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This is overdoing it. WBA are playing most our playoff rivals and they can’t simultaneously win and lose to give them a buffer on us OR lose to allow Bristol and/or Norwich the chance to gain on us. We probably need 12-14 points from the remaining 9 games to get 6th.

You get it. There’s a reason the bookies still have us 5th favourites for promotion. Compared to our rivals, we have an ‘easier’ run in. Bar Sheff U away, all our hardest games are at home which is what you want rather than having to go to Sunderland, Burnley, WBA and Boro away. Barring WBA...

With the mix of games we’ve got and who the teams in and around us have, 12 points should put us in a strong position. The teams around us have got a lot of games against one another e.g. Bristol v Norwich, Sheff W v Sheff U. After the international break: Norwich v WBA, Burnley v Bristol. So...

Derby was one of the those games that I felt we would’ve battered them had scored first. We played some really good stuff before conceding a sloppy set piece goal and to use a ‘technical term’, it all went to shit.

We’ve slipped on the banana skin and we’re no longer burdened by sustaining a fantastic run. So I think we’ll make tweaks and win against Sunderland. They really weren’t all that against us back in November.

Which shows that the numbers were dipping leading up to and including the change in formation to 5-3-2 i.e. the team without Sakamoto, EMC and now Rudoni.

The results were all the same weren’t they? All wins. We often did it ugly against Sheff Wednesday, QPR and Blackburn. In that run of games, we probably should’ve drew 3 or 4 games and with statistics, they usually level out over time. During this run, we’ve stacked the odds in our favour by...

Luton and Plymouth will probably beat that points requirement if we’re in the playoffs.

I’ve only seen Derby’s second goal live and the posts obstructed my view, have you seen anything conclusive on social media (or Sky) which shows the ball out of play?

Why can’t we just accept it when it’s just a bad game? It was just one of those nights for us. You’re asking me for metrics on a players who’s played 20 minutes for us. Why do I like it? He’s on short term contract, with presumably low wages and he’s a proven Championship player, so it’s...

Given how games make general sale, this simply isn’t the case on the scale you’re suggesting. Is it true for Luton and Plymouth away and other sell out games, probably. It doesn’t take that long to build your points either, I only started doing away consistently for over a year now and even...

My brother’s ST points is about that much and the ticket has only been used a handful of times for away games and the we didn’t get a ST for 22/23. If anyone is complaining about points, it tells me they’ve probably only recently got a ST and/or don’t really do that many away games. Which is...

That’s right, but need goals to win games and without Rudoni, Sakamoto and EMC, who’s creating chances? Taking a step back, 2 of the goals shouldn’t have counted (Oxford’s 1st, Stoke’s 2nd) and playing 3 CBs doesn’t automatically resolve set-piece defending which has accounted for half the...

It’s one loss Gibbo. We won 3 on the bounce playing 4-3-3 and because we lose once, it’s all doom and gloom. We lost 2 in 5 when we first adopted 5-3-2 under Lampard. In the 8 games before we switched to 5-3-2, we conceded 10 goals which is 1.25 goals per game, including 3 clean sheets. The...

Agreed and we tried to be too clever last night. The amount of times we ‘cleared it’ to their players was unbelievable and whenever we had good chances to get at them, we either dithered on the ball or made a mistake. I’ve got two examples that summarises this. First half - the ball was...

Different players on the pitch and a different manager, you can’t put too much on form earlier in the season. Derby had 3 shots on target against us over 2 games and scored 4 goals, statistically it’s an anomaly and we’re just unlucky. Looking at the goals conceded, 3 were set pieces so the...

All of the back 4? That’s a bit drastic. When we got the ball out wide, we didn’t make an effort to take players on to pull Derby out of their shape. Something Rudoni does well is attracting defenders to him and this creates space. Torp and Eccles were off their game too on the ball, far too...

The club probably wants him to prove his fitness and worth before dishing out extended terms. After all, he’s barely played in the last 9 months.

So we’ll play a team in 4th place without our top 3 assisters? We rely on crosses in the box for chance creation and Torp/Allen don’t really give us this. Without Rudoni, 5-3-2 isn’t tenable.

What did people expect from a player who’s barely played competitive football in 9 months? He may have signed with a view to next season if we’re in the Championship. It’s a decent signing, people’s expectations are just inflated.