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Best away season ever in our history??

Indeed. Mods should lock this thread, discussion and promotion of illegal activity is not appropriate on this forum imo.

I don’t know why anyone is even thinking about this given that there may well be absolutely nothing to celebrate by the end of the season.

As for the game… we couldn’t beat Cambridge at home, so I have zero confidence that we can beat them away. Same with Carlisle… they’ve already won 3-1 away at both Bolton and Peterborough… I fully expect them to do the same at PP. I’ve been known to be wrong, of course, but… … …

I think they have more Cambridge-Peterborough and Oxford-Reading rivalries… happy to be corrected if I’m wrong though.

It wasn’t a “chastening visit” to Wycombe, it was an improvement on last season when we lost, and a point closer to promotion. Anyway, I came across the below on X today, said by a former Derby County legend who happened to be Bolton Wanderers manager at the time he said it. I completely subscribe to this philosophy, and I hope we can all embrace it for at least the last three games of this season. Too many of us seem to favour a “love the club, hate/slate the players and manger” kind of approach. That isn’t what we need. Let’s all be supporters as well as fans.

Whatever anyone says, this is a tricky game. We couldn’t beat Wycombe at home, why should we expect to beat them away?? They are no mugs. We lost there last season, after all. A win here would be a massive boost though. So, would I take a draw right now?? No. We can and maybe should win. But nothing is guaranteed. They would love to beat us, and may be on a high after Sunday. The uncertainty is why we turn up every week though, right??

Regarding whether the league is weaker this year, that may be so of the best teams (us, Portsmouth and Bolton are probably not as good as Ipswich, Plymouth and Sheff Wed last season), but at the end of last season a lot of dross was relegated out of this league (Forest Green, Accrington, Morecambe), and they have been replaced by teams that are mostly comfortable in mid-table this year (Stevenage, Leyton Orient, Northampton), so the mid- and lower-rated teams I think are actually stronger this season than the season before.

It is an absolute disgrace that we have just lost 5-0 against the team who are bottom of the league, Warne absolutely needs to be fired, preferably tonight.

Stuart Attwell style ghost goal that was also offside and handball.

It was so clear and the lino was right there, I dunno how it was missed.

Some folk are just so blinded by their hatred of Warne that they don’t even bother actually watching the games any more. They just pray for us lose so they can spew their toxic negativity yet again.

Bolton only need two wins to overtake us if we lose the next five.

It’s quite incredible when you think about it that we have only won automatic promotion once in 37 years.

It’s what true supporters do.

Today is the first day I started to believe promotion might be possible, so I have given myself a good slap and come up with many scenarios by which we can blow it. We can already see from todays results how good Cambridge and Carlisle are, for example, so we will surely lose our last two games. Not to mention very tricky games at Portsmouth and Wycombe. I have now successfully re-convinced myself that we have no chance.

I don’t know how the season will end, but I think at the start of the season nearly all of us would have taken second place at Easter. Wouldn’t we?? 🙂

Yes. I was back visiting from the US and attended just those four games… not a single goal to celebrate. I flew back to Chicago on the Thursday and two days later we were scoring 5 against Forest. Initially I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry… but of course why would I cry after such an awesome result?!?

We will be grateful for the play-offs when we finish 4th.

Bolton lose, Peterborough lose, Barnsley draw. Derby win!!

Barnsley 0-0 final score.

It is of course totally the fault of Ed Dawes that we have lost the last two games. But, I also wore a new jumper. So, as much as I hate to say, it may well be my fault rather than Ed’s… sorry everyone 😝

So “headers on target” aren’t counted as “shots on target”?? Interesting. Do HoT contribute to xG??

You should go back to bed. In fact I advise you to sleep until June 🙂

I strive to be positive but wow, that second half was absolutely terrible. There has been some dross served up this season, but that was just appalling. Against a team who needed a replay to beat Cray Valley earlier this season. I don’t know how we can improve by Saturday, but we must. We are still second, we still have a great opportunity. We’ve just got to get a grip when we are ahead and stop throwing points away. We surely can do it. Am I hopeful?? Always. Are my expectations high?? Alas, not tonight. But if we win on Saturday I will be positive again. Let’s all keep going.