I Didn't actually think the fee we got for Cairney was a bad one given that at the time he had failed to achieve any real consistency and appeared to be a player who flirted in and out of games. Obviously he went on to be a far more influential player after he moved to Fulham but hindsight is a wonderful thing sometimes. As for Sir Bradley, never mind who might be coming in if we go up, the first task for me should be to tie him down on a vastly improved contract with a release clause in the order of £20m which will hopefully deter any interest in him.

Shocking fight, the referee was one of the worst I've ever seen, as soon as it looked like there was going to be a bit of action he jumped in way too early. Not sure if I'd blame either fighter, Joshua quickly figured out he could win risk free on points by keeping Parker at long range on tbe end of his jab. Parker showed great durability but the only chance he had of winning was by getting up close to Joshua and the referee intervened whenever he tried. Also hated the pre fight razmatazz with all the pyrotechnics going off while Joshus preened to the crowd. There was even a bloody x on the walkway indicating where he should stop and pose. If then after that you dont really perform you end up looking a bit of a tit. Eddie Hearn is turning it into the WWE. A normal basic ring walk is plenty dramatic enough.

Good shout although you're still potentially going to run into problems with situations that are subjective and open to interpretation. Technology works for black and white situations such as is the ball over the line, or in other sports is the ball in or out in tennis or with the aid of CGI in cricket would the ball have hit the stumps etc. It's no help at all in situations that are open to interpretation. Plus in the other sports such as tennis or cricket there are natural breaks in play after every ball or point which there aren't in football. Im amazed so many in the media who were all for VAR are surprised that it has been an unmitigated disaster thus far. I'd go even further than you Stu and scrap VAR altogether just sticking with goal line rechnology. At an absolute pinch maybe you could check for any disputed offsides after a goal is scored.

"Congratulations. You've won the speedboat! Shame you live in Birmingham.!" Just had a quick look online and forgot he along with many others first came to our attention as a stand up comic on The Comedians. I enjoyed him at that as well with his deadpan the "whole world is conspiring against me" persona far removed from his cuddly Bullseye image.

Sad news about Jim Bowen. Went up on stage with him very many moons ago at a pantomime somewhere in Blackburn when I was about six and ended up singing Old McDonald had a farm. Lol. Very nice man. RIP

Your argument about supply and demand only stacks up if price is the only thing stopping 18 -24 year olds from attending foorball and whilst that may be the case at Premier League level where season ticket prices can run into 4 figures, as already explained I dont think it i is in our case The Club has already made football affordable for nearly all by introducing the direct debit scheme a number of years ago and a season ticket in the Riverside is a fraction over 30 quid a month for 9 months. No-one has to find £400 or even £279 up front. Without wishing to sound too harsh if you can't afford that then you should probably not be thinking about buying football season tickets but spending your income on essentials instead. The other point you made was about the across the board price reductions years ago. They were a good idea because they benefitted everyone not just a small proportion of the fan base. As Old gregg points out there will be quite a lot of 18 -24 year olds who still live at home and have quite a bit of disposable income. Equally there will be many who are hard up but there'll also be many people who are hard up in any other age range you care to mention as well. Why should someone aged 18-24 get a cheap ticket, but someone who's aged say 28 -34 and who is struggling financially for whatever reason doesn't? Not that I'm saying either group should benefit as the price of tickets isn't means tested (other than on the very basic level of whether you're allowed to work or not) and the idea seems very unfair to me.

What rubbish, I'd love a brand new car but can't afford one. By your "logic" that's Ford's fault so they should halve the price of their new cars so I and thousands like me could possibly afford one. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be averse to doing something really drastic to try and fill the stadium, like reduce prices for everyone to a fiver as long as the owners were happy to take the financial hit and lose even more money but to virtually give tickets away to a small section of the adult population who are perfectly capable of full time work purely on account of their age seems a terrible idea to me. If I'm in the minority on that so be it.

If you want to catch young people then the time to do it is when they are children and get them hooked. I'd be amazed if the main reason young adults didn't go to Rovers was the price per se, i'd guess at that age it would be more to do with choice, deciding that it was more important to go out socialising and chasing the opposite sex as oppposed to wasting your leisure time watching a mediore championship/League 1 side.

It works out about £30 p.m. on a season ticket on D/D in the Darwen End. If people can't afford that it isn't really the Club's fault and I imagine the majority of the lads and lasses we're talking about wouldn't blink at spending £50 upwards getting lashed on a night out.

I'm all for cheap prices for 16 -18 year olds or anyone over 18 in full time education. Orherwise why should a ticket for an over 18 be any cheaper than an adult one? In relative terms the season tickets are cheap as chips anyway.

Spot on. Graham is no good unless you play the ball right up to him with his back to goal and Samuel is no good unless you play balls in front of him to try to run on to. If you reverse it Graham hasn't got the pace to get onto anything, and Samuel hasn't got the close control to play with his back to goal. We played to Graham's strengths perfectly when he was on yesterday but played exactly the same when Samuel came on as well.

I think that was it, it was before Howard Kendall was appointed, we wanted Jimmy as manager, he turned us down but advised us during our search for the right man and fortunately we very much found the right man in Howard Kendall.

Always seemed to be a very nice bloke and completely devoted to his beloved Blackpool. They dont make them like Jimmy, Finney, Ronnie and Duggy anymore more's the pity. Didn't Bill Bancroft want him as manager at one point in the 70's? He turned us down but helped the Club in an advisory capacity for a period as I recall.

To be fair the majority of people on here were dismissing him before he signed as an injury prone crock and another dodgy signing by Coyle in that he was just handing a contract to one of his mates who'd never be out of the treatment room. So perhaps it's understandable he went through some sort of trial process. Got to hand it to Coyle on this one. Great signing.

It's just some bollux on the internet. There's not the slightest suggestion the player wants to move or we have any interest in selling. Hypothetically, if the player was desperate to move, then we'd have to be asking Norwich to hand over the 14m they received for Pritchard.

From what I've heard that's quite an understatement. From what I've been told the Club have intervened to help him out and I hope he is given the chance to repay the faith shown in him. From what bits I've seen of him he looks a cracking player and I'd play him ahead of Evans every day of the week personally.

Who have you seen so far this season that looks a better bet than us for promotion? I must admit after the Fleetwood game I never expected us to go on a long winning run or suddenly start scoring three or four per game but having finally hit the magic 2 points per game mark that usually ensures automatic promotion id be desperately disappointed if we dont go up automatically now. Shrewsbury and Charlton seem to be dropping back and even Wigan looked terrible when we played them imo. I wish we'd gone at them with the more positive attitude we've shown during the winning run but nevertheless they're now within sight and very catchable imo.

Indeed!

Rhodes scores for Sheffield Wednesday against Norwich. Against Grant Hanley too. Go on Jordan lad.

I woulsn't sell Dack or Mulgrew for any money this season so integral are they to our prospects. Anyone else I would suggest has their price and could be replaced reasonably easily by someone of similar quality and importance. You'd struggle with those two though.

Not far out with the old prediction Lol. 0-1 down then Tomlinson comes on and we get to 3-1 up. Coincidence? Wonder how many points TM has passed up this season by overlooking Chapman, overlooking Nuttall and overlooking Nuttall. We coukd be nearly promoted by now ! That though is nitpicking slightly. Put Charlton to tbe sword and Howard Kendall's Club record of eight straight League wins is coming into sight around the corner and over the horizon. To equal and surpass that is all I want for Christmas! How valuable to us are Dack and Mulgrew. Back into cryogenic cold storage for them for another week. Well done everyone.

Now the Posh are in trouble.........

Samuel Antonsson Dack should be pretty useful up front. Hope Tomlinson gets a chance to come on and impress. I'll go for us to defy the usual manager of the month hoodoo and record our usual 4-2 away win.

It would appear that the Oystons clearly siphoned off huge amounts of money from the Club into their own businesses Whilst our fortunes have declined, nothing like that would appear to have happened here. It's a pity though there wasn't another major shareholder about with plenty of money who could have taken the Walker Trust to task for not acting in their fiduciary capacity as Trustees when they first cut off funding from the Club then secondly a few years later sold the Club to owners without any previous experience of running a sports franchise. Hypothetically that would have been very interesting.

Terrible news. I suspect thats our season over as well unless Nuttall proves the salvation.