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Whenever Neville is on Sky with his motley crew of mates, they’re gagging to talk about the; the class of ‘92, ‘the good old days’ and about how great ‘the boss’ was… CBA.

Have you forgotten we are 6th still going into the final day with a home game v Boro (also out of form with easier games). It’s not ideal, but Blackburn, Millwall and Boro would rather be in our shoes right now.

Imagine being on the journey of Bournemouth, Brentford, Forest, Brighton, Wolves and even Leicester in recent years?! I’m sorry, but even better than our rise through the EFL.

Nope - we should’ve been home and dry but we’ve also rode our luck at times, we’ve got close to 20 points from stoppage time winner this season. It’s like the last game of the season in L2 where there will be tension if we can finish in the playoffs or not. Ultimately, Boro need to win whereas...

It’s fair because the amount of decision that have gone against us has been worrying. Usually it evens out but barring Haji’s goal v Burnley (which is well within a margin of error), I can’t think of any glaring decisions we got away with.

In our last 3 home games, we have won against Sunderland, Pompey and WBA. We’re not imploding at all. The only ‘gimme’ was supposed to be Pompey who gave us the most difficult game because they set out for, and were happy with, a draw. Boro need to beat us and we need to win to ensure we make...

Boro have the exact same recent form as us. Our 2 wins being at home and Boro’s away form being 1-1-3.

Looking back at the ‘fluke run’, most of the games were at home too. We only chalked up 3 wins away at Swansea, Blackburn and Sheff W.

Correct, but did it lead to a goal? No. When taking the Plymouth game into account, it was definitely a game where the individual errors were more costly than the tactics. It all goes out the window when you go 1-0 down too because you need to attack more.

It’s not the same thing and you know it. The inference was that the defensive high line was being exploited. If a defender gives the ball away on the halfway line, you’re going to be in trouble in most cases.

Haji and Simms, there hasn’t been a consistent supply of high quality chances for a while now. Haji should’ve scored v Hull and Plymouth but looking at that 22/23 side, the amount of ‘big chances’ Vik missed, he had 2-3 times in a game to redeem himself. Rudoni is the player most willing to...

The high line didn’t cause a goal for any of the goals v Plymouth. It was two set pieces we didn’t deal with and MVE giving the ball away high up the pitch that caused those goals. The red card, it was a bad decision and JDS was on the wrong side of him. It’s not necessarily tactical but...

To clarify, when you say system, do you mean formation? Something Robins said after Sheff W (iirc - it was after a home loss) that stuck with me about this team was that they took too many ‘easy routes’ on the ball. Things have generally improved under Lampard, but Plymouth and Hull were...

We struggled v Luton because we played with 10 men for most of it. Even when Walsh gets red carded, it’s still 50-odd minutes of defending that’s tiring. Looking at the bench, there were no game changers there, maybe BTA. But when you’re defending set pieces as often as we were, you wouldn’t...

We’ve dropped points in 4 home league games; Cardiff, Millwall, Leeds and Burnley. Looking at the games we’ve won; Watford, Bristol City, Sunderland, WBA, QPR who were all in and around us when we beat them shows just how much we deserve to be where we are. We’ve won every 6 pointer at home and...

I’ve been guilty of this, but we’ve underestimated just how difficult playing Hull, Luton, Plymouth and Derby would be in the last stretch. The latter 3 teams are in 6-9th in the form table at the minute. We all knew Sheff U was probably going to be a write off. To only pick up 1 point from...

I empathise with Lampard because neither Wilson nor Collins is a good choice. It does baffle me that they’ve extended Wilson’s contract if he’s not going to play. Going into to the summer, the recruitment team know they need to get a new keeper in because it’s not acceptable that Dovin’s injury...

To add to your point, if you take out all of our wins under Lampard, we have won 0 wins and that is relegation form. #LampardOut

Which ignores the season before when Collins was first choice over Wilson.

The teams around us have had inept performances. Weeks back, the Opta ‘super computers’ believed 68-70 points would be enough for playoffs and they were correct. The bottom teams all being on close to 50 points is ridiculously high and showcases just how difficult this league is.