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For me we are going to power to the Prem with many games to spare. I'm certain Reading or Wham will now seriously lose form. In 2 or 3 games time we could be pretty much there bearing in mind both team need to eclipse us for us not to go up.

I would have been happy if we'd stayed top 2 after these last 2 games, and weve masively extended our lead. We could easily extend our lead further this Sat and then when we do have a tough game, the others play each other. Really think we could get this done and dusted weeks before the end of the season.

For one of the other teams to get 2nd, both Reading and Wham would have to have to slip big style making us clear champions.

how on earth have boro not made it 2 - 1

and posh 3 - 1 OMG !!!!

get in Boro !!!

wtf at Leeds 3 - 5

We are f*cking going up

skates level

although under the cosh a bit, I feel more confident than I did on Saturday.

Wham's woes at home come from dominating matches, failing to score and then the crowd get on top of them. Just whats happening now.

posh in front yey

Anyone else worried this will be the opposite to Millwall & leeds games and we wont win despite easily deserving to.

Would love that considering my location. Be nice to go to a tense game at Wembley without being emotionally attached to it.

I'm not sure we'll be one of the teams going straight back down. We've got enough class and financial backing. You have to look at Stoke, WBA, Swansea, Norwich etc etc. Our team will be stregthened and we will be playing better football albeit against better football teams, but that makes for better entertainment. You'll be seeing players at SMS that you regularly see on the tellybox. In the past weve beaten the big sides at home on regular occasions. If we go up, we'll be there for the long haul and the experience on match days will be far better. The best bit of course will be at half time when the HT scores come over the loud speaker system "Crawley 3 Portsmouth 0"

No one would ever claim the Merson was inteligent and ever prided himself on being as accurate as he possibly could. But the man is hilarious. We werent complaining when he said we were as good as Barcelona when we beat Oldham 6 nil last season, or when he said we should be in the Champions league when we won at Ipswich I think earlier this season, although clearly we all know were not that good. I loved his honesty when Pompey were going through the myer the first time round (2010). "no one buys Portsmouth shirts in Liverpool so why the ek are they paying players 60 grand a week." "Its like a poker match but instead of throwing in your car keys you throw in Portsmouth FC" was another. Its an entertainment business. Commentators like Motty and Parry seem to be clued up with all the facts but just bore me, unlike Tyler who gets hillariously excited at times.

If he is an example of Wham fans then Saints have a clear advantage over them. Their fans just add to the pressure on the players. He's putting in the daggers before theyve even lost today.

and dont forget last season there were 3 teams (posh, Huds & us) going for one promotion spot. Brighton already had the top spot sewn up. This season there are 3 going for two.

I went to the Brighton game fully expecting to rip off seats but the chap next to me had kindly bought a comprehensively assembled toolkit. Mines in the loft.

Here are all 3's fixtures. Is anyone else a little narked that weve only got 2 days rest between our 2 easter games.

They dont have any games in hand. All 3 of us have 6 away games left. Wham have 5 home games and Reading & us have 4.

Last nights result was not just about Reading dropping 2 points. They've been playing on confidence for this run. See how they become average again.

1 -1 full time

dah thought that was a pen for donny

Personally I believe Reading will start to falter after they have one game where they fail to win - bit like Brum did a few weeks ago after they had 5/6 wins on the bounce, and a bit like Reading did last season. Could be a promotion party at Boro.