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Very pleased to win today in view of how they rolled us over the last two times we met at Loftus Road. 8 away wins is a good return from us and a big reason why we stayed up.
Pretty much agree with Kevin Gallen about what is needed for next season but I have to say I welcomed the bigger and stronger players used by Marti since January making us more competitive. Types like Kakay and Dozzeĺl were too lightweight for this division and needed replacing so the manager quickly identified the weak links in the side.
A double celebration for me with the Spiders beating the Onions tonight so Queens Park will also stay in their Championship. Why was I ever worried about QPR and QP getting relegated?
The constant home defeats and inability to score convinced me we were going down. It wasn't until January that I thought we had any chance. It seemed like a failure to score second half goals in front of the Loft was never ending and no point staying after half time. Delighted we survived but mindful we need to get goals onto this team next season otherwise more misery will ensue.
My route was to not even watch and explore the Valleys like I did the Leicester game. Perhaps it would be better if I gave up watching us and stayed in Wales...
I didn't for sure so much for thinking parking the bus and grinding out a narrow win was the only way to win.
I was in the Valleys when we won at Leicester and didn't think we would better that. So here I am in the Valleys again and we did better it. Perhaps I should just stay here if we are going to get results like this!
I suspect it would be better to park the bus as their pace on the counter will catch us out. Just scoring twice is a mountain for us so we have to try and grind out a 1-0 win or draw.
Leeds don't look great in defence but we don't have the strike force to capitalise on any errors they may make. We will need to defend really well to stay in it as clearly their attack is far superior to ours.
I suppose an all Manchester final for the global market is a money spinner unlike City v Coventry. Naturally a toenail is offside for Coventry but had that been United the goal would have stood. Sick to death of the borderline offside rule as if a toenail gives you an advantage. Having said that I did think the handball for the Cov penalty was harsh and the handball rule is equally as unfair as the offside rule. The game is being ruined by the laws and VAR.
Fed up of the same teams getting to cup finals. Same in Scotland with Celtic winning 6-5 on penalties after a 3-3 with Aberdeen. Two excellent crosses from Hoilett for Aberdeen to twice come from behind but alas the underdogs north and south of the border didn't get the wins they deserved.
It was a game we should have won comfortably like Stoke did today but the old failings in front of goal meant it was a totally stressful watch for all of us. It certainly aged me 10 years getting more and more wound up by the inability to finish off a team not overly bothered.
Still we won and should just about get over the line now but major surgery is required so we don't go through this again next season.
I thought it was Huddersfield playing Birmingham not Sheffield Wednesday. The Terriers would have to get two huge wins now to finish above us and we would have to lose heavily on the final two games.
Did I see that Newcastle are playing Spurs on 22 May in Australia or have I been hallucinating? Naturally playing games around the globe after the season is finished is far more important than playing a cup replay against pesky Wimbledon next winter.
Leighton did a good job for us in a declining team. He played a big part in the 6-1 Cup win over West Ham but it was the 2-0 win over Liverpool in November 77 I most remember. Leighton and Stan scored in as many minutes and the time between their respective deaths feels equally as short. RIP Leighton.
I think a big problem about TV choices for FA cup matches is because TNT Sports show all the big clubs live in Europe and Sky Sports have all the live Premiership games. So when ITV or BBC have the FA Cup they use the opportunity to show the big teams as it is about ratings and they know more people will watch Man Utd v Liverpool than a league 2 team v championship opposition.
There is a certain irony that Klopp has been moaning about Liverpool having too many games and once he has gone there will no longer be FA Cup replays.
I should add one pleasing aspect of both Premier League teams getting knocked out tonight is that it probably scuppers the prospect of 5 Premier league teams being in the Champions League. Bad enough finishing 4th to get in without fifth place also qualifying from the best league in the world according to Sky.
Perfect tactics by Madrid for the occasion. City have scored three goals in just about every Champions League game this season including doing it in Madrid. If they attacked City tonight then chances are City would score three again so parking the bus to deny them the space was sensible. Once Madrid got the early goal they could sit back. Had City got it Madrid would have had to come out and could have been picked off. It's all about winning at this stage, not pleasing the neutrals watching on TV and the Manchester public.
When you see the quality of Palmer's finishing for that lot up the road it is galling seeing the joke forwards we have. Palmer has got 7 goals in two home games, more than any of our players can manage in a season. Makes my blood pressure go into overdrive watching our feeble efforts on goal.
I blame myself for the latest downturn. After victory in Swansea I declared on here that with 6 games to go it would not be a good time for us to go on one of our favoured 6 game winless runs. Three games later that is where we appear to be.
The problem with the Preston visit is we won up there and that usually means we won't win the return at home. Getting a double is something this very limited team seems incapable of doing. For all the talk of an upturn since Marti arrived it will be irrelevant if we still go down.
People can blame Ainsworth with justification but how do you explain that we win away at Cardiff and Middlesbrough under useless Ainsworth and lose the return home games under Marti the messiah? At the end of the day it probably hinges on the attitudes of the players and their limited ability so if they down tools on yet another manager as they are prone to doing then we could drop. I hope for better in the last three than witnessed in the three games just gone.
Strange how it pans out. Plymouth sack the manager and the interim manager gets 7 points in 3 games with only one goal conceded while our cretins return to their default mode of general incompetence over the same 3 game period. Still it probably didn't help that our deadbeats had to travel London to Plymouth, back to London and then up to Hull. Probably too tiring for them. They looked lethargic to me today.