Ah, didn't realise that. He was that far behind play I assumed he must have been waved back on the pitch. I've lost track of the current offside law. Does that not raise all sorts of issues as to whether he would have been offside the second he touched the ball?

Interesting.

So hypothetically, if you had identified a piece of land that had potential for development, used your influence with the owner of the land to persuade them to sell, obtained planning permission and alerted developers you wouldn't expect (a perfectly legal) "finders fee" off the developers? And what would any arrangements between you and the developers have to do with the finances of the seller? Wouldn't affect them at all.

Obviously if Mr. Waggott told us tomorrow that the earth was flat, 1864 would dismiss as hysterical everyone pointing out that that couldn't possibly be right as all available evidence pointed to the contrary!

It's too late once the plans have been passed and Cat 1 status subsequently gets declined! What's Waggott going to do, say sorry lads we've miscalculated, could you rip those houses down and sell us the land back please?

You just don't get it do you? These plans, if passed would be the death of the Academy. How do you think we can possibly retain Category 1 Academy Status under the new plans?.

But all too predictable judging by his contrary contributions on the match day threads. He must be "working class" like Tony!

Yes and No!

Fair enough. Perhaps the owners expected them to be acting in good faith and not trying to feather their own nests though!

And it's not difficult to figure out why we were inexplicably training on a pitch that was already knackered in light of recent events is it?

Or a succession of different people taking advantage of absentee landlords. Ultimate responsibility lies with the owners of course. Their name is over the door.

Absolute nonsense. There was a legitimate coming together shoulder to shoulder and Dack went to ground and it looked an absolutely nothing incident. 999 times out of a 100 that wouldn't have resulted in any injury at all let alone a bad one. I'm also Mowbray's least biggest fan but even I don't think you can blame him or not blame him for not playing him enough or playing him too much. Nor would I blame the pitch, it didn't look like anything nasty had occurred it was just a dreadfully unfortunate occurrence. Medically I'm not qualified to comment on Dack's likelihood of picking up an ACL on the other side due to overcompensation but if the medical team say Dack is fit to go Mowbray is entitled to rely on that.

I'm not going to criticise him for feeling bad for Dack but I feel that's actually one of his main weaknesses, not being ruthless enough and not getting rid of players who either aren't good enough, are past it or who are simply swinging the lead. (Not Dack) Was going to launch into another tirade against Mowbray but more worried about Dack and hoping it's not as serious as feared.

Fair point. Like comparing typhoid with cholera though and Chris Brown didn't cost £5m and would have been on a fraction of Gallavher's wage.

He only realised he was there just as Dack was on top of him he didn't know he was coming towards him when he rolled the ball out. 99 times out of 100 the opposition player would have simply re-entered the field of play and tried to get back onside. You can't blame Dack it was a decent piece of opportunism and gamesmanship but you'd be fuming if an opposition player had done that to us and scored. It was within the rules but against the spirit of the rules. Just hope it's nothing serious.

Calm down, if we'd have scored, they'd have upped it a gear and scored again. Men against boys.

Unfortunately another narrow defeat and loads of ready made excuses for the manager tonight. I actually think the ref should have blown up against Dack for unsporting behaviour as Raya had no way of knowing Dack was coming up behind him and it would have prevented the collision and unfortunate injury.

Unfortunately the ref only gave Bennett a yellow and not a red there.

The one on Nyambe was a penalty, that was never a penalty in a million years. Just hope the injury to Dack isn't what we fear.

He might if it's correct Pasha's in town. He's already been feigning an unusual amount of interest on the touchline tonight.

Lenihan - dear me.

Yes we have fantastic infrastructure training facilities and Academy. Oh wait........

Mowbray's continues to take the piss. I know Buckley had just got a yellow but at 0-1 down, you have to take the risk.

Don't agree at all. Think Raya is a much better shot stopper, Kaminsky is slightly better as a sweeper keeper but overdoes it a bit and is very lucky he hasn't been caught out on numerous occasions this season.

Nyambe has a broom up his arse constantly having to come narrow to cover for people who are out of position defensively.