Evening, I know it’s annoying that the festive period is drawing to a close, but can we simmer down a bit please? Thanks.

To be expected with McTominay and Matic in the middle of the park really.

I really wanted Clarkson to do well, as he’s a Clitheroe lad, I see him knocking about a fair bit and that he is a blue. A shame it hasn’t, but it happens. You win some, you lose some. Best of luck to the lad.

Most obvious red card of all time, right in front of the linesman. Decision? Yellow. What an absolute stain on his profession this referee is.

Where the hell do they get these championship refs from? Another absolute waster on show today.

The way people go on, it’s like he was terrorised every week, which just isn’t the way it was. People were rightly concerned that someone we smashed £7 Million on was looking poor. Hardly like that’s unreasonable, good grief. I can’t believe this is getting dragged back up either. For what purpose? BBD playing well suits us all and is for the benefit of the club, why are we back to trying to score points by re writing history?

Except, he doesn’t read these boards and I never saw any comments of that ilk aimed at him on socials, so that seems unlikely, to be fair. If he did read these boards, it definitely would have been mentioned in an interview with TM. He’s previously been very quick to mention people’s opinions on social media and I’m sure he’d have been no different with that either. Remember that Rich Sharpe article where he questioned how to get more out of Gallagher just how sensitive the players got? If there was genuine knowledge of posts on here, the players would have been fuming! At matches, nobody wanted BBD to score more than the fans, his support was incredible then! Unless you believe that Birmingham away bullshit, which I most definitely don’t.

Forest have a miles bigger fan base than us.

Sturridge has been a cracking player, albeit one plagued by injuries though. I don’t think we should take a punt on him now though, his race is run for me.

I got the exact same. Good to know they’re judging each complaint on its own merits.

DJ Shadow- Midnight in a Perfect World

Tell you what, Burnley are barely putting any challenges in at all here. Always helpful to at least attempt to stop the opposition running at you…

Lovely, absolutely lovely. Missed chances a plenty, but who cares when we get the three points. Shout out to all the Barnsley fans booting off, that was tremendous entertainment!

Steve Kean levels of bullshit after the series so far. Unreal.

Merry Christmas everyone and thanks for your continued contributions to the site. Hope you have a great day!

I’m absolutely delighted with how we’ve been playing and the results we’ve been getting recently. But as ever, my concern is that a death spiral is never too far away. I hope we’ve turned a corner and that isn’t the case, but, having been let down so many times before, I never get ahead of myself and just enjoy one result at a time. Mowbray deserves enormous credit for this run and our turnaround since the Fulham thumping, but they don’t hand out any prizes in December, let’s see how we are doing in May….

Over kill of any song absolutely ruins it. Is there no danger of people listening to any different music? There’s plenty of it about!

I’ve already made this very clear and it’s getting very frustrating that people can’t follow simple instructions. If they fail to follow such simple instructions from now on, they can expect time away from the forum. If anyone wants to discuss the virus and whatever, you can do so to your heart’s content, right here-

That’s a very long winded way of saying ‘I agree with you’ to Matty 😃.

Rare I stick up for Liverpool, but Kane should have been sent off in first half too and Liverpool should have had a penalty. Cracking game though!

Sent you a DM.

After everything the last ten years, it would be Rovers without question. If we were an established PL team again, then I’d take an England WC win as I’ve already seen us win the league. But, typically, I’m Rovers>England.

Re the baiting- it’s really sad that so much of it happens on here and bizarrely, it seems to be a priority for some over enjoyment of a win. On both sides of the debate on here, people are so entrenched in their views that they’re losing sight of what brought us here in the first place. (A shared love of BRFC). I’m not ashamed to admit it borders on obsession, certainly with how often I find myself on here! Examples of baiting for the curious- (after a defeat)- ‘where are all the happy clappers now?’. After a win- ‘where are all the Mowbray out crew now?’. Or criticising people for staying away with added insults, it’s lower than the standard of discussion we expect to see on here. If you keep getting 48 hour bans for baiting, then your bans will just keep getting longer, before, frankly we’ll have had enough of you not learning your lesson and you’ll just get a permanent ban. That is the absolute last resort and myself and the rest of the mods hate doing that, but we only do so after giving members plenty of chances to stop. By the way, we are good at spotting patterns- I.E members logging on when the mods are asleep and running wild for a bit, but don’t worry, we eventually wake up and deal with things retrospectively! This post doesn’t require any response, only compliance please. Any issues, as ever, feel free to send myself or any of the other mods a DM and we will be happy to discuss any concerns you may have. Thanks for reading and enjoy the festive period.

Just been for a curry at Shajan (had a chicken banjara from the chef’s specials and it was absolutely outstanding, for the curious amongst us) and saw John Buckley with his family in there. I didn’t bother congratulating him on the goal or anything, but if anyone has earned a good feed, it’s him! (Not me, I eat enough as it is).

McDonald’s is shite, but sometimes, especially when nursing a sore head Tom too many pints, it’s exactly what you crave the most.