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  1. The stand with the tree growing in it would be good.
  2. Spot on, to say a 5 point gap is enough to make them a certainty for 5th is silly, there are 9 games to go and towards the end of the season results can get very unpredictable e.g. teams at the bottom scrapping for survival can become a lot harder to play. WBA are definitely front runners in the competition for 5th & 6th but that's all, the chasing pack is close behind them and we're the form team of the bunch.
  3. Credit to Hugill in that case, he never really established himself with us enough to be a favourite with the fans. Maddison won major brownie points when we were playing Leicester and when their player was down injured we put the ball out and the throw in went to one of their players, everyone was standing back expecting him to pass it back to us, but he hadn't got the message and started running on goal, Hanley realised and had to foul him on the edge of the box. This was in front of us away fans who were understandably irate and fortunately Maddison took over the free kick and passed it back to our GK. So major brownie points for Maddison, while they winger was solidly booed from then on and ended up being subbed off not long after.
  4. Yes I also remember a game when Delia was in the away end, it a game in the NW though so not Watford. I'm getting old and it'll probably come back to me which game it was in a few hours or days !
  5. Yes those 3 points taken from us on Wednesday could well be crucial 😡
  6. Great to see us putting a team to the sword which has been due for a while.. TBF if not for the ref the Boro game was looking like they’d also be on the rack and we’d be 5th. But hopefully things are coming together at the right time.
  7. Yeah I'd accept he didn't actually fall over but it was certainly a dramatic reaction and it clearly brought the refs attention to it, but then it was Joey Barton we're talking about.
  8. It's fair to say the roles were reversed quite a few years back when BJ squared up to Joey Barton and then fell over rather theatrically. My feeling at the time was it was fair enough given it was Barton, but I was a bit uncomfortable about it. I think there's a difference between intentionally getting a fellow pro sent off and winning a penalty by diving, I'm not keen on the latter but it's not as bad IMO. I would feel extremely uncomfortable if we'd won in such a dodgy way. Stuff happens, I'm not saying we're whiter than white, but we're definitely better than some.
  9. Haven't posted yet as I was so annoyed last night. It was revealing watching on the sky red button that initially the commentator thought it was a Boro player getting sent off. Clueless referee, but Sainz gave him the opening by a stupid action, and Howson is contemptible for deliberately getting another pro sent off. Come the end of the season it's quite possible those 3 points will make all the difference, I'm so frustrated and angry.
  10. Stupid reaction by Sainz, but players vary in how they respond to that sort of thing and Howson has just gone down in my respect for his poor reaction.
  11. I went to that Sheff Utd game and it was a 1-0 defeat which came down to them taking one chance and Teemu missing an equally good chance, it could easily have been a draw or a win for us, one of those games with few chances and very fine margins.
  12. Yes absolutely. I come across the video of Todd juggling the ball and then scoring on Instagram occasionally which is the only NCFC content I can remember seeing on that platform 🙂
  13. Hmm my recollection of that season is that after being spanked 5-0 by Fulham in the opener, Hughton brought in some defenders and everything came together for a time, culminating in the 10-game unbeaten run which put us in a good place in December. But things then started to get a bit wobbly and although we weren't in the relegation zone, we were also uncomfortably close. I particularly remember us hanging on for dear life for a 2-1 win over Reading at home where we really really needed those 3 points. At the end of the season we had wins in the last couple of games over WBA (the definitive "on the beach" performance by them) and a classic and fully deserved win over Man City at the Emirates, when Mancini had been sacked the week before so they were in a very weird frame of mind. For both of those wins my feeling was the players unilaterally threw away the Hughton playbook. And those 6 points leapfrogged us up the table and gave us a flattering end position (compared to the previous season under Lambert when we were comfortably safe well before the end of the season and ended up experimenting with 3 at the back etc and being a bit on the beach ourselves, so our end league position was definitely below the level we'd been at for most of the season. Looking back my guess is that WFLGH was getting cheesed off with being a lone striker with very little service or support and when he left without an adequate replacement we were always in trouble the next season.
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