bluebruce

Luton's manager essentially admitted they will struggle for motivation today. And we still can't break them down. Think they'd fuck us in the playoffs over 2 legs. Dolan would have scored there, good block from their defender. Seems to be getting into the game now, thank fuck.

Did Amari bloody Bell just dance past about three of our players with ease?

Then you haven't been paying attention lately.

He really isn't. But he's been very poor recently and would have been best returning to his nuisance off the bench role.

Luton don't even need to play to get chances, they just wait for us to fuck up.

Szmodics not quite quick enough for that ball from BBD, shame.

His missus managed it. Maybe if she hadn't, he'd be getting more sleep and playing better.

Fantastic ball from Brereton. To them.

Absolutely must do better there Joe

Looks like theirs might actually be earning it!

So ours is 37% higher than theirs, quite significant.

Wage bill shouldn't be discounted. I bet ours is a fair bit higher than Luton's.

Is this the one where he nearly took the bloke's head off? My mum still talks about that one to this day, before my time though.

Of course WBA came from 1 down to be 2-1 up at the moment...another team that if we draw Luton and beat Millwall will still have a strong chance of pipping us on GD. Just not gonna happen unless we absolutely turn it on for these last two games after getting shite results for ages.

Not sure that's a good idea...

In our own hands is a funny way of putting it really. We have two games against teams who are both higher than us in the league. Yes it's in our hands, but it's equally in their hands, they're in the match too. Teams who have statistically outperformed us this season.

Not sure why you quoted me to just reiterate what I was saying.

I've felt like giving up at almost every point from that moment onwards, and have at times, but somehow, despite dreadful form, it has continued being mathematically possible. Just not conceding one of those late equalisers recently would have given us a strong chance going into the final day, because so many teams around us have also had stuttering form. I look at how this league is looking to finish...Burnley are a strong side for this level but we saw the other day they're nothing that special and yet they've utterly ran away with it. Luton in third, Coventry in 5th, Millwall in 6th...this has been a fucking SHIT league this year. I can't help but feel we have missed a truly golden opportunity. It's true it's the hope that kills you.

This season has been an absolute prick tease.

So now we also need Preston to do us a favour and beat Sunderland in a game where Preston have nothing to play for. Yeh I'm sure they'll be well up for doing us a favour. Think we are probably going to need to win both remaining games to do it now. Not happening IMO.

Ahh yes, I missed that if West Brom win their last two games they'd have the same points as we would from drawing with Luton and beating Millwall. Fuck, Sunderland just equalised!

With Sunderland 2 down (oops, 2-1 now) and Coventry 2 up, looking like we will need to get at least a draw from Luton to still have a mathematical chance (unless there's a ridiculous turnaround in GD from us unexpectedly thrashing Millwall). We would then need to also beat Millwall, and we would be guaranteed to be in the playoffs (assuming Sunderland don't snatch something against Watford). If we manage to beat Luton, and Coventry lose away to Boro, we would be capable of finishing as high as 5th, but (realistically) regardless what happens we need to beat Millwall away and get at least a point at Luton. That's the only route to landing in the playoffs I believe, and it will also be guaranteed if we do that. Meaning it's still in our hands. Our butterfingery hands. Looks like a draw really is pretty much as good as a win against Luton, it won't make any difference to our chances of reaching the playoffs, a win would only mean there's an outside chance of finishing 5th rather than 6th. (Someone correct me if I've missed something here...obviously I'm assuming Sunderland don't scrape a point here)

Letting him go was absolutely no mistake whatsoever in any shape, form or fashion. Not replacing and improving on him however, was a huge mistake.

For every JRC there's a Jason Lowe and an Adam Henley. Sometimes management are right, sometimes they're horribly wrong. JRC looked short of fitness, BB looked short of confidence. Vale looks short of giving a shit.

Let's just keep every player around then regardless of how they play, in case they go all JRC or BBD.