Even more odd is that John Buckley doesn't even have his own thread and I suspect will end up as the best of the three of them.

The alcohol ban is not an FA rule, it’s the law, so would need Parliament to change it and that’s not going to happen. However the rule only applies when in sight of the pitch so only when the actual game is happening. You can still drink before and after and at half time. Just start the meal earlier or later.

Despite all the challenges of running the world’s biggest bike race during a pandemic this year’s Tour de France has been excellent. A pretty open race which several riders could have won and which looked to have been sewn up by Primoz Roglic until yesterday’s time trial. Then the seemingly impossible happened and young Tadej Pojocar pulled a superb performance at the same time as Roglic had a bad day. Bury’s Adam Yates unexpectedly had several days in yellow and Preston’s Hugh Carthy had an excellent ride as a climbing domestique for Rigoberto Uran and Education First. We still have both the Giro and the Vuelta to come in the next few weeks with Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome respectively in with a good shout of victory.

Well there's one thing North End fans are ahead of us on - talking rubbish on a Summer Transfer thread. They're almost on 600 pages.

I've been away for the last few weeks on our canal boat so apologies for not updating this. There was no Fans Forum meeting on Monday. That's because the club asked us for a meeting about 10 days before that to discuss planes for fans' return to Ewood. We met by Zoom on Tuesday 8th and the Code of Conduct issued with the ST renewal pack was the result. Unfortunately about an hour after we finished the meeting the Government announced the new limit of 6 people and coupled with the local lockdowns meant that any chance of getting fans in today went and it's likely that it won't happen at the beginning of October as was hoped. As we met on 8th there was not much point in meeting again on 14th so we have put the meeting back until October.

He didn't even get on the bench, let alone off it.

All 4 are now self isolating for 14 days and out of tonight’s game - one of them has Covid, but it’s not been announced which one.

Some time ago any person living alone or with kids was allowed to go into a bubble with another household. My younger son joined our “bubble” so we were allowed to go to each other’s houses and stay over. He could therefore come with me to a game and he would if he wasn’t mostly on shift when we play.

No Simon, you won’t be. Anyone will be able to sit with their household group or anyone in a bubble but not with people outside that. So a group of mates will be out. Not Rovers rules, it will be the same for everyone.

They aren’t. You are buying your normal seat but if you are allowed in under social distancing you will almost certainly be sitting elsewhere for the duration but will be able to go back to “your” seat if and when normality resumes.

I’m pretty sure the club announced it last week. In any case it was inevitable when the Rule of 6 was announced last week.

For clarity you can renew your existing season tickets and seats now and you will be able to keep them and return there as and when things return to normal. For the duration of .the pandemic when fans are allowed into the ground you will be allocated seats based on social distancing rules. Whether you will keep that same seat for other games I don’t know but I would imagine so. If you have other season tickets in your household or bubble then you will be able to sit together as long as you all arrive at the same time. The rules surrounding attending socially distanced games are quite extensive and complicated. I assume the full details are in the attached Code of Conduct although I haven’t yet had time to read it. But from what I understand you will be allocated a seat(s) and have to agree to being in your seat at a set time. Food and drink kiosks will operate on a reduced menu but you will be encouraged not to linger on the concourse and the TV screens will not be showing Sky Sports or the game.

Even if we sell 9,000 it won’t produce anything like £4m. More like half that when you factor in children, young adult and senior discounts.

Most of the games are only this weekend - we brought ours forward because of International call ups this week.

It’s not a trial. Clubs in leagues below National Leagues North and South are allowed fans in as long as they follow social distancing. Whether the latter has actually been happening is a moot point I guess.

There is a sort of truth in Richard's claim. His second appearance for Rovers against Millwall was on the right side of a back three.

The clubs concerned will have to do it following social distancing rules but yes, just like that. It’s come after pressure from 30+ MPs to the Sports Minister.

Restrictions on fans attending games at clubs below National League North & South have been lifted today.

As I pointed out earlier in this thread I still haven’t forgiven Wigan for “pinching” Southport’s league position in 1978, the last team to leave the Football League by the re-election process.

No surprise there rumoured for days.

Preston expect to put their STs on sale in the "next couple of weeks". With a 25-30% capacity at Deepdale they plan to sell first to their ambassadors, whatever they are.

To be honest most sides do it most of the time - it's just that you usually can't hear it most of the time because of the crowd.

Bournemouth have replaced Eddie Howe with assistant manager Jason Tindall.

It’s a hell of a commute from Yarm.

The old adage for gyms from before Covid still applies - walk, run or cycle to your gym. When you get to the front door turn round and walk, run or cycle home. Exercise done and lots of gym fees saved.