Chester40

I'm obviously in a minority of 1. I think its a sensible suggestion. It's the cup...its random. 1 match and it goes straight to penalties after 90mins. Only increases the amount of shocks really... draws mean a replay where the bigger team win. Personally I'd prefer going to a FA Cup game knowing I'm definitely getting a result. Extra-Time, replays are for wimps!

As one - of what felt a relatively small minority at times - who urged patience earlier in the season, I'm obviously glad we were, and that the outcome justifies it. I aleo don't subscribe to the 'with the squad we have it was the least we should expect/we should be walking this league' mentality either. However, we have been slightly fortunate that other teams have stumbled so much and/,or that 3 good teams went up last year that would possibly have finished above us again this year. It doesn’t feel like a particularly strong League 1 - the Championship looks ridiculously strong though. All irrelevant, we go up and we deserve it. Warne deserves a crack at the Championship. But it's inevitable if we continue the style of play when we are bad that he will come under pressure. This year the mantra is 'he's done it 3 times' and that calm experience looks key now. Even the way we accepted a (vital) point at Wycombe whereas Peterborough have taken a couple of hidings in amongst their wins. Next season all previous experience is relatively negative so it won't be long before the pressure is on. Bottom half there will be a lot of groans, near bottom 3 close to Xmas and I expect he'd be close to gone. I can't imagine many teams go up with such a divided fan base around the manager but almost everyone will agree he's done his job this year and so understand why he's going to be given the chance again. How long that patience last is going to variable!!

The Bolton result was massive, we had no room for error before then. Now, even worst case scenario and we lose and Bolton win. We still play the bottom of the table at home, needing to win and improve our goal difference. And a draw keeps it totally in our hands. It's almost a free hit tomorrow, which for our stress levels and their mentality is massive. No early goal or even a goal against us tomorrow isn't panic stations, as a draw is still 'fine'. I just can't see us not winning at least one of those 2 games and that will be enough I think regardless. We can go out confident but not desperate, gradually put the squeeze on them (they would take a draw I'm sure), don't give them any chances and go for the win but with an eye on not conceding. Can't see us changing much. Back 3 worked, Sibley and Wilson give us an outlet. Also gives us the option of 3 in the middle. Can't see us throwing Bird straight in, Hourihane is being edged out. Adams and Smith have been great. Thompson gives us energy, why change it. Collins starts... NML hasn't been as good as he can be and ends up out of position, but Collins and Washington looked dreadful the other week...so we go again and can change style with CBT coming on wide with NML, Barks can come anywhere along the line and Washington or Waghorn give us more goal threat if needed or a more obvious 2 up top. Can't see any reason anything can go wrong.....

Ta. Watched Episode 1 (of 'Fallout') now. Not a gamer but am aware of it through my kids. Visually it looks great, feels big budget, plenty of storyline! Will stick with it for now.

Zipping not lacing...... the mind boggles!

I don't want to...or need to. It adds nothing to my enjoyment or the end result. Plus there are too many unknowns. You score an early offside goal in a match, you then choose to sit deep, soak up pressure and you give up a few chances but ultimately you win. The stats are totally driven by what happened in that initial incident. If the goal had been disallowed, the whole game would have been played in a totally different way. So all the stats are pretty meaningless to me. You disagree...but I don't see the point or merit in your view anyway as its a lot of thinking about stuff that is impossible to know anyway.

Do you not think you're driving yourself insane here? The fact is the league is the result of 48 games, lasting 90mins over the course of nearly a year, playing home and away, with the same rules every time. As part of a sample that's quite comprehensive. If it comes to the last day and the second placed team hit the post and also are denied a clear penalty, meaning they only get 1 point. And you in third are given a goal which is offside and grab all 3 points, then that feels a massive swing of luck and/or deserved success. So, over the course of the season you attempt to chart/categorise these... and I don't think you can. Because there are too many intangibles, too many 'possible chances', possible mistakes, too many occasions someone 'could' have been sent off...or are given a corner they shouldn't or a free kick that was debatable. Or played good teams when they had lots of injuries or had a new manager or lots of games in a short space of time or or or... It's endless. So why try to compute it. There is a long enough sample time, and at the end of it someone gets promoted and everyone knows the rules at the start of it. The 2 with the most points go up.

Think there was a slight danger on Sat if we'd known we needed to win we could over-commit, panic a bit if we didn't score early...and then get hit with a sucker punch, like Bolton did. Now we can take our time, build pressure... and even take a draw if needs be, and I think we will inevitably score.

I'm guessing if we were headed into the play offs there would be less gracious comments 😀 You did us a massive favour last week and potentially took the stuffing out of Bolton who ultimately knew they were on the back foot yesterday already. Hopefully our paths cross again very soon!!

There's a relatively small amount of people who can wear that... Fortunately I'm one 😉

...and......? Feels like a trailer rather than a review 😀 I plan to watch it....How's it going?

Forgot you reviewed this and watched it with the kids on Fri. Very fair review. Interesting, reasonably slow, thought provoking.. thought the ending was slightly telegraphed but a decent and engaging film.

I commented this at half time. We were really in charge, played aggressively and looked dominate. However, we actually created little from open play. Without the corner routines would we have not scored and the game become another stalemate? I honestly don't know. We played better than we have other weeks, the formation worked better... but may the same worries have resurfaced (and more to the point - could they this weekend)? It didn't matter, I'm not being churlish... or negative. It's not a black or white opinion. When things go right from the beginning we look really strong and like we will never concede a goal. When they don't we can't seem to adapt on the field and we can look particularly clueless. One more good performance next weekend and it should be an open goal even we can't f*** up.

Today he was impeccable all round. I think for the future, Cashin and Nelson look better players. Plus Niambe and Forsyth have been great too... and all 4 are big strong lads who you can rely on. But as a group they aren't blessed with pace and/or age.. for that reason I'm not sure Bradley is what we need. But Warne's recruitment has generally been decent imo so hopefully he can find someone over the summer.

What celebration? Just watched his goals again and for the first he runs off and celebrates wildly with the other players. The 2nd he briefly stands with his arms out accepting the applause and then celebrates with other players and then claps the fans...