Sheff Ram

Personally, I feel we'll pick off one of the 3 teams currently above us and finish 3rd, just missing out on automatic promotion. We'll then win the 2-leg semi to go to Wembley. I know our record in play-off finals hasn't been good, but I'm going to be bold and say we will go up by winning at W-E-M-B-L-EY!

With the addition of a new winger hopefully adding threat now down both flanks and a new potential holding midfielder to free up bird and hourihane, I think the plan going forward will go to a 4-3-3 
With Washington and Waghorn set to return in February they will add the ability to keep it fresh up top if they stay fit 
Wilson and Sibley maybe play big roles coming off the bench but I think we continue to struggle with our dip in form and carry it unto February until players and back and the new signings settle in and gel but we will have a strong March against the top teams and finish strong as I believe we have a easier run in and we will scrape 2nd place... just... by the skin of our teeth on the final day  🐏 ⚽️ 
Ideal starting XI (Currently)
                    Wildsmith 
    Nyambe Nelson Cashin Sibley 
                       Adams 
           Hourihane           Bird
NML                                             CBT
                       Collins                

I will go into the last 17 games with a positive attitude, loads to play for, no outstanding team in the division, I will go to every match backing the team, and i believe we will just miss out on top spot, and finish 2nd.. Once A Ram Always A Ram 

It’s been the theme since Clowes took over.
The initial summer signings post admin were quite public as it seems a number of them were lined up by Rooney/Rosenior, the signings in Jan then seemed to come out the blue (as underwhelming as they were), the signings last summer were known to Big Trav but not the media or Twitterati from what I recall(?), and the CBT info only seems to have leaked from the Charlton side. Even the links to Smith and Gregory have come from local Sheffield journos.
As anxious as it seems to make the fan base in general I think I prefer it. Warne has maintained that bids were in for players, Adams has said himself this move was lined up a while ago, 2 players in on top of keeping the ones we had (so far 🤞).
Just a striker now please Santa Clowes 🙏 

They out-scrapped us. In all parts of the pitch. Plus we didn't have a single shot on target. Conceeding one goal in two away games is acceptable, but scoring zero is not. Think that is us done for the autos. Still in it for the playoffs.

Nothing has gone right tonight.

We're just pretending to be crap so we can catch them off guard.

Is it possible for our players to stay on side?

You can see that their recent form might be stemming from harsh criticism from fans even though they were winning up until the new year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67863544 This interview last week seems like Colby Bishop their main target has lost some confidence and he goes and misses a penalty today. 
This is a lesson for our fans to not be too negative of our players. We might drop the odd irritating stinker i.e. Bradford and we might not sign anyone this month but were in the mix and they need all the support they can get!
 

No. Sadly a group on here have had a bit of a blouse rending episode, which has turned into a bit of an embarrassment as the capitulation they described failed to materialise and I am sad to report we now sit 1 point off top. 

I said straight away on the final whistle at Oxford,  that performance will have taken so much out of us, to attack relentlessly like that for 90 minutes was bound to take its toll.
I think the tactics were right today, we were 30 seconds from keeping our unbeaten run going against probably the hardest team we could have played.
Hopefully our next few games will give us an easier run and we can go on another unbeaten run.

I love this forum. The comments are so much more balanced than the noise on X. Plus there's a while lot less Florist trolls.
Disappointed about today's result, obviously, but it's not the end of the world. Win our game-in-hand and we're level with Posh. We've then got Bolton still to come to us. In terms of really tough games we have Portsmouth (A) and Barnsley (A) and we have Peterborough, Bolton and Stevenage home. A good transfer window and we can still nick one of the auto places.
 

I love this forum. The comments are so much more balanced than the noise on X. Plus there's a while lot less Florist trolls.
Disappointed about today's result, obviously, but it's not the end of the world. Win our game-in-hand and we're level with Posh. We've then got Bolton still to come to us. In terms of really tough games we have Portsmouth (A) and Barnsley (A) and we have Peterborough, Bolton and Stevenage home. A good transfer window and we can still nick one of the auto places.
 

Peterborough match up really well with us. We are an old, slow team and they’re anything but that. I credit Warne for making switches to try and stem the tide but it wasn’t going to work against that. We need players in who have pace and athleticism badly. 3rd match in quick succession with no lineup change likely a bridge too far.
My mine gripe was you don’t want to concede against a team like that from two high balls into the box. That is absolutely unforgivable. They’re killing us with their quick play, but to concede two seriously bad goals was really infuriating.
Overall, Peterborough best team (in possession) I’ve seen since we came down and we didn’t deserve a lot from it. Just frustrating it happened like that.
January important for us. We need to add that pace and athleticism in attacking areas. 

I love this forum. The comments are so much more balanced than the noise on X. Plus there's a while lot less Florist trolls.
Disappointed about today's result, obviously, but it's not the end of the world. Win our game-in-hand and we're level with Posh. We've then got Bolton still to come to us. In terms of really tough games we have Portsmouth (A) and Barnsley (A) and we have Peterborough, Bolton and Stevenage home. A good transfer window and we can still nick one of the auto places.
 

I love this forum. The comments are so much more balanced than the noise on X. Plus there's a while lot less Florist trolls.
Disappointed about today's result, obviously, but it's not the end of the world. Win our game-in-hand and we're level with Posh. We've then got Bolton still to come to us. In terms of really tough games we have Portsmouth (A) and Barnsley (A) and we have Peterborough, Bolton and Stevenage home. A good transfer window and we can still nick one of the auto places.
 

I love this forum. The comments are so much more balanced than the noise on X. Plus there's a while lot less Florist trolls.
Disappointed about today's result, obviously, but it's not the end of the world. Win our game-in-hand and we're level with Posh. We've then got Bolton still to come to us. In terms of really tough games we have Portsmouth (A) and Barnsley (A) and we have Peterborough, Bolton and Stevenage home. A good transfer window and we can still nick one of the auto places.
 

A good contest between two well matched sides, but we let ourselves down in the last 15 minutes. It was desperately disappointing.
Peterborough are a good team - good in possession, plenty of dynamism, athleticism, pace, power and movement - and they acquitted themselves well. They deserve credit as their heads never dropped and they kept pushing us.
However we gifted them the three points with two uncharacteristically poor moments in defence. If you go 2-1 up and get to the 80 minute mark in a winning position, defend well and force the opposition to do something special to get back into the game. Instead we conceded two goals of the poorest quality and that will sting for a while.
It’s not a time to be too hard on Warne or the players. 8 wins in 10 shows they are giving everything they can. All we can do now is bounce back quickly and win on Saturday. Anything less and Portsmouth, Peterborough and Bolton will soon be out of sight.

Just back from a super game to watch.
We gave as good as we got, but for the last 15mins they pressured us relentlessly and we looked like a boxer on the ropes.
Thought we had done enough to draw but they got the final punch in.
I loved their man 14 Randall absolutely bossed the midfield passing and made hourihane and bird look rubbish.
Perhaps a Jan target?
 
Anyways was a marvellous game, two sides wanting to win, unfortunately we fell a bit short at the end but given a bit of rest we could have done them.
On to Fleetwood COYR 🦍
 
 

I have a horrible feeling that this could be another Stevenage.
I am expecting a really tough game and it will be a job well done to get a point and keep momentum rolling.
However if we win it would be a massive statement of intent and I think it would be the first time in the past 18 months in League One that you could reasonably argue we look like a credible automatic promotion contender.
Fingers crossed.

Brilliant! Thanks for that expression, Hales!

Or the simple truth, that doesn't involve conspiracy theories and MM secretly pulling strings (from his hidden bunker in a hollowed out volcano, no doubt) is that Stephen Pearce is very experienced in both football finances in general and how we run financially as a club, and Clowes sees it as being beneficial to have that knowledge around (presumably being very inexperienced in football finances himself). 
The most likely scenario is that Clowes kept him around as we came out of admin, because we needed to move very quickly to get stuff back up and running, and didn't want things being delayed while we replaced him.  And he's seen enough of him working to keep him around beyond any sort of transition period.

Tonight is the first time I think Warne sounded like 'a Derby manager'. 
We are the biggest team in this division and Warne saying he thinks we're chasing Portsmouth, he's not always happy with a 0-1 and that today is how we should be playing is exactly how I think he should be approaching our time in League One.
We can win this division. Let's get stuck in to it and get it f****** done.

B4’s Sisters matchday record.
Played 6, Won 5, Drawn 1, Goals For 13, Goals Against 3
 
…………….……think someone somewhere is pulling a few strings! 👍🐏

Comfortable 3-1 win in the end, we weren’t quite at it first half but were the better side and would have deserved a 1-0 lead…but for Ward’s rush of blood. Credit to Warne for bringing Wilson on, he made a big difference after the team started the second half slowly, goal and an assist probably make him man of the match ahead of the rock solid Nelson and blocking machine Cashin.
2 lovely goals either side of Wilson’s deft flick. Minutes for Elder, Thompson, TJJ is another plus. 
Up to third, one point off second (2 if Bolton win on Sat), 6 wins and a draw in the last 7….it’s not bad going really for me. 🐏