I've read more crap from your support obsessing about league positions, and how Swindon are punching above their weight with low crowds, loanees etc. (take your pick) and that we'll fade
Wages don't mean a thing. Back in the early 2000's we we were paying over inflated wages for league One thanks to Pulis and look where it got us. Struggling to get promotoed and stuck with inferior high earners
Thought Swindon looked excellent tonight. Cant see them fading. I think Preston will be the ones to fall away from the auto race.
I actually think it will be MK, I said this a few weeks ago. They do look like they've fallen away a bit the last few weeks. Very good performance tonight, Coventry looked very ordinary.
Well look at what happened when Johnson was in charge for trying to stay in the championship players to try and push us back towards the play offs, kicked off the trend of paying big in recent times. Just seen the interview Cotts has given saying we could well struggle competitively financially in the championship and saying that there are a few teams with bigger budgets than us in this league. Probably partly with trying to keep fans grounded on expectations mixed with reality. Will be interesting to see how they cope with the loss of Afobe and if they are able to get a quality replacement, the thing with MK was that they were blowing teams away, they seem to have struggled on that front of late. Preston will come down to if Ebanks-Blake gets firing along with Beckford imo. Fair play to Swindon I didn't watch the game, but 3-0 anywhere is decent, would be fun if we both got promoted and boosted south west football a bit, seeing as Yeovil aren't helping us on that front
Yes Im not concerned who we go up with, would just be immense to go up. I think Yeovil will be playing Rovers in a few years unfortunately
I'm hoping they're not playing them next season, Rovers can rot in the bananarama conference for a while.
I think Rovers will go up unfortunately. Anyway It could well be a Swindon/City one two. We was 4th favourites for autos before the game. I think people will see we are a real threat now..
Not sure how we've managed to 'drop away' while climbing a place at the weekend with a game still in hand to move further towards second place, but anyway.. I think Afobe's departure will mean we've no realistic chance of winning the league or going top now at any point in the remainder of the season without that bit extra on top of just good consistent results. One of the current top two will win the league, the other will probably drop back to 3rd or 4th. Barring a dramatic Tranmere (circa. 2012-13)-style meltdown I can't really see the season not finishing with the current top four not being the current top four in some order. perhaps 4th and 5th separated by goal difference at best? I doubt we'll drop away though, from the top spot yes, but from the fight for second place, no. Without Afobe I think it's safe to say these many goal wins will probably be a thing of the past from us, but we're already doing some damage control by strengthening in this transfer window. Keith Andrews's return (practically a done deal looking at the obvious clues all over the place here) should be as important as Afobe in the first half of the season. Won't make up for his goals (although freeing up Alli to play in his natural no.10 role should help reduce the Afobe-less deficit), but it'll give us the kind of experience and quality leadership we're sorely lacking compared to Preston and Bristol City's abundance of experienced players that can guide a young, inexperienced squad through this part of the season as a promotion contender. We're not down and out yet and there's still the will to stay in this, as Saturday's comeback demonstrated. Although this thread is probably now the wrong one for anything regarding us..
