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Interesting angle to consider, but he’s very got the best out of some.

That means nothing to me.

And Jacket Potato place as well I think

A more recent Saints diving header that lives long in the memory was Marian Pahars v Everton, last game of the season 1998 or thereabouts.

Mick Jones for Leeds in 1972. And wasn’t Chelsea’s winnner a diving header v Leeds in 1970 ? If it was then bloody brave putting your head down towards the boots in that game.

Commentators used to like the alliteration in using that phrase with Tom Jenkins. And if we cringed at that then little did we know how bad commentators would become 40/50 years later.

Definitely. Need to come out of the traps straight away, no sitting back and letting them settle to build confidence. Plus factor, is at least Dobbin knows where the goals are at Deepdale.

I expect Blackburn would be looking for a large January premium to sell him. But then again with their owners perhaps they’d look to cash in.

I was surprised his name didn’t crop up more in the summer. But I think he’s been injured much of this season, and not sure he’s even back yet. on that basis perhaps he’s right up our street

Wasn’t it 2013/14 season ? I recall at one point there was talk of him going to the World Cup along with Lambert and Lallana. Had he done so then following form he probably wouldn’t have started 2014/15 with us.

Apart from having a better GK and CB pairing. No idea about the rest of their team but they’re probably a few more players from being what ‘arry would refer to as down to “the bare bones”

There did seem a lot of noise coming from that end of the ground afterwards, and booing Bree. Had no idea at the time what it was about

Memories of Channon in his prime … (70’s). Some times the GK would get a hand to the ball, and sometimes they’d send him tumbling (GK’s might be afraid of that nowadays and a resultant red card), but it was great to watch when Channon glided round them and pass it into an empty net.

Agree there are several similarities. Neither are a CF, or can be relied on as a regular scorer. Both overpriced, shortarses, who we could have done without. With Archer he is meant to be a striker, it’s less clear what Dobbin is intended as, he’s not a CF, not a winger, and doesn’t seem to be an Azaz deputy. But in his defence he does provide some energy and movement, and is an improvement on Mubama

A draw there isn’t a bad result, and I’d have accepted a point on seeing the line up before kick off. Starting Mubama and Edozie was never going to be a goal fest. First half was probably the worst I’ve seen us play under Tonda. The two already mentioned were enough to leave me hoping that’s their last run out for us. Others also seemed poor, Manning was all at sea. At the end though it seemed like two points dropped after Dobbins failure to score when clean through.