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Draws are overrated by many football fans. If we won 23 and lost 23, you’d have 69 points whereas 0-46-0 would only be 46 points. The former is playoff form, the other is relegation. So you could, in theory, get relegated if you went the whole season undefeated.

Since Lampard has come in, we’ve been operating at Top 4 level. So to not make the Top 6 would be a failure by any fair metric. We’ve won more games than any of the teams outside the Top 4. Realistically, a draw will get us over the line on Saturday unless 1 of the Top 3 loses at home, one of...

He needs to be, it’s been apparent since late February that we had played our way into contention. Every team in this league has form that ebbs and flows. 50 points this season doesn’t guarantee survival and that’s pretty unheard of. Teams like Pompey and Plymouth have beaten top 3 teams at...

Last season is irrelevant. Going into the last game of the season, we’re in pole position to finish 6th place. We are much more consistent than Boro and we’re at home where we’ve been faultless under Lampard. That’s something you can’t asterix on. If we miss out on the playoffs, the season...

In that 10 game stretch, most of our games were at home. Our form has ‘dropped off’ in line with more away games. You know probably know this and don’t care because it gives you chance to have digs at Lampard - who you never truly accepted. Most teams will have a stronger home record and it...

Full of bad cliches here. Are Boro going into the match with momentum? No. Millwall are, but unfortunately they’re playing a team who is in better form and a team who are yet to lose at home. Likewise, Blackburn need to win away v Sheff U. Barring significant upsets, it’s a shootout between...

We’ll see how ‘Championship ready’ that team is. Plymouth managed 101 points they went up and even teams like Pompey and Derby get 90+ points only to struggle this season. The Championship isn’t for the faint hearted and Ipswich spent several seasons getting their team up to scratch. To the...

Well, if Birmingham want to spend £15m on the likes of Stansfield, they can have more revenue than us and still spaff it up the wall.

He scored 19 goals last season and turned up in a big way back in Feb. I wouldn’t give up on him having a good season next year.

If Collins was tired, would make his mistake acceptable? I’m sure everyone would’ve been happy if he tapped it out for a corner…

Has this guy not noticed that Blackburn and Boro have lost 18 and 17 games respectively? Millwall have lost 15 games too for good measure. We’ve won more games than every team around us and for good measure, beaten them on the way. In fact, no team between 4th-12th has a better H2H against us...

Kitching has been solid since Lampard put him in against Norwich. Robins’ decision to start Lati and Binks this season was a massive lapse in judgement.

Whenever Neville is on Sky with his motley crew of mates, they’re gagging to talk about the; the class of ‘92, ‘the good old days’ and about how great ‘the boss’ was… CBA.

Have you forgotten we are 6th still going into the final day with a home game v Boro (also out of form with easier games). It’s not ideal, but Blackburn, Millwall and Boro would rather be in our shoes right now.

Imagine being on the journey of Bournemouth, Brentford, Forest, Brighton, Wolves and even Leicester in recent years?! I’m sorry, but even better than our rise through the EFL.

Nope - we should’ve been home and dry but we’ve also rode our luck at times, we’ve got close to 20 points from stoppage time winner this season. It’s like the last game of the season in L2 where there will be tension if we can finish in the playoffs or not. Ultimately, Boro need to win whereas...

It’s fair because the amount of decision that have gone against us has been worrying. Usually it evens out but barring Haji’s goal v Burnley (which is well within a margin of error), I can’t think of any glaring decisions we got away with.

In our last 3 home games, we have won against Sunderland, Pompey and WBA. We’re not imploding at all. The only ‘gimme’ was supposed to be Pompey who gave us the most difficult game because they set out for, and were happy with, a draw. Boro need to beat us and we need to win to ensure we make...

Boro have the exact same recent form as us. Our 2 wins being at home and Boro’s away form being 1-1-3.

Looking back at the ‘fluke run’, most of the games were at home too. We only chalked up 3 wins away at Swansea, Blackburn and Sheff W.