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Rumours on one of the coaches presently making slow progress - no worries; bags of time yet! - towards the London Stadium is that NObody expected to feature in t'Clasico on Sunday will play. Reckon we'll be lucky to make progress but I don't think we'll get stuffed. 3-1 to WHam.

I'd hate to be a Coventry fan at the moment with all this hanging over them; but I reckon Robins is a good motivating manager who knows this Division better than JDT, so, although it goes against the grain for me, I'm going to predict a 1-0 win for Coventry City.

You'll - probably rightly! - think of me as a bit of an old curmudgeon @1SimonGarner ; but your "it was bouncing" is my nightmare of an away game! For example, being at Doncaster on the night we clinched promotion from League One was ruined for me by all the "youngsters" - not all of them...

Aye; it makes you realise how - comparatively - fortunate we are. For all we may grumble about our owners, there are clubs - and fans - who are actually worse off than we are.

And there was me, trying to be classy!!

Well, Scunthorpe play in claret and blue.

I'm not one of the many, it seems, who are expecting our first draw of the season. I'm advised by friends on (father) - or originating from (son) - Humberside that local media expects the Tigers' currently temporary Head Coach to be supplanted imminently, but not before, this afternoon's game...

... "all right when we do it!", obvs! Bloody predictive texting!!

Yes, I agree. I think this is a potential banana skin for us to slip up on. I hate it when opposition managers complain about their team having a day less "rest" than us since their previous game. (Yes, of course it's all right we we do it!) I can foresee the letter "D" making its debut in the...

For me, this is the game where the WLWL sequence bites the dust. I'm sure I read that the Mackems are struggling for fit - as in "healthy", rather than "appropriate standard for the Championship" - players. So I'm going for a 3-1 win, accompanied by a chant of "Tony, Tony; what's the score?" for...

At least I got the scorer of our first goal right. Only 89 minutes out! (Do I get an extra point for that @tonygreenbank ?!)

The WLWL sequence carries on for me. After 93 turgid minutes, it finishes Middlesbrough 0; Lancashire's Most Historic Football Club 1. (Lenihan, OG (90+3)).

I'm going for the Rovers to break the WLWL sequence with a 3-0 win. Wigan strike me as very similar to Rotherham. So, apart from resting Ayala and bringing back Brittain, pushing Hedges further forward at the expense of Gallagher, I wouldn't make any changes. Oh; and if we can aim at the...

Ooh; there's optimistic, @tonygreenbank ! I know that, on one basis - WLWLWL - that's a pretty good prediction. However, there's the "New Manager Bounce", which Rotherham United may well have as their players look to play well for him in their first couple of games under his management. On...

We're up against a managerless team so I reckon it's a good chance for us to get consecutive wins. I'm going for Rovers to win 2-0; or, as it'll appear in the media, 0-2

I'm with you on this one, @tonygreenbank I fear one of those games that'll "get football done away wi' " with us crabbing a late winner.

Hate's a strong word; except when it's applied to Luton Town, imo! For me, they've always embodied the attitude that they're superior to the football authorities like when they banned all away fans from games at Kenilworth Road (Mind that was after Millwall had been in town!); and when they...

I think that we're in for defeat again; not totally humiliating, but decisive enough to remind us that JDT sees us us as a Project to be developed over a few transfer windows, than an instant fix. I fear a scoreline of something like Rovers 1, Watford 4.

A very good point, imo, @tonygreenbank I hope they are, too; surely that's one of the reasons they were kept on board after Mowbray had cleared his desk. But let's not forget that, right from the start, JDT's language has been of a steady progress, such as would be made from "a project", rather...

And I, too, am settled in what is probably the best seat for me; right at the Blackburn End of the Riverside about five rows back.