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We really ought to have too much for Portsmouth, but they will be heartened by the game at their place where they bullied us to defeat. I expect they will try a similar approach and for that reason I would leave Allen and Dasilva out in favour of Bidwell and Sheaf to give us a bit more muscle...

I expect it to go to the wire. There seems a lot of posters who don't recognise that historically playing away to relegation threatened teams at this time of year is a lot harder than earlier in the season. A likely scenario in my mind is that we win 1, draw 1 and lose 1 of those away games. I...

I don't remember the 'you're gonna get your fucking head kicked in' chant beyond the 70's so agree with FP on this.

I would play Wilson. Collins' confidence must be in tatters and unfortunately that lack of confidence is likely to spread to the defenders in front of him if he continues in the team. Wilson is not the greatest keeper obviously, but he is a generally more positive character which is what we need...

Wright was offside but it looked to me like the Burnley player blocked EMC's shot with his arm so should have been a penalty anyway.

I thought Collins was poor for the first goal also. Instaed of spreading his body to block the ball, he just seemed to wimp out and made no challenge at all.

Lee Hurst and Andy Blair were 2 homegrown players that were underrated by most of our support.

In reality Nottingham is much bigger than Cov, but the way the city is divided into separate boroughs, means that people think the population of Nottingham is that of the city of Nottingham only. In comparison it would be a bit like Coventry's population only consisting of those living within...

Was in Sheffield a few months back and there was a pub called 'The Crow Inn' near the Hampton by Hilton which sold a variety of very strong ale.

He does deserve to start on his last performance, but for this particular match Bidwell is probably a better option, especially as Dasilva has been away with Wales and missed much of our prep for the match. Wilder is the sort of manager who would definitely look to target Dasilva. If Lampard...

Not sure about when you exactly are referring to as being back in the day but throughout our years in the top flight our team was littered with players who became 1st team regulars by the time they were 20 never mind 22, through the likes of Carr, Coop, Blockley, Mortimer, Oakey, Blair...

Think you over estimated the Boro support, but yes a poor turnout for us. Then again the previous season had been very depressing! Terry Fleming looked a decent prospect in this game, but this was as good as it got for him.

Perhaps Eccles can still be on the bench in the play off final, so that we can bring him on right at the end to take a penalty :D

Young players can make rapid strides very quickly from season to season so it is premature to now be saying which players should go out on loan next season. With a Summer's preparation and training under FL behind them the young players mentioned in this thread could be a lot closer to...

What's the point in banning it? You don't have to watch it. I was at this game too. Can't really remember but I presume we also had seats on the side. There were even fewer of us there on a couple of times I went there in the few seasons before this. The first time I remember us taking loads...

This was the opening game of the 86/87 season. Little did we know what was to come at the end of the season, although this was quickly followed us beating Arsenal at HR in our 1st home game.

Great team performance. Special shout out to Da Silva who I've been fairly critical of this season. His link up play with EMC, Torp & Grimes was excellent.

Someone put up a joke team in the style of the official announcement which has now been deleted, It included Binks, had Eccles as Captain and a front 3 of Asante, Bassette & Wright. Saka & Andrews were on the bench!

Andrews? Have we cut short his loan?

Those pitches were the main reason so much football then was long ball.