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She might have been right but it’s still daft that a caution has to be issued to avoid having to go off. The principle should be that the innocent team and player shouldn’t be disadvantaged especially now they have to wait an extra 30 seconds - if you get injured by a foul against you then you shouldn’t have to go off at all after treatment, caution or not.

Premier league rather than league 1. Apparently.

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim. We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak. It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get. You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.

To continue the pedantic mode, at the moment he made the comment there was a defender between NML and the goal, the goalie, so it was 2 on 1. At the moment Barks shot it was 1 on 0 aka an open goal. We do have bread rolls though, it’s true. And a Bettys that sells them. 😘

I do hope that @Owen87ITK regrets the ‘it’s two on 0’ bit of his otherwise excellent (as usual) commentary during Bark’s goal. It’s a 2 on 1 Owen, 2 on 1.

Oh me too, @MadAmster, me too. We are similar ages and I hope that I can carry on with my season ticket for many years yet. I just recognise though that that does depend on what happens to me and/or my (slightly older) wife if I can’t drive safely or she can’t be left alone, for example. Things start falling off in older age, sadly, often beyond control.

There is a fleetwood youtuber who did a report on the game that said (I think) 27. Perhaps the others bought tickets but didn’t travel

To take your jovial comment semi seriously, as I get older I start thinking about the moment when I will be unable to watch us live any more - I live 80 or so miles away and have to drive to be able to get back home after a midweek or late kick off game. So while I can I still like to go. Telly ain’t the same however good ramstv may be. But oh boy do I wish the highways agency would not screw up both north/south routes at the same time and same area. They’re the sky tv of roadworks with their ignorance of travelling football fans.

Given that the M1 and A1 are both roadwork ridden car parks at the moment you’ll forgive me wanting either of those, but away

It was a cold watch but a good game with good goals and good individual performances all round. And well done to the 100 or so that did their very best to create an atmosphere. It was interesting seeing the safe standing barriers in place. There looks to be new vertical barriers that run down the terrace as well as the horizontal/seat level ones. DC developments are certainly investing in the ground after some period of non investment. It’ll be interesting to see where they go next.

Someone can’t count. There’s 20 letters there.

Nice try @angieram I fear it wasn’t very successful 🤣🤣

According to Radio Derby tonight he was actually at the match. Though I guess that doesn’t fit in with the ‘he hates the academy and young players’ mantra that some are trotting out.

One of Franny Lee’s favourite jokes One for the older reader

I bet those ULEZ cameras have been lighting up like fireworks on bonfire night

Must be for the Final. Did Crewe field an ineligible player?

It’s disgraceful that no one is standing at the bottom of the ladder to make sure it doesn’t slip given that it’s on grass. There’s no cones keeping the public away, no hi viz jackets , the van is parked on the wrong side of the road with no visible warning signs and I bet no risk assessments were done. It’s an accident waiting to happen.

I’m glad. And I hope he gets years of pleasure from doing so, just as I did. But in the last 30 years I’ve steadily lost that feeling of fun and attachment. I couldn’t care less now about the England team or international football generally or that much about the EPL. I’ve watched more of Kane in Munich in the last 5 weeks than I have of the PL (probably about 20 minutes in total). I’m quite happy to be accused of holding on to the past - I don’t think I am or do, there were things about the football of yesteryear that were not good - but the pendulum has swung far too far away from what I used to watch, love and enjoy for me. And I hope that his grandad reminds him of the good old days 😃

This I have sky but now for the cricket. I haven’t watched a non Ramstv game on the TV or the highlight shows for at least 10 years if not more. If the radio happens to be on with a PL match I don’t instantly know (with rare exceptions) who is playing nor which team has the ball. Though they don’t recognise it as such as they chase audiences from the far east and the Arab countries, I suspect that the football authorities are building themselves problems that may not show for a few years yet but will. The present system is unsustainable in the medium term. The football pyramid I grew up with is dying.

They’ll appeal too and then appeal the inevitable result. That should take at least another season to play out. It’ll be a right mess.

Well, I guess we know the answer to his question. What do you guys think A lot of you B4. We think a lot of you. Rest peacefully.

Is she worn out?

Reading ticket sales have presumably been halted as a result of the postponement as they’re no longer available on the website (unless I’m being technologically challenged again)

No but I did overhear the guy in the queue behind me say to his mate : ‘for feck sake don’t buy the cheeseburger if you want to stay well’ I had a steak and ale pie. Ok only. Nowhere near as good as Carlisle

The pies at Carlisle were excellent. And they left the tops on the pop bottles.