cidercity1987

I'm not down with KITR's abuse of Yate and it's residents but Ladden Garden Village is a proper tip, right?

What type of player do you think will fit in that position for us? Seeing another season of workmanlike Knight in that crucial attacking midfield position is not for me and won't give us any of the creativity we have been so desperately missing this season

Is correct but then so is 10 from 5 tbf

Quite impressive to keep a clean sheet without Dickie, more by luck than anything I think though Still shite going forward, not looking promising for next season with Manning

Interesting down the bottom

One team won 2 in a row with very pressure on them Another team just got spanked 5 , no surprise they are more up for it

Well I think today is showing very well that our two best players are Dickie and O'Leary

Ipswich look well off the pace today As just about the only poster on OTIB thinking we are still on the very outer edge of the play off race, this would be a very bad result

Shittest wall I've ever seen

They are well overdue a spell in League One, going back to when we should have relegated them at the Gate

I wonder what happened with Rotherham this season. Championship survival to absolutely hopeless and not even competitive in the space of a season?

Points per game James starting v not starting can shove recency bias where the sun don't shine Anyone got the stats?

I find that quote offensive in the extreme If these guys were not supposed to get us top 6 then why the **** was Pearson not given the fair opportunity this season.

I'll enjoy the rest of the season if we win the next three to make Norwich away a very interesting game with an outside chance of the play offs (as they will drop points between now and then) Otherwise the season is still a failure to not even be in the play off conversation

Maybe WBA was a bad comparison if they have always had Parachute payments. Not sure what bigger club historically means in the race for the Prem but it all appears to boil down to that? Something totally intangible? Is that why other clubs of similar or lower resources always eventually make it back to the Prem? Something intangible?? All sorts of clubs Clubs with a few more fans than us Middlesbrough, Coventry, Clubs with far less fans and resources than us QPR, Blackburn, Watford (without parachute) Bloody hell Cardiff, Swansea, Huddersfield, Hull All these clubs manage a go at it every now and again Why do we have to compare ourselves to clubs with far less fans like Millwall and Preston. I literally do not understand. Ultimately my conclusion is that it is the OWNER

EXACTLY, which is the opposite of the point the opening poster is making

What is it about clubs like West Brom who despite averaging only about 1,000 fans more than us, always get their act together and finish at least in the play offs every few years with or without parachute payments. What do they have that we do not? A winning mentality?? Same applies to loads of clubs of very similar resources. Why can't we EVER finish above tiny PNE?? And don't say because they won a few things 100 years ago as that is totally irrelevant to resource generation in 2024.

In a usual season our attendances are at least top third, or if not top six. So there is that. I appreciate this season they are midtable as there are a number of well supported clubs, but our crowds are higher than Stoke for example and way higher than loads of the mentioned ex Prem clubs like Blackburn. We cannot compete with parachute clubs but we should be able to compete well with every single one of the remaining non parachute clubs. It's totally embarrassing that 50 clubs or more (many with far less resources) have made it to the Prem and we have not. I am not aware that being an ex Premier League club gives any greater right or even resources to challenge instead of us?

Dickie by a country mile Conway begrudgingly in the absence of anyone better. I thought we were supposed to have a young team? Conway goal versus West Ham away Clicked past the women (yes you can do this) as I don't know enough

PNE fans don't like Lowe even now and I really really don't get it. Shooting well above their weight

No one else doing the usual after a few wins then and checking the fixture list, this season ain't over yet.... Not saying we could win all 6 and not saying if we did that 71 would be enough But we might win a few more to make it interesting.... Revisit after Sunderland

Such a spawny team with all these late winners I know it's down to attitude rather than luck but they've got so many more points than their true level

Redevelopment effect, we aren't the same club we were 10 years ago for better or worse

Even a club like Plymouth coming up automatically with quality and momentum have really started to struggle. Imagine if ragtag Rovers sneaked in fluckily through the play offs one year with a squad like theirs at the moment. They wouldn't have the first clue how to compete and I could see a record low points total

I hope he notices our win ratio when James plays compares to when he doesn't.... I fear without James we are going to have teams running through our midfield in a way not seen since 2011 - 2013