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To be fair to Nige, you were both sat on yer arse. For all we know, Nige might've glanced over and thought: well, if she's sat on her arse ....

I think @GrahamC was highlighting this a few weeks ago, we got no prime age players in the 25 - 28 years category. Although we had one in his prime last season, but that's over now

Yeah, the Evening Post was evening, the Western Daily was daily, the Green 'un was green, and WellRed was, er, red

He's a goal-scorer, mate. Messi's a (the) footballer.

.... well, maybe "that sort" @ExiledAjax?

... to the visitors. But only after the ref was encouraged to have another look at the video footage and see that he should've given it but somehow, inexplicably failed to do so. Wonder how often a ref has failed to give a pen that was a pen against the home team at Anfield, Old Trafford etc down the years?

Blimey, must be a massive hotel, how many rooms 30/40 thousand?

The "board" is (probably) in Guernsey, on his way up to bed with a Horlicks, after an afternoon watching pensioner afternoon telly and trying not to think about football, English rugby and the "goings on" at Hargreaves Lansdown. And the FTSE 100. And Max O'Leary and Tomas Kalas.

We need bandaging up, but not by the bloke that bandaged Timmy's head first half yesterday

Actually, I think you're right. I'm just catching up with the brawl at Brammall Lane and ours was pathetic - tinpot, even - in comparison. We are soft, Southern jessies. If we had anything about us, we'd have had two sent off yesterday and lost 1:4.

I thought we went "one down" yesterday then got back to one all? And we had two centre backs playing on with bloodied heads.

As we inevitably, inexorably slip and slide whence we came, and L1 beckons once more, I just cannot wait for the Radio Local bod to put the question that must be put: "Are you up for the fight, Nige?"

Altogether now: "We're all going in @Never's Red Chinook, @Never's Red Chinook, @Never's Red Chinook.... In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to Hartlepool away (via Parsons Street)" etc etc Where's that @EnclosureSurge when you need a new song starting up?

Whatever it was, looking at those pictures, what Preston would give to have a crowd like that v Bristol City

Oh, stop it

I shall arrive by helicopter, just to be sure not to miss a thing

Good night to swap yer keeper, against a team with 6 goals scored in 13 games. Canny Nige/proper manager

That's more than 2/3rds full, Harry (I'm a 2/3rds full kinda guy {this morning})

We're their "bogey" side now, you say?

Archbishop Desmond Tu-One.

Yeah, we're finding these "winnable" games difficult at the moment. Preston's in the "drawable" game I would wager, if they have an off night. Steve knows what he's doing, canny lad.

This is what we find so bleedin' difficult though, being smart. We are forever being out-smarted not by parachute minted clubs but by the likes of blinking Preston and Millwall. And now Luton. Even in L1 we far too often fail to be very smart. When Gary Collier left in '79 we needed to be smart, smarter than ever but sadly smart we were not. As a club we are historically and perennially not very football bright with just a very few exceptions (and even then it soon goes tits up and we languish in the lower leagues for far too long).

The best time to get Chris Wilder, was when he went to Sheffield United. Probably. Bit like, the best time to get Steve Coppell was ... not when we got him. Thinking about it, the best time to get Nige was .... when we had a few quid to spend. Our timing - this club's - timing, is like Phil Tuffnell's with a cricket bat, or Pete Best's on his drums.

For right full back?

Jack Nicholson said that? Wow. When was this?