Still showing two for me. One BBE upper, one JW lower.

At any normal football club I wouldn’t be wondering whether there’s a world where they didn’t put the seats on sale because they couldn’t be arsed taking the netting off. But here…

I’d rather take Cantwell (and Tronstad, Batth and Beck, if at all possible) if we’re winning by 60 minutes, personally.

There will be hundreds in the corporate lounges in the Jack Walker. So they’ll all be sat JW upper central.

Must win. Cant see a world where you can play ACD and Dolan on the wings, neither offer any credible defensive support. Team picks itself for me: Pears Brittain Hyam Batth Beck Tronstad Baker Dolan Cantwell Hedges Ohashi

I'm sure he's had a superb 10 years Mike.

On the counter, I don’t think we’ll sell those final 1,000 tickets if we get a poor result against Sunderland and Leeds.

Could be. Or, it could be we are actually interested in him. We’ve scouted him, put him in front of the manager who’s gone “YES!”, then we’ll approach his club in January and ask if they’ll give us him on loan and pay his wages for us. They tell us to piss off, he signs for a club ran by proper management, we buy another German sixth tier striker who’s miles off the pace, our manager is furious he thought he was getting proper players and questions the clubs ambitions, to which point our CEO says his target is to stay in the league despite being 5th in January. I’ve seen all this before, which is why when it all plans out in the same way it always does I’ll be annoyed at our fans.

Beck has an illness, wasn’t up to starting.

I wasn’t going to, but given they’ve requested flags I’m going to bring my 16ft “Venky’s Out, Waggott Out” flag.

Playing for Como in Serie A under Cesc Fabregas.

Tifo was left last minute so won't be there, I heard

Probably. I'm not sure what with, or how long for. He's been out for ages and only made 4 appearances this season.

I think I'd give serious thought towards a Ross Stewart gamble in January. He's been out ages and is on 20K / week at Southampton, but I wonder if they'd be open to a loan, he's clearly not going to be able to play for them. If we could get him fit he's proven he can lead the line at this level.

I can feel some optimism in the air and if following Rovers recently has taught me anything, it's to have serious alarm bells about what's coming next...