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Today’s scorelines are looking as bad as Friday’s results were good. ☹️

Worry not. They’ll both be resting/protecting players for the play offs by then. 😀

I don’t think it’s crazy to imagine that, at 5pm on Saturday, we’re level on points with Bolton. Then they would only need to pick up one more point than us over the final four games to make goal difference irrelevant. As you say though, they have a tough couple of games ahead so I think we would still be favourites.

Do the club earn anything from such events given they don’t own the stadium?

Apologies @jimtastic56. I think I seriously over reacted to your post and you're right, it would help and don’t think you were trying to guilt anyone.

Nice, let’s shame the fans that chose not to attend cup games. A tad sanctimonious IMO. I’ve been a season ticket holder since the 70’s and attend half a dozen away games or more each season (many others attend far more). I’m not looking for a medal but equally, I don’t feel bad because I choose not to attend cup games. I’ve dug deep into my pocket plenty over the years and am happy to continue doing so (I renewed my season ticket yesterday). I don’t really need someone trying to make me feel guilty for not attending a couple more games a season.

A truly thrilling Youtube video. Remind me to watch it again if I can't sleep tonight. 😀

Me too after the event but going into the last game with it being that close would be rather uncomfortable.

I think, as a reluctant owner, he will always be looking for a sale. BUT, as a true fan and having seen what we've been through, I strongly suspect he will be extremely cautious about who he sells to.

Only make it by 1 point? A bit too squeaky bum for me. I assume @simmoram1995’s predictor has us beating Carlisle on the last day. It may pan out that way and we ought to beat them (but so should Posh have yesterday). It would make for exciting end to the season for the neutrals but going into the last game with it being so close is a scary thought. I know it’s a fools game predicting results just to make it look good (in fact, yesterday’s results proves predicting any kind of results is of little real value) but my fairly conservative predictor (I’ve explained my flawed rationale previously) now has us finishing 4 points ahead of Barnsley and comfortably short of Pompey but not by 11 points.

Agreed. It wasn’t pretty but that doesn’t matter right now. Just grind out the results. No doubt some statto will come on saying we didn’t “deserve” to win because they had more possession (which they did) and completed loads more passes (which I assume they did) etc. but, as you say, it was a deliberate tactic to allow them to keep possession and pass it around where they couldn’t hurt us. I expect to see the same at Pompey - it’s not a game we’re likely to dominate. It’s not a tactic you’d want to see deployed too often (especially at home), but sometimes it’s necessary.

Champions would be nice icing on the cake but certainly not essential. The reality is that it might be better if Pompey beat Bolton and Barnsley.

Nah, you're not having that, they just shortened their name.😀If they nearly went bankrupt then we're in good company.

Didn't they win automatic promotion in 1903/04 season? I remember it well.😀

In an ideal world, we'd clinch promotion against Orient in front of 30,000 fans rather than just the lucky ones who manage to get a ticket for Cambridge. We'd then confirm the title at Cambridge so that the trophy can actually be presented at the Carlisle game. Unfortunately, the ideal world rarely appears but , you never know.

I can't say I have particularly noticed it. I'm too busy celebration. 😀. I certainly doesn't bother me.

I didn't necessarily say you should ignore it. I'm just saying the similarities if we were to get promoted this season, are remarkable and perhaps of more value rather than how Warne did at Rotherham considering the differences in club size and the likely differences in ambition and backing between Coventry/Derby and Rotherham. Maybe Warne will keep us in the Championship and quite successfully🤷‍♂️ It wouldn't be the first time a manager has failed at one club but then gone on to be successful at another (and vice versa). I also highly doubt than anyone (you included) doing a comparison with Robbins really needed reminding of his track record. Otherwise, why make the comparison in the first place.

Just finished watching "The Dropout" on BBC IPlayer. Fascinating story (I already knew about having watched a documentary about it some where) and an entertaining series.

There are some fish that seem to do OK. 😀

Is he likely to be on £40k a game? Like others, I doubt it. Also, Gayle’s isn’t going to cost us £40k per game (or whatever the figure is) due to injury. The fact that he’s injured isn’t costing the club anymore - it’s just that we’re not getting any return for whatever we’re paying him. If anything, it’s the injuries to Washington, Waghorn and Collins that has cost us money (because we’ve had to bring in Gayle).

Robbins took over at Coventry in March 2017. It took him 2 seasons to get them promoted out of league one and in his first year in the Championship Coventry finished 16th (12th the following season). If you insist on doing a comparison then it's probably better to see how we do next season (assuming we get promoted this year) as the managers trajectories with their current clubs will be a bit more comparable: Similar sized clubs, both clubs recovering from financial difficulties, both clubs promoted from league one after two seasons (hopefully).

Every empire that has ever existed would like to differ. Why single out the British empire?

Wow. Better quality football seen in a game between two highly ranked international teams than in a game between two league one teams. A truly startling revelation.

You’re 100% right. No, actually, I think there are some on this forum that still wouldn’t be happy (with PW in charge) even if we were top. I think the reason a lot of us are anxious/nervous/glum etc is because it feels like watching a film that you’ve seen before so you know how it ends. How many times have we been in a good position going into the last few games but failed? last season obviously, then there was the year we only needed a draw at home v lowly Reading in the final game but we lost immediately spring to mind. Add to that the injury list and the fact that we’re not playing particularly well, even when we win more often than not, and the feelings of uncertainty are understandable. BUT, this isn’t a film - it doesn’t have to end the same way, teams in the chasing pack have had their wobbles and most still have some stiff games ahead of them. Four (or more) points from the next two games and I think it’s game on still. (I can see us nicking a point at Pompey) Two points or less (I can see the Blackpool game being a tricky one) then I think we’re no longer favourites for the auto’s (obviously dependent on what the other do).

I watched “Ukraine: Enemy in the woods” last night (on BBC and available on IPlayer). It was a hard watch as it gave a small inkling as to what war must be like on the front line. It must be even worse for the Russian soldiers a lot of whom probably don’t want to be there and whose chances of survival are no doubt much lower than the Ukrainians.