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Oo eck, play off time. When you're too close emotionally to the action it's difficult to offer a reasoned opinion ( like you lot are ) so if I may here goes from a pie eating perspective. I'll try to be as unbiased as local rivalry allows and I'm going to have a flutter to keep my interest alive so to speak so here's my pick. Barnsley...Great start to the season but what a shitshow since including a change of manager. You lot will stroll past um with a 3 goal advantage over 2 legs ( 2-1 and 3-1 ). Tuther match is a much closer job. All teams fear momentum and Oxford have it just now. Peterborough have the mentality that if you score 3 we score 4 but Oxford are organised and this one will go either 1 of 2 ways. Posh click into goalscoring mode and run away with it or, Oxford nick a tight double header which is my choice. ( 2-1 Oxford then 2-2 at Posh ). Reet final...another very close match. I wouldn't be heartbroken if Oxford nicked it as that would guarantee us 6 points off you lot next season but I honestly ( through gritted teeth ) think you lot edge it 3-2. There's a fiver going on this series of scores. So , in conclusion if this lot comes to pass our paths may not cross for the foreseeable which I've no doubt breaks your feckin hearts but either way enjoy and al si thi.

As much as I’d love us too, I don’t think we’re selling out our home tie with a 27.5k full house on a Tuesday night. And I can’t see Barnsley selling more than 3k. An 18/19 big crowd at Barnsley with 5k whites and a 24/25k home tie with 3k Barnsley and us on 4 sides, seems sensible, gives us an edge and lets everyone who wants to see the game attend.

People saying we should agree 4 or 5 k tickets each are crazy. Given them the lowest number possible it is a massive advantage to have extra fans for the home game when second leg is at home, they can have 3 blocks in upper tier. We can our fans on all 4 sides. This lot are in terrible form we need to go there and give them fuck all then get them back home and batter them. Need a strong ref that stops them kicking Sheehan off the pitch. Worse thing we can do is have the first 50 minutes of the league at their place and be 2 down.

This one?

especially if you're sat drinking it with him

If we were to go up, i would imagine you’d really miss your 2 biggest games of the season, it seems your games against us are the only 2 games that really matter to most of your fans. Maybe that’s where we’re going wrong, our games against Wigan aren’t seen as anywhere near our 2 biggest games of season. Never have been, never will be.

Ultimately, so long as you score more than you concede, it doesn't matter. How that's achieved is for individual managers and teams to sort out. Dour, overly conservative play doesn't keep fans on the edge of their seats. However, it's clearly a fashion for teams to play around at the back, which as we know sometimes results in a goal conceded. City are now utilising a long ball more to compensate for teams pressing them, and no doubt it will become fashionable at some point to be a bit more defensive and use the longer ball again if it starts to work regularly.

Did this in 55m 37s Given I put my back out 3 weeks ago and saw my sciatica return, and ran a total of 15k combined in the last 4 weeks, I'm happy with that Route was a bit dull, ground up to beehive then down CNR towards Bolton till you hit 5k, then turn around and run back That said, it was a perfect 10k route in terms of a steady series of inclines and declines with last 1k down hill

Stop being so reasonable you pie munching get 😁

GT on the bench?

Surely you could argue that us having 4-5k behind the goal gives us more of a chance of putting the tie to bed before they come back to us. Plus with their current apathy and the fact the game at theirs is a Friday night and at ours is a Tuesday night, you’d think that there’s more chance of us taking advantage of more tickets than them. In short, give us the full away end you Yorkshire wankers.

Not being able to have 2 games going on in the same county is a joke. Sheffield and Barnsley are about 20 miles away, would be like us being moved by GMP because Stockport are playing

Bayer Leverkusen with another very late 96th Min equaliser to remain unbeaten

It’s not a different angle, it’s a different frame. That’s after it’s left his foot.

I actually thought that Madley reffed it well in the first half. Shame he had to be replaced because the chap in the second half was just your typical shite L1 ref. Wouldn’t mind seeing Madley as the ref in one or more of the play off games - you can tell that he’s reffed at a higher level because he’s just a bit calmer and more sensible whereas the rest are power hungry wankers that are trying to prove themselves.

Took me a bit to twig. No issue like ha. Gonna be carnage ive become a member of Lancaster whites Vulcan Balmoral White horse and California whites😂

As an added bonus, it gives Toal two opportunities to end Cosgraves career. That'd be fun.

Evatt played it really well today, but I don’t expect he’ll get much credit. He was on a hiding to nothing. Play it cautious and Derby Fuck up he loses. Go hung-ho gets injuries and fucks us up he loses. He did right. Maghoma wasn’t 100% he didn’t risk him. He went for it in the first half. Knew it wasn’t going to happen, made 5 subs. We put in a performance, kept the fans happy, kept the squad motivated and injury free. What more could he have done?

Spot on there. Treat such things lightly, as I said before, but there does seem to be a desire to constantly put the country down.

No. So all good, in terms of how we approached the game, team selection etc etc. Loved it today. Great away game. Great support. Barnsley will be really pissed off with their form, finishing 6th and playing us. I suspect we must be favourites to go up and rightly so

Onside. Just poor defending really