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Full of bad cliches here. Are Boro going into the match with momentum? No. Millwall are, but unfortunately they’re playing a team who is in better form and a team who are yet to lose at home. Likewise, Blackburn need to win away v Sheff U. Barring significant upsets, it’s a shootout between...

We’ll see how ‘Championship ready’ that team is. Plymouth managed 101 points they went up and even teams like Pompey and Derby get 90+ points only to struggle this season. The Championship isn’t for the faint hearted and Ipswich spent several seasons getting their team up to scratch. To the...

Well, if Birmingham want to spend £15m on the likes of Stansfield, they can have more revenue than us and still spaff it up the wall.

He scored 19 goals last season and turned up in a big way back in Feb. I wouldn’t give up on him having a good season next year.

If Collins was tired, would make his mistake acceptable? I’m sure everyone would’ve been happy if he tapped it out for a corner…

Has this guy not noticed that Blackburn and Boro have lost 18 and 17 games respectively? Millwall have lost 15 games too for good measure. We’ve won more games than every team around us and for good measure, beaten them on the way. In fact, no team between 4th-12th has a better H2H against us...

Kitching has been solid since Lampard put him in against Norwich. Robins’ decision to start Lati and Binks this season was a massive lapse in judgement.

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...