ashton_fan

We don't win that often at Vicarage Road but managed to in our play-off season:

Tins should take a lot of the credit, he keeps producing players from the academy that are almost first-team ready who don't take many games to get up to speed. Scotty will be off for millions in the summer but Taylor-Clarke will be a great addition to the midfield once he's gone, and we'll have money to buy players from outside if we need them. Tins and Nige seem to get on and work as a team.

The owner is using the club as a cash machine. The same thing has been happening at Man Utd with the Glazers but they've been a bit more subtle about it. All perfectly legal, we don't know how lucky we are with the Lansdowns.

He doesn't know any of the City players other than JD..' Bristol attacking', 'a Bristol player is down injured' etc

What position does Leeson play?

We sit in W15, a great view

As has been noted here before City score more goals with Naismith in the side, since he got injured at Preston we've only scored more than one goal once, that was against Blackpool when Cornick played a part in setting up the second goal for Scott. The first time Cornick played for us was in that Preston game when he came on as sub after Naismith had left the pitch injured, so he has never been on the pitch at the same time as Naismith. Our other forwards have also struggled in this period (Nahki has score twice but both were penalties) so it's a bit unfair on Cornick, let's see how he does when the team's creating more chances before judging, he always puts in a good shift effort wise, it's unfair to judge him when there are scant chances for the forwards.

Our lack of a first ball CB showing up today

We have plenty of attacking options on the bench, I'm sure we'll go for it second half, mustn't concede a second though

Blackpool have a lot of injuries as well. I expect Sykes to move to mid if James not available and Weiman out wide. It will be a hard match but if we turn up we should win or at worst get a point. If we don't turn up we'll lose for sure.

We're creating chances, but many of our goals during good spells have been tap-ins, we're not seeing those now. This is partly due to our recent success, looking at the last couple of games teams are wary of our forwards and sitting deep, if we have a chance of a break they just foul and accept a yellow card. Many of our goals have been from wide positions with a low cross and someone waiting at the far post to tap in, I've noticed teams now are making sure defenders block these types of cross at the near post, they've obviously been studying videos of our recent games. We have to find different ways of scoring or it becomes too predictable, eg we haven't got anyone who can score from outside the box.

Cornick needs time, remember how long it took Nahki to fit in

Poor as Huddersfield are, with Colin in charge and our injury situation I can't say I'm confident about Tuesday

We have various options, we could make use of JD at left back an move Pring to CB, we could move Sykes to RB and use Tanner as CB, or we could just bring in Andy King and leave the rest where they are. It shouldn't be too long before Naismith is back although I'm not sure how good he'd be at CB in a back four, if he was playing in front of the makeshift back four though that would help. At least we've got quite a few points on the board now so shouldn't have to worry about getting dragged down into the relegation scrap especially with Reading expecting a points deduction as well. We'll just have to make the best of it and get someone else in for the summer window (at least one or two if as I suspect Kalas is gone). It shows how valuable Zak has been for us this season with his good form and availability.

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I don't think our owner will accept anything less than a play-off challenge next season. He's in his 70's and wants to see us in the Premier League, he hasn't got unlimited time. I appreciate things are really good at present but we had similar runs when LJ was manager that took us near the top of the table for short periods of time, we don't know yet whether this run of form is sustainable or just an 'LJ streak', it's only a few weeks ago there were talks of demonstrations and the crowd showed their unhappiness at the WBA home game, things can change quickly in football. Probably our form will carry on improving but nothing's certain.

Next season is make or break for Nige. I think we'll keep improving but if we're bottom half again then probably a change will be made at some point, so I wouldn't expect a new contract yet (and don't think Nige is bothered anyway)

I would have thought if we sell Scott we won't need to sell anyone else as we'll have had enough cash coming in (including Semenyo money) to balance the books. I think we'll make Kalas an offer, but he might still choose to go elsewhere depending on who's interested.

Fortunately I won't be using public transport today but looking at the last bus/train times it looks a bit tight if it went to extra time/penalties, in that case game might not finish until 22.45, last bus for park&ride is 23.30 and train 22.54, I wonder if they realise there won't be a replay if the match is tied? Also they're asking people getting the bus to wait 45 mins before leaving the ground if poss so everyone doesn't arrive at once!

He's sure to start on Tuesday

Funnily enough bumped into him at a pub in Keynsham last weekend, thought I recognised him but insulted him by asking if he was Mike Gibson! Had a good chat, he said how Brian Clough rescued his career after he was released by Lincoln by offering him a job at Hartlepool where he was part of their promotion team. Has obviously looked after himself as still looks lean an fit, made my weekend, a great bloke.

Never thought of that ... maybe we should all just use Google and stop posting on OTIB

He'll never last that long, he won't want to miss the cup match

Re Alex Scott and yellow cards am I right in thinking he'll be OK if he survives tonight and on Saturday (ie our 32nd game)? If so then there will be a temptation to rest him tonight or at least only use him for part of the game?

Looking at that newspaper clip I noticed Brian Clough was 2nd in Div 2 goalscorers with 40!