Mboto Gorge

Fucking hell

Does make me laugh that some people here are insisting we need to rest the entire first team on the off chance they get injured when the squad has been fine all season by and large , they are no more likely to get injured on Saturday as in training, or any other given game we’ve had over the last few months, where they didn’t get injured. Some of the mass panic is ridiculous. Play a team capable of winning the game, but rest players where it’s absolutely necessary. Anything else is incredibly counter productive to the form and continuity, cohesion and team spirit we’ve built up over the past few months. All this talk of playing kids is fucking ridiculous and smacks of panicking. I expect to see 4-5 players rested max , with capable replacements, and a view that we will be going out to win the game and give ourselves the best chance of finishing 4th for a second leg at st Mary’s. Resting players for the sake of it is just stupid when we still have something to play for.

Yes I am. Very late sending these out. Edited 14 minutes ago by Mboto Gorge I’ve phoned ticket office - tickets were apparently posted last week. Been advised that if not received by /on Friday to phone again on Friday and will be put on a list to pick up duplicate tickets from Preston ticket office on Saturday. Anyone experienced this before? I’d hate to travel all that way and there be any problem. I took a screenshot of my online booking receipt and reference. So if you show them that with all your correct details there shouldn’t be a problem I’d imagine. That’s what I’ll do if I don’t receive mine by Friday

We could possibly get £20-25m but as others have said, we ain’t getting £40m from anyone, as a championship club for a player who’s only played championship level football in this country. Bonkers

Yes I am. Very late sending these out.

We need to rotate a bit , but not too much. We should rotate those who clearly need a rest but keep as much momentum and cohesion as possible for the play offs. There are probably 4-5 players we can and will rest, but I’d like to think we’d keep a steady core in the team and not fall into the trap of resting players for the sake of it. As has been mentioned, it’s a big advantage finishing 4th to finishing 5th, not least because of the stupid 12:30ko for the home leg if we finish 5th. I think Tonda will make the right call regardless

Not got mine yet either

About 75 tickets left as of right now. Guess these will go if we win tomorrow. Great effort none the less

This is where I’m at. Would be criminal not to go all out for a win against Ipswich. For starters we don’t want them celebrating promotion on our turf, and also, if we win it means that we beat Preston and the pressure is on them to win their games. We would go to Preston under zero pressure in my opinion as all eyes will be on Millwall and Ipswich with all the expectations on them to win. If they do win, we won’t exactly be gutted as it was expected anyway. Not like we’d have bottled it and be on a downer. All in all it’s no lose situation for us. But let’s at least go all out to take it to that scenario on the final day by doing our utmost to beat Ipswich and stick the pressure bang on them and Millwall on Saturday.

In true blackadder style …. “Not with a bayonet through his neck he couldn’t!”

Luckily for us, Ipswich are the one team who’ve played as many games as us over the last 2-3 weeks

What an absolutely ridiculous appointment that was in the first place.

This is still a huge game and one we really should be desperate to win. Looking forward to it

So it’s now confirmed that 84 points would’ve got us second place. Was always going to be unlikely, but if we’d won every game from last Tuesday onwards, we’d have got automatic promotion

Jesus Christ. That alone is enough for anyone to see he has got serious deficiencies in basic shot stopping. Should barely even be playing at pro level. League 2 at best

What makes me laugh is Stoke fans are now absolutely unanimous in their view that he’s one of the worst keepers they’ve ever had at the club , and they’ve only had to watch about 4-5 games to come to that landslide conclusion among their fan base: whereas some of our fans were still sticking up for him after 4 years of us enduring the same level of performance. Probably the same fans who gave the team a standing ovation during our 22/23 season when relegation was confirmed with one of the most Half arsed performances ever at home to Fulham. Staggering stuff

I agree, I didn’t say we would overhaul those 3 points. It’ll be play offs but taking to the final day will still be a great effort if we do beat Ipswich

So by my reckoning, regardless of what happens in any other game with anyone else, if we beat Ipswich it WILL go to the final game, with a worse case scenario that we will be 3 points behind both Millwall and Ipswich, and that’s if they both win all their other games.

Looks like we could finish 5th now, which amazingly is now the lowest we can possibly finish anyway, and it currently looks most like we will play Boro. Great effort from where we were in January. Also have that Very familiar feeling of Bazunu costing and hindering us, even when he’s playing for someone else. He’s like a turd that won’t flush.

https://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/319066/gavin-bazunu?page=31 Fair to say they’ve seen enough of him already

Also hearing that stokes defence was all over the place all game, much like ours regularly was earlier in the season. I wonder what the connection is there…..

Cancel this pricks contract now, seriously; apparently Stoke were looking like equalising until he did his invisible man impression in goal and let in an absolute shocker. The worst goalkeeper I’ve ever seen at this level in my entire life, especially one who has played as many games as this clown has as a number one. Stealing a living. I never want to see him at our club again.

Exactly that. I originally bought mine with a view to auto promotion chances, even though it was a long shot when I bought. Since then it’s become a little more likely, but I also thought I’m going to go regardless as it’ll be a great day with 5k of us packed in behind the goal, plus the players bloody well deserve a huge backing as mentioned, with what they’ve done since January. Also, there’s a big chance there will be something on it, even if it’s just securing 3rd or 4th with a win or a point. Can’t wait.

Unbelievably, I totally agree with you MLG. Things must be going well!

Draw here would still be very decent for us. Just can’t have an Ipswich win really. Won’t be over if they do win, but becomes about 50% less likely for us to get 2nd, so a huge swing