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Gatlin O'Donkor has to be a made-up name, surely?

Huddersfield got entirely what they deseved after all the ludicrous play acting and unsporting behaviour in the last 15 minutes. It's interesting that during the attack which led to the ball being up there for the penalty, yet another one of their players went down "with cramp" and once his appeal to stop the game was ignored by the ref, instantly sprang back up and sprinted to the box, cramp now all better. I hate the play acting in modern football. It's one of the things rugby fans always ridicule about the game - and they have a point. Up to now I have had no real feelings about Huddersfield Town. Now, I want them to go down. **** them.

At minimum, they will not have any full-time pros on the books. They get decent support for that level and now Osborne isn't involved the ground should be safe. Rumour is that the bloke who runs Brewdog is interested in taking it over.

I just love it when timewasting comes back to bite a team on the arse. I was bored to ****, but now feel rather cheery.

I usually stay to the end but the game was so horrible I"d have probably left had it not been drizzling. I waited for the rain to pass whereas my matchday companions caught the rain but missed the goal. You gotta larf!

Fair enough. and having rewatched Conway's goal, I think you're right: the ball isn't trapped by Hyam but bounces off him and TC pounces. Still needs good composure from Conway to seize the chance. Another 20 seconds and it's safe for Blackburn.

Correctly quoting a personal hero.

I think we played very well as a unit - you don't really criticise anyone much after a result like that. Vyner made a couple of howlers in the game, but Blackburn couldn't make much of them. But, like Syksey, he played his part in the win and overall, he's a positive, as ever.

To my mind, a "press" includes strategic balls over the top. It wasn't as if we were lumping it up from our half a la Pulis. We played on the front foot more or less from the off. Totally agree that they gave away stupid penalties. But then, most are... Silvio is right to give credit to a ref who called them correctly particularly when others might've ignored the handball "because I've already given them one".

It was a simple finish, but it was possible because we were repeatedly up there and Tom was quick to pounce on the mistake. Nakhi managed to give the keeper an option when he was clear through in a one-on-one in the same position in the second half. Quite why Blackburn were so bad is interesting. They aren't a great side, but haven't been that bad all season. It might just be a case of everything going wrong for them and us doing everything right. "The perfect storm". I remember seeing us get demoralised when we've conceded from an obvious defensive balls-up and after penalties too, so I think the first half double whammy knocked their individual confidence to play. Amazing how professionals can begin to doubt themselves, but it happens. All that said, there was a period of about 15 minutes after half-time when they more than matched us - their subs had strengthened their midfield and the #2 in particular was giving us problems that the man he'd replaced never had. It's the story of the night that we easily absorbed the pressure and when we replaced our own tiring players, the results were spectacular.

Del Boy's dad watches us take on Bradford Park Avenue.

I don't think we were "gift wrapped" goals. Hyams may have been poor but both pens and his under-pressure back pass came because we were pressing high and continuously. For his first, Conway still needed to be alert to the possibility and bury it. I've seen us miss plenty of possible interceptions. As for Mehmeti's goal, there was nothing gift wrapped about it in my opinion. After robbing the defender he had to hold him off, take it into the box, wrong-foot another defender and shoot from an angle to avoid a third. It was pure skill. You don't fluke a 5-0. It comes because you were playing well - as well as them playing poorly.

My nephew was brought up by his plastic Leeds fan dad to be the same. But he had a schoolmate whose dad was a City fan. So one Saturday, years back, I gave those two and another of their friends a lift up for a game. They were in the old open safe-standing area, got soaked, watched us win 3-0 and sang throughout the game. They loved it. That day made three new fans and although my nephew now lives in Hampshire he comes to AG whenever he can. As you say, get 'em in! It's how you grow the fanbase.

For a 5-0 you need both them to be poor (which they aren't always. Remember they scored 5 goals in one of their March games) and us to be on the top of our game. Last night, things clicked into place. We played a logical formation and went front foot from the start in the way Manning's been talking about . Once we got the pen, Blackburn heads went down - as often happens - and we took our revenge for losing at their place. Revenge in style! They were toothless, but there were moments at 2-0 when it looked like they might get a goal and give us a game. Fortunately Szmodics didn’t have his shooting boots on, so even when he was through on goal, he went mysteriously wide. It was as if everything that could go wrong for them, did. Our subs were timely and transformed what had been a decent win into a rout. I liked that we continued to go for more goals even into the 96th minute. Mehmeti and Wells wanted to make a point to the manager which they certainly did.

I thought the same. Just very assured and recycled the ball into attacking positions so well. Some pretty nifty footwork on display at times as well.

Matt Smith, Lee Mack, Billy Beaumont, loads of dour old blokes in flat caps! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Sir Jack Walker. Can you hear me Sir Jack Walker?! Your boys took one hell of a beating.

At Yeovil now. As he's worked in the game most of his life, he may well object to failed manager's Joseph Barton's public assessment of his abilities.

Murdoch's quietly running The Times into the ground. Telegraph-ising it. Out go experienced journalists with contacts, in come the Jocastas and Piers who don't need a big salary as daddy's trust fund pays for most things.

My understanding is that they were perpetually strapped for cash and staff were instructed to strategically ignore invoices and the like..

You'd think the four-eyed shortarse might be kinder about making comments based on others appearance.

Tammy, but Semenyo would be another great choice to give us what we're missing up front.

As I know Martin Starnes personally, I shall be bringing this post to his attention in the hope he joins the list of people suing Bartscum. His Gofundme donuts won't be able to spend their pensions fast enough to keep him solvent!

Before my time but spoken of fondly by the old 'uns. RIP Dickie.

Tighter defence is what that shows. The Dickie effect.

We've seen that when we play teams with a slightly more open formation, teams trying to take the game to us in a fluid way (often because they are needing points to cement their promotion credentials) we can exploit those gaps and score goals. But, yer, your right. We never dictate play. We cannot take the front foot unless the opposition gives it to us.