His missus managed it. Maybe if she hadn't, he'd be getting more sleep and playing better.

Fantastic ball from Brereton. To them.

Absolutely must do better there Joe

Looks like theirs might actually be earning it!

So ours is 37% higher than theirs, quite significant.

Wage bill shouldn't be discounted. I bet ours is a fair bit higher than Luton's.

Is this the one where he nearly took the bloke's head off? My mum still talks about that one to this day, before my time though.

Of course WBA came from 1 down to be 2-1 up at the moment...another team that if we draw Luton and beat Millwall will still have a strong chance of pipping us on GD. Just not gonna happen unless we absolutely turn it on for these last two games after getting shite results for ages.

Not sure that's a good idea...

In our own hands is a funny way of putting it really. We have two games against teams who are both higher than us in the league. Yes it's in our hands, but it's equally in their hands, they're in the match too. Teams who have statistically outperformed us this season.

Not sure why you quoted me to just reiterate what I was saying.

I've felt like giving up at almost every point from that moment onwards, and have at times, but somehow, despite dreadful form, it has continued being mathematically possible. Just not conceding one of those late equalisers recently would have given us a strong chance going into the final day, because so many teams around us have also had stuttering form. I look at how this league is looking to finish...Burnley are a strong side for this level but we saw the other day they're nothing that special and yet they've utterly ran away with it. Luton in third, Coventry in 5th, Millwall in 6th...this has been a fucking SHIT league this year. I can't help but feel we have missed a truly golden opportunity. It's true it's the hope that kills you.

This season has been an absolute prick tease.

So now we also need Preston to do us a favour and beat Sunderland in a game where Preston have nothing to play for. Yeh I'm sure they'll be well up for doing us a favour. Think we are probably going to need to win both remaining games to do it now. Not happening IMO.

Ahh yes, I missed that if West Brom win their last two games they'd have the same points as we would from drawing with Luton and beating Millwall. Fuck, Sunderland just equalised!

With Sunderland 2 down (oops, 2-1 now) and Coventry 2 up, looking like we will need to get at least a draw from Luton to still have a mathematical chance (unless there's a ridiculous turnaround in GD from us unexpectedly thrashing Millwall). We would then need to also beat Millwall, and we would be guaranteed to be in the playoffs (assuming Sunderland don't snatch something against Watford). If we manage to beat Luton, and Coventry lose away to Boro, we would be capable of finishing as high as 5th, but (realistically) regardless what happens we need to beat Millwall away and get at least a point at Luton. That's the only route to landing in the playoffs I believe, and it will also be guaranteed if we do that. Meaning it's still in our hands. Our butterfingery hands. Looks like a draw really is pretty much as good as a win against Luton, it won't make any difference to our chances of reaching the playoffs, a win would only mean there's an outside chance of finishing 5th rather than 6th. (Someone correct me if I've missed something here...obviously I'm assuming Sunderland don't scrape a point here)

Letting him go was absolutely no mistake whatsoever in any shape, form or fashion. Not replacing and improving on him however, was a huge mistake.

For every JRC there's a Jason Lowe and an Adam Henley. Sometimes management are right, sometimes they're horribly wrong. JRC looked short of fitness, BB looked short of confidence. Vale looks short of giving a shit.

Let's just keep every player around then regardless of how they play, in case they go all JRC or BBD.

I really think it's mostly down to his being consistently and fully fit. Mowbray just used to wedge him in there as soon as he was available and he'd inevitably break down soon after. Can't have helped his confidence doing badly due to being unfit either. He'd been talked about for years before his breakthrough as a talent, think we're just seeing the real player now. Need him to stay fit though to keep seeing it, and if he ever looks to be flagging he should be rested.

The Google lineup suggests it was 5 at the back all along

Fair play on admitting you regret it, that's not always easy to say. For my part, I've in no way been using it as a stick to beat JDT with. I actually like JDT, his warmth is wonderful and as he's our manager I want him to do well for us. Which on the whole, he has. The inevitable slide has been extremely disappointing and I feel he has made numerous tactical errors that contributed to it, but nobody can deny that this season has gone far, far better than most of us expected. And all managers make mistakes. I have my reservations about him, but overall he's a man I have a lot of time for and I'm happy to take him into next season. However I regard the continued overlooking of Wharton until recently to be a serious mistake, one I do think has cost us a few points (partly because the alternative has often been Morton), and I'm calling it out in it's own right. I try to separate all managerial decisions from each other and from the man making them (although admittedly it became hard to do that at times with Mowbray, who wasn't just inept and stubborn but also began to act with arrogance in the press and almost animosity to the fans). For an example of how I'm happy to praise him, I think the use of JRC in an almost free role has been a master stroke, albeit teams might figure it out in time.

It's absolutely no such fucking thing, but I said a while back that when he did start playing and proved how good he is, this sort of post-event hindsight bullshit would be posted by people who were defending the manager. We saw way back in October against Blackpool that Adam Wharton could run a game. We've been calling for him to play ever since. Nothing revisionist about it. He was dropped unfairly, kept out unfairly by someone who was worse than him and who was making costly mistakes, and now he's back he's showing how ridiculous it was. He isn't just playing well, he's out playing everyone else. He looks levels above other teams not just ours. He didn't go from not good enough to start to being far superior suddenly because of JDT's magical training sessions. Playing Morton over Wharton HAS cost us points. It's as clear as these intangible sorts of things can be.

Wow, I sure don't give a shit about that! Better over the professional minutes than Morton, has been all season, that's all I care about. Honestly I don't give a monkey's if when he trains he just runs around helicoptering his nob proclaiming himself to be the reincarnation of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Probably be introduced soon, too late to help us. That's how things usually go. Champions League qualification not just being the champions came in too late to help us (we'd have had two further qualifications under current rules), FFP came in nearly as soon as it could screw us, reduced protection for lower league clubs against their youngsters being poached came in at the worst time for us, Sky money always seems to improve hugely after we go down, etc etc etc etc.