Cheers. I promise it won't be as long as the Blackpool one!! A.

Hi Mike; I'm afraid that, because of all the 'faff' involved in moving back to Blackburn from Heywood, I won't be able to do any more Previews in the short-term; but I'd like to have first dibs on the one for the Peterborough United [A] game in April, please. I'm moving into an Anchor Housing Association property in town and I've heard that one of my neighbours-to-be has forgotten more about computers than I'll ever know. If I've not got him to show me how to post the draft Preview, can I send it to you for you to post on my behalf, please? Thanks, Andrew.

Classy; rickard!😉😅

Sounds a fairly accurate prediction, JHR.

Well; we've definitely got to exercise that 12-month option.

Pity Blackpool are winning the goals game, then.

I don't usually follow this Board 'live'; I usually prefer to watch the highlights on Quest and then read the Board the day after the game. Why, oh why did I change the habits of a lifetime?? The other change is that I've posted as many 👍 in 45 minutes as I usually post on a full match the day after it was played. I just thank my lucky stars I've been invited out to a meal tonight.

This is a test of the Venky's attitude towards This Once-Great Club Of Ours. Like his style of football or loathe it, BFS was sacked within 48 hours of a defeat in the Premier League. Will Venky's have the bottle to tell Mowbray not to pack his suitcase for a trip to India; but sack him and all his cronies, and start the process of replacing him within 48 hours of today's final whistle? I'd go for Michael Flynn, who resigned from Newport during the week, and give him a season and a half to prove himself.

🤞 Just goes to show Mowbray doesn't read our Previews! If he'd read mine, he'd have seen my B'pool-supporting pal warned us about Lavery.

On behalf of Bazza, myself and doubtless others of our generation, can I add the name of Ron Suart to the catalogue of players in Delap's Derby who've played for both 'Pool and This Great Club Of Ours? Later generations may remember him for his time as Manager of Chelsea; but a steadily-diminishing number of us will recall him playing for Rovers; maybe not at the end of the 1940s, but in the first half of the 1950s.

I may be able to write verbose Previews; but I'm technologically incompetent which is why @Mike E kindly posted the preview for me. Are you sure about the re-titling, Herbie6590? I'll be 145 when I write the preview for that game!😉 @Herbie6590

My two pennyworth: I agree that Southgate should have checked the team before they went out of the dressing room at the start of each half to make sure they weren't wearing a vest with a message underneath the shirt. Arguably, it's the most stupid yellow card to concede. Also, if I can see that we needed substitutes - and I was shouting, "Get some bloody subs on!" at the TV for the last 15 minutes of the game - why couldn't Southgate? Poland were much the stronger team in that period of the game and a goal from them looked almost inevitable. Which it turned out to be. I know that last Sunday's game was only the equivalent of a 3rd Round FA Cup-tie between the Premier League Champions and a non-League team, but I thought Bellingham was magnificent in that game. He was one of the subs I'd have introduced to Wednesday's game. If it had been a League game with a limited number of substitutes to choose from, I'd always have him on the bench, especially when the Referee was, imo, conned into issuing an early yellow card to one of our midfielders.

Apart from the occasional Lucky dip on the National Lottery, I don't gamble; but I reckon that the confidence Brereton Días obviously got from playing for Chile makes that a wager worth considering.🤔

Ta!

Please put my name against the Blackpool [A] game on 2/10/21, Mike.