Trigger - completely agree; he sounded quite frustrated in his interview not to be playing, so to get that goal must have been a relief - I hope it’s not a fluky one-off, and that he can push on and grab a few more!

I’ll say this for Palmer - he meant that and you could see what it meant to him to score. I like our approach to attacking and getting crosses in from all over. A bit more belief and application in the box and we’d have got all 3 points.

Also worth emphasising that Whitty isn’t Chief COVID Officer, he’s Chief Medical Officer, and as such he will be only too aware of the impact COVID is having on everything from mental health to cancer management. It’s a delicate balancing act and our mortality rates thus far suggest we have had to learn the hard way that wishing and hoping alone doesn’t make COVID go away.

That’s a pretty daft post even for a Flat Earther. I’m personally not sure how useful the school testing will be, but it isn’t a device to continue lockdown. Everything looks to be going well with case numbers, hospital admissions and mortality but we do with 3/5 of the adult population unvaccinated we do be careful how we lift measures.

The YouTube highlights are up, Wags

Is there a linky-poo to Ollie's famed last-minute-point-stealing-finger-waving goal per chance?

Sky Sports suggesting OP’s goal might be goal of the day yesterday, that’s if he meant the flick into the top corner (which obviously he did....). Nice to see us mentioned in a positive light rather than the usual case of ignoring us altogether or highlighting our weaknesses....

You've been here so long that you have become institutionalised (either that or pompous twattery is contagious). That post was word-for-word what I would have said.

Greetings Wombles from all at the Flat Earth Society where we have a stat or two to warn you of. There are 16,000,000 school kids in the UK. Schools have this week been provided with 57,000,000 lateral flow tests. Now watch the ‘case rate’ rocket and new calls from Whitty and Co for extended lockdown measures. Brilliant timing : with even official Covid deaths (as opposed to the real lower numbers), new cases and hospital admissions plummeting, along come the children to fill the spreadsheets and help stoke up Project Fear. It’s beautifully choreographed and scripted. Stay in your homes, don’t open your front doors, save lives.

:-)

Mate, we speak Portuguese, not Spanish. How very dare you? Completely different language. Some people......

Farns, I believe Sutton's position, should they get promoted, is to remove the astroturf and relay grass. As the former cost a fair bit, they would look to relay that somewhere in the borough whilst they were in the EFL

What is the Portuguese for "Viva El Presidente", by the way?

Waggy - it's not 2012, mate. We're in League 1 :-) Good to see your president taking up the additional burden now that the Flump is no longer relevant, by the way.

Sutton United in pole position in the National League. Given their artificial pitch, what is the likelihood they will be sharing Plough Lane next season?

tGG, League 2 is nicknamed The Rochdale Division for a reason.

Got up early to watch the cricket.

( and Rochdale ALWAYS manage to escape by doing just enough )

It's about this time of (a normal) season that one team plummets and another team flies. It would be too much to hope that the former is the scum (hey, we can dream) and the latter is us.....

Inertia is finally being overcome. Yesterday the team looked to have some belief. The spankings at posh and hulls hands, though arguably expected will still be playing a part in performance. I truly hope im not speaking too soon but yesterdays performance was one built on expectations of being able to beat anyone in the bottom half of the table. Never underestimate the power of confidence. If any player wants to aim for higher league football they have to buy in to be better they have to think themselves as being all round into behaving better in every aspect of their lives in and out of the football.

Alan - second disallowed goal? Wot? Did I miss one when I went outside for a cheeky snout?

morning troops. Wow - the pope is celebrating a Mass for an expected 10,000 people in Iraq today. Boy, would I not like to be in charge of THAT security detail! I know this sort of tragedy is predominantly internecine action between Sunnis & Shias but that is a "trophy" target, if ever I saw one...

Morning Wombles. Another good point against another bogey team for us. We are slowly but surely moving in the right direction. We just need to score a few more goals. Well done to Robbo and the boys.

Dons Outlook, that was my take, it would have counted if either had scored diectly, but Pigs shot effectively became a pass to Ruddi in an offside position. The hand ball was the second disallowed goal for us. Intersting to see tbe highlights on Sky and underlining the fact of us getting the majority of the chances.

Merton sutton down to 55 new cases per 100k,all the other local boroughs less. Time to open it all up .its been a year let's all have some life back.