Not, in our case, "gracious defender" so has to be a Tutu.

Extended highlights with thanks to, you guessed it, Norwich I've not seen the full match yet but from these highlights: Pears is pathetic. Gifts chances and turn routine saves into Kodak moments. Get rid, sue Mowbray and that fecking Boro agent for crimes against football. Norwich should have scored at least 4. Britain has his moments, not always in a good way. Good cross though. Whomever got Big Mac and Yuki deserves a medal. Yuki went above and beyond the call of duty to score and avoid decapitation by a Big Penis. Sack the set piece specialist coach. We've got worse in all areas of set piece execution. I feel for all our defenders who play on knowing Pears is behind them.

My pre match travel arrangements got screwed up by Pears Travel who booked me on the 8.30 pm flight to the Land of Nod, and didn't arrive in Wide-awake Land until gone midnight. Usually I don't fly, just canoe a short way up stream to Dodgy.tv City by KO time. Not having seen the game my thanks to @Tyrone Shoelaces@Neal @Hasta and others for their post match comments and I have a fair idea of what to look for when watching the highlights and replay. Initial impression from reading this thread - Duffy is simply a rather big Penis. I still only half awake so am rambling a bit, only to be expected as I'm in heat stroke recovery, not a pleasant experience and my balance is still wonky. I walk like I'm pissed and that after being on the wagon, this time!, for about 6 years.. Still a point at Norwich is a good result and I actually look forward to watching the full replay.

"The game will be shown live on RoversTV in the following 'dark market' and 'unsold territories', where there is no EFL broadcast agreement in place" So, the deciding factor appears to be the EFL broadcast agreement and not if a country whilst having such agreement is not showing any match. I hope I've got that wrong, it makes no sense. Meanwhile certain clubs point their fans overseas. This game is live in the US on Paramount+ and CBS Sports Golazo and if you know Google I don't need to give even the directions certains clubs do.

I can't see past a Rovers win on a close game, 1-2 to us. I've watched both Norwich games, league and Carabao, and they won't fix their defensive problems by Saturday afternoon. Their protracted and as yet uncompleted change of majority shareholder adds to the mix and uncertainty of a new manager cutting his teeth and sussing out the league and his players. I do hope they play both Hanley and Duffy and at some point we have Gueye and Ohashi on field together to rip them a new one. They will be our main scorers and assist providers this season. I hope Gueye is getting intensive coaching in shooting. His body positioning, stance etc is just plain wrong almost every time he takes a shot. The first issue is getting them on target, then putting his laces through the ball. His overall game still gets him a starting place.

The only thing missing is "use a VPN" to exploit the system. I'll stick to 🛶

He needs to or risk inviting injury when rushing in for the now loose ball. Plenty of Championship players will deal it out.

I'd rather listen to Vera and Jack.

It was a Luton side ravaged by injuries. They had teenagers in defence. Was the ref related to Brownnose.

Matt Gardiner, Assistant Head Coach and set piece specialist

It was very noticeable on TV. When first launched I didn't rate it but now my opinion has changed completely. It just about the nicest shade of pink I've ever seen 😍 This season we have the best 3 kits in English football imho

Rooney looked like he does now at age 16. It's just that he can now grow hair on his face. He was a great player though and luckily for us he'll keep Plymouth low in the league, at least for a few months before he's sacked.

About 5 minutes from now

It's good to be top but not for how long lol

Pears - who’s signing I still question as the son of a mate of Mowbray and a Boro reject signed on deadline day

EFL extended highlights, not the same as posted earlier and show the goals and other action in more detail and angles. The screenshot shows Batth clutching his head seconds after the shot that bounced of the top of the bar. He's a newbie, he'll get used to it ..

Are they giving the ladies a half bottle of Mother's Ruin?

Norwich are awful, Oxford decent. Hanley, although slightly pushed, FU for the Oxford goal. They should have scored another following a keeper blunder. Open goal but from distance.

He fumbled that corner and got lucky.* He was badly poised for that first goal.* Badly positioned for the second.* Went run about and got lucky. Got lucky on the one that hit the top of the crossbar. Apart from that he was ok. * Defenders were also at fault in these incidents. So much for a day off from criticising.

I'm off to scout Oxford v Norwich

Extended highlights

Great result in our first game. We played some good football and scored 4. Impressive debuts by the new lads, Travis was superb and Carter showed me a pleasing new side to his game. There will be days to come when it's more appropriate to criticise. Today isn't one of them.

And no friggin biscuits too

Surprised Maggott hasn't got a VPN provider to place an advert on that page 😉