The fact that Coventry are on a poor run of form as of late makes me more wary of playing them now than I perhaps should be, as they'll surely be fighting harder than ever to get a result and stop that slide before they do potentially end up in the bottom three. Even more so as they've already...
A surprising scoreline developing in the Brentford game this afternoon. Hopefully Barnsley can keep it up and put a bit of pressure on Brentford as we approach the final third of the season.
Also, when on earth did Cardiff manage to crawl back up to 7th? Last I checked they hadn't won in ages...
From our meetings with Coventry this season, I feel fairly confident in saying there are three worse teams, though it is getting tight in that bottom seven (hell, most of the bottom half in general) apart from Wycombe being near-enough gone already barring an absolute miracle.
My gut feeling is...
I hadn't realised Birmingham had slipped into the bottom three, but I'm entirely unsurprised as they've been absolute dross for a good 5 or so years now. And yet, they'll probably still scrape survival again at the end of the season, as they keep on managing to do.
For us, today's result poses...
Giannoulis went from zero to hero in a matter of minutes here, gifting Stoke a goal with a moronic pass across his own box under zero pressure, only to then work hard and get a clever assist for our third.
It's a been more open from us at both ends of the pitch in general and just generally...
Lovely goal from Cantwell to break our goal drought, and a much scrappier one from Pukki to break his goal drought and double our lead (honestly thought his was offside, but no complaints). Looks like we've responded well to the Swansea result, but still a long way to go.
Big scoreline over at...
Now that Brentford have gone top, I'd have to say I expect to see them stay there for the rest of the season and completely run away with the title. It's now probably between us and Swansea for second place and, given our goal difference is drastically worse than both Swansea and Brentford we...
A better performance so far, but that rare mistake from Krul is probably enough for this to be game over, as we still aren't offering any real threat offensively. Potential to end our automatic promotion race as well, as we're losing so much ground over both Brentford and Swansea very quickly...
Even King's Lynn Town, the National League club most vocally in favour of null and void (other than Dover, perhaps) have voted in favour of resolution 1, so it would be incredibly surprising if that did not pass and the leagues got their separate votes.
Their chairman also admits that he fully...
Swansea away tonight is a huge one tonight after three consecutive poor performances in all competitions. We need to win tonight to stop our slump, but it's going to be tricky against an in-form Swansea who have also had more time to rest for this game than the three days we've had.
No new...
Drmic has gone on loan to Croatian club HNK Rijeka for the rest of the season, no doubt just to get him out the building playing football so we can actually sell him in the summer (as he clearly has no future here).
For us, I'd say our squad is much more balanced than it was last time we got promoted - we're far, far better defensively now for example and have more of a plan B courtesy of Hugill - but I would be hard-pressed to say we're better so much as just very efficient. Our attacking football is...
The good thing for yourselves and Bournemouth is that this season the league seems to overall be weaker, with only a few real standout sides among the ranks of dross. If you put this Watford or Bournemouth side, or even our current side, into the Championship we got promoted from two years ago...
Awful performance from us again thus far, offering absolutely nothing but powderpuff shots from range. Seem to have completely lost any attacking ability since the Barnsley cup game, though equally Millwall are offering very little threat of their own going forwards despite being more open than...
Pitch is not great and that's definitely a hindrance to our attacking play, but even with that in mind it's all a bit flat across the park for both teams. Only real sparks coming from Placheta as it stands, but his end product continues to be lackluster.
Only change for us tonight in Buendia's absence through suspension is Placheta coming into the side in his place on the left wing. Need to be far more flexible and aggressive than we were on Saturday, as Millwall will no doubt be similarly difficult to break down as they've already proved once...
Confirmation that for Resolution 1 to pass, the Premier clubs are relying on one of the North and South divisions to not vote fully against it (assuming there aren't many if any votes against it in the top division). Given that the clubs in the North almost all want the season to stop, you would...
From what I saw on Twitter, it was suggested that a straight majority equals all four votes. So that presumably means all 4 votes one way if there's a majority, or 2 votes each way if somehow there's a perfect 50/50 split in the vote.
With resolution 4 also being under the ordinary voting...
So, resolution 1 has a unique voting structure, in which each Premier club gets a single vote while the North and South Divisions get 4 votes each (the maximum 4 being given if 12 clubs in a division vote either for or against).
That still means at least 23 points have to go in favour of...
So, based on how Ollie Bayliss explains it, resolution 1 needs 75% of votes to pass, after which 2 and 3 respectively only need 50% of votes to pass. Alternatively, if resolution 1 doesn't pass, resolution 4 then only needs 50% of votes to pass.
If I'm understanding correctly, doesn't that...