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Honestly,I'm anticipating a slow start,as per this season,as the new squad gels under warned and gains it's fitness,then a consistent run from December onwards,leaving us in the playoffs.

If it’s true it’s not much of a surprise, it was our weakest area along wide central midfield last season.
The only one that has the ability to step up to Champ as a regular rotation option is Gayle, but I’m not sure he’s got the legs for that level anymore.
We also have Wash contracted, so that’s another player who probably isn’t up to the level.
PW must have a couple of targets in mind if we are letting the above go. I’d speculate a permanent signing, a Prem loan and maybe a freebie depending on how we think Brown will do.
Interesting times

Dropped out of the team….following the knee injury he suffered on the pitch against Bristol Rovers on 25/11/2023 and subsequent recovery time of several weeks? Having been involved in all 17 league one matchday squads up to that point including playing 90 mins in 10 of those games? The same Korey Smith who seems to be a well liked and respected member of the squad and has from the outside seemingly always conducted himself as a top pro and played out of position for the cause? 🤔 

We'd be looking at a third season in League One if Clowes didn't swap Rosenior for Warne.

I have never tried Brave before, just did it. Man, that makes a difference!
Thanks 

That was before administration,  I used to go in on occasion for a meal.in a week night as convenient for after work being on PP

You just use a browser such as brave,it does it all automatically.

Not being in the play offs has enabled Mrs NG2Ram and I to book a last minute trip to Japan to visit our eldest son who lives and work here (not seen him for over 5 years). Currently on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. Hoping to get to a J League game whilst we're here.

I'm really excited to see what PW can do for us back in the champ with no restrictions. If you're a Prem manager with a potential young gem, PW is just the man you'd want to send them out on loan to. How he is as a person and a manager, the togetherness he's created with our team, add into that our facilities and attendances we'll attract some good young players this summer. 

Yep all public
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21/22 - 23,010

Not knowing Max personally, I can only speculate like the rest of us. 
Whilst leaving could possibly be down to style of football, I don't really see that, think it's unfair on Paul Warne to lay this at his feet.
I could imagine an alternative scenario where Max didn't want to go to the end of the season undecided with a wait and see how Derby do approach.
Could easily have done his ACL, Derby not gone up and had to accept a vastly reduced League 1 contract. 
A 3 year offer came in from the Championship, mid table Bristol City so barring a disaster, guaranteed Championship football, decent money, a great city, fresh start with a mate there to make the move easier to settle. Future sorted.
If Derby go up, great way to leave.
If we didn't, great call for his own career.
One club players are a rarity these days, Jack Grealish, Villa fan, been at the club for 6 years leaves to join Man City. They are not like us, this is their job, careers, so whilst they maybe one of our own, it's not a for life type relationship that we have.
I question if Cashin would have been here still had there been an offer from the Championship for him, having seen Matt Clarke at the club, join Brighton and subsequently farmed out on loan twice to then end up in the smog having never played for Brighton, it would feel like a will I or won't I, where will I go type move. 
Had Bristol City said look, same as Max Bird, sign, go back on loan for the season and you're in our plans for next season, would he be saying his goodbyes as well? Maybe.

Predictable and slightly sad sage...

Predictable and slightly sad sage...

I bet that tastes of Promotioooooooon 😉

It has - but only because it’s given an insight into how great the group of players are. Celebrating with the fans from the final whistle all the way through pubs in town. Genuinely nice blokes happy for themselves, the club and the city. 
 
Compare with other stuff I saw this week with Leicester players celebrating going up by gathering in the safety of one of their mansions and having a few drinks around the kitchen island. Soulless and removed from the fans. 
 
Really shows what Warne has built and hopefully he can keep the spirit even through squad changes over summer. 

Googles flights to Alicante 👀

I don't see how anybody can judge a player like Elder until he has had a decent run in the team and got his fitness back up. Give the guy a chance!

It leads to a question that needs to be asked, ' is it worth going all the way in the Bristol Street Motors Trophy'?
Bolton last season and Peterborough this season, both won the trophy but lost out in the play offs, did the extra games and the distraction of a Wembley final affect their final points total and/or their performances in the play offs?

Very true, although we reached 2nd much later in the season and stayed there, aside from 1 week I believe when Bolton overtook us
We pushed Bolton all the way, and pushed them fully over in March to overtake. Then we stayed there.
Peterborough were also around somewhere, making up the numbers.

Might be wrong here but think once we reached 2nd place we were never overtaken either.
Valuable lessons there about counting games in hand as 3 points.

Bolton pushed us all the way, nobody else really
Nobody pushed Portsmouth, us included. They went top in September and never budged an inch. Nobody laid a glove on them, let alone Peterborough of all teams
People made fun of our runners up trophy but I promise you Darren old chum, they don't give out trophies for giving it a jolly good try
Have a nice season next year. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bloke and club. Really weird bunch over there

The less likeable Ferguson as magnanimous in defeat as always……
“We pushed Derby and Portsmouth all the way”. By finishing 8 points behind us, eh Dazzler!

Thread's gone a bit Disney for my liking... 😋
 

Honestly guys, that last 20 mins was horrendous, my poor heart haha
One positive I can take from it is that we got the job done despite never really playing well in either playoff game (partly because barnsley arent great) and also that I think Oxford suits us better than Posh (and tbh as much as I'm desperate to win, if we do lose, I'd rather lose to Oxford than Darren Ferguson).
 
Fingers crossed we turn up and get it done. Our last 2 trips to Wembley are Bolton 4-0 Plymouth last season and Bolton 0-5 Stoke in the FA Cup semis about a decade ago so could literally be anything based on our history.
 
Got some Rams fan mates who were at your QPR Wembley trip that I sympathised with and was gutted for at the time so I hope more than anything we don't experience that kind of pain and we get a good day out, the boys give it their all and make us proud

Ah, facts!
Can't say for sure as I haven't paid much attention to Hull this season, but from the outside it looks like they spent a lot of money this season maxing out their squad hoping they'd go up, or at least make the play-offs. It certainly looked like a team that should have finished in at least the play-offs on paper.
Perhaps if he'd finished 7th without having those loans like Carvalho, the owner would have seen it differently!