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I’d be very interested to know what their wage budget is for this season and reckon it would be around the figures you’re quoting for top 6.
However - £23.6m being 14th highest wage bill and £35.9m being 7th highest is frightening!! When Mel was going mad overpaying our wage bill was £45m so not much more. Just shows we’ve got it all on to compete when we do get back to the championship. Hopefully being leaner with a couple of astute signings, clever use of loan market and a couple of academy players able to make the step up at the right time will give us a chance. 

Worry not. They’ll both be resting/protecting players for the play offs by then. 😀

I don't think sitting back on a 1-0 lead is the way Warne wants to play. I think from what we've heard from the man himself it's clear what he wants to do. High energy, high press, attacking football. And I think when we get some younger more 'athletic' players in, we will see that. He's hinted at it a lot this season. 

Wouldn't have been cheaper to blow up his bakery?

I'd hate to see what we would have got if -21 points, transfer embargos, academy decimated, administration and relegation is "getting away with it."
We'd have been laughed at if we stayed down in League One for years and years, but now we look like we may get out in two seasons (an amazing achievement when you look at it objectively), it means we got off lightly.

What constitutes not "getting away with it"? How long are we supposed to stay in the doldrums with Morris long-gone before we can have the temerity to win football games?

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 don't think sitting back on a 1-0 lead is the way Warne wants to play. I think from what we've heard from the man himself it's clear what he wants to do. High energy, high press, attacking football. And I think when we get some younger more 'athletic' players in, we will see that. He's hinted at it a lot this season. 

It can't happen in the long term. I could understand it yesterday re the team we had out.
 

Funny how we talk of ‘investors’ … when nearly all, if not all, are effectively giving the Club money and receive no financial return on it at all- in fact it’s lost.
I wonder how many fans - assuming they were multi millionaires would ‘invest’ in the Club in this manner…
We can slag MM off as much as we do but the fact is he gave the Club millions …yes, it turned out a disaster but he still lost a bundle of cash…

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.

I'd be happy to make it by 1 goal on goal difference. When we sing how we get there I don't care, I really don't, as long as we get there

On a tangent, but how amusing would it be to see Leicester bottle promotion after being so far ahead and with such a financial advantage over others...

Yes they hold the record along with us.
We've both reached the playoffs a record eight times and only been promoted once each. They've only reached the final once though.
I'd say we're both due a bit of success.

i believe hes waiting to see if we get promotion or not. He wont want to sign owt and be stuck in this crap with us 🤣

Croatia and Belgium are clearly the teams to try and emulate then. 
Although I thought we lost to the eventual champions in the Euros final, my mistake.

You’re not wrong that we’ve fallen at the seemingly more difficult hurdles. But we can only beat what’s in front of us, which we face fine without any significant dramas (since Iceland), and when we’ve come up against tougher opposition, we’ve hit bloody close. 
there’s an alternate timeline somewhere where Saka scored a penalty, and Kane scored a penalty, and we’re now back to back euro and World Cup winners. It’s all such ridiculously fine margins, especially in international tournament football when one bad day, one bad result, means you’re out and essentially have to wait 2 years to pick yourself back up and have another go. 

But we aren't a contender despite reaching the semi final of the World Cup and final of the Euros 😂 You don't half come out with some crap

You have to credit Warne for seemingly building a great culture at the club. He’s achieved something that he talked about from day one.

Yes they hold the record along with us.
We've both reached the playoffs a record eight times and only been promoted once each. They've only reached the final once though.
I'd say we're both due a bit of success.

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.

Even if Bolton were to win every game and finish on 93 points, which I doubt they will, that means we would only need to win 4 out of 5 which is entirely possible in my opinion. We're in a very strong position. I reckon 3 wins for us will do it now as we have the better goal difference.

In an ideal world, we'd clinch promotion against Orient in front of 30,000 fans rather than just the lucky ones who manage to get a ticket for Cambridge. We'd then confirm the title at Cambridge so that the trophy can actually be presented at the Carlisle game. Unfortunately, the ideal world rarely appears but , you never know. 

The title doesn’t really bother me, nobody really remembers who won the league, the key is getting out of the division and whether that’s 1st or 2nd, I’ll be just as happy.
An ideal world for me would be if we went into the final game 3 points clear and something like 10 goals GD better than 3rd.
Basically a situation where unless we lost to Carlisle 6-0, we’re up. A full house at Pride Park, early kick-off in some late April sunshine, then the whole afternoon to celebrate. Perfect.

Rodri has pictures of Ebou Adams on his bedroom wall