He’s miles off it at the moment is Rashford. The Ronaldo thing is an odd one, but what annoyed me about it the most was recently, all these newspaper reports about him being unhappy with Rangnick (after 6? Games) and flying his agent in for showdown talks. Fernandes has gone well off the boil too, since his compatriot has signed. Such an odd situation. They’ve tried all kinds of managers and they’ve all ultimately failed, which says to me the problems run far deeper than the playing squad.

Quite a few already have I think. I wouldn’t want that happening here myself, Brockhall is the jewel in our crown and we also. Just look at how many academy products we have in our match day squad.

Don’t you? I can remember a few tbf.

If Scott Wharton is out with Covid, then he’s been a naughty boy, as he pulled up alongside me at the traffic lights on the way into Clitheroe this morning….

Tell you what, I’m finding it a bit odd that we haven’t sent Poveda back to Leeds. He appears to be doing his rehab there and seemingly he won’t be back any time soon?

The main concerns today are about injuries to key players, a return to playing players out of position (Dolan and Gallagher) and obviously, that fruity lad in goal. As long as these things are a one off, that’s sound, but especially if I see Pears in between the sticks in our colours again, we’ve all got every right to be very worried. Three conceded and he was at fault for all of them. It’s ruthless, but he should never play for this club again, it’s as simple as that.

We have no idea if he wants to leave or not to be fair. People have started convincing themselves that Nyambe isn’t that good, in anticipation of him leaving, to justify that stance from where I’m sitting….

I’m not sure why I thought it would be any different tbh, local away game with a big following, we don’t win these games.

There already is a Dyche out thread on their message board I believe.

I think one of the saddest things about Nyambe is how people seem to have convinced themselves he is a lot less important than he is, to cushion the blow of his potential departure. This is a lad who has been here for absolutely years and been a stalwart in the side. I find it utterly bizarre and a bit disrespectful to the lad tbh.

Crazy P- Eruption

I’d be cautiously optimistic with the potential signing of Burke. He looks to have been a player with lots of potential in the past who’s lost his way. Maybe he will work it out here, who knows? He’s obviously got something about him with the clubs he’s played for already. I think he could do well here tbh.

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!