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That was better from Moreshita. Poor touch from Ohashi.

Well, if the objective is to come away with a point then the first 30 mins hasnt been too bad. We've contained Preston reasonably well. A game desperately low in quality though and we look as though we could play until this time next week and not score. Getting nothing out of Moreshita or Gudjohnssen.

Great save by Pears. That'll disappoint many posters.

Yeah, finished second behind Miller.

Hedges gets the chance to break in a very promising situation - nothing pass to Montgomery and ten seconds later we're back at the half way line.

Put the fishing rod away.

Alebiosu looks back on form after being inexplicably off it 2nd half v Bristol and against Derby.

Delighted Pratt is starting rather than trying to shoehorn Hedges in there. I'm more worried about Miller. I dont think he's very good at the best of times but he must have been playing until 0330 Thursday morning then had to fly back from Colombia. We shouldnt be asking any player to do that.

You beat me to it!

Precisely. For that reason I certainly wouldn't consider Liverpool FC to be worthy applicants and probably not Rovers. It's a bit like Bill Gates asking for a charitable hand out. Whether or not we SHOULD have received funding though isnt really relevant. If we were turned down, what else have we done about it? I think we can guess the answer.

Hedges gave the ball away high up the pitch and then was completely out of position leading to one of the goals though.

Did Ismael try to justify it by saying Hedges was an inch taller than the other two or am I completely imagining that? I'm sure I've seen it somewhere.

Imo if the bus was going to all parts of the City that's one thing (even though Liverpool are more than capable of funding it themselves) but Im not sure why any professional Football Club should expect funding for an exhibition on Club premises.

Seems they might have provided funding to the Liverpool Foundation rather than the Club.

Can't even win that.

Very good! What wouldnt we give for a player like Noel now!

Seemingly from the pictures on here one poor chap spent £90 on one. Looked like a crumpled old rag. Could end up becoming an extremely rare item indeed!

That's what the Club claimed we spent on him to make them look good so they can't have it both ways and say "actually it wasn't £2m it was only a cheap punt" when he bombs.

Tavares! I'd forgotten we'd signed him. £2m well spent.

Just had a quick look online and initial evidence there is to the contrary. AI says the Club has never received money from the National Lottery. Do you have a source?

I can't see that happening. I'd say either it's a case we're all (apart from Islander) over-reacting and it's merely a niggling injury that has taken longer than expected to clear up, or, if negotiations have taken place behind the scenes, we won't see him again.

Absolutely. Most incisive post on here for a long time! 1971 with an Owen Coyle minus the Burnley connection. What could go wrong?

They ought to sell them before a home game at Ewood they'd do a bomb.

Agree 100%. I've never known the world cave in because a youngster was handed a debut. The majority of the time they exceed expectations. if you can't throw them in in cases of emergency, what's the point in them being at the Club?

That's been Alebiosu by some distance imo but Cantwell has been good when available. Night and day compared to his performances last season.