Ted Bates Statue

Bit of understatement. More likely that only a couple of starters from Tuesday's match will also start this game.

I like your way of thinking. In addition, it probably helps that a lot of the teams we're competing have to play each other and they will drop points too. In this part of the table teams aren't going to show a relentlessness similar to Huddersfield in 09-10. As long as we get around 10 wins we should be there or thereabouts and other teams will fall away gradually. The trouble is whether we can set the pace and avoid pratfalls and banana skins against teams we should be beating.

My stance on this is we are still 14th. Not even top half yet. But let's have a bit of fun and dream. So what would our route into the play-offs look like? ok we are currently still last in our mini-league of 9. But we've beaten Stoke and Watford in the last week so that's a good start. We have five more six-pointers starting with QPR coming up soon. The next four come in our last six matches of the season: Wrexham, Derby, Bristol City and finally Preston away on the last day. I'd say all are must-wins but Wrexham away is the biggest as it stands and we've only gained one point on them since Tonda's appointment. We have eight fixtures remaining against the current bottom nine sides. The bottom five - West Brom, Leicester, Blackburn, Oxford, Wednesday should all be beatable although sides like these can always spring results towards the end of the season, especially if they have a sniff of survival. We're not great away so I could see us dropping points against West Brom and Swansea. Norwich have also been in very good form since Clement took over. Apart from that, Coventry and Ipswich would be bonuses, confidence-boosters if we get results off them especially if they fail to secure automatic promotion and we face them in the play-offs. So to summarise, there are five specific fixtures that I'd consider to be must-wins, and then beat a good proportion of the lower-table sides to get around 30-35 points and get into the top 6, by winning 5 of the last 7 as we did in 06-07. It's a lot to ask as I think we're about 7 points behind where we need to be right now. We could easily draw a few, lose a couple, some first XI injuries in a long season and suddenly it's season over before the end of April. We are in decent form and with a settled side, let's see about getting into the top ten first and see where things take us.

I make it 4th, equal with Cov. I'm pleasantly surprised though and our new back five gives me encouragement that we can have a good end to the season, even if I think we're ultimately too far back to reach the playoffs. https://www.twtd.co.uk/league-tables/competition:championship/daterange/fromdate:2025-Nov-03/todate:2026-Feb-10/type:home-and-away/

he clearly knows how to drive on the correct side of the road, so that makes him an instant improvement on Downs

That's a bit rich, considering the slop you put out on a daily basis here

a) it's his parents who would have decided on the spelling b) it's pronounced "seal"

If you could have cited a more recent example within the last ten years, that would have been encouraging. For me, I was personally opposed to Danny Ings considering he was injured for most of his first season although he was very good once we signed him up permanently. But as others have said, we've been short in this area for a long time and hopes are understandably not high. When was the last time fans of other teams were this glad to be shot of a player? Feels like this guy is going to be more Guido Carrillo than Sadio Mane. A lot of posters on here were very hopeful over Damion Downs, by the way. Happy to be proved wrong, of course!

2-0 up already with another shot having hit the post

To be honest I didn't think it was worth bothering to dream about, knowing what we're usually like in the second half.

Had a dream the score was 0-2 before HT. I'm going for a run to try and mitigate this.

The soup isn't good, it is SMOOTH yum yum!? Yeah, that really clarifies everything. Sounds like multiple people in the club's management have been acting like Cortese spending money like water, but with absolutely zero success to show for it. And drunk driving. Lots of people drunk driving. Romain Molina is the same guy who suggested that we have loads of passengers in our own non-playing staff team a few weeks back.

After the derby match at St Mary's last year I realised that Saints are very much still a team best observed via radio. Even in our purple patch under Tonda, I still managed to miss most of our live televised goals due to our infamous second half performances.

still need to make sure we're on course to finish safe of relegation before they can think about next season. One league win in almost two months isn't going to cut it.

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