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Anybody get much sleep??? Wide awake at 5:30…

Dear Daniel, I know you've been doing quite a lot of work up there over the past few weeks, in helping us get to the position we find ourselves in. I understand if you had a night off when we played Northampton, you were probably too busy having a cuppa with Sir Brian & Reich Carter, but if you can see your way clear to have an unconscious word in each of the lads' ears before they step out onto the pitch at 12:25, to be the bravest, best versions of themselves for the next 90 odd minutes we'll all be eternally grateful. And if we manage to get what we need, you'll be up there, waving your flange with gusto and cheering them on with the rest of us. 🫶

Curtis Nelson. 10/10 - Consistent colossus Callum Elder. 6/10 - Unlucky with injuries, as he was starting to show he's a good player Joe Ward. 7/10 - If we'd had him fit & firing he'd have been a real asset Sonny Bradley. 5/10 - Won us points, but has cost us a fair few as well Josh Vickers. 6/10 - Steady enough in the games he's played, but certainly hasn't been the neck & neck competition for Wildsmith Kane Wilson. 8/10 - Love to see him going at players, maybe with a full season at wing back he'll be even more of an asset Martyn Waghorn. 6/10 - Kept us going in the first few weeks of the season with vital goals Conor Washington. 5/10 - bar a couple of games, just didn't get going. Too injury prone Tyrese Fornah. 5/10 - Not the player we thought we were getting Elliot Embleton. NA Ryan Nyambe. 8/10 - Defensively, the best right back in League 1 Tyreece John-Jules 6/10 - Feel for the kid as there's a player in there somewhere. Injury free I'd try for him on a free Winter: Ebou Adams. 10/10 - Absolute game changer. Plus a really likeable lad Dwight Gayle. 8/10 - Reckon if he hadn't have gotten injured we'd be up already. Brought a completely different dimension to the attack Corey Blackett-Taylor 6/10 - Everyone will remember the miss against Northampton, but I still rate him Max Bird*. 7/10 - Class player but I think we all know he doesn't 'quite' suit a Paul Warne midfield. I've preferred the balance since he's been injured.

It's all well and good having Nunez & Diaz as 'agents of chaos', but it's the complete opposite of what you want at the business end of the season. It's alright blazing stuff over the bar, or flashing one an inch wide in October, when it's all sh!ts & giggles, but you need dead-eyed killers for the run in. Firminio & Mane would never have missed some of the gilt-edged chances those two have squandered in the past few games. I can't see Cit-eh dropping any points now they're out of Europe. Not a chance

Yeah, I think it's something like a tenner. But with it being on Sky any decent pub will have it on anyway

Weds' form since Rohl came in hasn't been that bad. Just shows how poor they were to start off with, and an example that ditching the boss that got you promoted, as soon as you get promoted isn't always a good idea... I think it's their plight this season that's gotten a lot of fans concerned if we do go up, considering how strong they were last season. But it's worth baring in mind that they shouldn't really have gotten rid of Big Dave in the first place and they definitely shouldn't of hired Munoz who was a relative novice in the Championship and worked with a vastly better squad at Watford.

It pains me to say it, but they'll stay up, simply by the virtue of Burnley & Luton being slightly more rubbish than them. Having said that, if Luton grab a point or three at Wolves it'll put massive pressure on the Treetards to pick points in their home-banker against reigning Premier League, FA Cup & Champions League holders Manchester Cit-eh...

Cameron Brannigan, Ebou Adams & Josh Sheehan would be a very decent midfield next season.

I do hate it when I agree with you Bris. I love Warne. As a bloke he's great, and as a manager he's not too shabby either, but if we're languishing around the bottom as we approach Christmas then like any other manager he should be let go. Most fans would be prepared to yo-yo between the Prem & Championship, but not Championship & League 1. But he's done an amazing job this season, and if we do go up, he deserves a chance.

Family Ramsbottom are off to Madrid for a week in July/August. Other than the Bernabau & the Royal palace what else is there to do to keep a 14 year old lad, and his 45 year old Mum entertained???

I'll say it again...

I know we’d should be all nice to Cardiff this off season as we all want them to let us have Ebou, but this is feckin disgusting behaviour. Their chairman is as bad as Courig and the dog finger up North… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckmj4gedjr5o

What I don't get is, all their fans crying that there's a conspiracy against them. Like if these decisions went their way they'd be pulling a Leicester and blowing the fabled Top 6 out the water. Even if they'd gotten half of the 'supposedly' dodgy calls in their favour, they'd still be sh!t, just sh!t with a few more points. But instead of pointing the finger at the fat bar-steward of a chairman, dross players or the crappy recruitment team, they're deflecting. They should face up to the fact that they've blown close to £300 million to go backwards, instead of believing that the EPL are scared of them becoming the next Premier League powerhouse, and somehow sticking it to the elite It's not the 70's anymore...

This is a point a lot of folk are missing. Rotherham were doing well before he came to us. Now I know a lot of folks will shout "But they'd only played 10 games!" which is a fair statement, but how many times have we sat here and after a tricky start to a season said "I'll give him/I think we should give the man 10 games, and see where we are"? I can remember when the rumour was first mooted that he was coming in and Rotherham fans were asked their opinion on his style and plenty of responses were that he had them playing better, more expansive football than they had at anytime under him.

Same here, he was excellent in the 2nd half. A potential unearthed gem for next season? My nerves were shot by the 97th minute, instead of running round the house like a lunatic on the final whistle, making sure the melty Red Dog dick-head next door could hear, I just collapsed in a heap and exhaled for what felt like an hour…