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A lot of us believed this was our time at the start of the season. Much of that was due to the relegated sides seeming to be weaker than in other seasons, with only Leeds looking to be a definite contender. When we beat Everton comfortably just before the season started I allowed myself to...

Our points haul under Lampard is not as impressive as it first seems however, as he has had the kindest set of fixtures imaginable, and has gained less points from those games than most of us would have expected than if MR remained in charge. To be fair he could reverse that by winning at...

Selling MVE in the January window would be short sighted to me. Many of our supporters live in cuckoo land thinking it is easy to just pluck out a quality replacement (think Hamer). We need to bear in mind that his predecessors in this league were Dabo, Da Costa and Kane! If we need to sell I...

Mumba is ok going forward but EMC had him on toast whenever he had to defend so would be worried about that aspect of his game.

Well I guess you would have to factor in the air fare! If we want DK to keep prices low for similar games in future, then it really is up to our fans to turn up or else we can't really complain if he changes tack in future. Last season our fans did up for our cup games, so hopefully he will do...

He should have scored but even the best forwards miss 1 on 1's.

What does that even mean? This season has been a really strange one, and I believe our squad is far better than our league position indicates. It has felt like everytime we give a chance to the opposition that they score, and that in reality we are a much better team than the league table...

I'm not sure what you really expect. We are not in the market for finished products even if we are spending more on transfer fees, as any such players we might want will inevitably go to the PL or to an ex PL team who can outbid us in terms of wages. As such we are only ever going to be...

Rubbish!

Pretty much agree on all of that except for Davies not being deemed up to it, as he would have played in the play off final but for suspension. There's also a bit of revisionism here in respect of the 2nd leg of the Notts game by some posters. While I agree there were a couple of ref decisions...

Its a winnable home draw so I'm absolutely fine with it. I would have thought they would be more disappointed than us.

..... or even Colin Hendry, Arjan De Zeeuw etc before him. What happened to the Forest defender we were linked with in the Summer?

I appreciate I might be looking at this with Sky Blue specs but to me their forwards left foot looks closer to the goal line than Bassette's feet. Would like to see a side on angle ideally!

Surely their player standing in front of Collins was offside for their first goal?

Ironically there was a period when MR left 3 up which completely flummoxed the opposition. I don't remember us conceding many goals because of it so not sure why in more recent years he reverted to having everyone back instead.

It's funny how times have changed. When I first started going to HR when we were in the top league there was an endless stream of homegrown players making it into the first team, and we could probably have had an entire XI made from them. Sealey, Thomas, Roberts, Blair, Dyson, Butterworth...

Got to get a new manager in before this game whether it be Lampard or whoever. I don't think this state of limbo helps anyone.

Is that fact, or something that was just spread on here?

That's what we should also have done to Hamer and O'Hare, although abslutely fine with applauding them when they were subbed.

I see someone's had a fiver on John Eustace. Now 3rd favourite with Skybet!