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It probably has a majority of those that actually go to football matches. In the early 80's there were plenty supporting the big clubs in Rugby but they were mostly plastic and never went to games (not even when they played us at HR). Cov had an active supporters club though, ran by a couple of...

They are right more times than they are wrong, but they are nevertheless regularly wrong!

Its not just an attacking ploy though. It also slows the game down, making it a more scrappy stop start affair, and so making it more difficult for 'footballing' sides to get into a rhythm of play.

While I tend to agree, and only see them as a minor threat, the experience of the last 2 seasons doesn't suggest the goal swing to West Brom is unsurmountable (check out Bristol Rovers last season and Forest the season before).

My gut feeling at the moment is that Blackburn will find it very difficult at a pumped up Den, regardless of their result against Luton beforehand, so am expecting a Millwall win. In regards of Sunderland, I imagine their fans will dominate the atmoshere at Deepdale too, where I can see them...

Teams that have a long throw specialist tend to over do it though, and seem to end up relying on it as their main attacking tactic. That's certainly the case with Birmingham. I'm also not sure its good for the development of players like Bellingham jnr, when the sole attacking aim is to play it...

£450 feels about right to me.

Expect Birmingham to adopt time wasting tactics on Saturday over any form of restart. If they can make the game an ugly, scrappy, stop start affair, the better their chances of frustrating us (and the big crowd particularly), and getting themselves a result. This is one game where an early goal...

It'll be just like us to be stifled by Birmingham after which we will be all doom and gloom, only to then go and win at Middlesbrough. Every result involving play off chasing teams this last couple of weeks seems to have gone our way, and I can't help feeling that there is going to be another...

I wish I was as confident as you. If Blackburn make it a tough physical game, which i expect them too, then Burnley players might back off a little, not wanting to spend their well earned Summer break on the treatment table. I'm not sure the Burnley players will be as invested in the teams'...

I would hold out to see if its on Sky first. If it is it won't be available on i follow.

Ideally one of them wins, so that Sheff Utd need to beat West Brom on Wednesday to clinch promotion. No point getting into a 'what if' kind of flap that the Philosopher seems to have got into over it all. If we do end up in the playoffs we could as well finish 5th or 6th, meaning it doesn't...

4 points looks like it will do it to me. 3 points would leave it open to vagaries of goal difference, which could all change in the next couple of games.

Anyone know much about Aaron Collins who won the League 1 player of the season award playing for Bristol Rovers? Is he someone that's worth us looking at bringing in?

Fadz comes into his own when we are faced with an overly physical forward line. I would have felt uneasy starting without him if Carroll had been playing for Reading at the weekend, and likewise this Saturday when up against Jutkiewicz and their long throw in tactics.

Joao must be a very frustrating player to have in your team, as he plainly has buckets full of ability, but he doesn't appear to work that hard for the team, and having got used to Gyokeres' work effort here I don't think it would be long before he was a target for our boo boys. Of the 3 you...

This thread is a clue to what to expect should the unthinkable happen and we make it into the PL. If as likely we are in our around the relegation places a couple of months in, the bed wetters will undoubtedly be out in force again demanding we sack MR.

Is there time to organise a minutes applause on the 58th minute at the Reading game on Saturday? Perhaps Pete could speak to a few people to get his photo on the big screen?

Very sad news. He helped a lot of us make some sense of the financial minefield of our football club, and was always measured in his opinions, contrary to many of the more sensationalist posts made by others on the same subject. What I particularly admired was while he would explain further when...

We should give our fans a chance to sell out tickets before offering that amount to the away team. 5,000 away fans would seriously dampen our home advantage. Should be no more than 3,000 as far as I'm concerned, although if we don't sell the remainder then I do think we can't complain if more...