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Against Cov, will be great to win it at home and would also draw out the agony for Wham. Have a little faith - we'll beat Cov regardless of what Wham do.

Love how Cov are being magically transformed into some kind of championship force, even after they have been relegated. The reality is that they are complete gash and if we do a professional job we will beat them and we will go up. Even if Cov somehow managed to grab their 1% chance of an upset and Wham somehow managed to get above us we'd still be in the playoffs and if that failed we'd just have to have another cracking season in the champ. More interested now about who we are going to sign and how we are going to do in the prem.

Feeling fairly deflated at the moment. Just like the Reading game we were too fond of the square ball and didn't attack with any pace which meant the Boro defence had plenty of time to regroup. The real disappointment is that whilst Reading are a decent team, Boro are distictly average and we still couldn't put them away even with the carrot of automatic promotion dangled infront of us. We'll still go up - I'm totally confident about that BUT we'll be seriously found out in the prem unless we attack with pace in a much more direct style. We also need as good a GK as we can get our hands on, no blame on KD tonight and he has been superb for us, but our defence is going to get tested like nothing else next season and we need a top notch keeper to at least give us a chance - sentimentality doesn't win games.

Jack Butland, current U21 GK. Probably one for the future but a very decent prospect. Would depend if Brum got promoted or not.

GK: Alan McGregor CM: Neil Danns FW: Gary Hooper

Because that's how business works. Supply and demand. If you buy in volume you buy at cheaper prices - just look at how the supermarkets price offers. Same goes for selling, a larger supply will lead to a drop in price unless demand rises to meet the extra supply. If they kept the current ticket prices I don't think demand would rise sufficiently therefore prices would have to come down but that would be OK as long as overall profit went up (after all the expansion financing\admin costs). Selling 48,000 seats @ £20 gives you more revenue than 30,000 seats @ £25 so from the club's perspective they would still make more money + they get a load more fans in generating a more hostile atmosphere (hopefully). That's a very simplistic example, in reality I'm sure there would be lots of offers (like the supermarket) but if done correctly the overall effect should be to increase profit. I think it's possible but they'd be walking a tightrope between making a good profit on a packed stadium vs making a potential loss on an empty stadium.

Maybe - really depends on how he went about it. Getting 45K on a regular basis would be a very big ask for a club like SFC so I can't see how he wouldn't have to reduce prices but as long as overall profits increased then from a business case it would be a good thing. A bigger stadium would also allow the club more flexibility to get smarter with ticket prices. Maybe super cheap entry for young kids - the club's future? Maybe graded discounts for those who attend more games? Lots of potential for the marketing department to come up with innovative schemes. Bottom line is could the club generate more profit from a bigger stadium and could they get the sheer numbers in to fill it? I think they could BUT they would have to offer at least some cheaper seats and be very smart with their ticketing price structures.

I think 46K is a big ask for the supporters - I'd say that 36-38K would be adequate for every game even if we were doing well. However they might be thinking of going down the German route - cheap seats, large crowds and packed stadiums. If that were the case I'd say go for it.

Hopefully Brum, Blackpool and Cardiff all win at 3pm so Boro have no chance of playoffs by the time we kick off. Also want Blackpool and Cardiff to keep the pressure on Brum for 4th place (to avoid playing Wham) to stop them slacking off in the last game against Reading. We're going up - now it's all about whether we can get top spot.

4-0 to us and Wham to lose 2-1. 6 points ahead of Wham with 2 games to go and +8 GD. Easy this football lark innit.

Brighton were in a good position to get back into the playoffs with a win so there's no way they'd be taking their foot off the gas. It was just one of those inept performances that come about every once in a while, also don't forget that they had just given Reading a battering and had come away with nothing - probably affected their morale. They were simply rubbish, not that they have done us any favours atall.

I won't deny they have a decent history but at the moment they are up a cul-de-sac and going nowhere IMO. Deadly dull stuff. Cov would be a good shout for most depressing club to support but at the moment I'd imagine being a Cov fan would be far from dull, even if it's a completely negative experience. Put it this way, if you put a Villa fan to sleep for the next 4 months he would know that when he woke up his team would be in the prem and it would be groundhog day all over again. If you put a Cov fan to sleep for 4 months he wouldn't have a clue what division his team would be playing in when he woke up. That makes supporting Cov more interesting - albeit more fraught - at the moment.

Reading so many anxious posts on here about our current situation made me wonder who would be the best team for those of a nervous disposition, the type of club that trundles on in mid table obscurity for years on end, ignored by all but their own and sending everyone to sleep. My nomination would be Aston Villa, one of those zombie premiership clubs that isn't quite good enough to ever challenge for anything but at the same time is just too good to ever get sucked into the relegation zone. Result = season after season of safe nothingness. If that wasn't dull enough they now have McLeish, a manager that is guaranteed to lower your pulse rate so much that a trip to the hospital may be needed. Who would be your nomination for dullest club in the UK?

I'm really enjoying this, the uncertainty is what makes sport so great and makes the winning all the more sweeter. Posh is the pivotal fixture now, a decent win there, say 3-0 and we'll do it IMO regardless of the result at Boro (as long as we're not slaughtered and that isn't going to happen). Can't see Wham scoring a tonne at Brizzle and Leicester so beat Posh and the best Wham can do is go into the final game level on points with us with a similar GD. That means at worst it will be a shoot out and they will have Hull whilst we have Cov. My money would be on us hammering Cov a lot more than they can hammer Hull (just don't remind me of how that BHA shower performed there yesterday - embarrassing). Job done...........and that assumes Wham will get 3 wins which is far from certain. I guess it helps that I don't give a monkey's about being in the prem anyway so I'm pretty relaxed about the whole thing.

Yes he did, twice. The second was a peach and should have been snapped up. I voyed for him because he was the only player that got to the byline and put a ball in, just about every other cross was slung in from deep and dealt with by the twin towers of the Reading defence. I'm not his biggest fan but he was always looking to go direct - not square.

Bang on Alpine. Reading are the best team I've seen in this division and will be worthy champions. We will be worthy runners up. Their defence was superb and just soaked us up and their attack was like a rapier, ready to pierce us whenever they had the chance. Congrats to them, it was no fluke that they beat us last night. Saints on the other hand were slow and laboured. Every time we got possession we played a flurry of square balls giving the Reading defence ages to get organised. If we get to the prem (and I'm confident we will) we badly need pace and we need a midfield that knows how to exploit pace with piercing balls in a faster, more direct approach. We also need to cross properly, don't just sling in balls from deep positions that do very little against a good defence - cross from the byline.. We also need a new GK, not because KD has been bad (far from it) but if we want to give ourselves a chance we need the best we can get between the sticks to stem the goals against. Reading were a class outfit and will do very well in the prem. They gave us an early taste of the ruthless finishing we can expect week in week out if we get promoted. I hope Nige has learnt a few things from last night. SDR was my MOM - the only player who tried to really 'get at' Reading and put in a few decent crosses from the byline.

We can and we will win this one 2-1. Let Reading sweat it out if Wham beat Brighton. They base their game on being a tough nut to crack at one end and a smash and grab outfit at the other so I don't think we'll get more than 2 goals + our defence has to be very weary for the whole 90 mins - esp from set pieces. Wouldn't it be nice to be here at 10pm on Friday knowing that if Wham drop a single point over their next 4 games that we will be up (assuming a win against a **** poor Cov team)

No because I'm confident that they will win their last 3 but I'm not sure that we will. They have Forest and Palace at home and Brum U16's away on the last day. 3 wins for them. We must beat them and we will.

Really fancy a win for this one. We always seem to up our game when we face a decent test. 2-1 Saints and a promotion party at Posh???

Apart from the obvious Saints angle it would be an amazing feat if both teams promoted from lge 1 managed to get promoted to the prem in 2 years.

Massive result - maximum pressure on Wham\Reading now. If results go our way we could be up on Saturday. SRL take a bow.

Exactly, and if you had to bet on whether we'd beat Palace or 'can't win at home' Wham will beat Brum I think most would bet on us. Even if Wham managed a draw as long as we win we'd still have a 6 point gap with 4 to go, a superior GD and a final game at home to a **** poor Cov team. Despite the nervous ninnies on here we are still very much in the driving seat, absolutely no doubt about it. Wham - Brum is absolutely pivotal, more so than our game at Palace. Another Wham home loss\draw will shatter them IMO.

The Wham-Brum game is pivotal as another home loss could fatally injure their resolve to get top 2. However if they beat Brum and we lose to Palace then it's serious brown trousers time. Come on Brum!

I still like Neil Danns, not 'hard' but a great driving midfielder with an eye for goal who could compete with RC for a place in the team.

Totally agree with the OP. Today we played a derby against a team that were playing for pride and were always going to give it their all. Derbies are notorious for unexpected results and this one was no exception. Wham's next game is against Brum at home. Brum have picked up form recently and Wham haven't won at home for over 2 months. They really have a mental block at the Boleyn and when you are under pressure like they are one of the last teams you would want to be playing is Brum. We on the other hand will be playing against a Palace team that has nothing to play for. We should be well capable of a win PROVIDED we get our heads right. If we could win and Wham lose then we would only need 6 (and quite possibly 5) points from Reading (h), Posh (a), Boro (a), Cov (h) - totally do-able. Calm down everyone, we are still very much in the driving seat.