All season at a minimum I’m afraid.

As I pointed out above they had lots of injuries a few weeks ago but only a few now, less than us.

They did have big injury problems a few weeks ago but the situation is much better for them now. Hugill, Cantwell, Dowell and McLean all came back in midweek so their injury list is a lot shorter than ours now.

The other point is that whilst we are scoring for fun, we don't seem to be able to from set pieces and Mulgrew did bring that.

It's home to Rotherham on Wednesday - Stoke is Saturday 19th.

This is the minute to a transfers/contracts question asked at last week's Fans Forum: - JohnW asked whether the club were expecting any transfer activity in the upcoming January transfer window. MC stated that he expected little activity as the club currently had a strong squad with some key players about to return from injury and a group of academy players establishing themselves in the first team squad. However, he could not rule out offers for players from other clubs which might affect things, although there no plans for anyone to be sold. The club had been talking to a number of players and their agents about new and extended contracts for a number of weeks now.

That's defeatist talk Ozz. I would wager that Peterborough at the top of Div 1 are a better team than Derby at the bottom of the Championship.

It will for season ticket holders presumably.

Audio may indeed be available.

I don't think it is available on iFollow for the UK, because it's live on Sky. I've just been on the site and I'm not being offered a chance to buy a pass and Rovers' game preview talks about following the game on social media channels. I'm pretty certain if it was on sale here the club would be wanting to sell me a pass. I don't need one anyway, as I have Sky Sports - I won't be popular when my wife realises I need the TV - she has been enjoying my watching the games on the computer!

I thought the idea was that the process was quick enough for a decision to be made before the next game. I guess there is still time yet.

The game preview on the club site 3 hours ago said that they were still waiting for the outcome of Lenihan's appeal.

I thought the same but I think arbitro said in the Brentford thread that wasn't an option for a red card appeal - it's uphold or rescind.

The Spurs website does have a profile of him. It doesn't mention who his Dad is but does say he was born in Barcelona and has lived in Paris and Southampton, so presumably yes!

There was a fascinating article in yesterday's Observer about the effect of crowds on home performance. The conclusion that having a crowd only improved a home team's result by 3%. But there was a significant increase in the number of cards given by the referee with a crowd compared to BCD In our first game with fans in it for months on Saturday we committed 8 fouls and picked up 6 cards. Brentford committed 11 and got three yellows. The good news is that, unless the Tiers change, we won't be playing in front of a crowd away from home in the league until QPR on 6th Feb.

I went to the Spurs website earlier to see if they were doing any reporting. I was amazed to find that they have one page with pictures of the U23 players with biographies behind them, the table page has last year's table on it and the stats page is blank. No articles whatsoever about their team. Clearly not Mourinho's priority.

It was a straight red that was given, not a second yellow.

As I've already said a couple of times iFollow has worked very well for me. The only really irritating game was at Luton where the camera angle was very low (can't do much about that) and the camera work was terrible (Luton could fix that). Yesterday I didn't have Rovers commentary for a few minutes but the away was working fine. I tend to toggle between them a bit to get a different view - the 5/10 minutes I listened to the Millwall commentaries they were very fair. I'll be back in the ground as soon as I can but for now iFollow is the next best thing.

Whether Pike's ready or not he may well get his chance soon. I would expect him to be at least on the bench on Wednesday and if Lenihan's ban is not overturned he might have to play if Nyambe is needed at centre back. As long as he doesn't tell anyone his name he should be OK. Whatever you feel about Buckley (and there seem to be some wildly differing opinions), I can't see any justification for being really hard on him for yesterday. Surely no one believes he's the ideal right back and I'm sure he won't have asked to play there but been told.

OK fair enough. An appeal is therefore well worth going for as there doesn't seem to be a downside.

There were fans in the stand where the camera was as well.

arbitro - would the possible outcome not be reducing the red to a yellow, which with the other one would still leave us with a one match suspension? Although presumably it would rub out the yellow card agaunst his total?

Not in this situation. Generally it’s only 3 for dangerous play. Disclaimer: there might be other reasons too!

It’s only one game suspension, whether it was two yellows or a straight red. I presume the first yellow then counts towards him getting to 5 for another suspension, which he must be on his way to as well.

They're allowed 2,000. Maybe they are choosing only to let in 1,000, but they can have 2,000 in Tier 2.