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There’s nothing to be fearful about in the Championship and I can’t believe this narrative is already being pushed.
The jump in quality really isn’t that significant, outside of the usual teams we see every year that are leaning on parachute payments to keep their squads together. Even then these teams are nothing close to infallible, especially in one off games.
A third of promoted teams from League 1 in the past five years have not only gone up and consolidated their position but they have competed at the right end of the Championship table, in some cases getting promoted or mightily close.
The teams that usually go up and find their way back to League 1 are the ones without the resources or infrastructure to hold their own.
We are only going to end up like Rotherham, Wycombe, Barnsley, Blackpool, Peterborough and others if we show a serious lack of ambition financially or there is a lack of synergy and effective strategy behind the scenes.
If Clowes, Pearce, Thomas, Hale and Warne are all working well and pulling in the same direction, why is it beyond us to build a competitive squad for the Championship, one that could finish 15-18th in year one, for instance?
No-one stands still and neither will we. Everyone resets. Teams get better. Teams get worse. Managers change. Managers improve. Managers decline.
There are so many variables at play, why would we be fearful now when we can work towards a stronger position over the summer? Such needless negativity when nothing is set in stone.
 

Feels like he’s having it out with a fan here🤣
 

I've been watching Derby for 40 years and every year many people say "it's a really poor league this year". The quality of football does actually improve year on year - watch anything from the 90s and it looks like non-league football. 

I still don't think Bolton will win all three remaining games. We'll either see a shock result in either of their two home games, or they will slip up against Peterborough as they're not as good away from home.
I've said all along 90 points will be enough IMO.

Yeah but...
 

Love the way people say the league is of its lowest quality for years.
Good job IF we do go up were going into the championship thats of equally low quality.
This weekend 2 of its top 3 lost to relegation threatened sides.. one infront of their own fans heaven forbid 😱
 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Man United are so crap!!
im glad Newcastle have caught them. They e been in a false position for ages with people wondering if they can catch Tottenham and villa. No! Of course they f****** can’t. They’re crap. 
even the incredibly crap Chelsea could over take them if they win their games in hand. And West Ham are only one win away from overtaking them.
they won’t even have Europa league next season at this rate, and they don’t deserve it. The points they have got have been very lucky, they should be down in the bottom half somewhere. Which is shocking for a Man Utd team. 
I don’t know why I care so much. I don’t like Man Utd at all, but it’s just shocking to see how the mighty have fallen so far. It’s strange to see such a top 4 mainstay from my youth reduced to such mediocrity.
i honestly think there’s some thing psychological there about me feeling that society peaked in the 90s and this is making me realise more and more that Those days are long gone. 

Thing is, I didn’t. We play mixed football most of the time. Sometimes physical, sometimes technical. We play in a way promotion teams play in League one. Are you suggesting that only technical teams win in the championship or indeed in football in general ?
The irony is that it is a player like Adams who is both physical and technical has made a huge difference to our performance as a team when for example Bird and Hourihan for all their technical abilities have struggled in physical games. You play in a way to beat the opposition. To suggest Warne is fixated on a style as Macarthy often was is as inaccurate as it is unjust. 

I’m looking forward to all the  tactical geniuses who called this a sackable formation and no chance of any goals, coming on here and admitting that they got it wrong. 

Great response from us. Bolton portsmouth finished 1-1. It's back in our hands

Bradley silencing the critics

Bradley silencing the critics

Attendance 30,247
5th highest today in all leagues and a larger crowd than at Forest.
………………………………….well done to one and all.👍🐏

Do Bolton have a disappointing draw in them still?
You have to wonder if there's a bit of the Bolton psyche that says today was the day if they were going to do it, and not winning  portsmouth taks the wind out of them, the comments in the match thread suggest that Bolton gave it everything today.

Warne has made us very very good from set pieces and thats refreshing, we spent years being horrendous from them.

Also Oxford 5-0 P'boro now

Sonny Bradley at the double!! And I survived riding a horse, what a Saturday this is turning out to be!!

Tommo's been excellent.

Because it's league one. People might claim otherwise, but there is absolutely an element of "we should at least be in the top two in L1" at play, wether subconsciously or otherwise.

We can get a maximum of 92 points which is the magical 2 points-per-game average.... we'd be quite unlucky to finish 3rd on 92 points 
 
edit: Wednesday finished 3rd with 96 last season but that seems like a bit of an outlier compared to the previous seasons

Oxford 4 Peterborough 0

HT
Great score line and a fairly good performance in general, although we look a bit toothless in the final third, set pieces and crosses have been our main threat.
Orient are absolutely there for the taking.
We can really up our goal difference against this lot, if we get our attacking final third to click.
 

It's absolutely beyond belief that the 3 high flyers in the Championship.. desperate to return to the promised land.. Leicester Leeds and Ipswich have in their last two games ..six matches in total..haven't scored a single goal between them! Leeds in particular have managed only one point from the last nine available..what's shame!

Trees losing. 😁

Oxford 3-0. Did the Posh squad spend the last week on the lash or something?