Montezuma

Sadly Portsmouth will have secured 1st place and taken their foot off the gas when they play Bolton, who will therefore take 2nd place!
It should be Portsmouth fighting for 2nd place, not us.

Any Smiths fans in Derby ranks? I always find myself singing: 'He was a sweet and tender Hourihane.'
 

Hopefully as it stands Reading can get a couple of goals in the 2nd half today.
Otherwise we really need to get at least a point at pompey tomorrow.

We are claiming that our goal difference is worth an extra point, but it's a lot closer than people think. For teams to catch us up on points, they'll have to win games and improve their goal difference whilst we lost or draw games. Assuming only 1 goal wins or defeats, then the difference to Bolton will be a maximum of 4 and Peterborough will be 5. However, you would expect at least one of those games to be by 2 or 3 goals, thus bringing the  difference in goal differences to almost zero.

Rare Amortisation Method Slammed

Paul Warne, your football is a hit, clearly heard from the crowd. 

With Warne, 5 years. Without Warne, 2

Hang on, we had loads of possession today and did lots of short passes, I thought that is what the angry mob were after?

Said it last week but Fornah is QUALITY, similar for Nyambe

8-0 win to us, forum in meltdown as only 7 were real shots.

Team selection forum meltdown time only minutes away!

Looking forward to this after a pretty crap week. Was in two minds about attending following a family bereavement, but hoping to be distracted in a good way for a couple of hours. UTRs. 

Alright I'm gonna be blindly positive and assume that there's been a chat over the international period, the 3-5-2 hoofball is getting ditched and we're moving to a back 4 playing the high intensity attacking football Warne promised when he arrived. We'll thump this lot 3-0, win the league at a canter and we'll all be wearing bobble hats as we lift the league trophy at PP in April. You heard it here first. COYR.

I love football
I love the Rams 

These EFL transfer restrictions are still onerous. Once the season starts they limit signings to one first name, fair play to the recruitment team for still finding players.

First in person game of the season for me. We're gonna win this one, I can feel it.

First in person game of the season for me. We're gonna win this one, I can feel it.

First in person game of the season for me. We're gonna win this one, I can feel it.

First in person game of the season for me. We're gonna win this one, I can feel it.

Ahh, the old 'you have to go to games to have an opinion' argument. You might be surprised to learn that nowadays you can watch a game without involving yourself in a 370 mile round trip, or listening to it on a transistor radio 😀

6-7 Hours instead of 48 hours. The timeframes are looking up.

amazed Jozefzoon hasnt made either line ups yet 🤣

The Mendez-Laing chant begs to differ 

If we draw 10-10, then even if Posh win 3-0 we'll stay above them.
 
 
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Be of good cheer gentlemen and ladies!
For yaaaaay, I bring you good tidings of great joy...erm...maybe...???
If we win, we're 5th or 6th whatever Posh do.
If we win and Bolton lose, we finish 5th and avoid the Owls in the playoff semis.
Since the Owls are 3rd whatever happens, I suspect they will rest some first choice players ready for the playoffs.  That might give us an opening.
If we draw, Posh still need to beat Baaaaarnsley away by 3 clear goals.  Yeah, right.  The odds are in our favour.  Let's just hope that Baaaarnsley don't rest too many first choice players for that one.
If we lose, Posh still need to win to overtake us.
In the first 3 scenarios we finish 5th or 6th.  In the last 2 we finish 7th.
Any probability experts or Actuaries out there want to have a go at calculating the odds on the above?  Or maybe the bookies already have...
It's another end of season squeaky bum nail biter.  Ears will be glued to phones, goals scored against Posh will provoke louder cheers than if we score ourselves, substitutions will be crucial, teams will go from rushing to take throw ins to out and out time wasting in a matter of seconds depending on how the scores change.
Watch out for the substitution of Collins for McGoldrick at half time if all the results are going our way.  McGoldrick will then be placed in a crate packed with cotton wool, put into storage away from anything even remotely hazardous, and fed and toileted via tubes like a spaceman.  At a secret location.  Guarded by men in dark suits with earpieces and Kalashnikovs.