Bliney not even safe to go to the zoo. Absolutely sick

Looks like our inexperienced Test cricket side is showing its weaknesses

The locals call it Boshton.

Indeed, Pete!

Ref traffic cones, the BBC asks why? Silly buggers. Obviously the answer is 'why not?' [Link]

At the risk of sounding like Kentish Don I recommend the rugby league State of Origin series between Queensland and New South Wales complete with mental Aussie commentators

Yes and I think it’s pronounced Bwoston.

Boston is more Irish than Scotch normally IIRC

Love that Scotland fans have been putting traffic cones on the statues around Boston.

CW - ah yes, but the club could then blame Coppell's advice if it hadn't worked, rather than their own fans!

Trigs lol

I remember in JJs first season we started badly trying to play tippy tappy and Terry Skiverton remonstrated with the crowd. They brought in Steve Coppell who advised us to play longer ball football no doubt paid him handsomely when if they had just listened to the fans they could had the solution for free

FJ it does remind me of the tone deaf “this is why we do it” video the club put out after we scored a goal following a multiple-passes move at Plough Lane. Never followed it up with a “maybe we shouldn’t be doing it” video after the 27th game without a win.

If we beat Ghana 🇬🇭 expect Tuchel to rest the starting players against Panama 🇵🇦

Passing the ball around our penalty area never caused a problem for us.

Carsh - Agreed, but possibly because his form form did drop a bit toward the end of the season.

And yes Airsy I am excited for the fixture lists coming out. Can start planning some away trips.

Spit Jobi McAnuff is another one on World Cup punditry

TomSW16 I heard that there are always two fourth officials if one is female as they need someone to go to the toilet with.

Why was Mark Guehi who is our best defender not playing?

We did look quite jittery doing the tippy tappy in our own six yard box last night especially as Croatia were content to press that far forwards. Our first touches in those moments were second rate as well and I do wonder whether this is something they’ll try to avoid if we find ourselves up against better quality oppo later in the tournament.

Why are there now 5 match officials? There were 2 female officials on the side last nught who seemed to be pairing up to deal with the subsitution and timer display board

Anyway, more importantly. Anyone else excited for fixture release day this time next week?

Hash - I was screaming at the telly last night because of it!

To my mind, the deeper you play your tippy-tappy means that you draw your opponent deeper into your half allowing space in behind them with more space to run into and less danger of being caught offside when you go forward