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Yes it's third tier football after all, so that's the level you get, not just in terms of players, but also officials. The important thing is the 3pts. It was a good night for Bolton as they clawed back on the goal difference. So for us, beating Reading, any which way, was crucial. 

I think the Lincoln team need their piss testing ASAP.  11 goals in 2 games.  3 points of the playoffs now.  Don't know what's happening there other than this league is bobbins which I already knew.

Gayle for me over Collins as he's more of a poacher. And his running spilts the defence, and let us not forget he might get us a few more penalties before the end of the season.

Just glad to see a goal scorer up front

Yes, actually, that's the only path to sustainability. Otherwise it's a boom / bust cycle. 

Somewhere in between, perhaps? A fortnight in Skegness and a new bobble hat knitted from the finest Shetland wool  😉

“Black players in the defensive line often make these mistakes because they’re not concentrated,” said Eranio. “They are powerful physically, but when it is time to think … they often make this type of error.”

Wow. Textbook crazy racist stereotyping. From a guy who played with Marcel Desailly.

Derby legend, but seeing as he's been a coach at Milan for 20 years and he's currently 57, it would be an odd one for him to suddenly move back to England to become a manager.

The comments were made whilst working for a Swiss TV company commenting on a game between a German team and an Italian team. I don’t know but I suspect there is a reasonable chance he wasn’t speaking English.
It’s a fine line between stereotyping and racism. Reading what he said, and checking the definition of racism, I’d say they were clumsy stereotypical. 
 
In any event, I am always wary of bringing back ex players into a coaching/management role simply because they were “legends”.

Top bloke.

Let’s hope that having had her charms for some time already her contract with Barnsley has run its course and she moves on elsewhere. About 35 miles south would be good!

So are we sending Warne to a gulag in Siberia or has he been restored and the public subscription is running to build the bronze statue of him tending the wounds of Elliot Embleton?
 

Promotion would be great, but if it doesn't happen, we can take some solace from snippets of positivity like the article in The i. 
Thanks for posting 👍🏽

£55 million against a net worth of @£350 million. And he's still had some absolutes arses on here screeching about his motivation and commitment this season.
Honestly, who'd be an owner?
Also, bit of a tangent but why do we as a group insist on giving the cretinous teacher from Nottingham, whose name I won't mention the attention he so dearly craves? His name needs swear-filtering on here. 

Not sure if this is the right place but a nice article in The i.  And some nice quotes from Igor and Paulo 🐏.
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/derby-dream-good-times-2942535?ITO=newsnow

Whilst that doesn't really address my question, that's fair enough. I think in this league though, any team can lose to average teams. Even Ipswich lost the plot at one point (winless in 6 or 7 IIRC). I'd also reiterate what I said after we beat them, that being that they are a much better side than their league position at the time suggested. Their form since then has them sat 5th in the table (games since we beat them), whereas they sat 23rd with only Carlisle below them not so long ago. I'd not be surprised to see them trouble Barnsley, among others, given their performances against Portsmouth and Bolton.
I do agree though that we will need to improve our own last 6 game form. Perhaps we can start by blowing away Bristol this weekend?

Not so sure. Big for the two clubs, yes. But how many neutrals could be bothered to watch such a game. More like Sky fulfilling a quota perhaps? 

As proven in the Charlton game, we are capable of losing to very average teams. I hope we win enough of our remaining games to achieve promotion, but to do so, our performances will need to go up a level for the run in. 

Considering some of our recent performances, I would say highly improbable. 

Has he ever played for Rotherham?

1 win in 4 play off finals at Wembley 🤔 Think I would take a top 2 finish 😊

We need automatic, nothing less. As much as I Love London, our latest trips to Wembley have not been a bundle of fun, the  play offs are too much of a lottery for my liking

Hi Paul

I am genuinely not sure I have seen worse actual football than this, but then we are in League 1. 

He’s a tactical genius….next

What's worse, our fingers are wide apart, making no attempt at stopping the opportunity from disappearing. The only reason for renewing my season ticket is that if we do get promoted the ticket will be at a remarkably good price for championship football. We would see some from whichever team was thrashing us at the time!