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The injuries we keep picking up are 100% linked to fatiguing in the players, they’re being pushed too much especially in a busy festive period. When your muscles aren’t recovering properly you’re prone to injury a lot more. Whilst you can sympathise with VI to an extent due to him having a bunch of duds to pick from, he is clueless at managing game time and his substitutions are often questionable, particularly the timing of them.

It's not that long ago we should have beat them, couple of key differences though...we had Gudjohnsen, Alebiosu and Morishita in the team that day. Worth noting their away form isn't great though, last away win way back in September. If I was a betting man, which I am, I'd be backing the draw. They've drawn 5 of their last 6 away from home. We've drawn 2 of the last 3 at home, 5 out the last 7 home and away. 2 out the past 3 H2H also draws. Just hope it's not another 0-0 draw though, a goal would be nice. I think we'll get one too, Hedges is due a goal. 1-1. Another draw isn't really much use in the grand scheme of things mind. On a rather negative note I remember us drawing too many the last time we went down to league one, 4 in a row in one spell. It's all a bit too familiar folks.....erm on that note - Happy New Year fellow blues.

If he's attracting all this constant interest from the likes of Arsenal he's surely worth some game time

Badly worded perhaps, we 'spent' approaching 10m as opposed to £0

Easily one of the worst games off football I've watched in years. Positives - well its another clean sheet I guess? After that, I'm struggling. Henriksson I was quite excited to see when we signed him but he's abysmal. Ohashi I'm starting to think has a drink problem or something he's that clueless sometimes, although looks decent on occasion. They were marginally worse than us, but that's understandable when they didn't spend a penny in summer whereas we actively recruited/spent. Granted the 3 most expensive ones weren't playing tonight (alarming Tavares is one of them, Henriksson is 4th too). Also, wtf are we doing with Tyion? Is he injured? It's hard to believe he isn't better than Henriksson of not?

They'll contain customer (fan) information. It will however be an extremely simple process, most probably a simple txt file that's imported. It could, and usually would be automated though and shouldn't require any manual efforts at all really. I suspect our IT department, like most aspects of the club is not fit for purpose, probably a couple of inexperienced/under qualified members of staff.

Imagine a fair few have fucked it off anyway now and made alternate plans. I'm working so wouldn't be going anyway, if I was free I WOULD have been tempted though after an enjoyable day out at Boro.

I've been meandering towards what I suppose is a 'natural boycott' for a while now. My home attendance gets less each season (haven't been once this season). I may go to the Wrexham game in fairness to catch up with a few lads. The latest call to protest hasn't altered my perspective at all really, but I dare say it will nudge a few others to my way of thinking. To put things in context, I was a ST holder for over 20 years (I'm a 44 year old bastard now), I still had one for a number of season under the Venky rats. Within that time I came to hate home games, it started as a chore, particularly night games, but came to a point where I was questioning why the fuck I was doing it. Life also progressed, the kids grew up, work got busier (sometimes work 7 days straight), priorities changed. Previously I've missed weddings, birthdays and other things to attend, ive nearly lost a job queing for Celtic away tickets and doing a sickie on the day of the game after being declined AL, now? Not a bloody chance. I've missed watching 1 game all season (last week), I was near Penrith miles from civilisation though, my hand was forced! I'm going on Boxing Day as it's tradition and looking forward to it if I'm honest. Had it been at home it would have been a reluctant trudge to the ground. Would my perspective change if our owners changed? 100% yes. I don't demand glory, I ain't a glory hunter, I've stood on a crumbling Blackburn End step, I've watched on the Riverside hill with my dad when times were hard. All i want is owners that care and a fan base pulling collectively in 1 direction. I would buy a season ticket no questions asked, even if I inevitably missed half the games through other commitments. Until then, I continue as is I guess. Will still fit a few more away games in this season, in the new year I won't attend Ewood again I don't think, barring a big cup tie against them twats up the road......

I've been to Boro loads of times and we're unbeaten within that time, a number of occasions we've been in dreadful form leading up to the game too. We just have a very odd knack of coming away with at least a point there! I'm going to this one as well, can't miss a boxing day game no matter how apathetic I currently feel towards the club. Despite the record there this will be bloody tough, I think they've only lost to the league leaders at home thus season? We'll just have to hope the footballing gods are kind to us and we nick a 1-0 win, you'd definitely take a 1-1 though.

Off up the lakes on Friday for the weekend, hopefully won't have a signal so I can't even keep tabs in the shite unfolding at Ewood. Hate early kick offs to start with but on a grim day in December, Millwall will also have a paltry following it'll look like the "boycott" is in full flow. Positives? Can't really think of any, weather looks OK/dryish up to now, suppose that's one.

Well it should be a relatively decent atmosphere which the players have mentioned now multiple times helps them, so let's hope we nab a win. Our form is much better than theirs on paper although we're drawing too many, and that often leads to relegation worries. Ribeiro has looked very rusty lately, but he will do after bot being featured very often so hopefully he perks up a bit today. They've failed to score in 6 of their last 8 games now so it's obvious where their weakness lies, of course we do have a habit of helping teams out in such circumstances so don't rule put a 3 nil home win. In the interest of optimism 2-1 away win with a Gudjohnsen brace, we're capable of it but certainly need an improvement on Oxford....

I tell you what put it in perspective for me..... National league Rochdale have started corrective work on their pitch due to issues, fair play to them. As a result they'll have to play a few games at Accy Stanley. League 2 Accy Stanley, who played 90 mins and extra time at weekend can accommodate their own games plus a few extra. Anyone fairly local will know Stanley had pitch issues for a while, I think they blamed run off from the coppice when it rained. League 2 Stanley FIXED their pitch issues and hey presto are now in a position where their pitch is MUCH better than ours. So there you have it, national league and league 2 clubs putting us to shame.

Yeah its absolutely rancid out there, worse than Saturday was for sure.

2pm is probably the worst possible time to do an inspection if you want the game to be on, that's pretty much around when it's forecast to stop. I understand why that's the designated time, but I'd be very surprised if its on. Hours later it would probably be fine like....

How far do you think Oxford is? 🤣