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Did the club earn any money or was it a council event?

To be honest, Bury's home support is poor but I remember looking at last season's stats about away support and they were top I think of the % of home fans going to away matches so they're not that bad. I'm going for 3-1 win for Latics with 3350 home fans and 870 away supporters.

I thought they would like it. It will be lucrative and a chance of redemption. I understand they don't want to play them because it legitimises MK Dons as a club but surely they need to accept that they are there and will be a club for a while...

I've read on Twitter from a few Wimbledon fans already that they will refuse to go if they beat York.

I didn't want it either...

Not on iPlayer this week, ITV have the rights to the FA Cup so it will be on their website. http://www.itv.com/i.../?Filter=327348 We were about half way through the programme, I'd watch to try to find out but they have about 50 adverts (no exaggeration).

He's been excellent for us but he's played 15 games for Forest and scored 1 goal (according to Wikipedia). If we had a striker that had that record for us we too would probably slag them off. Think Matt Smith, most of his games are 5 minute cameo's for us where he gets no time to settle in, yet I've read so many comments saying he's :censored:e (even though he's scored a few when he's started matches). Forest probably had bigger expectations of Derbyshire than we had of Smith when they joined both clubs so it is understandable that they are disappointed with his goal tally.

The money we would spend on his wages throughout a 2 year deal would most likely be recuperated in a transfer fee and hopefully in results and performances.

I've been there before and their pitch is sloped ridiculously, something that many of our players won't have faced before and must be something very challenging to play on. I don't fancy it. Luton or Nuneaton I'd like.

I'd definitely offer him a lucrative contract and make him the highest paid player. If we can get him for a year or a year and a half then we'd make money if we wanted to sell him anyway. Both options would be great. I just wouldn't want to end up paying him massive wages (well massive for us) and then losing him for nothing - or a very small compensation free if we're eligible for one - in the summer.

What would the club be able to do about Sky Sports and BBC doing their job, reporting on the sports news? The more useful question would be what could the Police do about those that made false allegations and wasted time? They are the real villains in this saga.

Don't worry. Christmas and a few birthdays coming up and all shopping will be done through Playershare!

Almost had a heart attack, thought you were talking about Birmingham offering for Baxter for a minute...

The whole point of burning the poppy was that it wasn't just "setting light to a paper flower". It symbolises much more than just a species of plant to most Britans and so the aggression was intentionally there in abundance. It was inciting racial hatred, which is a serious criminal offence.

BRILLIANT. Lets unite football and rid it of discrimination and segregation by making enemies that you can only join if you're a certain skin colour. Absoutely ludicrous. Contradicts the point of the whole venture.

I hope Dickov is planning his January transactions over the next few months ready to replace Derbyshire when he's gone. Great bit of news, now it gives us time to consider a new player and an extra few months of service from one of the best strikers in the league.

I've said this about Leon Clarke several times over the past few weeks. It looks like Scunthorpe are being cast adrift at the bottom of the league and with Clarke having scored 7 of their 11 goals this season, it seems as though they are extremely reliant on him. If he can score in that team then he'll score in any and I'm sure that any striker would be delighted to play with Derbyshire, Croft, Montano and Baxter too. He'd score an absolute heap of goals if he came here so of course I'd love him to, but its all about the money; like usual. I'm not sure about Tom Eaves, looks a good player for Bristol but whether he is up to scoring regularly in this league yet, I'm not so sure. Having seen a video of his goals for Bolton reserves, he certainly has the technique so I suppose if we could get him on small wages then he'd be worth a chance, but Clarke would obviously be the prefered candidate.

He's scored again for the reserves, apparently a cracking 25 yard strike. Is it time he gets a chance to play with Furman not getting a guarenteed place in the side and Simpson not impressing much in his last few CM performances? He's got a lot of raw talent and can pick out a pass and has a belting shot but I'm not sure whether he's calm enough on the ball, sometimes making wrong decisions. He's a gem I'm certain and will only improve by getting gametime in the first team so whilst we having got a regular CM partner for Wes, is it not worth starting him be it against Kidderminster or Bury if he impresses?

I find it sad that we're all accepting that M'voto's first offence was definitely a red card. Confirms that football in general is so petty at the moment and we, as fans, are allowing it to progress to this farcical stage where putting your hand on an opponents face is seen to be a straight red card, which shares the same punishment as a two-footed, leg-breaking lunge to the shins. Matches are ruined because of red cards and they're handed out so nonchalently, with no consideration about how the match will be spolit by such an insignificant action. I'm not saying let players have punch-ups and brawls every game without consequence, but we must be able to overlook a tap to the face like M'Voto did as part of competitive sport.

It could be said that there is extra danger from standing in a seating area rather than standing in regulated standing zones where attendances have been controlled. When a goal is scored and everybody is celebrating its not unusual to see fans fall over the row below them, which of course is dangerous not only to the fan that falls, but the fan that is directly in in front of the fan that falls. Standing in standing areas not only creates a better atmosphere, which a lot of grounds could benefit from, a better atmosphere subsequently attracts more fans as its a more enjoyable experience. The disasters of previous years has haunted the whole seating-standing argument, there was so much to be learnt from the tragic events at Hillsborough and I'm certain that with regulations, organisation and co-operation increased, casualties will be avoided and a safe environment where we can all enjoy watching football will be produced. I really hope that the safe standing act can be pushed through and 1 MP will be courageous enough to allow it. If League clubs can get standing and the Premier League still has seating then it might bring fans back from the top flight too. I saw there was something in Scotland, further developed than England, being pushed by fans with the same objective of bringing back safe standing. Does anybody know how that is progressing?

In response to your point about our spell of good play and the rest being poor, this is what we eradicated during our recent run of results. I'll give the players the benefit of the doubt as we had 10 men, but that was our problem at the start of the season. We played terrifically for 15 minute spells per game at the beginning of the season but the other 75 minutes were slow and dull and lacklustre. The upturn in results was down to the extra 75 minutes that we originally wasted being a more consistent tempo and quality of play, aided by Baxter and Derbyshire's quality and workrate. Its probably unfair to criticise the players for that characteristic reappearing when we had 10 men but I think its crucial for us to keep up this consistency for the full course of the game in order for our good form to continue. Well done to the lads on a hard fought point in difficult circumstances against a top of the table side.

Take the positive that the match that kickstarted our season, Coventry defeat at home, was a very poor performance like tonight's. Hopefully the players will have an incentive to put things right against Crawley, even though it will be very tough.

I don't see that being on TV. I'm sure there will be something more exciting drawn.

Looked like he played very well, should probably have buried the header but he made a big impact and will hopefully get more gametime for them off the back of that display. Good luck to him - hope he does well.

The hoof it up to Simpson accusation sounds like it was made because he got on the end of 2 or 3 wide crosses that resulted in flick downs. There was no tactic made to hoof it to him. A match being played for 90 minutes results in lots of different "plays" happening; some are bound to be hoofs. Swansea and Barca occasionally hoof it but I would like to bet that in the teamtalk before the match Dickov will not have instructed the team to boot it up to Simpson, who of course was in midfield anyway. And as for the poor first half performance, it did go stagnant towards the end of the half, the last 15 minutes didn't contain anything of note but we had a fair few chances before that and played some decent football.