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Chels
at 22:47 23 Apr 2024

After this defeat TNT Sports now showing a programme called Poundland which is sadly about Chelsea and Ken Bates. Rancid...

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Lids v Boro
at 23:06 22 Apr 2024

I suspect it would be better to park the bus as their pace on the counter will catch us out. Just scoring twice is a mountain for us so we have to try and grind out a 1-0 win or draw.

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Lids v Boro
at 22:03 22 Apr 2024

Leeds don't look great in defence but we don't have the strike force to capitalise on any errors they may make. We will need to defend really well to stay in it as clearly their attack is far superior to ours.

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Cov
at 00:12 22 Apr 2024

I suppose an all Manchester final for the global market is a money spinner unlike City v Coventry. Naturally a toenail is offside for Coventry but had that been United the goal would have stood. Sick to death of the borderline offside rule as if a toenail gives you an advantage. Having said that I did think the handball for the Cov penalty was harsh and the handball rule is equally as unfair as the offside rule. The game is being ruined by the laws and VAR.

Fed up of the same teams getting to cup finals. Same in Scotland with Celtic winning 6-5 on penalties after a 3-3 with Aberdeen. Two excellent crosses from Hoilett for Aberdeen to twice come from behind but alas the underdogs north and south of the border didn't get the wins they deserved.

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Thank you Marti Cifuentes.
at 21:10 20 Apr 2024

Exactly this.

It was a game we should have won comfortably like Stoke did today but the old failings in front of goal meant it was a totally stressful watch for all of us. It certainly aged me 10 years getting more and more wound up by the inability to finish off a team not overly bothered.

Still we won and should just about get over the line now but major surgery is required so we don't go through this again next season.

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This weekend
at 20:06 20 Apr 2024

I thought it was Huddersfield playing Birmingham not Sheffield Wednesday. The Terriers would have to get two huge wins now to finish above us and we would have to lose heavily on the final two games.

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FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 23:51 19 Apr 2024

Did I see that Newcastle are playing Spurs on 22 May in Australia or have I been hallucinating? Naturally playing games around the globe after the season is finished is far more important than playing a cup replay against pesky Wimbledon next winter.

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RIP Leighton
at 23:42 19 Apr 2024

Leighton did a good job for us in a declining team. He played a big part in the 6-1 Cup win over West Ham but it was the 2-0 win over Liverpool in November 77 I most remember. Leighton and Stan scored in as many minutes and the time between their respective deaths feels equally as short. RIP Leighton.

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FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 20:40 18 Apr 2024

I think a big problem about TV choices for FA cup matches is because TNT Sports show all the big clubs live in Europe and Sky Sports have all the live Premiership games. So when ITV or BBC have the FA Cup they use the opportunity to show the big teams as it is about ratings and they know more people will watch Man Utd v Liverpool than a league 2 team v championship opposition.

There is a certain irony that Klopp has been moaning about Liverpool having too many games and once he has gone there will no longer be FA Cup replays.

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Real Madrid observations
at 23:56 17 Apr 2024

I should add one pleasing aspect of both Premier League teams getting knocked out tonight is that it probably scuppers the prospect of 5 Premier league teams being in the Champions League. Bad enough finishing 4th to get in without fifth place also qualifying from the best league in the world according to Sky.

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Real Madrid observations
at 23:15 17 Apr 2024

Perfect tactics by Madrid for the occasion. City have scored three goals in just about every Champions League game this season including doing it in Madrid. If they attacked City tonight then chances are City would score three again so parking the bus to deny them the space was sensible. Once Madrid got the early goal they could sit back. Had City got it Madrid would have had to come out and could have been picked off. It's all about winning at this stage, not pleasing the neutrals watching on TV and the Manchester public.

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We Just Dont Get Enough From Our Strikers
at 17:04 16 Apr 2024

When you see the quality of Palmer's finishing for that lot up the road it is galling seeing the joke forwards we have. Palmer has got 7 goals in two home games, more than any of our players can manage in a season. Makes my blood pressure go into overdrive watching our feeble efforts on goal.

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Are we staying up?
at 15:27 14 Apr 2024

I blame myself for the latest downturn. After victory in Swansea I declared on here that with 6 games to go it would not be a good time for us to go on one of our favoured 6 game winless runs. Three games later that is where we appear to be.

The problem with the Preston visit is we won up there and that usually means we won't win the return at home. Getting a double is something this very limited team seems incapable of doing. For all the talk of an upturn since Marti arrived it will be irrelevant if we still go down.

People can blame Ainsworth with justification but how do you explain that we win away at Cardiff and Middlesbrough under useless Ainsworth and lose the return home games under Marti the messiah? At the end of the day it probably hinges on the attitudes of the players and their limited ability so if they down tools on yet another manager as they are prone to doing then we could drop. I hope for better in the last three than witnessed in the three games just gone.

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So frustrating.
at 19:51 13 Apr 2024

Strange how it pans out. Plymouth sack the manager and the interim manager gets 7 points in 3 games with only one goal conceded while our cretins return to their default mode of general incompetence over the same 3 game period. Still it probably didn't help that our deadbeats had to travel London to Plymouth, back to London and then up to Hull. Probably too tiring for them. They looked lethargic to me today.

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Requesting Beach Towels
at 19:25 13 Apr 2024

The problem with us is we don't like taking 6 points off anyone. We won at Middlesbrough and Cardiff for example and then lost both return home fixtures so as we won at Preston don't hold your breath about us completing any double. Even today we had the chance of taking 6 points off Hull for the season but were brushed aside.

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Weekend Championship Games
at 22:11 12 Apr 2024

I thought our win at Leicester was one of the results of the season but them losing to Millwall and Plymouth in a week has diminished our triumph. Still we did get our win away which is generally harder to do when playing a team at the top so I think our result still tops their home wins over Leicester.

Plymouth should be OK now as they easily have the best GD so I will be surprised if they drop now. I had started off watching Greenock Morton on BBC Scotland but as they were making fools of themselves I soon turned over to the Plymouth game. Something very familiar about a team in blue and white hoops looking rubbish on TV.

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Weekend Championship Games
at 21:34 12 Apr 2024

To be fair Argyle were scoring plenty of goals like this in their home games until Schumacher left and the new manager came in. Then the goals stopped and the manager lost his job.

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Tonight's Championship games
at 22:44 10 Apr 2024

Looking at the run in it appears Millwall have the best fixtures with three games against teams with nothing to play for. Sheffield Wednesday could survive with a final day game at Sunderland particularly if Sunderland play like they did against us.

No wonder West Brom are 10 unbeaten looking at another joke decision in their favour. I am fairly envious seeing teams like Swansea win 3-0 and Bristol City 5-0 against our relegation rivals. If only we could have done that in our relegation 6 pointers. Other teams can cruise through games unlike us.

I read somewhere that Plymouth hadn't scored at home for 550 minutes so no surprise we handed them a goal to end the run. We can always be counted on to help other teams first before helping ourselves.

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Pilgrim and Bare It - Plymouth Vs QPR Match Thread
at 17:01 10 Apr 2024

Adomah was a surprising sub in view of his lack of recent game time. When I used to play I was always taught that if you are at the back post you should never assume that all the players in the middle will make contact with the ball when crossed in. Always be prepared they all miss it and be ready to react. Sadly Adomah didn't seem to have this in mind as he was caught on his heels unprepared. His slow reaction might be down to lack of game time as much as age.

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Pilgrim and Bare It - Plymouth Vs QPR Match Thread
at 22:23 9 Apr 2024

The recurring theme all the time is we miss most chances we do get so while we only have one goal leads to cling onto, extra pressure falls onto the defence and one huge clanger like tonight proves costly. This is what comes from not making the game safe and then nerves and pressure builds in the last quarter of the game.

Another relegation battle and another we didn't win and a record of 6 games against teams who came up from league 1 with no wins and only two goals scored.

Looks like the teams trying to go up are also turning jittery. Can't believe Leicester lost to Millwall, Leeds failed to beat on the beach Sunderland at home, and Norwich blew a two goal lead late on in Sheffield.

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