This one will sort the wheat from the chaff - on sale tomorrow.

Last midweek away of the season barring any postponements.

2 minutes ago, Arrested development said:

Lincoln will have a bad run it's just whether we are too far off to capitalise. 

Will they fuck. They're a proper outfit.

They will lose some games, but so will we.

We'd have to go on some run and they'd have to have a major blip.

Playoffs it is. 

 

1 minute ago, London Wanderer said:

Elements of them can be a lottery. One bad day in a leg or the final and you've blown it. But it's a great squad to be taking into the playoffs..

Big disappointment to be in February and only have the playoffs to go for.

Baring a major blip, it will be a surreal couple of months and we may have a number of games with nothing to play for. 

The issue with the play offs is that to win them, you have to play 2 games away from your own ground.

Which is a massive issue for us 

Wembley wouldn't concern me from that point of view.

A draw away wouldn't be a result neither.

3 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

Another good performance. Without doing enough to get over the line. 
 

its so frustrating. A lack of quality letting us down and even the most glass half full supporter must think 2nd is beyond us now. I don’t see Lincoln dropping off on their form and I do see us having a late season blip. 

Thinking about Lincoln ended at 5.00 on Saturday. We've some improving to do to consolidate the play off position, the only focus for now, SS getting more out of the (apparent) embarrassment of forward riches and getting us well clear of the chasers before those nasty games in April.

16 minutes ago, 1969 said:

That's what happens when you beat the first man with a cross.Hope Sheehan watch that 

3 of last 5 goals are from corners put in the mixer.

We got 1 a couple of minutes earlier and I said "right Christie, this is what you're on for" and 20 seconds later we've taken it short 😠

2 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

The issue with the play offs is that to win them, you have to play 2 games away from your own ground.

Which is a massive issue for us 

I think our away form will continue to improve and we'll build confidence on that front. 

We'd have a great chance in the playoffs. But I'm gutted we've got nothing else to play for.

Our away form overall has cost us that. 

26 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Exactly the opposite for me.

He has an eye for goal for a start.

He also provides a bit of bite and defensive ability that allows for full backs going forward. 

He also takes a better corner than the others.

Dempsey has scored 34 goals in 450 games. That’s roughly 3 a season 

I’d expect more than that from a centre back 

13 goals in 114 appearances for us. So one in 9. So on roughly 5 per season which is steady but doesn’t suggest someone we can rely on for goals. 
 

I like Dempsey. I just don’t think he’s that good. His corners were right on the money against Barnserley though 

I think for me personally I'm just looking at us consolidating play off now and 3rd place if we can. Anything else would be a bonus, still lots of football to be played however.

We're all dreading the thought of play offs, but I'm more confident under Schuey and this team, who's to say we can't win it 3rd time lucky.

Lincoln & Reading Away back to back is tough and we haven't lost. Not good enough for top 2 but let's try and get some wins now starting with the Donkeys on Saturday.

Gonna try and keep as positive as I can. No point being all doom and gloom to be honest as frustrating as it is.

To be fair. If we beat Blackpool and Lincoln drop points we’re back to where we were and that positivity might set in again. 
 

Here’s hoping we don’t shit the bed on Saturday 

Hope Rodrigues is fit enough to start on Saturday, he’s a class act! Kenny could be in for a treat getting onto to some pinpoint through balls.

14 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Don’t think we will get 3rd with the teams around us having games in hand. 

Never mind 3rd, with  the games in hand teams have on us and our run in I wouldn’t be surprised if we drop out of the play offs 

11 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

I’m not seeing it. I don’t know why they’re more likely to drop points than we are. What is it based on? 

The run they have when they play their game in hand is tough. Every team has a bad run at some point. 

2 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

Dempsey has scored 34 goals in 450 games. That’s roughly 3 a season 

I’d expect more than that from a centre back 

13 goals in 114 appearances for us. So one in 9. So on roughly 5 per season which is steady but doesn’t suggest someone we can rely on for goals. 
 

I like Dempsey. I just don’t think he’s that good. His corners were right on the money against Barnserley though 

This season he is our best scoring midfielder in terms of frequency, and possibly overall.

He offers more defensively as I said.

If that allows us to to score just the one, and not concede, then it's enough.

Past seasons are irrelevant- it's what is happening this that counts.

2 minutes ago, Lostock Whites said:

I think for me personally I'm just looking at us consolidating play off now and 3rd place if we can. Anything else would be a bonus, still lots of football to be played however.

We're all dreading the thought of play offs, but I'm more confident under Schuey and this team, who's to say we can't win it 3rd time lucky.

Lincoln & Reading Away back to back is tough and we haven't lost. Not good enough for top 2 but let's try and get some wins now starting with the Donkeys on Saturday.

Gonna try and keep as positive as I can. No point being all doom and gloom to be honest as frustrating as it is.

I love all that. But the playoffs are awful. The final if you get there is just a sickening bag of nerves - its not an enjoyable day out.

Mind you, if we win...

1 minute ago, Arrested development said:

The run they have when they play their game in hand is tough. Every team has a bad run at some point. 

Some tough games, but I can see them winning 3 easily. 

Cardiff away could go any way.

Just now, Arrested development said:

The run they have when they play their game in hand is tough. Every team has a bad run at some point. 

They don’t always. Cardiff haven’t really had one, Birmingham didn’t really have one. 
 

I think we hope they do, but that doesn’t made that they do. Lincoln are a better team than us. Their run in is similar to ours in terms of toughness and I think they have more mental fortitude than we have. I think if we were on the same points they’d still finish above us 

Just now, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Some tough games, but I can see them winning 3 easily. 

Cardiff away could go any way.

Yeah but you could also conceivably see them losing 2 and drawing one. 

Conway was absolutely outstanding in possession.  Folk will rightly point to him being AWOL for the goal, but for the other 98 minutes, he was on a different level to everyone else on the pitch.

Back to his best tonight, with pace, strength, dribbling, passing and energy.

Oh, and we played well overall, some excellent stuff at times.

Reading were piss poor.  It would have been an absolute joke if their defensive mindset had paid off.

If we're in the play offs, please can we play them?

Lincoln and Reading Away and didn’t lose one; tonight we battered the form team but missed chances yet again.

 

31 minutes ago, 1969 said:

We could play all night and not score 

Another aged well

Just now, Not in Crawley said:

I love all that. But the playoffs are awful. The final if you get there is just a sickening bag of nerves - its not an enjoyable day out.

Mind you, if we win...

I know, and that Oxford game was so recent in the memory, still makes me feel sick.

But I guess at some point we've just gotta keep looking forward and not back.

Wigan made us their little bitches for a long time and we felt sick having to play them. Schuey has made them the joke now instead.

It's gonna happen and I think we are better than those in the play offs currently. With ACD coming back in the run in you never know, why not.

I'd rather have Schumacher than Evatt any day of the week.

1 minute ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Conway was absolutely outstanding in possession.  Folk will rightly point to him being AWOL for the goal, but for the other 98 minutes, he was on a different level to everyone else on the pitch.

Back to his best tonight, with pace, strength, dribbling, passing and energy.

Oh, and we played well overall, some excellent stuff at times.

Reading were piss poor.  It would have been an absolute joke if their defensive mindset had paid off.

If we're in the play offs, please can we play them?

It wasn’t his fault for tge goal; Johnston should have been marking the cunt who scored

1 minute ago, Lostock Whites said:

I know, and that Oxford game was so recent in the memory, still makes me feel sick.

But I guess at some point we've just gotta keep looking forward and not back.

Wigan made us their little bitches for a long time and we felt sick having to play them. Schuey has made them the joke now instead.

It's gonna happen and I think we are better than those in the play offs currently. With ACD coming back in the run in you never know, why not.

Reading won’t be in the playoffs

7 minutes ago, Arrested development said:

The run they have when they play their game in hand is tough. Every team has a bad run at some point. 

Only problem is, we play all of those too 😀