Ian Holloway, previously of this parish, doesn't hold back with his views on Man City - see football shorts a little way down on the BBC's football page.

Home, can walk but using crutches, looks like a raw burger stuck to my leg. Got to return to Oxford in 2 weeks to see plastics team. The critical thing atm is the skin graft, the bone itself, despite having had a hole in was cleaned of infection and filling with cerement G (loaded with antibiotics) and have to orally take co-trimoxazole 480 mg for 6 weeks. I can in theory drive, but for the skin graft , that will probably break down due to flexation. Seriously impressed with all staff and consultants and the care I got. Got plenty of legal crap to deal with, that keeps me busy.

Apparently, my best mate (Meta AI) says it's mandatory to pay insurance for registered players. But the mandated level, like with cars, only covers a few weeks, not long-term

Papagrumps is a lesser spotted tag, but what a fine tag it is!

*I meant “away” but I trod on a piece Lego.

Whilst we’re low in the goals for table we’re not too bad in the goals against table and 7 of our 8 came in just 2 (pretty disastrous) games. So we could be verging towards “a strong team is built on a strong defence” but as I implied earlier I’ve seen some of our clean sheets this season and they relied more on strikers missing open goals than us being particularly mean. That is League One of course - decent strikers don’t tend to stay in this division - but we also know that relying on clean sheets at this level is folly. They run out and are easily killed by a single moment à la Cambridge.

We seem to have enough strikers with Browne coming back. What happens with insurance these days? My assumption being we don't pay premiums cos we can"t afford them, so injuries are a hiy on the performances and finance ...

D.O. Agree with your comments re Yiadom and Cornick but disagree with your MOTM. Bishop with a string of saves in the 2nd half kept us in it, for me. Sorry REPD

Teams who can’t score goals go down. I recall so many games when we last got relegated when we were 1-0 up but couldn’t get the second goal so ended up drawing or losing

Will be interesting to see a fully fit Browne mopping up after Stockley's aerial duels. Not quite as good a foil as Stevens but he can take his opportunities when they come.

That’s my gut feel too Hash but I can appreciate CW’s view especially as we’re currently the division’s lowest scorers outside of the bottom 2.

Don't know what happened to Matty. He wasn't injury prone to begin with. Got through a season and a half without any major issues. Maybe he has just been desperately unlucky in the last 7/8 months or however long it has been. He scores goals when fit and we need people who score goals so I wouldn't get rid of him personally.

Indeed OI, the outcome is more people living into their 80/90s which is a big strain on the NHS and social care (care homes)

DO - death statistics are 'skewed' by the fact we all have to die of something but amongst younger cohorts heart and lung disease deaths have decreased dramatically in the last 60 years.

DO, lung disease has fallen esp cancer and heart disease has halved but is now increasing again due to lifestyle (diet & non exercise)

I am more & more impressed with Yiadom each time I see him play. Thought he was MotM v Barnet. I thought Harry Connick jr was almost invisible - but is coming back from injury.

RK - but has heart and lung disease fallen in UK since 60s?

It's a shame but I can see CW's point with Stevens. Very decent striker when he's on form but we need strikers on the pitch now otherwise we'll burn Stockley out.

Yeah two days ago - Matty is still a long-term injury, we get updated on his progress every week.

"that I saw"...

Naz - last injury update on the OS that I was said he was still "long term". So who knows?

I think we need to get rid of Stevens when his contract is up too injury prone can’t afford too many passengers

When is Stevens back?

Maybe AR - Wakefield top as all 14 Super League clubs stay for 2027 - [Link]

Spit, £5/6 duty free sounds about right. I paid roughly £3.20 per pack of Marlboro red at Riga Airport 4 years ago.