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Has Bassette ever had a consequential impact on the game coming as a sub? Bassette has potential but he was playing in the Belgian league with a 1 in 5 record last season. Impressive for his age but as you point out, he’s not at the level required and he struggled to pin his place down after...

Hypothetically, blind test would you take their points tally after 46 games right now, or our total points tally?

In terms of form, we’re in a better position than Sunderland even. They’re almost guaranteed a place in the playoffs but their early season form has petered out and personally wouldn’t back them to win the playoffs.

Since Lampard has come in, we’ve been the 4th best team in the league. Nov-Dec was a bedding in period because the games come and go so quickly. As soon as his team got more time with the players, we’ve gone from strength to strength. EMC was on Sky/EFL podcast were he name checked Lampard and...

Selfishly, I’d like it to be moved to Friday or Monday. I’m in Germany that weekend. Missing Sheff U because I left holiday planning to the other half… I gave dates for the week before during the international break… 🙄

That’s quite realistic. There is this fear factor of WBA because of our poor form against them. However, their away form has been poor for a while now and they have a tough run of fixtures leading up to Easter. It’s the one game we probably have to avoid losing the most. It’s shaping up to be...

Our home was really that bad because Lampard’s only loss at home was v Leeds. Technically, based on the last 8 home games, our hardest away game is actually Oxford, believe it or not. Overall Sheff U’s home form is better but their home form specifically has dropped off a bit. Oxford are...

The required points tally to go up could really be as low as 68 which would be 6 wins and 6 losses, hypothetically. Considering we’re playing 6 teams in the bottom 8, a Sheff U team stuttering at home, two teams we’ve got good form against in Boro and Sunderland at home (who are trending lower...

It’s probably copium more than anything. Our away form over the whole season is better than their home form. Our away form under Lampard has been much improved, even with the 3 losses.

We would’ve only been in Europe had we won it all and we don’t beat a pissed up Man City team imo. The FA Cup run was great and wouldn’t have changed it. However, it stretched our team out and probably killed off the shrinking chance we had of making the playoffs. We’d lost 2 big games v...

They were talking about how many casual fans will stick around for next season… I for one won’t be sticking around unless I need to buy in the home end next season, again. Frankly, this is just anecdotal of course, their ‘90%’ fill rate will be boosted a little bit by away team supporters...

With the form we are in, we probably could’ve filled their ground for them this weekend. The tickets had sold out before the 1500+ window!

I don’t know about you, but this season now feels like the L1 title winning season. We’re starting to hit our potential. Oxford - W (3) Stoke - W (3) Derby - W (3) Sunderland - D (1) Sheffield U - D (1) Burnley - L (0) Portsmouth - W (3) Hull - W (3) WBA - W (3) Plymouth - D (1) Luton - W (3)...

I’m curious, how many points do you think we will finish on? I’d love to finish above Sunderland because I’d prefer the away tie to be on a Saturday, a 11 or 12 point deficit seems beyond reach at this stage. Although, we’d need to reverse a 9 point deficit if we beat them at home so it’s not...

No one would be happy, of course. Oxford are a small team and don’t really fill out their ground. Whereas we’ll begin to regularly get close to full capacity for home games for the rest of the season if we’re in the playoffs.

A lot of dislike for Doug was borne out of raises in ticket prices and really spiked when Robins was sacked. At some point, we had to start to operating in a more professional manner commercially. The previous regime was never going to take those unpopular decision because the relationship with...

Peterborough’s owner mentioned that it was agreed that the fee would be paid in the summer. A deferred payment may appear in the 2025 books potentially. However, my (unqualified) assumption would be that for accounting purposes, the fee would’ve been paid in Jan.

Yep, I’ve accounted for 3 losses in the build up. I do feel like the stars will align at home because our home form has been outstanding under Lampard and WBA have struggled away. The loss earlier on in the season could’ve went differently had we took a chance or two. WBA under Mowbray is a...

… The first 16 games of the season was our ‘wee wobble’. I expect us to drop points over the next 12 games, but we just play too many weak teams in the division to really cock this up. We’ve got winning records v Sunderland and Boro as a cushion.

I’m just curious how you did the maths? I’ve put out a lot of material on this topic. The bookies have us finishing 5th for a reason, we’ve beaten every team around us home and away in Jan and Feb. WBA away form has been tragic, they’ve drew against some of the bottom teams in the league with...