Lighthouse

Abbott really looks in the mood in this game, knocking stumps over for fun. Just need to get Bean out in the morning session and we should be able to see it through.

I'm not sure where that number has come from but this game was brought forward a week ago to effectively give people nine days notice. People have lives to fit this around and life's not exactly cheap with the cost of fuel going through the roof and so many home fixtures packed together.

Good riddance to Putin's Hungarian mate.

As per usual, the weather is sh**ting all over a game we're in a great position to win.

I associate them with nineties computers, which actually might explain quite a bit.

Live on Sky if you can't get a ticket. Pompey are at home to Ipswich at the same time, so play nice on the trains.

The list of fixtures I posted was basically what we needed to finish second and why it was far less likely than Wrexham finishing above Hull. That bit is straight forward, they just need a win and a draw more than Hull. The point about Boro losing at home to Wrexham was that we don't just need to catch Ipswich. We needed (before yesterday's fixtures) two points on Hull and six on Ipswich, Boro and Millwall. It's a bit like all those PL relegation fights we were in. You're better off being 13th and five points above 18th, than being 17th and six points above 18th.

I was just posting a crazy bunch of nonsense about how finishing second was massively unlikely and that we'd be better off not having to face Ipswich in the playoffs. Completely loopy stuff obviously, I'm off my meds again.

Pretty much a perfect set of results for us this weekend. It looks increasingly like we won’t have to deal with Ipswich in the playoffs and none of the other candidates are in any sort of form. I couldn’t really give a crap about Pompey if we’re not playing them. Their injury time winner at Boro is cracking news for us.

Wrexham gaining four points on one team is a far, far more likely scenario than Saints gaining seven points on three different teams. The whole Saints finishing second dream was basically a nine-fold accumulator on: Norwich vs Ipswich - Home win Saints vs Derby - Home win Saints vs Blackburn - Home win Swansea vs Saints - Away win Saints vs Bristol C - Home win Saints vs Ipswich - Home win PNE vs Saints - Away win Ipswich vs Boro - Draw Wrexham vs Boro - Home win There are plenty of other permutations which could play out but you'd basically need to overhaul a combined 21 points on Ipswich, Millwall, Boro and Hull. If you add in a couple of draws for Saints, which is more than likely, then you start needing five or six more games for the teams above us to go our way. The bookies had us down as having a 3% chance of automatic promotion before the Old Farm Derby today, I'd have said that was about right.

Horse racing. If motorsport had the same number of human fatalities it'd have been banned decades ago.

The logic is that I'd least like to play them in the playoffs. Catching them in six games, when they have a six point head start, a game in hand, a better GD and fair decent form (unbeaten in eight) is massively unlikely and I'd rather punt for the far more likely scenario of having the three worst teams possible in the playoffs. Wrexham in the SF, home leg second and Boro at Wembley would do me fine.

I'm not sure to what extent physical differences play a factor in professional darts. All I do know is that I'd feel a bit embarrassed telling people I was unable to compete athletically with Andy 'The Viking' Fordham; man, woman or otherwise.

18th over not a great one to go and stick the kettle on. It'll be interesting to see how, not if, we f**k this up from here.

TBH I want Ipswich to win tomorrow. We aren't catching them and they're the team I'd least like to face in the playoffs.