MaltRam

Valentines is next week, you soppy buggers. 🥰

If you like. I should add in my defence that I'm swayed towards preferring points return over xG because that's what they use to construct the actual league table with. Seems more important to me somehow, but you do you brother.

Illustrating nicely why xG is of limited interest. We got 6 points more than them, everything else is a sideshow.

1 point from 9 for Posh? If we went on that run it'd be Warne Out, board out, tits out on here. Lots of slips, twists and turns to come.

Bolton will now be Sat/Tue from now until they come to Derby mid-March.

CBT to play wing for NML to let him heal up. Nyambe for Ward for muscle. Wilson in for Bradley to balance the front 3. Done. Same midfield and keep Sibbers at LB for attacking thrust.

They might be physical, but they've only scored 6 away goals all season. 15 games.

Feel like we could go 433 at home. Get CBT in, stick with the midfield.

I feel like if we go up we'll set our sights higher.

I thought similar about Fornah after Blackpool away. This time it's true though.

Top, top, 1-0 away win. Into the top 2. Gutsy, threatening when we got at them, solid at the back. Adams looks a magnificent addition. Collo didn't get booked. Sibbers looking increasingly like a proper left sided defender. Bird the most dangerous midfielder on the pitch. If NML isn't too badly hurt I'm calling that a brilliant Saturday. COYR.

Moaning? On here? Based on nothing but prejudice and a grumpy disposition? That never happens. 🤔

Get a grip son.

I googled. Quickly lost interest.

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The Bird offer will have been bubbling on for weeks.

Best midfielder at the club. Leaving as won't sign a new contract. Good fee. Keep the player for the rest of the season. He came through the ranks, stood by us when we were on our arse, does his best, good egg arond the place, getting a bigger wage in a higher division, club doesn't lose out. Max Bird comes out well, Derby County come out well. Moaners, please shush. I'm embarrassed by you.

Optimistic with this one. Ticks a lot of boxes. Nice to see one from out of the blue, too. Maybe folks could pause to reflect that maybe some of the more hyperbolic criticisms of the club and manager have been more bolics than hyper.

Chin up ya miserable buggers. Top two by easter.

We are where we are folks. We must have a striker in to cover us for a month or two. Not a sexy signing, but a grafting pro with a goal in him.

If what you say is right, the sensible move from Roy would have been to clarify up front, rather than chuck in another 3 or 4 posts defending the literal meaning of the words he typed, only to subsequently change tack. I reiterate, the man made himself look silly. In other news, the two in midfield has looked wide open too often in recent weeks. Warne knows this as well as we do.

RoyMac5, your agenda is fine by me. Tedious how often you express it, to be honest, but if that's the way you feel good for you. You've made yourself look a proper bellsniff with this episode though. Paul Warne has not ever said what you claimed, and circling round that fact trying to score points is just silly. Own it man!

Hourihane is captain, passes the ball better than anyone else on the books, and has done it all in the game. It'd be mad not to start him 90% of the time. The blend around him has to he right though.

Ward, for good reasons, is third choice RB. We also have Smith as cover Yes he can cross...but in a situation where we only have one fit striker, he can go. Fornah has some positive attributes, but he's lost the ball poorly so many times that if it means we can get someone else in...he can go too. First half against Bradford he was excruciatingly bad. Not sure Warne can trust him.

Bad performances, over a stretch, guarantee that results drop off. We're in a period of awful form, and average results. One thing or the other will turn.