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Draw would have been best, but I dont think Hull winning is a bad thing. It eliminates Coventry, with their dangerous extra game in hand. Our goal diff is 7 better than Hull and crucially our goals scored is 77 to their 65, which acts as another 'goal' if the GD ended level. We need to win on Saturday. Then if Hull drop points vs Ipswich we're there....even if they do beat ipswich ,if we lose at Birmingham, as long as their isnt a significant swing in GD we should be ok ...but then would Birmingham 2-0 Norwich, Plymouth 0 - 5 Hull on the last day be a surprise??!

I'm sure our friends in ipswich will do us a favour on saturday if hull win this..

But it would then mean Coventry have something to play for when they play Ipswich next midweek...

Theres pros and cons for both sides winning As we have a better goal diff over hull than coventry, theres an argument for them winning

However hard Sheff Weds is for WBA , Birmingham is potentially harder for us. I can see WBAs goal diff trumping us

If ipswich f#ck it up and blow automatic promotion, any celebrations will now be muted in the knowledge we'll have an unbearably stressful week ahead in playing them twice We're not even allowed that!!

After watching Southampton tonight we'll be falling over each other to face them

This is awful....for different reasons Leeds or Ipswich away in second legs are my 2 worst nightmares. Only 2 ways of avoiding this are a) slipping out of the playoffs altogether (still not putting that past us) or b) finishing 5th and playing Southampton Ncfc fixtures Swansea (h) Birmingham (a) WBA fixtures Sheff Weds (a) Preston (h) We may match them but just cant see us bettering WBAs points over these games..

We really must target 5th to get Southampton....but WBA will now surely be thinking the same

Southampton undoubtedly would be our best opponent (and least stressful) Unfortunately i dont see us bettering WBAs results over the last 2 games. Not beating Bristol C could be damaging down the line for this...

The potential problems that would have occured would have still happened whether he was there or not...

I think you'll understand the difference between these sets of fans...

At least it avoids the possibility of Ipswich or Leeds fans drinking all around Norwich on the Monday before an evening match...

What else can we do ? You'd would hope that after being in the premier league for a decade you'd be in a position to try to challenge for a Europa Conference league spot through finishing 7th/8th. I went to all 6 UEFA cup games in '93 and sadly have accepted in was a once in a lifetime thing...I'd love to just have one more chance to experience that I also suspect we'd need to be in and stay in the premier league for a number of seasons before the club considered ever expanding the City stand

Ipswich will probably drop points to the team we dont need them to drop points against and beat the team we we dont need them to beat... It might all become a little clearer after the Coventry v Hull game tomorrow...

We've got to get there first...I'd think we'd have more of a chance in a one off game at a neutral venue vs Leeds as opposed to 2 legs, the second leg at elland road

If offered 5th now and 2 games against Southampton ,I'd take it. For purely footballing reasons we'd have the best chance vs Ipswich but if it turned out to be Leeds in 3rd,I just cant see us overcoming them over 180 mins.

Brentford always have to be cited here...'if' you can stay up for 3 seasons, you have a chance to become semi established and then arent talked about as being relegation favourites any longer. This then potentially extends into a 10 yr period such as C.Palace. That has to be the extent that a club of our size can look to aspire to

Maybe WBA will try to engineer a 6th place finish in that case !?. Even more reason for us to finish 5th. Let WBA beat Leeds or Ipswich in the semis, then we beat them in the final!

What tonight showed is that we really must try to finish 5th incase its Leeds who do end up in 3rd Their firepower over 180 mins would just be too much for us. I'd take Southampton all day long at the moment. I suspect WBA know this too...

Hopefully they see this through then beat QPR on Friday With Ipswich not playing at Hull until Saturday night, it could well be our result vs Swansea earlier in the day that determines quite how much hunger Hull will have in that match

Payback for 2002 at Cardiff...

I think Coventry fans have been at Wembley more than most in recent seasons ...

...but there'd be no 'emotion' attached to that goal had the linesman spotted it and put his flag up The fault lies there. ...and having not spotted it,thats where VAR comes in. Yes, it would have been a nice 'story' but offside is offside

What if we were on the wrong end of an offside that wasnt given in a game like that? It feels an injustice because the linesman didnt spot it and didnt raise his flag, what if he had? Dont well drilled defences who work on an offside trap all week deserve to be rewarded too?