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Plane with a banner over PPS next home game? (Whenever that is). One might not be enough though

We have a squad of above average players for the league, as has been proven massively by our recent form. You're not getting out of calling the squad laughably average that easily. I couldn't care less whether you want to crow about recent results or not tbh. We're achieving results at the level we should be with the squad, no more than that. That doesn't make people's concerns about the long term under Warne any less valid, just because you're focussed entirely on the short term .

Taking the high ground, are we?😅 Trolls gonna troll

Bird probably won't be playing that deep though, he'll be much closer to Sibley than he is to Hourihane. Everyone ahead of Hourihane pressing high so they don't have time to play it out neatly, resulting in long inaccurate passes which the defence mop up with ease. The inherent danger being the times the opposition do manage to deal with our press and end up having a run at Hourihane, leaving us exposed. ...but we'll pretty much always get away with that because the opposition invariably don't have the quality to do anything to take advantage of the situation, with the sheer quality of our defenders (especially when Niambe is playing) acting as a further barrier to them causing us any real stress.

Championship table when Eustace was sacked Championship table 8 games of 'fearless' football under Rooney

Speaking too soon also goes both ways and doesn't just apply to negativity. There were similar themes banded about when we went on the unbeaten run last season, with some calling others out for their doubts and criticisms earlier in the season as if they'd been proven wrong by our good spell. Surely you have to wonder if those people have learned anything about speaking too soon, too? Although I'd suggest it's the opposite and the number of people looking to use our positive form against other posters has actually increased. I think it's perfectly possible to support the team during games, want them to win and be happy in the short term (even if it's just in the immediate aftermath) with positive results and performances, while still holding the belief that the manager has serious limitations which will hold us back in the long run, and feel that he isn't developing tactically or actually building anything toward a more sustainable future, be that the playing style, meaningful minutes given to Academy players or whatever else. I believe a winning streak was always likely to happen because the league and most teams in it are terrible (even 'good' ones are nothing special, as we've seen when we've played them), because we've got a better squad (even with injuries, even with some signings offering little) than most, and because the manager we employ is a promotion expert who's seemingly being allowed to focus purely on achieving just that, and I mean just that, making his job pretty straightforward. If I was assessing Warne on the sole criteria of "do we look like mounting a serious promotion challenge?" (which is the least we should be looking at) and was to cast aside any thoughts about his overall suitability for the longer term challenge of establishing ourselves back in the Championship then IMO he's performing at a solid 7.5-8/10, and I'd probably agree that all we need is patience.

Only in the sense that it didn't happen last season, so the time for it to be instant has already passed. Promotion this season is an entirely realistic proposition.

Don't fart into the heated seats all summer neglecting the fact that when winter comes and you turn the heat back on you'll be releasing all of those trapped odours.

tbf this is the one thing I'm genuinely impressed with, we haven't given other teams time to breathe recently due to the closing down and pressing from front to back. (no puns, sorry)

We should be able to grab Angola two against this rabble, in fact I'd bet Myanmar on it.

There's compelling evidence that he knows how to get promoted to and manage in the Championship while developing young players, which is 100% a match toward our aim of becoming an established Championship club and making best use of our Category One Academy. There's compelling evidence that Warne is a total bust at Championship level and none that he can develop young players. If we could have got him before we gave Rosenior the interim role or appointed Warne - there was a window of potential availability but we don't know if he'd have come - we should have.

Who said anything about refusing promotion? I'm just saying we need to understand the main reasons for our current run of success or else it won't count for a great deal in the long run, much like last season's golden spell didn't If by some miracle we went up? LMAO. It would hardly take a miracle or anything even close to that.

It's not an if.

He's right though. It wouldn't count as the lowest accumulated points total or make them the 'worst team in history' just as our relegation due to points deductions and other EFL BS doesn't mean we deserved to be relegated to be relegated to League One.

No. That way leads to us being back in this league 12 months after leaving it.

The danger with that is believing we're better than we actually are before facing a harsh reality check. I just don't think that reality check is likely to happen (for any sustained period of games) while we're in League One!

Enjoyable win. One day we might face an opposition who actually provide some, you know, opposition (it's just all too easy at the minute) but for now it's just nice to see some good football played and some players showing their class and building up some form to carry through to league games. Bizarre post imo to say 3 goals flattered us. 5 wouldn't.

Stand wherever you want because the opposition don't want the ball and aren't pressing you.

We haven't seen any stories of our managers mislaying one of his players, but we have seen stories of a couple of our managers laying one of his player's missus! (apologies in advance for the horrible and crude terminology!)

I'm interested in the competition while we're in it, but wouldn't give a toss for more than maybe 5 minutes at most if we got knocked out. It would be nice to win it, but I wouldn't consider winning it anything worthy of celebration just a largely insignificant footnote in our history. Probably would have gone tonight but may need to be available at a moment's notice for gravely-ill-in-law assistance.

With our record for injuring players (or signing already injured players) he'd earn the nom de plume "Ben Krankenhaus" in no time.

Burnley (20th before play) 5-0 Sheffield Utd (18th) If we could rely on Sheffield Utd not getting some more awful VAR decisions fall in their favour they'd 100% definitely be bad enough to break it.

Might be overkill but nearby / available forum members (and whoever else) could drive to PPS and form a line outside the ground for when the cars pass? Maybe even raise a glass in a nearby bar after if they're off work. I mean, who says B4 can only have one organised round of applause?

That's nothing more than we should expect with the squad we have. Is there a directive out there that everyone has to be c***-a-hoop because we're just about hitting par in an abysmal division full of utterly s*** teams? Getting Derby promoted this season, with the way the league it is, barely even registers as an achievement. The real work starts when we're back in the Championship.