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That’s true, Middlesbrough have had some good results to this season. From our POV, we need a lot of results to go against us for us to miss out. Sunderland, WBA and Millwall (or alternatively, Blackburn getting 6 points) getting away wins seems quite unlikely in the first place. On top of...

Guys, it’s GD, H2H and then GS. Sunderland need to win and beat our GD to finish above us.

In a repeat of Coventry v Morecambe all those years ago…

It’s a tough game and place to go, but unless Luton lose to Blackburn, Middlesborough are playing for nothing other than momentum going into the playoffs. A draw sets both teams up nicely and twists the knife into their local rivals by denying them a playoff berth. It’s GD then H2H (then GS)...

A win has put us in a very strong position. Only a heavy loss kicks us out of the playoff hunt. One of Blackburn and Millwall will drop points on the final day so a Blackburn win v Luton and draw v Millwall would keep us in the playoffs due to GD and H2H. If we have a meltdown and lose by 3 or...

We have to win v Birmingham and get a result regardless of today’s result. It’s the business end of the season. Blackburn have a difficult run-in as does WBA. Millwall ought to beat Blackpool but it’s not a given and play Blackburn on the final day so someone is dropping points. Watford and PNE...

When money was cheap to loan, the cost of servicing debt was sustainable. Money isn’t cheap anymore (5-7%) and Governments will have to ‘budget’ more to avoid a debt crisis. Fears around bonds as a result of increasing interest rates and unfunded policies let to Truss being ousted. This also...

There’s always a ‘what if’ when Southgate hits a milestone. We’ve lost to plenty of underperforming Italy sides. Remember 2014?

Agreed! I don’t really think anyone would come in who is guaranteed to do a better job. Southgate, for his flaws has a good understanding of the players and international football as a whole. International football is a more tactical game than the top end of club tournaments. Take the...

Pep Guardiola doesn’t even believe Foden has the discipline to play CAM yet. Let alone deeper. This isn’t fantasy football. We won a game away in Italy, a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since before most people on this forum was born. A team ranked 8th in world. Addressing a key criticism...

I’m living in cooko land here, but imagine if we signed Cresswell and McNally? I’d like to think that we can offer best proposition to McNally in terms of development. Look at Hamer, Gyokeres, Sheaf, loanees such as Maatsen and Doyle. Especially if we’re competitive next season, he could earn...

Without knowing how much wages he’s on, he’s worth keeping as a back up option. Last season his clinical finishing was worth a lot. Ideally, we need to be getting 35+ games out of him and that seems past him at this stage unfortunately. Speaking more generally, if we’re to play two strikers...

I think that’s reasonable. If we play hard ball, we end up with 10-15m tops with one year left on his contract!

We had two of them in the same team and didn’t get anywhere near the same production… Both JCH and Chaplin are top end L1 players who could perhaps make a decent Championship careers yet.

I hope he accepts a contract just so we can push our asking price to £20-30m. In an ideal world, we’d keep Gyo and get promoted with him as our talisman. To be candid, our squad is so far off the standard required to make a real go at promotion, we need to sell him and get 3-5 better quality...

… as well as missing out on the playoffs.

They are stats on the video game ‘Football Manager’ FYI. Moneyball is a great sports movie!

I hope there’s a pair of shooting boots in there at some point…

It doesn’t help that whenever Southgate has done well, it always comes with an asterisk. France were favourites going into the tie, clearly the money men and most people believed France would win. They did, big shock. It is commendable that we actually looked the better team and really...