Dave_Og

No, holiday booked over a year ago

It's very unlikely that I'll see another game this season for one reason or another. So looks like it I'll go through 23/24 without actually seeing us win.

Thankfully it's not really an option for me to get to games regularly...

That would be true of me. I left a few minutes early and I've done that three times since I first went in 1966. To be fair I had to stay to the end with my Dad in those early years.

I'm almost always out on a Tuesday. Which is generally a relief.

And I'll stick with my general bewilderment at why we have to set up differently home and away.

It's absolutely inconceivable that in all the years under Joe we didn't throw in some absolute stinkers. It wasn't all about 89-91

Anyone worked out what the effect on the table would be if Dale go pop?

In 57 years that was the third time I have left a game early. Not quite that early...

Funnily enough his shorts always look too tight. He's either got the thighs of Fatima Whitbread or he's picked up the wrong pair

A third of the way into a 230 mile drive home. I can't be bothered to read the comments but I'm sure I'll agree with the vast majority of them.

I'm sitting here fantasising about the atmosphere if we actually stuff them

64?

Well they could have come and supported us against Everton...

Can't really imagine who would be there to see us beat Liverpool but decide not to bother going t see Everton in the next round. Oh well, ancient history. Tomorrow's more important now.

Still very odd that we had 800 less against Everton after beating Liverpool

Sky Sports says attendance was 9,473. I recall at the time being rather surprised. V Liverpool, given as 10,295. V City , 2005 - 13.171. V Grimsby 2004, 13,007

I've got a memory that Everton didn't sell out, although the capacity may have been higher. My fault; I watched it in a hotel bar in Kildare.

Biggest crowd since? Celebration Sunday v Grimsby?

I reckon that was bollocks. I believe he was on trial and we were interested but before we'd decided whether to make an offer he'd gone in trial to Willem II where his best mate was and he signed for them.

I expect a slice of lemon in my EG

I like an apple turnover with my afternoon cup of Earl Grey

It highlights what I see as a scourge of modern football - stats. But more the interpretation of the stats rather than the stats themselves. I am sure lots of them are very useful for clubs and managers when they are analysed and put in the proper context but that level of analysis isn't available to the ordinary fan so the strong likelihood is that the stats will be misinterpreted - as Forshaw's goalscoring streak this time last year appears to have been. I had a four hour drive last night back home and had the Liverpool/Luton game on the radio - which was fun until Liverpool steamrollered them. The commentary was more to do with the stats than the game. At one point I was regaled with the fact that Liverpool had won 59.21% of aerial duels, to which the only sensible response is 'So bloody what?'

I think those pushing for his inclusion had mostly never seen a youth game in their lives

What was the opinion of the youth team watchers of Kofi Moore? His brief foray into the first team squad was very brief indeed but presumably the staff thought he was the most promising of the group at the time?