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My daughter has recently discovered my love of crumpets with Brussels Pate on and now she wants one for every breakfast time. Issue is, they're my fucking crumpets. Never give a kid something you love yourself. 😁

Great draw for the other play-off chasing teams. Fixtures this weekend (and how I want them to go to aid us in our play-off efforts): Friday Blackburn vs Preston NE - need a Blackburn win here. Saturday Hull vs QPR - QPR are 2 points behind us, Hull are only 8 ahead and are still catchable. A QPR win and we could close the gap to Hull to 5 points. But then QPR would be on our tail. Or we could have a Hull win and put distance between us and QPR if we win. Or a draw. This is tough. Hull win - keeps QPR behind us. Stoke vs Leicester - Stoke are only 3 points behind us but I don't see them as a play-off threat. Leicester can't beat anybody even if they tried. And yet I want a Leicester win to keep the relegation battle interesting and keep Stoke safely behind us. Swansea vs Bristol City - Bristol City will be more our rivals for a play-off spot than Swansea, even though they're still in with a chance themselves. So Swansea win. WBA vs Coventry - WBA please if only for the lols. Otherwise this doesn't really affect us. Middlesbrough vs Oxford - Oxford please to keep the relegation battle interesting. Although we all know how this one finishes. Millwall vs Portsmouth - Millwall please. Norwich vs Birmingham - Ours and Birmingham's records are almost identical this season. Norwich are bang in form. Norwich please. Saints vs Charlton - Saints win 'course. Watford vs Derby County - Watford please! Or a draw. Wrexham vs Ipswich Town - Ipswich please. Sunday Sheffield United vs Sheffield Wednesday - Come on you OWLS!

To be fair, if it were legal, we could have kept bringing Academy kids on until the whole team was full of them and we'd have probably still won that game. Leicester are in real trouble. (Yes I appreciate it was our two experienced full backs that combined for the winner, it was hyperbole). I'm was a doubter about Tonda and I'm still slightly apprehensive, but to be fair, he changed a losing formation, our defence has improved and we are scoring goals. He's also blooding youth. I think he's partly been helped by the signings of Peretz (a competent GK), Bree (post-loan, a competent RB) and Larin (an experienced line leader), and partly by the return of Edozie, but he seems to have the team playing with fight and desire, which is to be applauded. I can't see us going on a bad run again, we may lose the odd game but not as a run - as long as he doesn't get clever and change things too much. Archer starting the midweek Leicester game could have cost us but thankfully we have the bench to help out.

Course. Lamps in free fall. And we're only 13 points behind them. Anything could happen! 😁😁😁

Just realised the weekend of the cup game is the Saints vs Norwich game which i was going to take the missus to. Might have to go to Fulham with my mate instead as Fulham isn't far. Not the best draw not the worst draw. I'd rather have had a bigger club but that's the luck of the draw.

Line up is almost a no-brainer. Peretz, Bree, THB, Stephens, Welington, Downes, Charles, Fellows, Azaz, Scienza, Ross. I suppose arguments could be made for Jander, Bragg, Matsuki, Edozie and Larin but that would be my XI if everyone is fit. No game is easy but if we want to keep challenging for the play-offs, we need to win this, especially with play-off rivals QPR and in form Norwich closely following.

We have them next anyway. Hopefully it'll be Tonda that goes full Mad Dog

Farke is sort of proving the trend can be bucked. Good at getting teams promoted to the Prem but poor at keeping them there. Until this season with Leeds actually having a chance at staying up. Technically Adkins took a team up that stayed there too. Whether we would or not we'll never know as Poch came in.

442 worked for years. 2 banks of 4 and a little and large partnership. But I've loved the 4231 ever since Poch used it and I think it's the main reason why our results have picked up since ditching the 3 CBs. Bar an overhead kick today, we'd have had another clean sheet too... with Long in goal and a second choice back 4. Larin was unfairly judged before he'd even kicked a ball here but he's got experience and fits the system. I hope between him and Ross we don't have to see too much more of Archer this season.

Highlights tonight 22.55hrs BBC 1

When was our last win after extra time (so not penalties?)

Foxestalk said the header came off one of their players.

I'd take 7th and an FA Cup win. 😎

5th round it is. Any chance of Mansfield please.

Future's bright. Leicester can't even beat our second string and youth team. That's got to sting. At least they don't have to play us again this season.