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I am confident (but not sure. How can you possibly be sure?) hence why I said “unless it’s mathematically certain” but, there are various scenarios whereby we could be going into the last two games with it all still to play for even if we won our next seven. Imagine if Barnsley and Peterborough both won all of their games prior to the last two. They’d only be 2 and 1 points behind. They may be unlikely scenarios but are they any less likely than Derby winning every game? Even if Portsmouth lost against us, Peterborough and Barnsley but won all their others they’d only be 3 points behind. Essentially, don’t celebrate too soon.

I would hope he wouldn’t unless it’s mathematically guaranteed. Even then, I would hope he’d have a bit more class and talk about celebrating at our final home game rather than “brag”.

Done, and there's no need to publish his name anyway.

Done

I’ve just got a ticket for Northampton from the waiting list so there is hope for others still.

I wouldn’t be totally shocked if this were true but is there any credible evidence that it’s happening?

When was the last time we made a profit and were therefore subject to CT? CT isn’t an issue for football clubs because, by definition the club must have done OK financially that year (possibly due to player sales). When they get in a mess is when they don’t set aside money to pay their VAT and other tax liabilities.

Surely there is no chance of resting “a few” players especially with Bird already being out. We need to keep up the winning momentum and, I know PW gets flak from some on this forum for publicly showing respect to the opposition, we can’t take this game for granted.

Yes but I’m sure someone 😉 will be able to “prove” we don’t “deserve” to be second.

My proven (unreliable 😀) predictor has changed after Barnsley collapsed yesterday (and dropped point last Tuesday) and we won when I was only expecting a draw. It’s gone from 1) Barnsley, 2) Portsmouth, 3) Derby to 1)Derby, 2)Portsmouth and 3) Barnsley. This tells me three things. We can catch Pompey. It’s probably going to be very tight. I know nothing.

At last, we can put the speculation to bed. The poster known as RoyMac5 MUST be female. 😀

I’m not sure how poor Bristol were and you can only beat the team that’s in front of you but I wouldn’t describe them as an in form team. Certainly not at home. Since the turn of the year, before yesterday, they had lost 4 out of 6 home league games including against Burton and Fleetwood. If we can back up two comfortable wins against less good teams with back to back home wins (I haven’t checked our head to head record but Reading always seem to cause us problems and, of course Bolton should be a tough game) then we’ll be in the box seat. COYR.

Not sure what the smiley face response was all about @Chester40. I was being serious. Who, in their right minds, would have given him a bad reception?

I wasn’t at the game but it was pretty guaranteed PW (and the players) would get a good reception after a 3:0 away win. Even the most ardent anti Warne supporters would have been pretty silly to do anymore than at worse keep quiet.

I think Barnsley’s result today proves how unreliable our predictors (including my own) can be. No one in their right mind would have predicted an away win, especially by such a margin.

All we’ve got to do is match the results of those around us and we go up. Even more simples 😀

That was my understanding but I didn’t know if I was missing something.

I'm not an accountant either but, reading the government website, it doesn't look as if you can according to the second bullet point. In any event, I doubt we'll be making a profit any time soon. If you donate more than your profit The most you can deduct is the amount that reduces your company’s profits to zero. If you donate more than your total profits you can’t: declare trading losses on your tax return carry over any remaining amount to your next tax return

Yes I know all that but if we've made a loss there is no corporation tax to reduce.

Seems to be (after googling it) on Disney+.

I refuse to complete the survey purely based on the mood set by the very first question: “Which lower league club do you support”? 😀😀😀

Am I being dumb (again)? Why would there be a tax (corporation tax) bill if we made a loss?

Surely he has two jobs 1) get us promoted and 2) make us an established Championship club (how you define that is open to interpretation). But, as far as we are aware, there is no two season time limit on achieving the first objective. For all we know, the timescale agreed between DC and PW could be - get us promoted within 3 seasons (taking into account the restrictions we have been under in seasons 1 & 2. Not that I expect DC to splash the cash in the summer) and survive comfortably in the Championship in season 4 (or sooner if we got promoted earlier). I just can’t help but think people calling for him to be sacked or to resign if we don’t go up this season are clutching at straws. None of us know PW’s real personality and if he’s the sort of person to throw the towel in when the team fall just short, or if DC is ruthless enough to send him on his way in the summer. As for the “grief he gets from the vocal fans that hate him”, I reckon he accepts such feelings on social media as simply a sign of the times. Other clubs may snap his hand off but does he see himself as a winner or a quitter? 🤷🏻 I reckon the former. p.s. I’m not saying we threw it deliberately but maybe going up last season might have been too early given the two year business plan and subsequent restrictions. Staying up this year could have been very challenging.

Nobody likes failure but there are degrees of failure. Yes, if we don’t go up then quite obviously we have failed to get promotion this season which would have been PW’s aim but I don’t think that should automatically cause him to be sacked or to resign. It’s not as if he has failed miserably (assuming we at least reach the play offs). Regarding him personally not liking failure, well I reckon he’d rather try and prove he can do it next season than admit outright failure and walk away. I wouldn’t read too much into his comments about being out of work if we don’t go up this season. I reckon that was just one of his off the cuff comments confirming that all managers are at risk. If he’d thought carefully before speaking I reckon he’d probably have said something more like “I might well be out of work”.

Sounds interesting. Which channel or was it at the cinema?