Does anyone really care if Mackie is booed or not? Football fans hardly driven by being reasonable are they?

RUbbish so far.

Agree tactics are wrong - Evans should def have started if playing 4 at the back.

Front 3 have barely had a touch, and whenever they have they have lost the ball.

he has scored 1 for Derby I believe- against us obviously He was never an 8mill player much as I admired his effort here - and will fall further down the queue at Derby now that Nugent has gone there. Mind you when it looks like Brentford will get 15m for a player who has had 2 serious knee injuries...

mr hoop Jem is off on a tour of the North to talk to Wigan and Barnsley today.

there's a glamour trip for you

most forecasts suggested all rain and snow will have passed by 6pm

I'll be surprised and disappointed if we don't win this comfortably. Will go for 3-0, Williams, McCleary and Yann

I'm sure it will - we re very soft down this way. This kind of weather is pretty much standard fare in northern holes like Preston and they just get on with it and play the game

All this goes to the very heart of our defensive woes and why signing someone like Ilori is far more significant than paying megabucks for a striker when Kermorgant is finally adding goals to all the other good stuff he brings to the side. Kermit is currently Japp's number one regardless of the pri...

Has this takeover 'collapsed'? Not seen anything officially, but the preview on this site suggests it has

Forecast only suggested rain in the early afternoon and maybe a little bit of snow about 4pm. Game should be fine, just hope any that falls and the relatively strong winds doesnt become a leveller

hopefully not - forecasts I've seen are more for rain than snow. Not been particularly wet recently so pitch should be cope

with the amount of money in the Prem, I don't think there is ever a time when you would turn it down for another season in the champ. I think the ideal is you get promoted and then hope for a bit of luck and try to hang on in for a year or two to get established. I don't think we will make it up thi...

Yep that was the point of that team - realistically currently McCleary is the first name on the team sheet - plus don't think Yann, Gunter, McShane and arguably Williams are ready to move on quite yet

Gunts has at least 2 assists - can think of Kelly (Bristol A) and Beerens (Bristol H) off the top of my head

Grabban on loan would be worth a go I think, reckon Bournemouth would let him go

because they didn't pay him any wages or signing on fee during his time there of course.

And as we now know the fee is closer to 2mill, so bad luck scousers

happening for 2.2 mill apparently

A good signing for that sort of money. Agree on Blackett - has looked great to me as a left sided CB, and pretty dreadful as a LB in a back 4.

Those teams above certainly look exciting

Realistically you would like a bit more experience and if you sprinkle the likes of McCleary in there you have a potentially very good side

Do like that back 5 and midfield 3 though

Gunter was poor today. I like him but him and Blackett were dreadful first up and it cost us the game Personally just think we look much better 3-5-2 and use both Gunter and Obita's attacking talents rather than highlight the fact they aren't the best defensively I'd sacrifice Beerens from the first...

Agree, best player by a distance for us

Evans, Kelly and Swift is potentially a top midfield

Not a great game that, but after awful first 20, was always going to be a non event I suppose plus side is Kelly, Evans and Swift all looked tidy and ok at that level. McCleary looked dangerous at times Downside is Yann looked way out of his depth, defence were all pretty poor, Beerens and Williams ...