Best Of

The Preachers already existed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhjtTbz1f4

They weren't the sort of band to drop an @Alexo-style c-bomb four words into an album opener though, unfortunately.

Leaderboard after the Barnsley Game: Match 28

No change at all in the order of the Leaderboard after the Barnsley game for which most of us indulged in some serious overestimated of the crowd - probably for very good reasons so -

Many congratulations to @wwfcblue for holding onto top spot. Many congratulations jointly to @perfidious_albion and @thecatwwfc who jointly hold the record for the closest prediction of the Season so far with their predictions for the Northampton home game.

Congratulations are due to @DevC who is Forecaster of the Week on here and recorded a new 10th best prediction which was good enough to both gain @DevC a place in the Sub 100 Club and cut in half the lead that @wwfcblue has at the top. That lead is now the equivalent of about a point rather than two.

There are a couple of other alterations I have spotted too - there may be others. @bookertease has a new 8th best prediction [201 score] and @our_frank has a new 9th best score [341] so they both have new 10th best scores too and have inched that bit closer to the person above them in the table.

There are congratulations for @tewkesburychairboy who with a second prediction of the season so far, came 9th on the Barnsley home game Top Twenty and knocked his first prediction into a cocked hat.

Onto the Cambridge Away game.

@kipper I enjoy your input & it would be sad to see you go, perhaps do what the good @drcongo has done and take a short(ish) break.

This has been the hardest 2 weeks I have known in my time on The Gasroom, with all that has gone on with the club, we all need to perhaps take a wee bit of time to reflect on how we would like to be treated and consider if we have managed to treat others that way too.

Please all look after yourselves, it is after all only footbal despite what Shankley famously said.

Can I take this opportunity to apologise to @marlowchair publicly for any contributing role in their choosing to leave the site (and it was reassuring to see them post briefly recently). I was very open with my challenging which I thought at the time was reasonable but accept in hindsight must have appeared to have been harassing at best, bullying at worse.

Oliver, obviously.

Fairly sure our very own (briefly) Peter Taylor played for England before he played in the top flight, pre social media / Sky hype apparently rest of the squad had no idea who he was.

John Lennon 125/1

Oh it's a Manics lyric, and now I feel like a heathen for not knowing that

Oh @kipper you really can’t go

You know things that none of us know

just block @aloysius

He’s being malicious

And a miserable old so-and-so

Bit geeky this, but it's always bothered me how they're referred to as "The Manics" given that Manic is the adjective.

Should be "The Preachers" really

It's "The Stones", not "The Rollings" isn't it?