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The FA Cup has increasingly been devalued over recent years largely to suit premier league clubs, but this is sickening......what right do Prem League twats have to have any say in the 1st & 2nd rounds that don't even involve them ?

Their goal from the corner......whether it was by design or not, there was a major kerfuffle in the box before the corner was taken that was a big distraction & would have taken our defenders' eyes off the bloke outside the box,.....plus the loss of Santos & Jones & reshuffle of all 3 defenders was sure to unbalance the defence to some extent.......& he did hit it well, i bet he can't do that often, but Evatt's fault obvs

Out, never fancied the 12-30 kick off & now saving my money for the play offs. (Does anyone know if the date & kick off time of the play off final has been confirmed ? )

Quite surprised to see how much trouble Vale are in, they look like goners after last night's results. Shame really, if we don't go up , I like a trip to PV where there's a lively atmosphere & we usually do well there.....plus, a trip to Burslem always makes me feel better about Bolton !!

Aye, he's a bit "outgoing" for me & not popular with all Pompey fans but he's looked after Bolton fans down there, was with some Bolton this season, & made the effort to come up for Ferny's funeral. He's alright. & today.....not a good start, i see the 5-13 train back to town is cancelled !!

If i'm reading that right, IF we go up, there's only about a 50/50 chance of us playing at 3pm Saturday. In the championship, I doubt we'd be a popular pick for tv games & our games chosen would probably be mostly home games against more "fashionable" clubs. If we're still in div 1, as "big fish", we could get picked just as often which could be a pain for rearranging away games.....just hope there would be plenty of warning of fixture date/time changes.

Yep, in the game at Portsmouth, we were the better team but Pompey flew into us with Santos & Sheehan being especially targetted & not given a second to play.......but Yengi should have been booked for his persistant fouling which would have made a difference.

Some lovely football & we could have scored more, especially Dempsey at the death. Top performances from Santos & Sheehan, Collins has a touch of quality, Bod was poor 1st half but very good 2nd & Thomason & Magoma both got better as the game went on. Apart from the keeper/juggler, Reading were very ordinary but had a 10/15 minute spell when they were a real threat & Coleman did well for us, but our subs seemed to finish them off. Very enjoyable & hopefully some of the part timers will return.

I'm not calling people who are quiet "moaners ", i'm referring to those who can't wait to criticise or squeal " geddit forward " the moment things are going against us. They're only a minority but they can kill the atmosphere & support for the team.

West Ham's support has changed markedly, a few years back, they were largely from rough, east end areas of London but now they seem to mostly be Essex gobshites..........& that wanky crossed arms thing they do now, the old school lot didn't do that.

We could sell the remaining south lower tier to Bolton fans & if they sell, take the upper tier as well, but if we're falling away, I'm not convinced that our part timers will pay 30 pound a ticket. If we can't sell out the lower tier, we should give the upper tier to Portsmouth.....it would be tinpottery to leave 2000ish seats empty when they could sell them, we're not Blackpool !! They don't make much noise from the upper tier & at worst , we still outnumber them by more than 3 to 1.......if we can't drown them out, it's down to our home moaners,not because we sold them a few more tickets.

Just back & still gutted. We were much the better team, played some lovely football but if you don't score you can get sucker punched like today. Can't complain, we've done it to others. It's looking like the play offs for us now but hopefully we'll have Dion & Baxter back after the break.

Very odd timings, I don't want to be in Derby at 11, & though i wouldn't mind coming back on it, i don't leave early & i don't run (& i like to call in the chippy facing the station !! ), so 5-25 would be cutting it fine. More likely to get the service train back at about 5-45.

Haven't we already got our 3 with Ashworth in Wales u21's, with or without Charles.

Wonderful, just wonderful. I wasn't expecting that & at h/t I still thought Oxford would improve ( they didn't ) or we would go off the boil. (we didn't, if anything, we got even better ) Everyone played well & contributed making it hard to pick a MOTM, if forced i'd go for Cogley, but it was a real team job.

Coleman & Bod are fine as 3rd division reserves/stand ins but both starting weakens us at both ends, so I can't see us winning the next 2.......our hope has to be that others drop points & that we've get Baxter & Dion back after the break.

Same as at Barnsley, Jerome used his experience to get the penalty at Wycombe, that time by getting ahead of the defender & then slowing down enough to get his heel clipped. They were both penalties but he made sure the referees saw them !! As a late replacement player, he's nearly always done a good job for us.

Just back & still buzzing from that finish. We started off the better team without threatening much until we gave away a messy goal after which we played too much aimless long ball stuff & went 2 down......but, we showed real character fighting back with a mixture of some long ball but also some lovely football. Getting Sheehan & Thomason into the game was huge & most of the subs worked well, Iredale & Randell were good on the left, Jones was effective as RWB, Jerome did well & Maghoma was very lively. Getting the equaliser in time added on for Barnsley's usual cheating was a pleasing kind of justice , as was Santos letting Cosgrove know that we've not forgotten him !! "Two nil & you fucked it up ....EIEIEIO "

Poor 1st half but better 2nd when Sheehan, Maghoma & Dempsey got into the game. Their 2nd goal was horrible.....asleep to the short corner, no tackles when it's played accross & Coleman should have done better. (He'd no chance with the others ) On the plus side, we scored 3 good goals, certainly improved & nearly won it at the end but we're desperate for Santos & Baxter to return. Could have been worse !!!

That sounds like the Park Hill estate at the back of the train station & up the hill. ....concrete brutalism apparently !! After games in Sheffield or changing there, we used to go up the hill to the 3 or 4 pubs in the estate. !st time it was a bit daunting, the pubs were roughish but we didn't act like dicks & never got bothered. It all went downhill & the pubs shut down.......there was talk of refurbishing them but i've not been back.https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/14/park-hill-brutalist-sheffield-estate-controversial-renovation

Yes, they wouldn't have much without May's goals but some of their fans seem to think he's tailed off in the slump they've had. (I can't be arsed looking when his goals came )

Aye & even that went in off his shin !! Ngog was awful, the only thing you could say for him was that he probably wasn't as bad as Sordell.

Having a look on the Charlton forum , I was surprised to see a thread wanting Alfie May dropped, he doesn't seem to have been doing much for them. At Charlton, Santos was much too good for May, but without Santos I'd be pleased if May isn't playing. The player they really rate & seem to be depending on is Chuks Aneke a forward who i think we were once linked with. Unlucky for Charlton, he seems to be very injury prone.

Yep, that would be my team. I think Ashworth is the better all round player but against these i'd go for the more attacking Ogbeta.

My feelings exactly. I hope we sell out or i'll probably make a last minute decision to go.