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Yes, fair enough, can't argue with that. The feelings are historical with me. I always associate selling our best players with going backwards. As a kid fell I gutted when I saw my idols turning out for some-one else. I'd be be depressed for weeks. It started with Roy Vernon and continued with Pickering, England and so on. We always have been a "selling club" and I've adopted the attitude late in life that if some youth player turns out to be brilliant then I won't see him for long.

I read somewhere recently that we had the worst defence of all clubs in the top ten. This changes from week to week I imagine. But couple that with our low-scoring and it really does seem a miracle that we are even close to the play-off group.

Depressing but probably true.

The performance is irrelevant when we play that lot. Don't care how we did it if we win!

But we wouldn't want to would we? Are we bringing up these good young players for someone else?

so much for my memory!

I have never been as certain as I am now that that will not happen!.When did we last score 5? I think I remember one in Gesture's time. Gestede of course---predictive text!

Perhaps City gave him one?!!

If only!

Don't worry, when Mowbray was here and we lost matches it was all about the performance.

and lengthy possibly, simply making any victory a Pyhric one.

Makes me sad when the names of Rhodes and Gestede come up. In particular with Gestede. We had a regular route to goal then, which is completely cut off to us now. No tactician needed for them, they just put in the net every week. Who doubts that we would have finished in the top 6 and maybe better if we had 2 like those?

Yes but be fair. It does rather take the edge off a good result when you feel we'll fuck it up against a poor team at Ewood. Can't blame supporters for not being delirious in the circumstances.

JRC is injury prone sadly. I hope this doesn’t, damage his career.

Fisher was in Swanseas's side last weekend. Don't know about this..

And---he wasn't playing well.

The Circumlocution Office!!

I said I didn't rate him when we signed him but he's been asked to play where it doesn't suit him. We buy players, then try to shovel them into a "system". If he played on the wing and focussed on his crosses and cutting in and shooting he would offer something. Instead he just looks like he doesn't really know his role. He's no use without a target men up-front and he's not on his own.

I would definitely include Dolan.

In defence the future's looking fine, if we can keep them all of course.

We should have known that leaving it till 10-50pm when the deadline was 11pm was asking for trouble. That said the EFL is not coming out of this very well. The problem is now time, every game that goes by makes this signing less less and less relevant to our season. A great shame.

Given the lack of striking power you'd wonder why we have 2 wingers in the first place. Its a squad collected without plan. A while back it was the defence that was sub-par, we hardly had any centre-backs and we were making do at full-back. Now we've remedied that but have nothing up front! Its going to be one long journey!

Wonder if O'Brien will be allowed to play the last game of the season?!!

It'll end in some fine they can afford and banned from the Champion's League for a year. Too big to fail and all that.

Who's Thomas going to cross to?!