Willo of Whiteley

Bristol City and Swansea away are my only real concerns for our remaining games. But when you look at other teams fixtures I can’t see many getting more than us.

Everyone will have their own ideas of how the games will go, teams are going to shit the bed, and I don’t think it’ll be us. Any predictions?

Blackburn tonight were one of the worst teams I’ve seen play live in twenty plus years of going. That said it was nice that we didn’t have to break a sweat and had the options to change things. Ringing the charges again and then even taking off the likes of Bree at HT for Wood, who made some fantastically timed tackles. Larin is excellent, whether we’re in this league or not next season he is an absolute unit that we should 100% be considering permanently should finances be there. Peretz once again very good, a commanding goalkeeper who can use his hands, basics. Love it. Charles and Bragg decent in the middle, Charles looks so casual and at ease in the way he plays. Cam Archer, when his name was on the team sheet I raised an eyebrow, but he was MOTM tonight. He kept beating his man in the first half, excellent assist. Second half you could see he was trying to hard, maybe a tad selfish on one occasion but deserved that goal. Another routine and professional win, draw a line, move on, plan, prepare and go again. Second is there for us!

TONDA TIME IS WONDERFUL

Millwall v QPR Swansea v Southampton Ipswich v Middlesbrough Southampton v Bristol City Stoke v Millwall Charlton v Ipswich Middlesbrough v Sheffield United Leicester v Millwall Middlesbrough v Watford West Brom v Ipswich Southampton v Ipswich Ipswich v QPR Millwall v Oxford Preston v Southampton Wrexham v Middlesbrough Absolute free-for-all, but I don’t see us dropping the most points out of the four teams in this run in.

Second is on 😉

SECOND IS ON Absolutely called this weeks ago 😉

I’d be fascinated to see some clips from that forum and those questions. 😂

Scrappy 2-0, not clean, not pretty - but similar to Oxford, try and kill the game off early and then limit their attack after that.

Great listen as always, loving the weekly double as the season draws to a close 😀

Ipswich aren’t that good, they haven’t been that good all season, it says a lot about the quality of the league.

Listened to it commuting to work the last couple of days. I thought although he got some facts wrong, whether that be forgetfulness or not, he articulated a lot of behind the scenes processes very well. You could also work out which players he was talking about when referencing specific deals; i.e. The Coutinho signing didn’t happen because the chairman at the time (Cortese) has overruled it and found someone else - quite clearly Gaston Ramirez - that was very much a “statement signing” for the club at the time. He spoke highly of Jose Fonte as a player that threw his everything behind Poch and his coaching/training. Poch is largely responsible for the way the club/clubs now train, eat healthy, sports science etc. He also mentioned “gentleman’s agreements” with players and agents, which ties up to what is documented about Tadic’s departure. The football operation, under Liebherr he had the autonomy to go out and make a deal without needing to get approval, that changed under Chinese ownership (Jisheng Gao). I thought it was a fascinating listen. He should get a bit more slack than he does but his last few windows let him down.

We’ll have more of an answer by 22:00 on Tuesday, if we win and Ipswich don’t there is three points separating us with four games left. Never wrote it off until it looks more than unlikely. Momentum is with us, the other play off/auto teams have found the perfect time to shit the bed this season. We’re all but in the play offs now. Wrexham and Derby are the only challengers for the play off run in, and no way are they both winning their remaining four games.

Dibling kept the Everton bench warm for the 648,296,610 time this season. Excellent move for the bank balance, but not the player

Couldn’t have happened to a more entitled set of fans

I fancy us to win the play offs

May as well just write Man City will have three more points after they beat Arsenal next week. We can all see it happening 😂

I wouldn’t say Edozie has done anything to justify that, Fellows is a much better player, albeit he’s been underwhelming at times, still way better.

Operation “Shit The Bed” has begun at Arsenal - as timely as ever 😂

That team can’t be much better, if any better.

I’m more a fan of this 😉

I’m sure this’ll be merged in the ST thread soon, but let’s not gloss over this - Sport Republic have been a disaster. The headlines a simple: - 14th when they took over and a sustainable and desirable Premier League team. - Two relegations within three of their four full seasons. - The second worst Premier League finish in history, and the worst for us. But they’ve invested money! Let’s analyse that. - They spent recklessly in their first full season, Romeo Lavia was the only success. - They changed how they scout players from effectively scouts to a digital database that analyses them. This crop of intelligence scouted us gems such as Sekou Mara and Armel Bella-Kotchap. - The wastefulness of their spending has seen a squad change more times, almost as much as Watford change managers. Ah, the managers, there’s been some success there. Bollocks… Ralph Hassenhutl - excellent with Martin Semmens and his coaching team and not much money, good getting the best out of players. Probably not given any real say in transfers in SR first summer. Sacked, fail. Nathan Jones - clown from a Welsh mining village who married a nice girl, made more enemies in as short a space of time as a dictator would. Sacked, the first of the glorious “Black Box Data Driven Appointments”. Sacked, fail. Ruben Selles - damage limitation, appointed after a fluke win and subsequently led us downwards at the same time as Unai Emery was appointed by Villa. Sacked, fail. Russell Martin - good appointment, promotion, but boring football at times, stubbornness cost him, naivety in the transfer window, and should’ve done a lot better with the squad at his disposal. Sacked, but a pass. Ivan Juric - heavy metal football? Heavy metal bullshit. Who’d have thought bringing in a defensive manager when you’re bottom of the league would keep you up? SR did. Sacked. Fail. Will Still - Football Manager enthusiast, first big gig but stubbornness, lack of direction and leadership cost him massively. Big, big mistake from SR that will now potentially cost us promotion in what is a very weak Championship. Sacked, fail. Now Tonda Eckhart - we all had low expectations, but let’s not beat around the bush, he was brought in for the U21’s, not the first team, and fair play to him for working wonders with the resources he’s got. But surely SR have done well in other avenues? Ah, ffs… Goztepe, promotion holding their own and seemingly the only team benefitting from the glorious “multi-club model”. Albeit in the Turkish league they’ve done ok. Valenciennes, “baby are you down” as the song goes, because that’s the way they’re heading too, and have been since the takeover. Chopping and changing of managers. The ONLY positives I’ll give SR is the commercial side, so Level One, The Dell Bar, the matchday atmosphere outside the ground, all excellent. But that’s it. Let’s not gloss over all this, SR get little backing from me until we’re at least back where we started when they took over.

Scrappy 1-0 win

Bugger, was hoping for the Sunday

The only “rumours” I’ve seen are people positing it on here.