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Strange how in most years the season ends and the glass is actually half empty. The profit is most likely in the players we want to keep. Nicking a few quid for BTA or Eccles barely counts. In the Championship there was the width of Bobby Thomas's haircut between finishing 10-11th and...

....or alternatively "we scraped into the play off places with a record low total of points and miles behind the 3rd place team with little expectation of winning at Wembley. The next level is to be clearly the best in the play offs or else it is a lottery longshot each year. As we saw" And...

"We have a strong negotiating position for just about all our players because they’re all contracted for another 2 years"....alternatively we are stuck with contracted players, some quite expensive, that we don't want but are unable to sell.

Comments so far concentrate on attacking weaknesses - Simms and wright are rubbish etc etc. At the same time there is general satisfaction with the defence except for left back - but it sounds as though we have one lined up for that. The stats tell the exact opposite story (the fans have got it...

Whether he is one of our own or not, or whether he cost anything are utterly immaterial. Is he good enough on the pitch is the only material question? Certainly not as a starter. Keep him as a squad unless we get an offer

Wilson is as good as you are going to get for permanent number 2

It's win - win tonight for me. Win we go up Lose - we are not ready anyway and likely to get less than 11 points in the Prem. Better to take the summer to beef up the defence in particular Will watch quite chilled.

3. Drop Sheaf. Too slow too similar to Grimes, not penetrative. Bring in Allen to rough them up 4. Simms for BTA. The experiment failed. We need height in the box 5. Resist the temptation to play EMC.

On the key decisions 1. Stick to 433 or variant. 442's success rate is rubbish and 5 at the back pointless 2. Back 4 and goalie as you were (even tho I am a huge Bidwell fan).

The wedge will be spent. And more. There is no yellow brick road. As Burnley and Sheffield United will discover. I hate all the unkindness on here when we lose. It is not as if wright did not try, he went all over the place to get the ball as did Rudoni, who was closely shepherded all game...

I dread to think what the ratings thread will be like if we do get to the Prem and have week after week 4-0 thumpings at home....

God knows what is going to happen. Should not be too swayed by their recent form as they have had little to play for for quite a while now. You could see that when we played them a few weeks ago. They will be up for it, surely. So expect a tight game and just coming out ahead. A two goal lead...

If memory serves me (always a risk) we had Madeley in one game and he did a good job

It was not very intuitive. Took me a couple of go's

The question that always dogs me...why are professional footballers frequently so poor with their weaker foot. Mystifies me. I reckon I was better with my left foot back in the day than some of them. And I was crap..

MOTM Super Ben Wilson & Jack Rudoni Hon Mention for BTA, who did what Wright should have done earlier and squared it . Defence got a bit lucky - Boro created some good chances A really good action packed game.

Fair chance all except one could lose.

This is just jealousy. If those two American actors had turned up here we would have welcomed them with open arms. If you want any club, not just City, to survive in the Prem you need a rich owner of some sort, be it a sheik or an American actor, to top up the media money. Without that you get...

....although I am out of contact for a large part of today

I have my season ticket but cannot make the game. Trouble is I am in Italy until late Thursday, and live in Oxfordshire. Happy to give it to you if we can make a physical transfer some time on Friday, or even Saturday early AM, somewhere in between. I will keep an eye on this thread.