Streuth, Champs. I just don't know about all this stuff.
I find all the heat generated utterly irrelevant to the everyday business of supporting your own football team.
NZClaret seems to think I spat the dummy, but it's not that. I took his post about the National League to be yet another example of the dire stuff on the Telegraph site - that is, rubbish to the tune of "Rovers are in free fall and headed out of the League".
He claims now that he was just speaking in general terms, but it doesn't come across like that, and nowhere in my post did I suggest we will be pack in the PL anytime soon.
See - this is why I prefer to ignore these hostile posters. I never reply to them on the Telegraph site at all. In fact, I've stopped reading their posts altogether, but it's still annoying. The other day, there was a thread of about 130 posts, well over 100 of which were from Burnley trolls, or replies to them! I have never even looked at the Burnley section of the same paper, and I am at a loss as to why some Claret "supporters" are actually posting on the Rovers forum DURING Burnley games.
We have been mercifully free of that nonsense here, and although I hate censorship, if Roversmad turns into yet another back and forth about history, gates, and other non-football drivel, I would be in favour of Robin banning them, simply to preserve what is a sensible, non-hysterical site.
Incidentally, Saxo, if what they say about you is true, YOU need to get off the Claret sites too.
Why can't we all focus on our own teams, or at least stick to the kind of banter provided by Alf and TMS?
My take on Burnley as a team? I am actually glad to see a small-town club doing well against the super-powers. I have actually begun to think that the bottom six of the PL and the top six of the Championship are pretty well interchangeable. Look at Huddersfield.
Like Despair, I actually believe the Championship is the natural home of both Rovers and Burnley, but a PL with the top six moved into Europe would make for a much more interesting competition, and both clubs might well be capable of remaining at that level as a matter of course.
As it is, let's just focus on Rovers' remarkable turn-around this year, and hope that it doesn't go pear-shaped. It doesn't take much to change things. After Mulgrew's mistake yesterday, if it had been Fleetwood who had scored a spectacular winner, confidence might have drained away (and certainly the Rovers fans on the Telegraph who have never liked Mowbray would be happy again!)
I didn't do another 4 o'clock stint for this game. I'm reserving that for the home games. It was fingers crossed, therefore, when I switched on the computer.
One reason I WOULD like to be back in the PL is that I'd get to see more games at reasonable times, and without paying extra!