I know I should be furious about this but I'm not. I've seen it all so many times with kids at school. You misbehave you get 10 mins at break, but when the class is dismissed and you're meant to stay, you walk out with everyone else. So the teacher makes it a lunchtime detention and you fail to turn up. So it goes to a formal after school detention with notice to parents and you fail to turn up again, at which point you get the parents in and mum or dad has to guarantee they attend the detention. At each stage the kid thinks it'll get forgotten about and their parents will never have to know. But generally, however long it takes, they have to bite the bullet and do the punishment which is always worse than the initial offence probably warranted and would have taken no time at all to complete. As someone said earlier, footballers are, in many cases, just like schoolkids. He needs to sort himself out and stop letting down decent honest folk who have gone out on a limb for him and to get himself back playing asap

When my daughter turned up to interview him several years ago at Stoke he was very patronising. I've never been a fan since

Surely Dack is better to wait until January and see what offers come in then. Play well and who knows

Which pub do you drink in Stuart? Remind me not to go there. 6-7 million pound pint?

A pedants' discussion and I'm not part of it. Wow!

It's definitely 5 https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/loan-window-closes-efl-championship-1875674.amp

You may be right. I just thought I heard 5 on tv yesterday. Googled it. 5

5pm

Sceptical toi?

Unlike some of the others which we have been linked with and he's said no to because of attitude, this one carries no risks. We can get rid if we need to

I'd hope not but 100% not selling? I'm not sure

Do we? We never know anything with Venkys at the helm

I'd agree. Didn't always agree with Rev's opinion but at least his articles were properly written and presented

What a poorly written article that is!

It's not just missing a few games though. I currently would miss at least half. And I wouldn't expect a guaranteed seat as though I were a season ticket holder. If you made it lower category matches only or something like that I can't see that it wouldn't be feasible. Mind you I'll be an OAP by the time the next season starts so eligible for lower priced season ticket anyway. It might be an idea worth exploring though for people like Lancaster Rover who has explained his reasons for being unable to justify having a season ticket

Sale sharks run a free bus service from and back to the Trafford Centre to the AJBell stadium which helps because parking at the ground is poor. Parking at Ewood has become more of a problem in recent years. One of the reasons I didn't go to last night's match was that I'd have had to go on my own as my husband needed to rest after his op and, in the old days we had a parking pass for one of the nearby car parks, but now I'd have had to park further away and didn't fancy the walk on my own. A bus running in from the Ribble Valley with pick ups at various points, in Clitheroe, Whalley, Langho and covering some of the villages in between would probably have enabled me to go and feel confident and safe. Guess I've got a bit more nervous as I've got older. And a flexible 10 or 15 match ticket would suit us totally. Since we can't sit in the seats we'd like to in the BBE upper, we don't need a guaranteed regular seat. We can't go to every match as we would want to if we were paying for a season ticket. But a commitment to attend 10 games a season in return for a reduced price over buying individual match tickets would mean I could support the team without feeling the resentment that if I don't attend a match on my season ticket I'm missing out. Definitely an avenue the club could explore.

Not able to get there tonight after all. My husbands minor op turned out to be a bit more than we expected and he was advised not to go out tonight.

I did once pass Jonathan Douglas on the side of the road.

Chaddy gets pulled up by some on here because he changes his tune every 5 mins in order to be able to stay positive. Its rarely personal but even I have had to challenge some of his posts when he posts an opinion as though its fact and is rude to anyone who begs to differ

If it's before 6 for evening games that's fine. We'll have a fair idea what's going on before 5 is.

No I tried the official site but didn't know if it normally said different prices or what. No good ringing today either. Perhaps give a ring tomorrow morning

Question. Can we buy tickets tomorrow evening without paying a surcharge. Don't know yet if husband will feel up to going after minor op and don't want to get tickets if he doesnt

I thought the Walker Trust had the right to sell the club to whomever they wanted. I think now that the protests should have started before Venkys got their hands on the club. We all knew there was something wrong with their buying it in the first place. Might not have changed anything but who knows?

Too many syllables in both those names I think

You weren't totally wrong. My daughter, who worked at the pub opposite his house in Hurst Green, asked him just before he made the move, ' are you actually going to Chelsea' to which he replied, 'I don't think so'