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Hate that as a fan. Easy chance (no disrespect to Vale) to get into the quarters, as a top flight club, and mess it up. Good win for Port Vale though. Hope they get another home draw next round.

Southampton going through. Their season turned out alright in the end.

If they’re good enough they’ll play, ask Nelson. We’re in a relegation battle, it’s not time to play youth for the sake of it. I like Page but you can see he needs to become stronger. Only the Norwich game has been a blip for Rowett in a run of fixtures that would have been tough for any manager.

I said weeks ago we need maximum points from our next 4 home games which is possible (Bristol City/QPR/Preston/Swansea) as they ganes are winnable. Watford away, in between, I’ll write as nothing as I did Ipswich. Then another 3 at Sheffield Wednesday. Millwall/Hull/Portsmouth run in will be difficult.

In those 4 matches we’ve played two teams in the top 6 and the best form team this calendar year. What you expecting? We’re in a relegation battle ffs.

Honestly so many people post “football is boring now” etc yet still continue to watch it.

It’s a shocking challenge.

Brilliant today.

Good point. Second half was disappointing but I thought we played well first half. Winks I thought was brilliant. Ipswich can fvck off as well. Diving and wanting everything. Running to referee at every opportunity. About 5 good seasons in 20 years and think they’re the big one.

This game is winnable for us.

I’m sure Oxford have some nice back to back games coming up soon too.

Are Ipswich bang average right now? They have only lost one home game all season and that was 5 months ago. They've lost 2 in 10.

Why have I never seen that dog being lifted up before

Forest beating us at home while singing our managers name, Cooper, was one of the worse things too experience.

Get them down. Would be incredible to see some of the teams at this level go there for a league game.

They've only got a poor recent history against us and even that is separated by a good decade. Early 00's we never seemed to beat them. Flashbacks to the 6-1 at their place. I recall being at home when Bent scored for them about 10 seconds in as well. I can't see us beating them tomorrow, however much we'd all love a win.

Better than some of the squads that stayed up. We went down with something like the third best defence in the league. Our squad included players that were more than proven at that level, Oakley/Clemence/Howard, plus McAuley was solid and went onto have a good top flight career, as did Stearman. Hume was half decent at that level and used to get double figures for us. I will always stand that we should not have gone down. I don't even think we'd have gone down with Megson in charge. Agree that Allen started the mess (as did Mandaric overseeing it all, getting involved and letting it happen) but for being the man in charge while it happened Holloway goes down as one of the worst for me (it is hard to compare different levels/squads/budgets throughout history, granted).

Holloway took us to our lowest ever position. And with a squad that was more than good enough of staying up. We should never have been a third tier club.

I don't blame you for forgetting This season is very forgetful already. Although I do recall us winning at Deepdale to stay up. Rob Kelly I think might have been in charge. We've seen a lot of ups and downs.

I think people tend to remember what they want. Mavididi has had a decent half a season here (under Enzo) and that's all. Nothing to do with jealousy (?) but just that he's not as good as what people like to think or remember.

Agreed. It was a joke last season that Sheffield United finished so far ahead of the other three play off sides (and eventually stayed down). They had to play Bristol City despite finishing 22 points ahead of them in the league season, absolute joke, and quite rightly Sheffield United beat them 3-0 and 3-0 across the two play off games.

If you look on their forum they don't seem very optimistic.

Even if you go before that. We had a Pearson era and then the dismantle when he left. It wasn't until he came back again that we really started. Pearson had a dream.

We played at Deepdale earlier this season and lost.

Hoping ticket information is released for this soon as it's only a month tomorrow.