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Ayala expected to be available on Wednesday. Douglas a glute strain which will need a scan Wharton- see how he is on Monday JRC is out for two months as are Platt and Vale of the under 23s. Williams- doesn't sound like he will be ready for Wednesday

Results elsewhere very much went our way today.

What a beautiful ugly win! Four pieces of class won it for us: Nyambe's run and pull back for goal 1 Gallagher's strike for goal 2 and two Kaminsky saves Huge credit to the Barnsley boss. He has those players playing far above their level of ability. Set pieces are outstanding. So much variety brilliantly delivered.

Totally useless. One primary schoolboy game at Sett End- we lost 14-0. Bryan Douglas' son played for the opposition and the highlight of my career was the great man calling good tackle when I fluked a block. Myles Andersonesque me.. One appearance for Shell 7th XI and a few trundles around for the Rovers London Branch. 0 goals Oh I forget, I did score past the QEGS first XI keeper and hit the post on a geography field trip match on the proper pitches at Beaumaris which the staff were taking far too seriously.

Dackless Rovers play Everton in PL2 at 8 tonight. Cannot see any TV stream for it.

First time I think next unread topic has taken me to three match threads... Millwall are currently above us. W 4 D 7 L 2 F 12 A 10 So we are going to have to be on our game for this not to be 0-0 or 1-1. First goal will be extremely important.

If I remember correctly, South American clubs dominated the World Club Championship from its inception for decades. Yes the lesser lights of the Brazilian League were and still are as tinpot as, say Burnley, but the top club sides were really tough. Many phenomenal players got nowhere near selection for the national side. So I don't buy Pele's 1,000 goals coming against useless opposition as a basis for dismissing him. I remember talking to Ronnie Clayton about playing against Pele when Pele was just a teenager. Clayton's view was unequivocal, Pele was the best he ever faced and is the greatest. Cases can be made for Puskas and Eusebio in the pantheon of greatest ever listed by Revidge.

This is going to set off a fire storm. The European Commission is tackling the problem of lead shot used by hunters poisoning the environment and killing millions of wildlife ingesting the residue and discarded pellets by use of chemical regulation. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/26/eu-to-ban-use-of-lead-shot-by-wetland-bird-hunters Tattoo parlours are regulated but there is no regulation on what is used in the ink. No ink manufacturer produces tattoo ink because there is no way of making ink safe enough to pass product liability. Most ink is lead based so by definition tattoos are carcinogenic and indeed lymphatic cancers are increasing and lead counts in tattooed patients are beginning to cause concern. It is possible that the anti-lead legislation proposed in gun shot will be extended to tattoo inks.

Tier 3- like an away game at Everton or Newcastle.

Five teams ahead of us drew last night so we did make progress with that Preston win. It is going to require consistently good results to haul ourselves back into promotion contention. We hadn't beaten teams above us but now we have. Any defeats in the four games following Barnsley will see us slipping back badly again. Millwall, Brentford, Bristol City and Norwich are all promotion six pointers. The top 11 are all bunched up so the 3 goal margin at PNE was as good as a bonus point.

I would start with last night's starting XI. Numerically, our list of absences should be no worse and at least one better than for PNE. Barnsley are a good footballing side let down by lack of strength in depth. People are saying the Tykes will come and shut up shop but I am not sure they have the personnel capable of doing that. If we start out low key, Barnsley will take the game to us and certainly have the players to hurt us. Again a high energy start on the front foot is needed from Rovers to avoid any calamities. We should win this one but 'should' doesn't mean we have an automatic right to Barnsley handing us the 3 points gift wrapped with an addition to the goals scored and goal difference columns.

All in favour of having Rovers internationalists but Santiago makes Windhoek look like a trip to the corner shop. As for the occasional game in Concepcion...

75% possession for us, 0 shots on target for PNE. By way of comparison, only Barcelona with 70% possession in Kyiv come close to that level of dominance from last night's matches. Even Exeter's 6-1 demolition of Colchester came from just 54% possession while Hull won 3-0 at Ipswich from just 36% possession! Hopefully, if we keep last night's squad fit they can repeat those sorts of performances. And we needed that win just to keep in touch with wins for Norwich, Bournemouth and Brentford lastnight and straightforward games for Boro and Swansea coming up tonight. Fingers crossed for two draws Millwall v Reading and Bristol City v Watford.

So pleased for the lad. PNE players definitely know all his tricks and how to counter them but Dolan was unplayable when he came on. Very encouraging for the future.

His heat map will be a red blob well outside his area!

Oh and really chuffed for Davenport. There is a very good player there now thankfully his injury nightmare is behind him.

Holtby a significant part of the difference tonight. Really liked the way we kept our shape and momentum after the subs came on. PNE guilty of some really dirty fouls, only some of which were punished. Hope Elliott not badly injured but it didn't look good as he was helped off. Now can we have this level of performance consistently please?

Holtby making a huge difference. Not convinced by Trybull. We are well on top of this one and I don't think there is the character in this PNE team to mount a 10 man come back. Let's get a second quickly then have some fun. I hope we don't see the team set up only protecting what we have from the kick off, please Tony.

This 0, 2000 and 4000 nonsense cobbled up by somebody who is totally ignorant of life, the real world the universe and everything.

Anticipating a right scrap tonight. Odds of 11 v 11 at the end must be pretty low.

Might have been dropped. He let in 6 in the previous game.

THE BIGGIE FRIDAY. Everton at Leyland and the return of Bradley Dack. Very handy win against one of the top sides in Brighton. Back up to 3rd with a game in hand on the top 2- Liverpool and Derby.

Vinnie Jones on Gazza iconic image...

Great posts from JH and revidge. Yes the ref robbed us blind at Luton but we were never set up right for collecting 3 points and in this game Mowbray had the luxury of up to 5 subs to shake it up. He had no plan B when we have been in that sort of situation against robust dangerous but frankly limited opposition and totally failed to change approach or energy level. That observation is probably true of 30% of our games in the Championship under Mowbray.

We know how Holtby, Travis and Dack would combine with the current squad?