MaltRam

A bit of quality from NML at one end, steel at the back from Cash and Nelson, a save from Wildsmith, a sprinkling if flair and a whole heap of graft. The season in a nutshell.

COYR.

As I heard it, Eddie Howe wanted Johnny, but Mac would only wear it if they let us have one of their lads...could have been Ritchie...but not as a replacement for Foz.

If you're sat gloomily watching the box, do you identify as LA-LLW? Sorry...just love that a radwaste categorisation joke appeared on here.

The job Warne has done, since Stevenage away, has been exemplary. You cannot play one touch 50 pass moves with league 1 players. Not feasible. If we blow it, and have to face up to another season down here, Warne is definitely the man to rebuild us and go again. If we go up, he will have earnt the right to build a Championship squad and have a go at keeping us up, as per his original brief. I know he's marmite, with his off-beat personality profile, but he's clearly an honest and genuine man and it's hard to see a nice guy cop for abuse.

Small pitch? Close them down aggressively, look to score on the turnover, and rely on our greatest strength (Cashin and Nelson) to mop up if they get through us?

I'm certain we're going there to win.

Is there a supporters club bus from Donnington? My dad switched to the supporters bus a few years back, leaves him a 150yd walk and kept him able to get to matches. Come on Eddie. Sunny window is over-rated, and nursey starts reducing your tripel rations once you sit there.

Being old and tired is exactly why you should keep going. You pack this up, pack something else up, pretty soon you're left with hoping to be put in the sunny window and snoozing to pass the time. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light, Eddie!

You clearly do a lot of work on stats in football. I hope it brings you joy and wealth. I personally couldn't give less of a monkey's about average discrepancy to the chances/goal average, xG, or any of it. I watch football for fun, for the joy of that moment when the ball hits the net, the intake of breath as a defender is beaten. The satisfaction of winning a game. The shared pleasure of a successful season. I don't understand what you are saying, why you are saying it, or what joy you get from following football. Maybe if you diluted your intensely dry and rather hectoring stats lessons with a post or two about the actual football, or the Rams generally, folks would treat you with less disdain.

Fair point, but at the risk of quibbling that wasn't exactly stated. Implied, sure. I feel like we shut people and ideas down far too readily these days, and this is another example. See Dawn French's comments yesterday around JK Rowling.

We've earned nowt, scraped nowt and done nowt yet.

Folks, please. Are we capable of losing at Cambridge? Are Bolton capable of smashing Port Vale 4-0 at home? We aren't remotely there yet. Keep the champagne in the box, and only put it on ice if we win on Saturday.

Joe Wildsmith's diving header to save a point might be the key touch of the whole season.

Been trying not to look at text updates every 30 seconds, but failed completely to do that for the last 15 minutes. What a result. I think we can relax just that touch now at Cambridge. The knowledge that a draw isn't the end of the world means we can play with that bit more freedom, and feels to me like it'll make victory more likely. I feel...optimism? Is that what this is? It's been so long!

So I googled. It wasn't racist. It was ill directed. There are a significant number of Islamic fundamentalist out there who want you and I dead, the more brutally the better. It's not racist to acknowledge the fact.

Funny old game. 1 chance in 10 Shrewsbury get something, but you never know.

Sorry, who's a racist now?

Little bit of politics there?

We got ahead of ourselves (well, I did) ahead of Northampton and again against Wycombe. I'm going to focus wholly on Cambridge all week. If we f*** that up, little hope of coming back again, IMO. It's well within our capability to stick a rank performance in and come out without the win.

It won't happen, at least not for Will's next contract, but he remains my favourite player this century.

They're missing half a team, apparently. We need aggression, pace and positivity. No half measures, go and smash them.

Not read through, don't have the strength. That was f****** appalling. Collo might as well have taken my dog for a walk, and taken CBT with him. I'm not going to go off on one...it's not changing anything...but that was reeeeally f****** appalling.

I'm in pieces. It's going to be OK isn't it? Isn't it? I need tranquillisers. Help me.

I'd vote for blunt. Very big. And very blunt.