Good to see that the lines of communication are open again to the rest of us fans (we only live in the same frigging country as the club after all).......as you now seem to be used as the clubs conduit for all announcements, is that an `official` rumour, or dare I say it, is this part a manifesto soon to be published by our beloved CEO, giving us a blow by blow account of how he intends to take the club forward??

We could not get decent players when we were stable and I cannot see many moving from the North given the current climate of LB management and our recent past.

I would rather hope that all players are already in training, regardless as to which Club they are at, so fitness at the start of the Season should not be an issue. Given previous discussions about how poor our training was players coming from other clubs could be a blessing as they will have come from a stricter culture than ours which should be beneficial. Those players without clubs are unlikley to be just lounging around.

In reality this far into pre-season neither can I but it doesn't mean it couldn't be achieved. We have had decent northern players in the past when we were actually stable - Orr, Wells, Purdham, Melling. And even when we weren't (or thought we were) - Tommy Lee.

To his credit Comical Ali always made himself available for scrutiny.

I bet he even arranged regular Iraqi POW forums.