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I think Thelo Aasgaard would be a decent signing, always been impressive when I have seen him & still only 21

I think we will go 433 for this game & look to hit them on the break....
Wildsmith - Wilson Nelson Cashin Sibley - Thompson Adams Smith - NML Washington CBT
Loach Robinson Ward Fornah Hourihane Waghorn Collins
With that line up we have some pace up front for the counter but also energy in the middle of the park. We need a midfield 3 vs their 3 as they play 4231

I think Thelo Aasgaard would be a decent signing, always been impressive when I have seen him & still only 21

I think Thelo Aasgaard would be a decent signing, always been impressive when I have seen him & still only 21

The only centre mid we have contracted beyond the summer is Fornah. No doubt 1 or 2 might get a new deal but for me Adams is a must buy this summer.

I think we will go 433 for this game & look to hit them on the break....
Wildsmith - Wilson Nelson Cashin Sibley - Thompson Adams Smith - NML Washington CBT
Loach Robinson Ward Fornah Hourihane Waghorn Collins
With that line up we have some pace up front for the counter but also energy in the middle of the park. We need a midfield 3 vs their 3 as they play 4231

I think Thelo Aasgaard would be a decent signing, always been impressive when I have seen him & still only 21

Warne played these tactics to suit the game,he will no doubt be looking to counter Portsmouth in a different fashion on Tuesday.

In the last 5 games -
Portsmouth - 13 points (2.6 ppg)
Derby - 12 points (2.4 ppg)
Bolton - 6 points (1.2 ppg)
PBoro - 9 points (1.8 ppg)
Barnsley - 5 points (1 ppg)
It would take a huge swing in form for us to throw this away now. Us & Bolton would have to pretty much swap form.

The only centre mid we have contracted beyond the summer is Fornah. No doubt 1 or 2 might get a new deal but for me Adams is a must buy this summer.

Yeah I had the following:
Blackpool W
Portsmouth D
Wycombe L
Orient W
Cambridge D
Carlisle W
 
But that’s being negative personally I think 
Blackpool W
Portsmouth D
Wycombe D
Orient W
Cambridge W
Carlisle W
 
 

100+ pages on that Cambridge matchday thread then!
I reckon Sky would enjoy that last day a lot more than us... at least until the final whistle!  Not sure we all (on here) have sufficient good health to get through that in one piece!  😲  

Would be quite apt if we confirm promotion away at Cambridge which is where the Warne era started

The different prism’s through which we see games! 
FWIW I thought today’s performance was a distance away from some of those horrors earlier in the season and we looked to play some good football at times, if not always successfully. NML was lovely first half but tired as did Washington who made some good runs including one wrongly flagged offside, another where he would have buried a cross from Ward had it not been cut off and the chance when he was free was at an angle where you would only back a fully fit striker to score. For me he did fine and gives us something different.

Don’t think Warne will get the credit he deserves for this one, but was a bit of a masterclass imo (and huge credit to the players for executing). Wasn’t a vintage performance but you could see at every turn the players letting the least threatening player have the ball and talking and pointing to each other to get into position and be organised, instead of a relentless closing down approach that we don’t have in us at this point of questionable fitness and squad depth. Wash and NML, especially, clearly not fully fit and we played accordingly, with another tough test on Tuesday. Not sexy, but exactly what we needed at this point of proceedings. 5 more cup finals, and no doubt more twists and turns, but we’ve got a chance.

Just sign him permanently. Simples.

Smith is a class player 

According to Dom Dietrich Warne has said Collins will be involved against Blackpool, as will NML but needs further assessment. 
I know how important Friday could be, but I really hope we don’t take risks with NML. It’s not ideal but I’d play him from the bench on Friday, give CBT chance to show what he can do with Ward or Wilson on the other side then only use Nat if needed. 

Blackpool - W
Pompey - L
Wycombe - D
Leyton O - W
Cambridge - W
Carlisle - W
13pts from 18 available

My prediction is that all the top 7 teams will drop points and wobble. I'm hoping that Northampton was our wobble. If we bounce back with a win on friday and hopefully at least a draw at Pompey then we can hopefully hold second place. What we need is for us to wobble less than those below us! COYR.
I'm sticking my neck out to say second place on 90 points.

Yes plenty of positives.
After we lost to Stevenage and Shrewsbury in October, if someone said with 6 games to go you'll be 4 points clear of 3rd. Every one of us would have taken it.
Infact every single one of us would have probably taken Bolton's position after those games.
Yes yesterday was poor, but if we'd taken those huge chances we win that game comfortably and we go away happy. 
We have more than enough to beat Blackpool at home. Bolton have a tricky game at Stevenage. Who knows we could be 7 points clear by next Friday night. 
Wycombe away is 2 and a half weeks away. We could have Gayle, Barkhuizen back for then.

We haven't bottled anything. Our points per game is still better than 22 other sides in our league, the three sides behind us all have to win their games in hand to get to within 1 result of us.
We can probably forget about Portsmouth now, but I don't really care whether we finish 1st or 2nd.
It's a massive missed opportunity, but it's still in our hands. The constant negativity gets really tiresome sometimes.

Id be making 3 changes - Elder for Sibley, Smith for Hourihane & CBT for Thompson

Id be making 3 changes - Elder for Sibley, Smith for Hourihane & CBT for Thompson