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bigfatronssba

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #36
Evo1883 said:
Still cant fully take in whats happening to us .

Mental season
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Exactly the same here. Its incredible.

Something I've dreamed about for the last 24 years, but doesn't feel like how I imagined it would

I'm not even sure I can say its enjoyable to be honest. Saturday nights after a win feel amazing. The rest of the time I just want the season over with as I'm terrified we're still going to blow it!

There were times where I honestly thought it would be decades before we had a chance of getting back there
 
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torchomatic

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #37
Ipad Boro said:
We've won every game we've scored first.

In the words of Keegan "I would LOVE it" if we took the lead against them at Portman Road.
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I would love you to beat Ipswich, so it's just the two us at the top.
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #38
Ipad Boro said:
We've won every game we've scored first.

In the words of Keegan "I would LOVE it" if we took the lead against them at Portman Road.
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Expect some dodgy ref decisions against you in that game.
 

Ipad Boro

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #39
bigfatronssba said:
Expect some dodgy ref decisions against you in that game.
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Oh I'm fully anticipating that. As well as the Iswich players enmasse surrounding the ref at every opportunity.
 
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Danceswithhorses

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #40
Ipad Boro said:
Oh I'm fully anticipating that. As well as the Iswich players enmasse surrounding the ref at every opportunity.
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and some epic shithousery by Furlong
 
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Deleted member 7943

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #41
Ipad Boro said:
Oh I'm fully anticipating that. As well as the Iswich players enmasse surrounding the ref at every opportunity.
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If you go up sunderland will have 3 derbies next season


Tyne - Wear
Tees - Wear
Jimmy Hill - Wear
 
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False9

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #42
We're going up now regardless, I'm not sure it's even possible to blow it at this point.

Echo a few other comments that I'm not sure it's even enjoyable and what is the prize that awaits
 
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Deleted member 7943

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  • Mar 7, 2026
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False9 said:
We're going up now regardless, I'm not sure it's even possible to blow it at this point.

Echo a few other comments that I'm not sure it's even enjoyable and what is the prize that awaits
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This is what its all for isnt it .. why we chose to go through all the misery
 
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clint van damme

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #44
False9 said:
We're going up now regardless, I'm not sure it's even possible to blow it at this point.
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Sush your filthy mouth!
 
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Ipad Boro

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #45
Johnnythespider said:
3 draws and 4 points dropped for all three of em
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If someone offered me that, I'd be all over it personally.

Would leave 8 or 9 games left, one against the Owls (but not for Millwall) with Ipswich having only 2 home games left out of those 9 remaining.

I'd wolf down that guarantee ta very much, and ask for seconds. Any way you can box it off for me Johnny?
 
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Deleted member 7943

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #46
Ipad Boro said:
If someone offered me that, I'd be all over it personally.

Would leave 8 or 9 games left, one against the Owls (but not for Millwall) with Ipswich having only 2 home games left out of those 9 remaining.

I wolf down that guarantee ta very much, and ask for seconds. Any way you can box it off for me Johnny?
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Ipswich having most their games away is massive for us
 
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Ipad Boro

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #47
Ccfcisparks said:
Oh yeah we scored first both times we beat you
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Be honest, you were just playing stupid sod to set up that punchline weren't you, you cheeky cheekster!
 
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bigfatronssba

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #48
Evo1883 said:
This is what its all for isnt it .. why we chose to go through all the misery
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Johnnythespider

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #49
Evo1883 said:
If you go up sunderland will have 3 derbies next season


Tyne - Wear
Tees - Wear
Jimmy Hill - Wear
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That third one will be a new leisure range in the club shop in the summer
 
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False9

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #50
Evo1883 said:
This is what its all for isnt it .. why we chose to go through all the misery
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Agree but it just doesn't feel how I expected it to. I think my brain is broken from being the underdog for 30 years
 
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Johnnythespider

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #51
Ipad Boro said:
If someone offered me that, I'd be all over it personally.

Would leave 8 or 9 games left, one against the Owls (but not for Millwall) with Ipswich having only 2 home games left out of those 9 remaining.

I wolf down that guarantee ta very much, and ask for seconds. Any way you can box it off for me Johnny?
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If I don't bet on it it will happen, would you like that gift wrapped sir
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #52
Evo1883 said:
Ipswich having most their games away is massive for us
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What’s massive for us is that if we need a goal you have to make sure that Steve goes for a fag
 
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Deleted member 7943

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #53
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
What’s massive for us is that if we need a goal you have to make sure that Steve goes for a fag
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He mentioned that on the way home
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #54
Evo1883 said:
He mentioned that on the way home
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I walked to him at half time and said you missed it didn’t you
 
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Warwickhunt

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #55
bigfatronssba said:
Exactly the same here. Its incredible.

Something I've dreamed about for the last 24 years, but doesn't feel like how I imagined it would

I'm not even sure I can say its enjoyable to be honest. Saturday nights after a win feel amazing. The rest of the time I just want the season over with as I'm terrified we're still going to blow it!

There were times where I honestly thought it would be decades before we had a chance of getting back there
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We are doing so well this season! And if we don't win it fucks my weekend up!
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #56
clint van damme said:
Sush your filthy mouth!
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Finally!
 

Mcbean

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #57
I would like to point out that never have City done it the easy way However the team news today was unexpected with no Rudi or Thomas even in the squad but the result showed the determination in the team to win
 
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gruffskyblue

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #58
I keep imagining MVE wearing a blue wig with a Ghetto Blaster!

We are indeed nearly there.
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Mar 7, 2026
  • #59
Evo1883 said:
Still cant fully take in whats happening to us .

Mental season
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I'm one of the lucky ones I was there in 66/67 season when we got promoted to Division 1, that's what it was called back then.

That was a mental season also.
 
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capel & collindridge

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #60
Perhaps we're spending too much time looking at the number of wins and losses. It's the draws that have been the most reliably consistent factor. 20 of the 24 Championship teams this year have drawn almost exactly a quarter of their fixtures. There is no reason to suppose that that same ratio won't continue until the end of the season.

It means almost every team will draw at least two or three of their remaining games. That means nearly every team will drop about 5 points more than most people are expecting will be dropped. Our excellent goal difference should also mean that one less win than most are predicting should be enough for City to clinch automatic promotion this year. 85 points may well be enough. Three wins and two draws should do it.

I now think we may achieve this by the first week in April, with four or five games to spare!

What a great season it has been!
 
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Lamps

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #61
capel & collindridge said:
Perhaps we're spending too much time looking at the number of wins and losses. It's the draws that have been the most reliably consistent factor. 20 of the 24 Championship teams this year have drawn almost exactly a quarter of their fixtures. There is no reason to suppose that that same ratio won't continue until the end of the season.

It means almost every team will draw at least two or three of their remaining games. That means nearly every team will drop about 5 points more than most people are expecting will be dropped. Our excellent goal difference should also mean that one less win than most are predicting should be enough for City to clinch automatic promotion this year. 85 points may well be enough. Three wins and two draws should do it.

I now think we may achieve this by the first week in April, with four or five games to spare!

What a great season it has been!
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I prefer to see each game as a win or a loss and treat each draw as a bonus, especially so when it's two sides that are near the top and both need the win.

For instance we have several of these games coming up concerning two of the clubs in the top 6. I look at the damage a win for either side would do then treat a draw as a bonus.

In all reality it's 3 clubs going for the top spot which we are clearly favourites for and 6 clubs going for 2nd including ourselves. Most of the 6 clubs see us as getting 1st so in reality it's 5 clubs going for 2nd. Only Middlesbrough and Ipswich have a realistic chance of catching us, but they're looking more behind them than us at the top.

Draws? Ipswich v Middlesbrough for me, but we will no doubt have a preference on who wins by then.
 
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The Big G

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #62
As I've said on here before it's good fun trying to work out who wins what games but it's the championship and it's totally impossible. Ipswich and sheff utd were hone bankers this weekend and look what happened there. 30 points still up for grabs although one thing we can say is Boro. Millwall and Ipswich cant all get maximum because they all play each other which is the positive for us. Missing Rudoni and Bobby Thomas for next 3 games is a blow but at least we have the squad to cope now compared to Dec/Jan.
 

Fergusons_Beard

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #63
Watching the scenes at the end of the Ipswich game yesterday-pressure is absolutely telling.

Players and management absolutely lost their heads at the referee.

They are really feeling it!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
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Johnnythespider

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #64
Fergusons_Beard said:
Watching the scenes at the end of the Ipswich game yesterday-pressure is absolutely telling.

Players and management absolutely lost their heads at the referee.

They are really feeling it!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Did McKenna get a red or yellow card
 
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paulcalf

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #65
Yellow
 
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Otis

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #66
The closer we get, the more nervous I get.

I guess it's because I know we are capable of another bad run, even though it's increasingly unlikely and the fact the closer we get, any huge downturn, would make us amongst the biggest ever chokers in the history of the game.

So, I guess, even though I am confident, it's that fear of it all suddenly going wrong and just how bad that would look to the outside world
 
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Para1140

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #67
Four more wins and I think weve done it
 
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SwanLane

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #68
The Ipswich reaction to yesterday is interesting. They are losing their minds about the ref. Reckon they were cheated out of 4 pens. On their forum and on the vlogs, there’s almost nothing about dropping points to a relegation threatened team. But surely when the dust settles they’ll realise that’s another home game gone.
 
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Ipad Boro

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #69
Otis said:
The closer we get, the more nervous I get.

I guess it's because I know we are capable of another bad run, even though it's increasingly unlikely and the fact the closer we get, any huge downturn, would make us amongst the biggest ever chokers in the history of the game.

So, I guess, even though I am confident, it's that fear of it all suddenly going wrong and just how bad that would look to the outside world
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As a Boro fan we're well acquainted with this feeling.

However, while you're certainly capable of a "bad run" for yourselves, outside of a freak meteor stike wiping out the team coach, there's no way on God's Green Earth that with your level and that run in you're going to have a bad run of Sheff Wed proportions. If your next 10 results mirror Oxford United's or Charlton's last 10 for example (coincidentally equalling the statistically Worst 10 game period out of the 27 it's possible to select of your entire season - WITHOUT SHEFF WED FEATURING IN IT like now, without your January business all done and with a jolly old virus popping up partway through, just for shits and giggles - when some fans were unbelievably calling for Lampard's head) you'd reach 86 points.

To beat that, the 2 nearest challengers BOTH have to win 7 and 8 games respectively out of their 11 left, when they play each other in that run AND they both also play the third even darker horse challenger.

You're practically as good as promoted.

To describe it succinctly (almost as it does the disservice to Millwall of not being involved in an auto battle, but it fits this setting more as they've the very least risk of catching you), flip a coin in the air. If it lands on Heads, we miss out on promotion. If it lands on Tails, Ipswich miss out on promotion. If it lands on it's edge then you miss out on promotion.
 
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sc1940

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  • Mar 8, 2026
  • #70
Ipad Boro said:
As a Boro fan we're well acquainted with this feeling.

However, while you're certainly capable of a "bad run" for yourselves, outside of a freak meteor stike wiping out the team coach, there's no way on God's Green Earth that with your level and that run in you're going to have a bad run of Sheff Wed proportions. If your next 10 results mirror Oxford United's or Charlton's last 10 for example ( coincidentally equalling the statistically Worst 10 game period of your entire season - WITHOUT SHEFF WED FEATURING IN IT- when some fans were unbelievably calling for Lampard's head) you'd reach 86 points.

To beat that, the 2 nearest challengers BOTH have to win 7 and 8 games respectively out of their 11 left, when they play each other in that run AND they both also play the third even darker horse challenger.

You're practically as good as promoted.

To describe it succinctly (almost as it does the disservice of Millwall not being involved in an auto battle, but it fits this setting more as they've the very least risk of catching you), flip a coin in the air. If it lands on Heads, we miss out on promotion. If it lands on Tails, Ipswich miss out on promotion. If it lands on it's edge then you miss out on promotion.
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I agree with what you are saying but it makes sense to take each game at a time and not get ahead of ourselves
 
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