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Derby win and both Peterborough and Bolton drop points seals, right?
Derby, Peterborough and Bolton win we go into the last day 3 points ahead?
Is there a scenario where it gets confirmed midweek if Bolton drop points tomorrow, Peterborough win tomorrow and Derby win, but Peterborough drop points in their game in hand?
 

Play Bird , who has been out for weeks , can’t tackle , picked Bristol city over us , going in 2 games . Not for me , thanks . 

I'm sure it will be somewhere between the two. Go for the win but not so gung-ho that we put ourselves too much at risk of losing.
On the front foot please but with control and composure. 

Does he deserve to get back into the squad based on a few days of training, after being out for 3 months), when we have Collins, Washington, Waghorn, Mendez-Laing, Blackett-Taylor, and Barkhuizen as fit attacking options? That also ignores Bird, Sibley and Wilson as potential options in a front 4.
I hope not. We've only got 375 minutes from him in all competions despite being on loan for the whole season. Only 981 mins last season at Ipswich, and 709 the season before. His career high across all competitions in a season of men's football is only 1369 mins when on loan to Doncaster in 20/21. Even at U18 and U21 level, 1884 was the most he ever achieved.
Even in Joe Ward's worst ever season for injuries, he's still managed more minutes on the pitch this season than John-Jules has achieved at any club. We need to be targetting players with more reliable injury records.
At this point, would he even be ahead of DBrown in the pecking order? As we'll also have Washington contracted for next season and should be looking for 2 new CFs in the summer, is there any value at all in signing John-Jules permanently?

A definite no for me. Not been good enough all year for me, being made of glass hasn’t helped either. 

For the away or third kit, I'd like us to try something different and include a map of Derby in the design of the shirt. It could be done so that Pride Park is located within the club's logo, seen as the logo is an outline of a ram. For extra points they could utilise the colour scheme featured in the modern remake kit that @loweman2 posted a few posts ago. Here's a few attempts at it with other clubs over the past few seasons. I especially like the green Hibernian one from 2021/22.

There's a relatively small amount of people who can wear that...
Fortunately I'm one 😉

I don't want to...or need to. It adds nothing to my enjoyment or the end result.
Plus there are too many unknowns. You score an early offside goal in a match, you then choose to sit deep, soak up pressure and you give up a few chances but ultimately you win. The stats are totally driven by what happened in that initial incident.
If the goal had been disallowed,  the whole game would have been played in a totally different way. So all the stats are pretty meaningless to me.
You disagree...but I don't see the point or merit in your view anyway as its a lot of thinking about stuff that is impossible to know anyway.

I'm guessing if we were headed into the play offs there would be less gracious comments 😀
You did us a massive favour last week and potentially took the stuffing out of Bolton who ultimately knew they were on the back foot yesterday already.
Hopefully our paths cross again very soon!!

I don't want to...or need to. It adds nothing to my enjoyment or the end result.
Plus there are too many unknowns. You score an early offside goal in a match, you then choose to sit deep, soak up pressure and you give up a few chances but ultimately you win. The stats are totally driven by what happened in that initial incident.
If the goal had been disallowed,  the whole game would have been played in a totally different way. So all the stats are pretty meaningless to me.
You disagree...but I don't see the point or merit in your view anyway as its a lot of thinking about stuff that is impossible to know anyway.

I bet you are even prepared to pay for them right?

I think there’s a danger of extrapolating the views of a few fans as a representation of a more general sentiment.
After all, there are a few on here we wouldn’t want to be our emissaries.
I think we have heard from fans of both Portsmouth and Bolton that their team has been inconsistent and often underwhelming.
The league has been decided by the team that survived its blip the best.
Portsmouth also did good business in the window.
Bolton have been hit with injuries like us and have been struggling towards the finish line.
I hope that if we do get second place, Bolton are the team that makes it up from the playoffs.

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Not sure why you bother replying. Obvious troll I’ve had on ignore for quite a while. 

Are you being held captive, tap once for yes.

s***, I'd not thought of that.
If anybody does have a ticket, can I please let you know at halftime of the Carlisle match if I want to come in?

Think there was a slight danger on Sat if we'd known we needed to win we could over-commit, panic a bit if we didn't score early...and then get hit with a sucker punch, like Bolton did.
Now we can take our time,  build pressure... and even take a draw if needs be, and I think we will inevitably score. 

First promotion for 17 years. First automatic promotion for nearly 30 years. Let’s counter your argument and say you think that finishing 3rd, playing good football but failing where it really matters is an achievement?
The arrogant attitude that anything less than running away with the title with triple figure points is a failure is why big clubs like Sunderland, Ipswich, Notts Forest etc got stuck down here for longer.
Less than two years ago we had about 6 players, no academy, no manager and had to play pre-season in temporary shirts because we didn’t even have kits. We were also put under restrictions, which still haven’t run out yet. So yes, I think getting automatic promotion in this timeframe is an achievement. A very good one, actually.

Mostly they don't have any points to make, its just the same old every time they post. Nobody is controlling, its just about calling out the trolls, and supporting the team.

The points they make are intangible and intangibles are hard to debate, but it doesn't make them right (or indeed wrong).  We have no evidence of what a Warne Championship season with Derby would be like - and Rotherham are hardly thriving without him.
There are issues with Warne's management, of course there are, but we have it in our hands to get promoted - and are two wins away.  The idea this is the time to debate is absurd.  It is like complaining at a lottery win because the Euromillions was the night before and would have netted far more.  
Never let the best be the enemy of the good" - Aristotle

You've stated twice that my opinion is everything wrong with football. I'd describe that as being outraged yes. 

My main concerns stem from how poor we are at creating goals from open play against bargain basement line-ups, will teams be more open against us in the Champ? Not sure about that. It'll be a full on relegation fight if we don't really invest in the squad.
But tempting fate here, probably go to Cambridge now and not show up. Lose 1 nil.
Warne deserves his chance if he takes us there but I think Clowes should be ready to make a change if it becomes apparent we are miles off it.

I'm guessing if we were headed into the play offs there would be less gracious comments 😀
You did us a massive favour last week and potentially took the stuffing out of Bolton who ultimately knew they were on the back foot yesterday already.
Hopefully our paths cross again very soon!!

Rest your players for the play-offs, you know it makes sense 😛