CB Fry

All harks back to the Wolverhampton Docks Strike.

Now that's the kind of thing they should put on the iPlayer.

Big sigh of relief for Maidstone Constabulary & Kent Police that they won't have to manage an evening replay fixture in what is widely regarded as one of the toughest crime ridden areas in the country.

Filbert Street sized mentality.

Well, he wasn't fucking joking about letting Sven Goren Eriksson have a go, was he?

It's going to blow their little minds when they find out that players at every professional football club in the country are on wildly varying salaries, often with no direct correlation to performance on the pitch. Stick the lot of them on YTS forms and get the entitled fuckers some boots to clean.

More or less a goal every other game then.

She's out of the series now (spoilers) but there was a contestant in it this season who was an absolute dirtbag. The production company knew this so every other episode they had a quick shot of her having a bath. Much like Strictly, there's a little something for the Dads.

No.

What swing are you mirroring? The team right now, this season, where Reading were, then (same number of points) are West Brom. If we are going to take that season as a touchstone then surely we are Cardiff or Birmingham in that scenario? Neither went up. The whole point of Reading is they had a brilliant run in the second half of the season. We've already gone 20 unbeaten so that is nothing like us at all.

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We've won 9 home games in a row, so let's say no they wouldn't be. As previously covered, we finished 8th, 7th, 6th in Prem plus back to back promotions with the fans where they are. Let's say, at best, it's completely irrelevant variable. It doesn't really matter to me what is done but we should not be doing it in the belief we will win more because of it. Because we 100% absolutely will not.

Hey guys, I've just been running the numbers. If you look at, say, our last 18 games then you'll see we haven't lost a single match. So if we take that stat and carry it forward, it turns out we win the FA Cup no problem,as it's only four or five more games or something COYR

42 more points is somewhere between 14 wins and 4 defeats or 12 wins and 6 draws - therefore extending our unbeaten run to 38 games, the entire post September season. Yeah sure it's possible but it's optimism rather than some mathmatical forecast, especially when you dismiss the likes of Leicester achieving anything like that when they are literally eight points ahead of us already.

Jesus wept.

It doesn't take "imagination" to look at the league table and see they are in second, clear of us. Match us for the rest of the season and they're promoted automatically and we ain't.

Except we have barely reeled Leicester in at all. It's taken a record breaking run to gain three whole points (11 behind at end September to 8 points behind now). If it was us in this situation I'd be on here regularly telling people there is absolutely no need to panic. Leicester's form can go off a fucking cliff if it wants - let's say they go down to 1.5 points a game for the rest of the season - Hull City standard say. That still gets them to 93 points which is enough for autos every season and enough to win the league most seasons. They are not going to collapse to even that modest level, but it doesn't matter if they do. They don't need to win every single game from here. Ipswich is different of course (8 point gain) but they have navigated an incredibly tough run over Xmas and January and they are still clear in second. I think we cannot expect them to just "fall away" because they haven't.

The playing squad don't pay to get in the ground.

WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE LEAGUE WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE LEAGUE AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA BELIEVE US AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA BELIEVE US AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA BELIEVE US WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE LEAGUE

YYYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

Please keep this thread on topic thx

Sonebody will be along in a minute to tell how actually that Leeds result is brilliant for us or something.

Agree. This, for me, is the priority. Get to the Leeds game with it being completely meaningless. They can't leapfrog us but also they can't allow someone else to overtake us if we lose/draw. Leeds dropping more points to Preston today would help that.

For everyone doing the "I want us to win the title" stuff, well great. That means we go on the greatest points run in Championship history, we will need to smash 100 points all day long. If you think we're going to do that, if you truly believe that, why do you need Leicester to lose on Monday to make that possible? I believe in us, we're going to win the league, go for it all or nothing we want the title but pwease pwease pwease can that other team lose. Man up lads, we're breaking fucking records or we're not. Make your minds up.

Except Ipswich beating Leicester at the King Power will give them a huge boost of confidence and momentum. Ipswich, who have had a tough set of fixtures, they win and "suddenly their mentality and focus changes" - they will be ten feet tall. I just want us to be second today, tomorrow and next week. We've earned it. I'd rather we finished second and got promoted than finish third in any scenario. Your "I'd rather finish third going for it" seems to suggest that the "going for it" just seems to involve, er, a particular team losing to another team on Monday night. What's the point indeed. Leicester to win as that is much, much better for us right now.