In other words - we’ve improved.

That’s absolutely right. If you ignore the actual football matches.

It’s handball. But can’t expect that to be given at this level, at that speed etc. It is what it is. Would rather try and focus on the performance.

Time will tell. ”Get a Big Sam type who can get results” Well give us a Samba, Nelsen, Salgado, Warnock, Prime Dunn, Pedersen, McCarthy etc first and then we’ll talk managers. The squad isn’t good enough atm. We’re over achieving. A bit of quality and depth and we’ll be up there, agree we might not get it, but this is as close as we’ve been and we’ve done it with half a team.

I don’t even think we need that. We need someone who can finish.

Yes let’s throw out all of the good work and get a Gary Megson in. Smart.

I’d probably be happier to piss the league next year and pass Jesse Marsch’s Burnley on the way up.

Got to take the positives, because the alternative is therapy. If we can keep JDT, the squad we’ve got, add some forwards and a little experience in the middle… we can piss this league. The improvement is enormous. Stings like a bitch though. We played them off the park.

Looks an interesting study. Best of luck with it.

Is it? It's 40 miles from Valencia. You can get there on Ryanair.

If 50% reckon he was overrated and 50% think he was underrated then he's probably rated about right.

Incredibly harsh for me. It's struck brilliantly, moving all over with power. Anyway, it doesn't matter what we do, a real catch 22. If we start TK and he makes a mistake, we should've kept Pears, if Pears throws one in we should've started TK. Tbh I'm happy with either but would prefer Pears to keep his spot.

Not having a Qashqai on the wing either. Get a tricky little MX5 on there.

I'll be getting the train and having a day on the ale. Hoping to achieve 1.5pts per gallon.

I was maybe young and naive at the time, but it didn’t seem a shock that Rovers would spend that kind of money or that he would sign here at all. It’s only in hindsight and everything that has followed since that makes me sit here now and think - “Wow, we had Andy Cole”. Great player, good times.

Can’t help but feel for Ryan Nyambe. Had a contract here on the table. Instead he’s been warming a bench, not getting paid, and will be without a club in the summer. Hope he’s sacked his agent.

Why I could never live in Bangkok.

Ruined my celebration of the Szmodics goal a bit. From my angle he looked a mile off and I was expecting it to be ruled out.

Of course we aren't blameless. But I really wouldn't be happy with the club if on promotion we spent 10m and gave a lad a dream move, then kicked him out of the door for JonJo Shelvey after 6 games worth of minutes.

They signed him after promotion. We might have messed up the deal but they messed with his career.

Let’s hope we have a chance to find out. 9 men plus keeper literally on the goal line. Diaz on halfway. FA Cup Winners 2023. Piss easy.

Hallam FC would say 4th

Let’s not give them too much credit here. They were well beaten at ours a couple of weeks ago. Their manager is a jumped up wannabe hard man PASHUN merchant. “Play like a non-league side and give the ball to Ndiaye/Berge” seems to be the extent of his tactical prowess. Certainly not expecting him to totally outfox JDT or have us worked out. We just have nothing to fear. Play to the best of our ability, with a loud away end behind us, and all the pressure on them… We really have a great chance. Incoming 5-0 Blades 😅

I'd agree if our bench didn't have such little experience. These are big games now with big moments and throwing on 18 year olds could be risky.

Arse is in tatters