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Thank you agent Butcher and the Gas. It's still advantage Wxm with their gentle remaining fixtures, but at least nominally back in our hands. Charlton on Monday will be a bitch of a game though.

Shame to see Warne take the tainted coin of the Franchise, I generally had a fair bit of respect for him as a manager - comes across as a straight-talking no-bullshit type. Unfortunately that’s a solid appointment, hope their promotion bid fails next campaign and they stay down in the basement...

Well done to Exeter and Shrews, ridiculously low return for Hudds. Burton spent more than I’d expect - panic buys perhaps?

You’d expect most sides still in the promotion hunt to win here, apart from us v a Bolton side desperate for a playoff spot, and needing the win to avoid their season petering out to nothing. Posh have improved of late but their fixture v Stockport runs the classic “after the Lord Mayor’s...

Fantastic news. I think Lincoln have really shown some commitment to this - I think it was a couple of seasons ago where they seemed to be the ultimate draw specialists and were looking like certs for this, but I think they fucked it up by hitting a purple patch which ultimately ruined their...

Holy moly, Brovers in the drop zone for the first time, six defeats on the bounce. Sales of brown trousers starting to take off in BS7…

I think it depends how kneejerk the individual is. When Ainsworth started as manager, he needed a lot of time to get to grips with the team and shape it the way he wanted them to play - it's popularly acknowledged that we literally couldn't afford to fire him when he started, otherwise we...

Seriously? No way in hell Mansfield go down at this stage. The Gas are the only ones above the line with reason to be nervous.

Congrats to Brum although it's been a foregone conclusion for a long time. Perhaps time to check in on the race for the last playoff spot though. Reading's run-in (68 pts currently) Bolton's run-in (66 pts): Hudds (64 pts): Orient (63 pts): It's between Bolton and Reading for...

That’s not happening. You may have a stinker between now and the end of the season, sure - but on the balance of probability, with your run-in, you should seal 2nd. Charlton is your only properly tough game remaining but we have to play both them *and* Stockport. And sodding Bolton too. But...

Can’t wait to welcome Vale back to the third tier, bitching about the ref every single week…

We had one of those last week, very annoying (but to be fair Shrewsbury defended for their lives, so can’t be too bitter…).

Infuriatingly, all the promotion contenders have pretty gentle games today, so yet again only a win will be good enough for us unless we are definitively going to sack off all hopes of 2nd. I think Shrews’ return ticket to the basement could be sealed if they lose and the Gas win (obvs the...

We Wrexhamed it, looked fairly crap for the most part but made the most of a Hudds defensive arse-up to get the 1-0. Still far from convincing, and the auto slot is no longer in our hands, but at least we're not completely dead in the water. Still wouldn't fancy us against Charlton or Stockport...

wish we could do this, in recent times we seem to have a complete phobia of 2 up front, god knows why - maybe they just don’t teach it any more in coaching school.

Yeah, I think so. Even if the 2nd auto spot is gone (which I think it is, given a) our relative run-ins b) our inability to perform consistently) then the longer that our form is wank, we're pretty much handing the playoffs on a plate to Charlton or Stockport, through a lack of confidence...

It’s a pointlessly escalating arms race though, I guess the winners in this are the players and their agents, who make more and more in wages and fees. But the actual quality of the end product doesn’t necessarily go up. There always seems to be new loopholes to circumvent any attempt to...

A few teams making up games in hand. Depending on how results pan out, I believe that Brum’s promotion could officially be confirmed today. Big games in the arse end of the playoff hunt for Bolton and Reading. Our auto hopes are progressively fading, but if we could get a result at Hudds then...

Very poor. We’re not coming back from this, it’s definitively advantage Wxm now and I can’t see us beating any playoff contender over 2 legs in the form we’re in right now. Another season of L1 beckons - it is what it is. This is not over-reaction to today’s result, just our overall arc of...

We started brightly v Reading but the game has petered out into stalemate and a draw is fair so far. Wxm are obviously going to win given Burton had a man sent off on 10 mins so the onus is on us to get a result today, we’ll have to step up a gear to do it though and Dodds is typically too...