The ref was shit, but then again so were we. If we lose against Boro, I’m very concerned about it becoming a death spiral.

Out of interest, when was your last eye test?

Hard to get to the ball when a player runs straight into you tbh.

Foul on the ‘keeper as well. Sound. Another terrific referee. What a fucking joke.

If only that loose ball had broken to BBD and not SG….

He’s proved those ‘moaning swines’ right so far unfortunately. He’s been horrendous.

Gallagher doing absolutely nothing to justify his selection so far. He has ducked out of challenges worse than Andrews ever did. This has been shit, but even with that, we’ve had chances. If we turn this up, we’ll smash them.

Why on earth is Khadra not going closer and blasting it?

Another ref that won’t give nailed on penalties. Lovely.

In time, when Rooney has more experience under his belt and things are a bit smoother down at Goodison then yeah, could be a good appointment. But now, it’s far too much of a risk and they can’t afford to take risks right now!

Stuart isn’t banned, for those asking!

Hardly shocking tbh. They’ve had injuries, but, he’s alienated players like Digne who’s been one of their big players recently. Doubt he will be missed really.

Didn’t manage to see any of today’s game, bar a video sent to me of the goal. Technical issues, making me re register when I already have an account, then other assorted problems put paid to that! However, thought today was a potential banana skin and just glad we came through it unscathed. Onwards and upwards, COYB.

What’s the point of a football club, if we are third in the league, have the money from the sale of our leading scorer from last season, but won’t spend it to try and achieve promotion? Might as well padlock the gates in the morning if we aren’t going to bother trying to achieve any success.

People seem to have forgotten, but let’s have a reminder eh? Vaccination talk in the corona virus thread in the ICBINF thread only please.

That’s exactly how I felt with it. The remake of the third one is also inferior to the remake of the second one. They cut loads out of that remake from the original. Whereas, the second remake is very close to the original indeed.

It’ll be their attempt at humour. Shit, just like their club.

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.