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Baz was messy.

Two footed, very quick, direct, skilled and free. What is there not to like? If Big Nige sees something extra in him and can even add further improvement, then he could be a great signing.

Show me a decent and well textured steak and kidney pie that is still vegan, and I MIGHT concede the point. Veg is OK with meat pies but a bit uni-dimensional with a veg pie. All flesh is grass originally.

Needs a non VPN fan to tell the club!!

It would be cheaper and more convenient to more people if there was decent parking and no silly restrictions. Sadly life is not that simple and if taxes were to rise even further from their current record level, some people might find it a problem. Whatever any national or local government try to do, they will piss off vast numbers of people. Infrastructure and funding are complex issues and we will only see the issues that affect us and not the bigger picture. From the point of view of fans, it would have been much better to have built the new stadium as originally planned and issues like parking and access could have been tackled with more of a clean sheet. The few dog walkers put paid to that and we have to live with the consequences. With home working likely to feature more in the future, will there be so much need for a commuter service?

I doubt if carnivores are annoyed by the presence of vegetarians. Virtually all the meat that I eat is from a vegetarian creature. Pie eating is a great football tradition for many of us, and if you don't want to eat yours, I will eat if for you.

The job that Downsy does is not as easy as it looks and it is easy but, in my view, a little unfair, not to give him a bit of respect.

A club that does not sell meat pies has no right to progress!

If you get on your knees and pray, you might be able to come up with such a mission statement.

If he's that good a coach, maybe he could be our head coach?

Blackpool Gazette reporting that JET could be available on a free transfer. Now he must be cheap and would guarantee to entertain. Is he a tad quicker than Martin>

Maybe his break from management has given him a chance to reflect on the true nature of the DNA of players and staff in a winning set up.

Experienced players often seem to to slow and disappointing and have poor availability over the season. I think they also have higher wages. Are these players really what we need to build a great team and stay solvent?

Maybe has a future as a defensive midfielder. Seems to get dragged out of position too easily as a central defender. Has pace and a degree of skill and is local. Maybe needs management!

What would a parking scheme actually entail?

Job for Lee Johnson!!

Red diesel!

First time I have ever heard the name Ruddock and culture linked! Maybe you are thinking of the chap with outsized shorts?

Two injuries to central defenders would leave us buggered! Cover is insurance!

We are not going to win promotion with the current squad but are also highly likely to avoid relegation. Nigel has to keep reasonable results bubbling along and at the same time has to develop the excellent crop of young players that we have coming through from the academy. He has a small squad and, at the same time, to manage injuries and form issues amongst the experienced players. He appears to be handling the difficult balancing act very well - albeit in the face of criticism from the usual quarters. In my humble opinion, we have good reason to be optimistic about the future.

I wouldn't be surprised if he has been brought back so that Nige can do a masterful re-organisation of the team. You can fully expect to see Ayman Benarous playing at centre half and Ryley Towler as an attacking midfielder.

Not saved by the seat of his pants - sounds like he must be a gashead.

You only have to look through this forum to see an awful lot of pretty dispiriting criticism of players and staff. People seem to be reluctant to weigh current realities and difficulties and it may serve the club and our very young squad rather better if there was more support and less condemnation of everyone from the owner, to the manager, to the players, to the staff and even to youngsters who have just earned contract extensions and lately scored a winning goal. Positive support may well help whereas the negative criticism just cast a pall of doom over everything.

An awful lot of fans are shirking and setting a bad example to the players!

The very thing for an aspiring athlete!