! At least we’d actually achieved something though!

You don't 'just tell' Madame!

I like the fact it’s a little more genteel down the Cottage. Doesnt do for every away day to be the same...

A lot of 'names' in that Derby team, but quite a few of them look one paced and were miles off a rapid Fulham team, superb pass and move football at times.

Well they can't trot out the usual excuse of the England team being 'jaded'. A load of the squad don't even get a game for their club!

Wilshire seems to have played a fair bit since Christmas?

Couple of seasons in the Hughes era from memory, that’s it.

There is a place for the 1,500/2,000-ish regular Riversiders to go - the Jack Walker. Though you would think that’s it for the closures, and closing the Riverside would create a furore bigger than the other two put together, there are a hell of a lot of folk in there that have been Riversiders for decades.

It’s possible as that would still leave 15,500-16,000 home seats - which has more than sufficed since 2012. Though the club should now be of the mindset that we have bottomed out and should be striving to increase attendances.

Evans still has another year, no?

Looking on their forums, they seem quite angry about his departure - had nothing to spend, how will McClaren do any better etc.

He's in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks a run of the mill fixture against West Brom, Swansea, Wigan etc is going to provide an away following of anywhere near 5,500, never mind 7,000+

“We hope supporters can understand the rationale behind this decision" Steve, the rationale you are publically going with is nonsense . As only Leeds (though not certain) and perhaps Preston will bring over the 5,500 that can be housed in the usual away half of the lower and the whole upper tier, there wouldn't be 'constant disruption'. As I said yesterday, why not just tell the truth? You wanted to cut costs and move home fans closer together.

They already do, started back end of last season from memory. Probably not had much success with it this season due to some of the tiny away followings.

Existing fans could be just keen to renew, so a busy day doesn't necessarily mean we are in line for increased overall sales. However, club did re-tweet this fella: