Neill's pre-match comments were spot on as were his tactics. As you say, we didn't change anything to counter it. We started that second half pretty well, if only that screamer from Travis had gone in.

True but this is NOW!

I do! Often!

I assumed clubs could return unsold tickets. Is that wrong?

I can dimly remember us losing to QPR on a plastic pitch---late 70's, early 80's? We were woeful and lost but the ball bounced so much the game wasn't the same. The synthetic pitches were banned not long after and QPR had spent the then enormous sum of a million quid on it. (Just waiting for a poster to tell me I remembered it completely wrong!)

The thing is though that those pitches of yesteryear were great levellers! The ball was hardly ever on the deck!(i'm exaggerating I know). Since I think we are playing better football than Stoke I don't want the pitch to cancel that out.

Sun's not in your eyes?

You're quite right. I made a complete bollocks of that one. No excuse--I just didn't read it properly before posting it.

Spurs, behind the scene, trying to unsettle our player by feeding "journalists"?

I've seen players sent off for less and stay on the field for worse. That's how it goes When he's already been booked? might as well miss by a mile, like Buckley did Might as well slip over with the goal gaping in front of you for that matter! These are all "ifs" and all opinion. As far as I'm concerned, taking the game overall, we were the better side and totally deserved to win.

Very speculative though?

Accepted. That was probably the easiest chance of the match, ironic that he'd done all the hard work! But that doesn't negate my point at all.

Me too! It came flooding back when I saw the photo but I can't say when it was pulled down. Here's some history about it. Ceased services in 1958 but doesn't say when it was pulled down. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/5952885.brief-last-glimpse-victorian-chapel/

I did catch on before you posted---honestly! I has forgotten completely about the old "Enclosure" possibly because I never, ever went in it!

WE created and missed more chances than they did! And we hit the woodwork twice. And they should have been down to 10 men. I do not see how we were lucky at all.

Fantastic to see the old Riverside again.Looks lower down than I remember it,

Someone on here recently calculated our points per game at 1.68. That , if maintained would give us another 18 points to take us to 76. But we've improved on that with our recent form so I think 76 points is very attainable and better than that wouldn't be surprising. That 76 surely would see us finish top 6. However I'm aware of our ability to not put away "easy" games so I'm confident but wary at the same time!

I'd be astonished if we didn't make 70 points from here.

They have improved recently and are now contenders for a place in the 6?

Aided by the fact that fewer turn up because its on Sky!

Scoring remains our achilles heel. Our GD is 1! You have to go down to 12th to find a team with a worse one.(Preston) 1 place above us are Boro with a GD of 21!

Its hard to work out What BBD's place is. He's not a central striker and he's not a winger. If we continue to play Dolan on one wing, and I hope we do, and Thomas on the other, there's just no place for Brereton at present. And I think he'll be sub while Gally is fit to play Gally is prospering playing where he should always have been. I've lost emotional issue with Brereton going, I'm just angry he's going for nothing (again!).

Well context is everything. If we lose Travis to injury say and miss out on the play-offs by 1 point then it is a very big deal indeed. Potentially we miss out on £165M which I believe is the financial value of promotion to the Premier League.

Yeah! Sorry.

How about trying via a VPN and choosing a northern base?