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Morton being asked to do the Szmodics press from central midfield. Relies on Garrett or Travis being able to keep hold of the ball… which they cant. Mola not filling me with confidence either.

It can only be left back to counter their seriously quick wingers. I suspect Szmodics being injured has forced his hand in midfield, so he’s matched them. Kaminski Brittain Ayala Hyam Mola Travis Morton Garrett Hedges Gallagher Brereton. Nothing like I would have done, but that’s a team trying to win not contain them.

I’d be asking the pub to keep on top of the result and keep me updated for a tip! Hope Mrs Herbie enjoys her birthday. I’ve not slept, can’t eat and have been sat at the door since 07:15 ready to leave. I’ve been offered tickets to the game, but I can’t put myself through it. The local pub is showing it, but I know there’s Dingles in there and I can’t risk that if they win. So I’m travelling to Blues Bar safe in the knowledge that if the worst happens, I can drive back home straight away, lock the door, turn my phone off and stroke my dog all evening.

Still only 5 points away from being out the top six. We’ve been in better positions before and fallen way short.

I suspect it’s more a case of ‘he won’t kick up a fuss if the right offer for him doesn’t come in’ rather than ‘he wants to stay on’. If someone turns up with mega money and a huge opportunity he will throw his toys out the pram if we stop it. They all will.

I feel like I’m in the fecking twilight zone here!!

Monotone. Right good go.

Speculation time, but here’s my prediction. Twitters biggest problem is the users make more from adverting than the platform. There’s no way Musk will stand for that. Take Kim Kardashian, for example. Her fee to post about your brand is a million dollars and she’s said that before in public. Musk will use his tech / PayPal history to create a simple way for advertisers to pay influencers to tweet about their brand and the process will funnel everything through twitters revenue as well as a small commission. This will only be available to blue tick paying influencers. Eg: I want to sell BRFCS merch on Twitter. I log in to their “advertising” section, give them a budget and they suggest relevant blue-tick Twitter accounts who will promote my merch alongside their fees. I decide to go with David Dunn for £2,000 and Matt Jansen for £1,500 based on the amount of Rovers supporting followers they have. Twitter takes my £3,500, the revenue is funnelled through Twitter then both players are paid for the tweet minus a small commission. This would create - I suspect - Billions.

Not worth it, thanks but no thanks. Enjoy the game, stay safe, may the best team win.

History says it won’t. If they’re within touching distance and spend in January they’ll go up. Same applies for us, Sheff United, Norwich and the rest of them.

You’re right on the borderline of moving from being a welcomed contributor from the other side of Pendle to an annoying troll. We’ve plenty of resident Dingles on here that don’t cause headaches, either stop causing them or we will stop you from being able to.

Operation Claret and Blue is underway.

I’ve just asked the same Q - can someone tag me if they are?

Is Hirst on?

Would be a good move to be fair. His style would suit them.

I’m a little concerned JDT doesn’t know the importance of next Sunday given he’s happy to risk BBD and Hyam. Kompany on the other hand sounds well prepared, I saw an interview today of him saying ~”I understand the importance of the Derby and won’t be giving our opponents any praise in the build up” when asked what we do well…

Lock the thread and concentrate on the proper game, folks?

From the short period of time when Kaminski was injured, he was actually OK when we didn’t expect anything of him. He was useless after he’d set a decent enough standard, if that makes any sense.

Review from a friend at the game: “He’s either finished or he’s finished under the manager.” If that’s the case, I hope the latter. I really really feel for him and hope he has success elsewhere.

Because she’s a woman or because you don’t like her punditry?

The top 6 will be dictated - much like last year - by the January transfer window.

Jheez, wait until Sparks sees that.

El Lanclasico is worth a listen

Brereton-Diaz like some would say.

Same applies.