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Post by detox on May 4, 2023 12:54:35 GMT 1
Apologies for being lazy, but can someone remind me why this game is being played tonight and wasn’t able to be played earlier in the week? I know it was linked to their fixture backlog due to the FA Cup, but it still feels odd that it couldn’t have been played earlier this week. Knowing the last game was to be played on Monday 8th both agreed to move from Wednesday to Thursday..........lets hope they both agreed on other requirements, like good neighbours do. everybody needs good neighbours........ |
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Post by Torquayterrier on May 4, 2023 13:09:47 GMT 1
Normally I can't stand a bore draw but tonight...
Still rather see us on the front foot though
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Post by incognito on May 4, 2023 13:33:42 GMT 1
Hopefully these boys can emulate the 2018 team at Stamford Bridge: scrape a heroic draw, give Warnock the bumps in front of the South Stand, and then rickshaw into town for a few cigs.
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Post by galpharm2400 on May 4, 2023 13:43:35 GMT 1
Hopefully these boys can emulate the 2018 team at Stamford Bridge: scrape a heroic draw, give Warnock the bumps in front of the South Stand, and then rickshaw into town for a few cigs. Plus Chelsea had things to play for?? We might even beat them if we played today??😉 |
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Post by dewsburyborn on May 4, 2023 14:28:22 GMT 1
In the words of our glorious leader, “Anyone else shitting themselves? No? Just me.” Come on Town, positive start and if we go behind, throw everything forward. Doesn’t matter how many we lose by, so better to gamble and really go for it. if we lose tonight and Sunday, GD will come into it ? so we may need a high-scoring loss tonight to boost our 'Goals For' in the case of GD being tied |
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Post by Yuta be a terrier on May 4, 2023 14:31:47 GMT 1
In the words of our glorious leader, “Anyone else shitting themselves? No? Just me.” Come on Town, positive start and if we go behind, throw everything forward. Doesn’t matter how many we lose by, so better to gamble and really go for it. if we lose tonight and Sunday, GD will come into it ? so we may need a high-scoring loss tonight to boost our 'Goals For' in the case of GD being tied GD can't be tied. It's out the equation. 2 defeats takes us down by 2 and then Readings must rise by 1. That's why not putting Cardiff away properly was frustrating. |
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Post by stinkypete on May 4, 2023 14:35:38 GMT 1
Worrying how many folk don’t understand how goal difference works!
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on May 4, 2023 14:35:51 GMT 1
if we lose tonight and Sunday, GD will come into it ? so we may need a high-scoring loss tonight to boost our 'Goals For' in the case of GD being tied GD can't be tied. It's out the equation. 2 defeats takes us down by 2 and then Readings must rise by 1. That's why not putting Cardiff away properly was frustrating. Winning at Cardiff is not frustrating. Being in this position after 44 games is frustrating. |
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Post by sabailand on May 4, 2023 14:59:33 GMT 1
Watched Rotherham seven or eight times this season and I fully believe they are a better side than us. Fully agree if we play like we did at Swansea, we are fucked. I hope and trust Warnock and the players know that too. They must have improved a lot because in our games against them, I was convinced we’re a better team than them. At our place at Christmas they just looked totally devoid of any ideas, they didnt pose a threat to us at all and thats saying something, but they've secured their safety and had a few decent results against good opposition so have proved a capable side...when they want to be. |
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Post by tepidterrier on May 4, 2023 15:07:23 GMT 1
Hopefully these boys can emulate the 2018 team at Stamford Bridge: scrape a heroic draw, give Warnock the bumps in front of the South Stand, and then rickshaw into town for a few cigs. I nominate: REG for chain smoking outside the club, must be why he's always blowing after 60 mins Pearson for the rickshaw ride and having a pint at training the next day and Diarra for sitting on a motorbike that looks 10x the size of him |
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Post by Tez on May 4, 2023 15:09:47 GMT 1
Cmon Town please do the business tonight 🔵⚪️🍻🍻🍻💪🏻
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Post by workshyfop on May 4, 2023 15:22:15 GMT 1
In the words of our glorious leader, “Anyone else shitting themselves? No? Just me.” Come on Town, positive start and if we go behind, throw everything forward. Doesn’t matter how many we lose by, so better to gamble and really go for it. if we lose tonight and Sunday, GD will come into it ? so we may need a high-scoring loss tonight to boost our 'Goals For' in the case of GD being tied I hadn’t realised we were only two goals behind, so yes a 4-3 loss would be better than a 1-0 defeat! |
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Post by rocky on May 4, 2023 15:27:23 GMT 1
if we lose tonight and Sunday, GD will come into it ? so we may need a high-scoring loss tonight to boost our 'Goals For' in the case of GD being tied I hadn’t realised we were only two goals behind, so yes a 4-3 loss would be better than a 1-0 defeat! 😂 |
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Post by paulmat on May 4, 2023 15:27:41 GMT 1
Worrying how many folk don’t understand how goal difference works! Not a new thing, has annoyed me for years, not just Town fans either. People just don't seem to understand how easily goal difference can change. Classic one is when I team is (for example) 6 points behind, and a GD of 5 or 6 worse. You'll get people saying "it's effectively 7 points with the GD", seemingly oblivious to the fact that for a team to make up 6 points there has to be a minimum GD swing of 4 in their favour as well and likely a few more. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on May 4, 2023 15:35:37 GMT 1
if we lose tonight and Sunday, GD will come into it ? so we may need a high-scoring loss tonight to boost our 'Goals For' in the case of GD being tied I hadn’t realised we were only two goals behind, so yes a 4-3 loss would be better than a 1-0 defeat! It makes no difference mate. We could score 20 goals in both games, if we lose them both we are down. |
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on May 4, 2023 15:38:31 GMT 1
We are on -18.
If we lose 10-9 tonight we are on -19.
If we lose 10-9 Monday we are on -20.
Reading are on -20. If they win 10-9 Monday they are on -19.
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Post by stinkypete on May 4, 2023 16:00:15 GMT 1
We could only have stayed up on GD if we’d beaten Cardiff by 3 goals or more!
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on May 4, 2023 16:09:40 GMT 1
We could only have stayed up on GD if we’d beaten Cardiff by 3 goals or more! This is why I get annoyed at rolling over and not even trying at places like Burnley. |
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Post by softboy on May 4, 2023 16:13:40 GMT 1
Just a thought about Reading - didn’t want to start a new thread. As I understand it they were deducted 12 points last season for FFP on the understanding that they sold players to generate income and reduce wages. This they didn’t do so got the suspended 6 recently. As they still haven’t sold these players or reduced their wages I assume they must be still in breach of FFP now, although now with EFL permission!
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Post by stinkypete on May 4, 2023 16:20:58 GMT 1
We could only have stayed up on GD if we’d beaten Cardiff by 3 goals or more! This is why I get annoyed at rolling over and not even trying at places like Burnley. Yeah true, but at that point I never thought we’d be coming into the last 2 games needing a single point!! |
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Post by crux on May 4, 2023 16:21:14 GMT 1
Just a thought about Reading - didn’t want to start a new thread. As I understand it they were deducted 12 points last season for FFP on the understanding that they sold players to generate income and reduce wages. This they didn’t do so got the suspended 6 recently. As they still haven’t sold these players or reduced their wages I assume they must be still in breach of FFP now, although now with EFL permission! As I understood it, the reason the suspended 6 points was implemented was their failure to generate X amount of funds in the transfer market - presumably this was part of the agreed way forward after the FFP breach. I've sent values of both £6M and £12M as the amount they were supposed to raise, but nothing official. I suspect the values seen are folk mixing them up with the points deducted 😗 |
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Post by themanfromatlantis on May 4, 2023 16:50:48 GMT 1
Anyone bumped into Westie yet?
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Post by rickrast on May 4, 2023 16:56:57 GMT 1
Make or half-break game tonight....
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on May 4, 2023 16:58:51 GMT 1
Haven’t been too concerned about this game this week.
Kind of resigned to Monday being the big game.
But now it’s here I’m starting to feel the adrenalyn! Come on Town. Let’s do the job tonight.
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Post by richhtfc on May 4, 2023 17:01:11 GMT 1
We could only have stayed up on GD if we’d beaten Cardiff by 3 goals or more! 2-0 would’ve give us a goal difference 3 better than them so a 0-1 loss tonight and a 0-1 loss against Reading would’ve kept us up on GD wouldn’t it? |
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Post by brighousebandbred on May 4, 2023 17:11:53 GMT 1
We could only have stayed up on GD if we’d beaten Cardiff by 3 goals or more! 2-0 would’ve give us a goal difference 3 better than them so a 0-1 loss tonight and a 0-1 loss against Reading would’ve kept us up on GD wouldn’t it? No it would have been level . Think goals scored and head to head then . We would lose on both accounts 3 up after cardiff 2 up after sheff u Level after reading ( as they get plus 1 as well as us minus 1 ) |
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Post by boooothy on May 4, 2023 17:14:09 GMT 1
Lee Nicholls booking?
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Post by Tez on May 4, 2023 17:15:58 GMT 1
Wonder if ref books him first or 2nd go he does it to stamp it out 🤣🤦🏼♂️ |
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Post by ilsonterrier on May 4, 2023 17:16:59 GMT 1
Just a thought about Reading - didn’t want to start a new thread. As I understand it they were deducted 12 points last season for FFP on the understanding that they sold players to generate income and reduce wages. This they didn’t do so got the suspended 6 recently. As they still haven’t sold these players or reduced their wages I assume they must be still in breach of FFP now, although now with EFL permission! As I understood it, the reason the suspended 6 points was implemented was their failure to generate X amount of funds in the transfer market - presumably this was part of the agreed way forward after the FFP breach. I've sent values of both £6M and £12M as the amount they were supposed to raise, but nothing official. I suspect the values seen are folk mixing them up with the points deducted 😗 I've posted similar on another thread. My son heard an interview where their business plan said they had to raise £12m from transfers. They gambled on breaking it and being in mid table so a 6 point deduction would be irrelevant. You have to wonder how many extra points they've earned from players who should have been sold last summer. Got to be more than 6 surely? |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2023 17:22:42 GMT 1
High scoring draw tonight, job done, party atmosphere on Monday.
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