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That will because they got promoted last night. If it was us, it would have been us being "bigged up". Next season is going to be agony. Agony from the "Media are against us" gang. Agony. "We beat Man City 1-0 and all anyone wants to talk about is how badly they played and no one is giving us any credit and its a media conspiracy and we may as well not be playing and we don't get any credit and four minutes on match of the day and and and..."

Chill out. It's in the bag.

We don't want to sign a striker to replace Barnard. We want to sign a striker that will challenge Lambert for a starting place. Hooper may fit the bill - I'm aware he is not the same typd of player but not the point. Point is to buy better, not buy reserves.

I did think shouting "whoooo" at the old guy was funny and to be fair he gave our end a wave so fair play to him. But whoo at cuurent subs is just pointless and embarrassing. Wotsit mildly amusing first time but no need for duration of entire second half. We're top of the league when we weren't was utterly spasticated.

Not sure how "no chance in the play offs" equate to Alps saying they will definitely get to Wembley because they will definitely beat us. Isn't that quite a good chance in the play offs? In your head they've got a bye to Wembley?

How about all three teams draw on Tuesday. That's my prediction that I have pulled out of the air. We then draw again on Saturday. And then beat Coventry to seal promotion, probably in second. Worth remembering that West Ham really need to win three more in a row (which would make it four in a row in total) to catch us*. Forget the six nil against Brighton, it's gone. They've still got a hell of a lot more to do than we have. We have a margin for error and they don't. We can stumble over the line and still go up. West Ham have to be on fire for the rest of the season. *I am asssuming that we won't just collapse and lose three in a row like some on here think.

Get behind the scapegoats FFS.

And as the rest of us has said many times before no it wasn't. The target this season was and is promotion. Good thread so don't ruin it. Promotion would be an adventure but I am not looking forward to randoms in the office having a opinion on my team because we are on MOTD.

Rather have pollyanna Adkins than Eyore Burley who with a title winning budget talked the entire club down to sixth place being the promised land. Get behind Pollyanna FFS.

Oh that. Thought you were referring to a quote about points and WHU. I stand by that all day long. Apologies for being confident. It's got tighter but still three points clear, which is still a lot.

This thread is up there with the birth of daughter. Thanks for being part of it.

Is it? Do show.

How you divine that from this thread I will never know. No one on here is talking about whether we will or won't get promoted. It's a thread targeted people with a very poor grasp on how to interpret and draw conclusions from simple sets of data. If anything, its an entirely intentional diversion away from the bigger issue that frankly we can't control.

Welcome to the brigade. Waiting until the season ends, seeing what the team in third got and then adding the bare minimum to it is the idiocy this fred is all about. Its nonsense that only works in hindsight. Maybe, juuuuuuuust maybe, a more sensible way to look at it is to see what the teams in second place (Yeah, second place, nuts I know) actually get and use that as a benchmark. That's what us non lunatics have been doing all season. Why not join is?

One. Forget that link, there were other threads, specifically about the debate of "we only need to beat the average points for third". I never said it was lots of people, it was some. Brigade is a funny word though. So is lunatic. One of the lunatic brigade was my favourite pet div Matthew Le God. There are others. Two. Being that the team in second already have 82 points, it is impossible for me to be wrong. If West Ham do lose the next three games then I can guarantee the "brigade" will all weasel out of the woodwork with their ridiculous assertion that "well we only needed 80 points after all, all the other points turned out to be unnessessary". Wrong, wrong, wrong. The fact they won't say anything now is the point. Three. It was wrong many weeks ago, because it was always wrong. There are people saying that 80 points is enough pretty much every season, when in truth it has been enough once in a decade - ie hardly ever at all. It's not about hindsight, or what Reading have done. It was wrong then and still wrong now and will be wrong next season too, where the same people will make the same cock-eyed assertion based on the performance of the third place team. Anyway. I've finished on this thread, just a bit of dicking about on my part. I'd love it if WHU do lose their next three, but mainly because it will mean we're promoted.

It will be a sh it ter but come August I will be pleased to go into another season with the opportunity to do the four local East Midlands away fixtures that I've done (or doing, Peterborough this week) this season. I think I'd rather be promoted though.

Thread was directed at the loons who blather on about us only needing to just beat the mathematical average of third place. It was a recurring debate several months ago but its all gone quiet. Just wondered where those people are now, especially the ones who talked about points being "unnecessary" beyond a certain point. By the way 80 points has been enough for second only once in the last decade. It's very rare. It's called belief in the team. If we can't have a swagger on when top of the table, when can you. Plenty of time to worry, fret and fanny about next season. I never said anything was a cakewalk, but the stats and the facts were and are in our favour. If we do guff it up, then it will go down as one of the most spectacular capitulations of all time. I didn't then, and I don't now waste energy worrying about things like that. Because internet forum posts are really important otherwise. If I can poke a stick in the cage of resident forum divs using dopey statistics then I will. You can all have a go back if you like. Part of the fun. And with that in mind... Don't remember talking about hoards or swearing in blood but jolly good try through. You can twist stuff round if you like. There were other "points" threads before that one and there were the lunatics espousing the "slightly better than average for third" routine on those. That opinion, rife among some back then, has entirely evaporated now. unlike you I really can't be arsed to dredge the forum, but hey ho. It's a game, ain't it?

No doubt. This is the worry. Highly unlikely we just dust down and start again. Not going up may create a minor sh i tstorm. But West Ham still have the pressure on. Reading have not had to be top and all the pressure that brings. And we can still do this.

It will be a failure. I am already bracing myself for heated debates with the "if you'd told me in August...." gang. Anything other than promotion now is failure. Of course we recognise the strides made but lets remember Cortese was targetting promotion as a minimum this season back in the Autumn. That doesn't take away fron our brilliance on the pitch or in the dugout. I'm just not ready for noble failure yet. Anyway. We're going up.

I was there too. Not much has changed, but they live underwater.

I've been Uberconfident for weeks but I'm wobbling. Six nil. Six freaking nil. Control the controllables yes but they've landed a massive blow today. All the pric ks on here who have spent weeks droning on about that collapse in 1942 or whatever the frig it was. Well, well done you lot. You've got your little wish.

Eff all to do with Reading. Eff all to do with hindsight. The key point is the eighty point boys aren't actually wrong yet. Its just the conviction seems to have gone. Actually this is the thing: the eighty point theory ONLY works in hindsight. Rhis idea of unnessary points only works once a season is finished. Thats why as a theory it was and still is ********. And to repeat, nothing to do with Reading who are top of the league with a completely typical points tally. Utterly typical.

Because their original premise was wrong then, is wrong now and will be wrong next season.

.....Where are you chaps? Lots of mouth from you lot earlier on in the season. We only need eighty points. We only need to beat the historical average total for the team in, err, third to go up. Also lots of talk of points above that being unneccesary. If I could be arsed I would dig out some of those classic posts and some of the abuse I got. Well here we are. More than Eighty points. We've done it. You lot were pretty sodding sure earlier in the season, not a peep from you now reassuring us that we don't need any more 'unnessessary' (yes, that word was used) points. Here I am. Where are you?

Doesn't read as blase to me. Going again on Tuesday is all we can do. And why on earth is our centre back obliged to tweet the post match team talk for your benefit?