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As I said, he ignored penalty shouts our way. Suggested the admittedly crap ref was biased and came across as arrogant and a sore loser. Maybe he should take up professional snooker?

I always shout for handball - well why not? Influences some refs - but tonight I thought that was a genuine one. Raised his hand as the ball approached and deflected away a ball heading towards his 6-yard box. That arm was not "in a natural position".

We were queueing at 7:44 when they just sort of abandoned doing the checks. Top tip for suicide bombers then is to turn up late.

Benarous has that great quality that is lacking in so many of our players: he's hard to get the ball off of.

Michael O'Neil's post game comments were massively disrespectful to us and incredibly one-eyed. Apparently, they "should have had a penalty". I suppose he didn't notice the handball in their box in the first half? That guy has gone right down in my estimation.

We certainly rode our luck and that 9 minutes of extra time was painful. I'd have preferred it if Wells had come on in the second half. I don't think Massengo and Pring really helped to staunch the tide washing over us. Wells would at least have represented a goal threat to them, as he did to Blackburn.

Direct train from Bristol. Easy access to Salford via the trams below the platform at Piccadilly. Plus the likelihood that most of that lot will be based in Manchester or the north-west. Fairly mediocre midweek support when you consider that.

100% this. Most Winston Churchill quotes were never said by him, but one that was is "in war you don't have to be nice, you have to be right." That's true in management too. You have to have the single-mindedness to let down, and perhaps let go, mates if they aren't performing. You can't just be everyone's friend. You lose your authority if you try to be that. You need a bit of distance.

Yup, there's something in that. In the last 15 years, 2000% more Britons died from falling from horses (or being kicked by them) than have died in terrorism attacks. Yet the fear of such incidents is used to justify a sometimes insidious power grab.

I always think it's a bit knee-jerk and daft when these things are done "in response" to some unconnected event. It's looking increasingly likely that the Liverpool bomber was just a lone nutter with a death wish who wanted to take others out because he was going to be deported to a country he had never actually lived in. He's dead, so how does that event pose a threat to crowds in AG? Obviously, there may be other threats out there, but they've been there for years. Either boost security all the time or leave things as they were. It reminds me of when I used to work at Television Centre. There'd been a Real IRA car-bomb outside once and for the next month, as you drove into the car-park you had to have your boot search and your pass scanned by a beefed up security team ..., then things went back to normal. Clearly the thinking is that terrorists are only going to attack in the immediate aftermath of one failed attack and after a few weeks they lose interest in the "armed struggle" and just give up.

Something based on the old Nancy Sinatra song 'These Boots Are Made For Kicking', perhaps?

COD certainly looked good on Saturday and silenced those who said he'd had his chips here.

Pity we don't still have @Aizoon with us. (Although hopefully still "with us" in the land of the living) I think he remembers before Billy Wedlock put that weight on...

Well, the club's in Cleethorpes, not Grimsby, but it isn't compulsory to live in the place your club is named after anyway. If I were working there, I might move inland to the Lincolnshire countryside, but if he's a young man who wants the bright light, Sheffield would be a do-able commute.

Has the default font changed as well, Tom? Seems a bit more spindly.

I think Williams is the player we have really missed. He's the "starch" that makes the defence bind together, so to speak. He understandably tired in the second, but we saw some lovely examples of what he can do, and - of course - playing where he does, it's often where he is that is as important as his tackles.

60% of Dark Web activity is classified as illicit - mainly paedophile sites, but also drug and gun trading. The rest I gather is largely comprised of the sort of "trust no one, the shapeshifting lizards are out to get us" sites that would appeal to Open Mouth or whatever that git on here called himself. The fact that if they can download the software to access these sites so can governments (and of course, shapeshifting lizards), doesn't seem to have occurred to this community.

It must've been the same for me, but being so young I was probably more interested in the sweets I could devour at the match. My memories if the matches I attended as a young kid are very hazy.

Took a while for Massengo and Semenyo to get into the game, but once they did, I - for once - had no quibbles with Nige's substitutions policy.

Since it's returned I can no longer see the name of the person being quoted in other people's posts. Also the bar that appears to tell you someone else has posted (which usually contains their name) is just a blank black space. @TomF?

Tell you what, that Khadra is just the sort of loan signing I wouldn't mind seeing here. Almost impossible to get the ball off him.

The main improvement for me was I didn't spend the last 15 minutes terrified. We stopped dropping too deep after Wells came on - you could see a visible lift in the side after he had his very good chance on goal. Some of this I think was Blackburn happy to settle for an away point, but there was definitely more intent shown by us.

Thought he had some of that Massengo-like fancy footwork, but like Han when he first came here was a bit lightweight and easily pushed off the ball. That will change.

As good an owner as he may have been, if you think Srivaddhanaprabha gained the franchise to run all Thai duty-free shops without extensive jiggery-pokery (to say the least) then you don't know how businesses operate in Thailand.

BCFC's latest coach meets the team to discuss tactics: