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The offside thing seems ridiculous as any marginal decision will still remain contentious, its just simply moving the lines.

We actually beat Leicester when we played in the original brown kit. It was televised so there is film of it out there somewhere. Roger Van Gool had his only good game for us, and a young Gary Linekar was playing for them.

Grimsby away in the League Cup 1st leg in the late 80's. If you were there you'll know!

I'd be wary of resting too many players. The Charlton game should be a warning for doing so against weaker opposition. If Wright is injured then fair enough, but not sure I'd change much else.

Jesus wept! I thought my post was a reasoned one, and not particularly critical of xG, but rather a comment on it regarding last night's match, but each to their own o_O Incidentally I agree with Brighton Sky Blue's comment that it is a more reliable indicator than possession stats, but...

If so that's one of the fallbacks in over relying on xG as an indicator I guess, as football being the game it is means it can never be an exact science. Wright was in front of their defender as the ball was played to him, and shouldn't really have given him the chance to get there first, even...

Don't know what the xG stats were last night, but surely Wright failing to score from right in front of the goal last night was the clearest goal scoring opportunity that wasn't taken?

Criticism is one thing but what he didn't warrant was a long thread on here entitled 'Haji Shite', particularly given the vagaries of his form and commitment were likely to be crucial to any upturn in fortunes for the team. I suspect that his muted response around that time to our fans wasn't...

Yes, awful pass that led to the chance Bamford ought to have scored from. Lati does seem to have a knack though of being a bit lucky in that his occasional errors on the ball don't lead to goals. That is something you can't put a value on. He is however defensively solid and reliable off the...

I didn't think we played that great last night, but we did apply ourselves really well. I was particularly pleased with the number of blocks we made. There are always surprise results in the Championship which go against the grain so its important not to be complacent against Stoke and that we...

I stand corrected. If they spent that on him then maybe we could have sold Sheaf for £10m! Was the interest in Sheaf before or after the cup semi final year though, as I thought he was instrumental in helping us get there even if he did end up missing a penalty in the shoot out?

Luton would never have paid even close to £10m. I don't remember them paying much in the way of transfer fees even when they had their year in the PL.

I went to a Rangers v Hibs game in the late 80's but don't have any particular favourite. I'm not keen on the sectarian aspect of the 'auld firm' rivalry though, so quite glad to see them being challenged this season. Just looked up a list of players we've had in my time we've signed direct from...

It will be a difficult call for DK. Season Ticket holders have had very good value these last few years when compared to those buying match day tickets, which has undoubtedly helped create the large season ticket base which we haven't traditionally had. However if we go up I suspect that they...

Correct. I presume it must be 5 seconds from when the thrower or the keeper is in a position to take the throw or goalkick, which doesn't necessarily speed things up as teams will just take their time getting to that point. Isn't there also a planned time limit on substituted players departing...

Stephen Warnock?

You must be imagining it. He only played 10 games for us! I'm not sure who did win player of the year that season but looking at the squad from that time I presume it must have been one of Westwood, Fox, Dann or Gunnarsson.

Looks like the Wednesday player was a bit shocked by it and didn't really react, and by the time he thought about it the other Sheff U players had jumped in with their handbags, which probably muddied the waters for the officials.

Looks like Bassette scored the winning goal for Kaiserslautern today.

15 points over 13 games works out at 53 points over a 46 game season. That will comfortably be enough to stay up this season, so while not great form was not exactly relegation form either. Over the long grind of a Championship season we were bound to hit a downturn at some point. Our...