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Don’t really think we can compare. Both have bigger budgets, better players and more or less the same core of players for a couple of years now. It’s nice seeing Ipswich do well though. They were so unlucky not to go back up in the days of Joe Royle. Played some great stuff.

Seems like one of these teams are going to finish outside the top two despite hitting two points per game.

I imagine several people have done it at a playoff final. In this particular scenario, it seems so far-fetched for Derby to lose by a few goals and Bolton to win by a few.

They may go unbeaten and drop points. Draws are two points dropped at this stage.

The Championship is brutal due to the expectations and the financial side of it dropping into League One. All of those clubs have sacked managers because owners felt they were underachieving and the thought of relegation is unfathomable. Only three (Bristol, Sunderland and Watford) haven’t really been in danger of relegation but still changed manager. Plymouth may have lost their first manager but sacked their 2nd. Point is, Derby shouldn’t be blindly loyal to Warne. If many feel he is underachieving, relegation threatened and we’re playing poorly, he’ll go.

Why would he be given a full season in the Championship? Every team in the bottom half of the Championship, Sunderland to Rotherham, have changed managers this season. Every one of those clubs sacked a manager. If Derby are bottom three in the first half of the season and managers like Mowbray are floating about unemployed, there will be huge pressure to get rid. Sentiment goes out the window. If managers like Nigel Adkins can be sacked after taking Southampton from League One to the PL in favor of a better, more progressive manager, then Derby would be foolish not to follow suite. Derby have struggled before under Clough and Burley at Championship level. But in both spells there was hope due to how we played. If results go against Warne and we’re playing unattractive defensive football, I think Clowes’ hand will be forced.

There isn't much else Klopp can do. The past four games they have only taken four points, but in each game they have battered the opposition in terms of chances created. As coaches, not sure what else they can do. It's on the players. And at the crunch time of the season, they have faltered at both ends of the pitch. Everton's first goal was just defensive mistake after another. Slicing the ball in your own box. Then the chances missed. That Nuñez one just lacked all composure. The Man Utd FA Cup game kicked it all off. But they missed a host of chances against City too. City will still drop points. If Arsenal beat Spurs and United away, they'll deservedly win the league.

ETH is the obvious fall guy, but United are generally dreadful (by their standards) because their players are vastly overrated. I think Dalot and Fernandes are the only two you could claim are anything near elite players. The rest aren't even top 20 in their position in the world, which is crazy considering how much they've spent to put that team together.

Are Forest the PL's new victims club? With Clattenberg the mouthpiece. "It was a hat-trick of howlers from the refereeing team and, unfortunately for Forest, a continuation of an unjust trend that has hampered their survival fight." Cringeworthy.

Have Forest even had it that bad this season? Wolves have been on the wrong end of some poor ones, as have Burnley and even Liverpool. They’ve all had a whinge about it. But that statement is just weird.

They can make offside like goal line technology, automated. And that is what they are working on. I’d scrap VAR for the rest and just leave it to human decisions. But let’s be honest. VAR has come in because all those involved didn’t accept human error.

Offside is offside. It doesn’t matter how you draw it up, whether daylight between attacker and defender or not, it is simply on or off. It’s incredibly harsh but get rid of VAR and you end up with Coventry in the final via an offside goal. We either accept humans (officials) make errors (something that managers, pundits, fans etc. can’t seem to do) or we use technology. Many prefer the days of none VAR. but I also remember in the days of no VAR teams like Man Utd would bully referees and you’d never get a decision at Old Trafford.

Man Utd can’t defend. They have conceded so many goals this season. For a neutral they are entertaining. I want Coventry to pull it off, but if they don’t, at least we can enjoy City destroying United in the final.

Forest are only playing PL football because of biased officiating in their playoff final against Huddersfield. Their stance is unbelievable.

Garcia v Haney was such a weird fight. It looked like Garcia couldn’t be bothered in there, yet every now and again he’d throw a left hook and Haney’s chin was sticking right out there. Haney looked the more skilled fighter and often took center ring, but also so sloppy as he was dropped 3 times by effectively the same combo. Garcia’s post-match interview was just rants thrown together. Summed up the fight. I’m not sure if this makes Tank look a clear level above, or it looks bad for Haney.

Burnley have picked up recently and still have Forest to play at home, but they’ve left it too late. None of the bottom 3 look like hitting 30 points, which has only happened once in the last 30+ years (The covid season when nobody was in the stadiums). Some 30 years ago Forest finished bottom on 34 points. Sunderland went down that year on 40. Blackpool went down on 39 about 12 years ago. How can Forest spend £300m+ on about 30 new players and not be as good as Blackpool or even their own previous relegated teams from 30 years ago - yet still survive.

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The reason why it’s more evident with Warne is because he won’t get more out of players. He isn’t a top coach like a Farke or Bielsa. If our team is bottom three standard, then we will go down with him. If our team is bottom six standard, then we will finish bottom six with him. While some managers can get more out of players and have the team achieving more than their actual ability (Neil Warnock as an example), Paul Warne doesn’t fall into that category as shown by his Rotherham spells.

Paul Warne deserves credit for getting us promoted. Doesn’t really matter how, his goal was to get us promoted and he has achieved. But he will need help this summer. This current side under Warne finishes bottom three next season. If we stick with Warne, he will need seven or eight new signings to give us a chance.

We deserve automatic promotion. It’s been a tough watch at times, but defensively we have been superb and the individual quality has seen us through. We will beat Carlisle and the manager and players will deserve the plaudits for a job well done.

I don’t recall ever saying we won’t be able to bring players in this summer. Players don’t care where they go, as long as they are paid well.

Every time Luton get within striking distance of Forest they blow it. They’ll look back on games like today, Sheff Utd at home, 3-0 up at Bournemouth and losing as why they went down. Forest won’t believe their luck. They have been worse than last season and dealt a points deduction, yet somehow there are three teams far worse than them.

Half the Hull side is made up of loans from the PL. Seems like the way to go as the likes of Liverpool have shown they have a number of talented youngsters who aren’t going to break into their first-team.

I’m watching Watford v Hull as it’s on Star+. We have got plenty of work to do this summer. Both of these move the ball far quicker, far smoother. You can see why Plymouth and Sheff Wed have struggled this season. I hope sentiment doesn’t come into it this summer. We will need an upgrade on a good six or seven of our first-team.