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Promoted by Easter FACT

Far too soon to be making those sort of comments as the squad is very small - got away with it against Leicester because a) Harper made a blinding save from Howard's header, plus 2 other good saves, all before we scored ; had any of these chances, plus a bad miss by Leicester, been converted, we would have lost. The team is getting by on the strength of the midfield at this level - Smith is winning many balls, but will do so at the expense of yellow cards ; Nolan, Guthrie and Barton make enough decent runs to keep a good deal of possession when Smith wins it but Ranger is still(naturally) far from the finished article up front and unless we make a couple of signings we will struggle for goals from front players although Ameobi can get his share at this level. Enrique was defensively excellent(and that his his main job, NOT acting as a winger because we are so light in that dept) - as has been said, he made one bad pass near the end which could have been costly, but was otherwise one of the mainstays. We face a difficult away game at the weekend against Cardiff and unless some signings are made we could struggle to score down there, but certainly for now, the team have ground out the results and all credit to both them and the coaching staff for showing great attitiude in the first month of the season. Nonsense. It'd take a disaster for us not to get promoted with this team. With a full side out yesterday it would have been 3 or 4 but we still won with a depleted side, against one of the better teams in the league. Teams can't score against us and we're always liable to get one at the other end. It'd be nice to see Harper break Van Der Sar's record for consecutive clean sheets in the league. Still makes me laugh how people were panicking after Orient. People obssess about beating Sunderland's crowds at this level but we should go after their 105 points total. We'll see how much 'nonsense' this is after we start to get a few bad results - and we WILL ; even KK's promotion side(who would have beaten this lot out of sight)went several games in Jan/Feb 93 without a win and we don't even know whether some of the current squad will be sold today... You are really tempting fate by saying 'teams can't score against us..' Leicester missed a sitter last night, and Harper made as good a save as Given has ever made when he stopped Howard scoring..what happens if Taylor or Enrique get injured/suspended, etc.? Have you ever seen a promotion season before ? Did you not see how we blew promotion in the play-offs against the Mackems ? We shall see...... This is the best team on paper that's been in this league in living memory. The question was whether they could blend into a team but they have. The Keegan promotion team lost a few games and so will we, so what? We aren't going to go 46 games unbeaten, even with this team. When we do lose, it'll be a positive because it'll ward against complacency. We're expecting to win every week now and that hasn't been the case for a long time.

Far too soon to be making those sort of comments as the squad is very small - got away with it against Leicester because a) Harper made a blinding save from Howard's header, plus 2 other good saves, all before we scored ; had any of these chances, plus a bad miss by Leicester, been converted, we would have lost. The team is getting by on the strength of the midfield at this level - Smith is winning many balls, but will do so at the expense of yellow cards ; Nolan, Guthrie and Barton make enough decent runs to keep a good deal of possession when Smith wins it but Ranger is still(naturally) far from the finished article up front and unless we make a couple of signings we will struggle for goals from front players although Ameobi can get his share at this level. Enrique was defensively excellent(and that his his main job, NOT acting as a winger because we are so light in that dept) - as has been said, he made one bad pass near the end which could have been costly, but was otherwise one of the mainstays. We face a difficult away game at the weekend against Cardiff and unless some signings are made we could struggle to score down there, but certainly for now, the team have ground out the results and all credit to both them and the coaching staff for showing great attitiude in the first month of the season. Nonsense. It'd take a disaster for us not to get promoted with this team. With a full side out yesterday it would have been 3 or 4 but we still won with a depleted side, against one of the better teams in the league. Teams can't score against us and we're always liable to get one at the other end. It'd be nice to see Harper break Van Der Sar's record for consecutive clean sheets in the league. Still makes me laugh how people were panicking after Orient. People obssess about beating Sunderland's crowds at this level but we should go after their 105 points total.

I don't think we'll lose but this is one game where we might not have it all our own way. I think we'll sneak it 1-0 because Leicester are a hard team to break down.

Villa are rubbish in Europe because Martin O'Neill only buys British players.

Kinnear froze him out of the side by all accounts, wouldn't even speak to him let alone include him in reserve games. He did get a few games in the reserves when Kinnear was in hospital, even scored a few goals, but managed to get injured just before Shearer came in and wasn't really fit for the end of the season. If his attitude is a bit s*** it might have a lot to do with that, knowing that no matter what he did he wasn't going to be picked is hardly an incentive to put much effort in. There's a good chance that the reason he looks like he has hardly played with his team mates is because he's hardly been given the opportunity to play alongside them. It doesn't help his cause that every time there's an opening for a starting place he gets injured. The Spanish Stephen Glass? No, he's just made of glass.

This is the first time we've played on Bank holiday Monday for dronkeys years. Will feel a bit weird tbh to have a game because I always go away for the weekend.

Until Saturday when players dive in every game and get away with it. Wate of time IMO.

Aye David Craig said we can't afford his wages so it isn't happening. If we'd need to let people go first, then its not worth it.

To be fair if we're winning every week and run away with it, it will spoil it for neutrals. Its usually a tight league where anyone can beat anyone but we'll beat everyone in this form.

We'll definitely be signing alot of Premiership players on loan this season.

Would be great but I hope it doesn't mean Enrique is leaving. Happy with the team we have tbh. Don't want to disrupt it.

23k Great effort that. I think its the highest of the round. Nah, its a disgrace that 29k stayed a home. Best fans in the world yadda yadda Fishing surely? We had even less I seem to remember last season against Spurs. Highest attendance of the round tonight.

23k Great effort that. I think its the highest of the round.

Why should he f*** off? With Clarky in charge and Novak up front, i'll be looking out for their results now and hoping they go up. They've contributed to a classic match. By that do you mean a match in which we played a s**** defence and both teams were as s**** as each other defensively. Your knowledge of football astounds me, it's like listening to CP40 trying to do a critique of modern music. When we were 3-1 down I stayed off here as I was waiting for the "Give Clark the job" posts. Pardon me for wanting one of our own to be a success.

What's happened to all the misery after the Orient game? Don't like to say I told you say but pre season form means nothing.

Why should he f*** off? With Clarky in charge and Novak up front, i'll be looking out for their results now and hoping they go up. They've contributed to a classic match.

The league has been but as the cliche goes the form book goes out the window in the cup

Just pleased we're through but it wouldn't have mattered if it did. We don't play till Monday. Plenty of time to recover.

You mean "The Football League Cup Show!" On the BBC

Can't wait for MOTD.

So what? Burnley beat them last year in this league. Fear no-one on this form.

Best game at St James' since Tino's hatrick FACT

I've just cum in my pants THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE.

Let's see how it pans out first, in case we lose. If we can go on to win this, it'd rival it in terms of great comebacks.