Ted Maul

And how the **** would they know? Isn't one of their slogans 'the game is about glory' too?

We're going to have to do the damage this evening to stand a chance of winning this one- tomorrow looks like a good day for batting so we'll want them at least 5 down by close.

Mads doing his best to make sure he's still here next season. Good lad.

Faes, Soumare, BDCR, Buonanotte.... why?

There's over 50 clubs in this country who could comfortably take 45k to Wembley- doesn't mean all of them could fill anywhere near that for a standard home game.

Fully behind Dyche. Wouldn't be unhappy with Carsley either.

Yet another good day. We look like a really well-balanced side this year. Budinger and Hill carrying some form into the season means that we don't really have a weak link in the batting when we're full strength. The seam attack looks more consistently dangerous than I thought it would. I don't think we will be too far off promotion come the end of the season. Pray that forecast clears up a bit overnight!

Not sure how I'd feel about him pulling rabonas out whilst recovering from an ACL anyway...

Yeah I think we probably missed our opportunity to put ourselves in a position to win the game yesterday- can't see there being enough in an Old Trafford pitch in April for either side to take 20 wickets now, particularly with rain forecast on Monday.

We need to create a clear pathway into first team football for the academy lads- it's the only way we will be able to get them to stay.

Don't get me wrong, Sky's test coverage was largely superb, but the paywall did untold damage to the popularity of cricket in this country. Now we're left with ridiculous summer schedules and the bloody hundred.

Looking back, it's difficult to believe how much the 2005 ashes gripped the nation. Captured an entire generation, it was mad. Then the ECB sold the rights to Sky and lost the next generation.

If Madrid score early, it's on.

In hindsight then, we could have lost that if we'd declared late last night. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they knew there wasn't enough in the pitch to take 10 wickets in a day.

Why have other teams been able to sign players who aren't a complete sack of shite on ridiculous wages and we haven't? The answer will be very similar.