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6 hours ago, Jourdan said:

CBT is the worry for me.

He looked very bright v Blackpool and then played his best game so far for us v Portsmouth. Then tonight he regressed.

I really thought tonight would be the night he came to the party. He won’t get a better chance.

He is clearly a confidence player and he is clearly playing within himself much of the time since joining us. Perhaps he is overwhelmed by the pressure to impress. There is certainly a feeling of that.

I am not often critical of Warne and the coaches, but perhaps they could be managing him better, because something is not right.

Thought everything was ramping up nicely for him to be the main man for the final few matches. 
 
CBT missing that open goal is the worst player it could’ve happened too. As you say, looks a real confidence player. With NML on his back legs and Barkz only just back fit, we really don’t need CBT feeling sorry for himself.

6 hours ago, Tamworthram said:

I really don’t get this “they deserve to go up” mullarky. Whoever goes up will deserve to simply because they have accumulated more points than at least 22 other teams in the league (or have a better goal difference). That might be because they ended the season well, started the season well or were consistent throughout. 

Obviously…

But it’s a way of trying to rationalise the disappointment of yesterdays result. 

Plus Bolton have only won 6 in a row once this season. To do that in October is one thing, to do it when the pressure is in is another.

Wildsmith - 8 

Wilson - 6

Sibley - 6

Nelson - 7

Cashin - 7

Adams - 8 

Smith - 6

NML - 3

CBT - 3

Wash - 4 

Collins - 5

Just now, plymouthram said:

Warne got it wrong playing Washington and Collins together, it did'nt work. Taking Smith off, when he was one of our better players, also did'nt make sense. When is Gayle fit, he would have put one of the chances away tonight that others fluffed.

The risk of having no control worked first half, we created 3 good chances. Second half we needed to change it and to be fair to Warne he did. 
 
No footballing intelligence tonight. The only glimpse of it was when Adams bought a free kick on the edge of their area. 
 
 

6 minutes ago, Sheff Ram said:

Last six!!??

I mean including the matches they’ve played.

If Bolton win their last 6 including Portsmouth and Peterborough they deserve to go up. That’s the only positive mind. 
 
People moaning at Warne, did he ask for us to miss 3 sitters in the first half? Granted the second half was toothless but we should’ve been out of sight.

No bottle whatsoever.

1 minute ago, Mick Brolly said:

It's 0-0 at half time get a grip 

You can only miss so many chances before you get punished. Even if it finishes 0-0 then its advantage Bolton.

1 minute ago, Dcfcsr92 said:

Nml has been shocking for the last 6/7games doesnt surprise me he missed it totally out of form. Also dont agree hes a captain never has and never will 

He might be playing with painkillers etc. which sort of lets him off the hook. 
 
But if he isn’t hampered at all then that finish is tragic.

1 minute ago, Abu Derby said:

Northampton MkII

Yep they score its game over.

Can’t wait to tell the grandkids that we bottled promotion because CBT couldn’t score from 6 yards, Washington is repulsed by one on ones and NML temporary thought he was playing rugby.

Shame about Ward but I do think Wash will compliment Collins’ game pretty well. 
 
The only area we may be light in is central midfield but with Adams on patrol and doubt any man deficit will be noticed.

18 minutes ago, Tamworthram said:

As long as we back it up with a win on Saturday.

Six points from these two games and we’ll be strong favourites. Four points we’ll probably be slight favourites still. Anything less and it will be in the balance.

If we take 6 points and Bolton beat Pompey i can't lie that'll be deflating. I know 6 points keeps it in our hands, but the sooner Bolton drop points to give us a significant gap the better.

Our bench is a bit threadbare at the moment, if Ward is out then its even weaker. 

Think for a team that has scored a lot of goals in the last 15, we're ironically looking to score 1/2 before 70 minutes tonight as we don't have many game changers to steal us a result.

Wycombe 1 - 2 Derby

Collins

50 minutes ago, Norman said:

What am I reading? I know we've all been through some right bottle jobs following Derby, but come on.

Barnsley ruled themselves out yesterday.

Peterborough have a horrifc run of games in 21 days and rely on a high energy game. 

Bolton really struggled to beat a poor Bristol Rovers team and haven't taken any more points than us over the last 5 games - and we've had to navigate Portsmouth, Blackpool, and Bolton themselves in that time.

Wycombe are playing a final this evening....beat them and it leaves 2 home games and Cambridge away. 

Honestly, I can see us winning the next 2, and Bolton drawing against Portsmouth, and it all being all being effectively over. Only 6 days to wait.

It would offer people like myself more optimism if we controlled matches. Not going to go down the Paul Warne pile on because he’s got us to 2nd playing Warneball. But there hasn’t been many matches this season were I’ve watched us and gone this will be easy.

Just as you slip in to a version of comfortable we go and poo the bed like we did against Northampton. 
 
Of course I’d rather be in our shoes than Bolton/Posh’s but then again I’d rather be in Portsmouth’s shoes which is pretty much 1 win away from promotion.

I do think it will be a bad job if we can’t beat Wycombe with their cup final considered. But knowing Derby like we do, personally I can’t see us winning all 4 which does open the door. Which is were people’s worries like my own come in.

Horrible that all the pressure is back on us.

Then we have the unsettling matter of Posh and all their matches in hand so we don’t know whether they’re looking good or not.

Personally think Leyton Orient will be tougher than Wycombe. Would feel sick if we missed out on 92/91 points.

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think kids or today call it manifestation.

1 minute ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

For what its worth, I think we will lose to Wycombe and win the last 3, finishing on 88 points.

It could, just, be enough.

3 wins puts us on 91 points which should see us up. But Bolton are starting to turn the heat up and I’ve got a nasty feeling they’ll win their last 3. Need Pompey to do a job on them.

The most important match this next week is Bolton v Portsmouth. If Bolton win that the i think they’ll pip us to the post.

Bristol Rovers need a strong dose of quantuma.

Kangaroo skin boots? Will put a spring in our step at least.

Think it’s becoming more obvious that a super league or rules to benefit the top 6 will be ramped up in the next few years. 
 
PL don’t dare go against the big clubs because they want to be ‘the best with the best players’. 
 
EFL is that in the mud compared to PL that no PL clubs will want to help out the pyramid and instead will cross their toes and hope they never go down again. Or if they do parachute payments will allow them to go back up.

Sad times for the English game.

2 minutes ago, Srg said:

It's a shame Bolton's match v Posh isn't sooner when it potentially has more riding on it.

Agreed, stinks of Barnsley v Posh last season. Just got to make sure going in to the last match we're in the top 2. Carlisle will be on the beach and without accusing anybody of foul play, I imagine Simmo would quite like to see us up.

1 hour ago, Kernow said:

Looking at Bolton’s fixtures, anything less than 10 points from their last 5 is a slip up from them.

Rovers away and Shrewsbury & Vale at home should be 9 points.

They should be able to get 1 point minimum from Portsmouth at home and Peterborough away. After last night, Portsmouth may be happy for a point again. They could go up in the Bolton game, but if they don’t lose then Bolton won’t catch them and they’re as good as up anyway.

If we aren’t already up by the Carlisle game, hopefully Peterborough are 3 points behind us too. If they have any chance of getting top 2, they’ll give Bolton a much harder game than if they’re already confirmed in the play-offs.

That means 10 points should be more than enough for us, or 9 points and hope we can rely on goal difference. Bolton winning the rest of their games would mean 6 wins in a row which they haven’t done all season. They also seem to go missing in “big” games and although they can score a lot, they don’t always follow that up with another good performance.

I’d be surprised if 4 wins are necessary for us to get over the line, but I think if we don’t manage to win 3 of the 4 then it won’t be enough. I think we’ll do it, but only just.

Agree with all of this.

If Posh have nothing to play for then Bolton have struck lucky playing a good team at exactly the right time.

Got to hope Bolton don't go on their best run of the season and to be honest if we can't beat Wycombe who will either be hungover or gutted at losing a final with us having a week to prepare then its a bad job. Carlisle is a slam dunk, so just need to win at least one of Leyton Orient or Cambridge.

If we can't get 9 points out of our next 4 matches then we'll only have ourselves to blame.

If we do the above and Bolton or Posh etc. go on their best run of the season under the pressures we're all experiencing to pip us to the post then fair play to them. 

I do think looking on paper Bolton do have quite a kind run in apart from Pompey but they only need to throw in a Northampton like performance and not beat Pompey and its all but over for them.

Peterborough are playing two matches a week between now and the end of the season and Barnsley are in last chance saloon with failure to beat Charlton on sat surely putting them to the sword.