I’m watching on DAZN, might have been a different section of audio, but he screamed in pain the second that left knee bent.

You couldn’t hear him scream when he went down?

If that’s as bad as it sounded, that could be career ending.

Yes

Yes, Gallagher tried to kick the ball but ended up twatting the back of their players legs.

I’ve given Buckley pelters a few times - bad choices, not physical enough, not influencing games. But tonight he’s been superb. If he can maintain this level of performance he’s going to be brilliant for us. I desperately hope he makes me eat my words.

How much for 2,000 leaflets delivered to each house on Brockhall questioning whether they want a building site outside their 500K house for 2 years?

We’d get overrun in midfield and lose 8-4.

I think it’s fair to say most top footballers undergo a body transformation at some point in their career - either through hard work or maturity. It’s not random that the elite clubs develop their players in this way. I can’t see any reason why it isn’t entirely plausible to suggest Buckley is currently lightweight and to succeed at a high level, must fill out.

I’ve absolutely no idea. He’d be coming here if I was in charge. And it would probably end badly.

I’m a romantic, I’d get Jordan Rhodes in to lead the line and Tugay in as manager.

Not at all. I don’t rate him, I’ve never rated him, I think his only hope is that he develops into a bigger frame. But I desperately hope he comes good and yesterday he didn’t stand out as not good enough, which is an improvement. But I may well be wrong.

I thought Buckley played well yesterday, not necessarily from a standout point of view, but much better than usual. I’d be interested to rewatch it again and try and focus on Buckley like @JoeHobviously has. I’m quite wary of video snippets, but will give it the benefit of the doubt because it’s Joe posting them and not a generic stats account. I used to work for the biggest sports broadcaster in the world and we often used to create a narrative then find snippets to back up our agenda. I once produced a 2 minute segment on why Kovacic was the best central midfielder in the Premier League because we wanted to see if we could make a convincing argument. It was broadcast to millions of people and was entirely plausible. He’s not even the best midfielder at Chelsea.

Oh crikey. Maybe that’s how you’re seeing it, but I disagree. I think taking donations is disingenuous. Nobody knows how many donations you receive, nobody knows who has donated and if they’re getting any special treatment, nobody knows how many donations are needed. So I stopped the donation offering for the site. The adverts have always paid the bulk of the site expenses. They where previously smaller and less intrusive. Google have changed them, They’re now bigger. We can’t control them, sadly. So we’re kind of stuck to them. Without bringing back donations - which I don’t agree with - the ONLY option I can think up (so far) is to allow an advert free subscription service.

I’m genuinely struggling - we haven’t decided to run the site with adverts, that’s how it has always run, it’s just now the adverts are being served in a different way.

In which case your post previous to this one makes absolutely no sense

You’re not seemingly understanding the situation here. To be clear: we don’t control how the ads look. The advertising is completely out of our hands. We either have: Have ads as they currently are - again - we cannot control how they look or operate. Have ads as they are, but offer users a subscription to be ad-free which matches what they’re worth to us through advertising. We MUST have either ads or subscriptions or take donations. The site is not for profit, it just about covers its bills with the adverts. It is not an option to not have any advertising or subscription.

Even once we’ve paid what we owe on him? Let’s say 52 weeks @ 10K a week, 520K. Plus given Newcastle their 40%. I make that 8.48M left over once everyone is paid. I’d agree, I think he’s replaceable if we got say 5M of that 8.48M to spend.

Buckley back in the squad. Still too lightweight, still some simple bad decision making. I think he’s desperate for a make-or-break loan.

Dolan and JRC look brilliant.

Arma out injured - confirmed by Lancs Live. Hamstring, 2 weeks.