canarybubbles

They've flirted with relegation for season after season; it's time they went down. I feel sympathy for the fans but the people who run the club deserve the relegation. Sacking Eustace who had them in the play-offs at the time just to get the imagined glory of a big name, Rooney.

It looks like Sheff Wed are going to escape. Since when they tried to play football in the first half against us they were utterly dreadful and looked to be heading for a 0-5 defeat, so in the second half they clearly decided to kick lumps out of our players and hoof the ball up in old Wimbledon style, I really hope they go down. The last thing the Championship needs is another bunch of thugs who play like the other half of Sheffield when they come back down.

He also does a lot of the breaking up of play that a CDM traditionally does. I agree he's becoming an essential part of how we play.

After Sheff Wed and Preston, it's nice to see an opponent who tries to play football. Wish they were crap, though, and we were beating them 4-0.

Since I've said some pretty negative things about Barnes on here, calling him a thug and so on, I guess I should hold my hands up and apologise. I have to change my stereotype of him from thug to rough diamond, it seems.

I think Leicester's huge lead always flattered them, although they'll probably get automatics now. Great result for us, though.

Interesting that Aboh is not chosen for the bench while other under-21s are. Suggests that he has no intention of staying and we have given up on him and see no reason to encourage him.

Absolutely. If that match had finished all square, Southampton would now be in control of their own destiny in the sense that if they won all their remaining matches they would be promoted. Now they need either Ipswich or Leicester to screw up.

I hope he looks at it that way because he is a real weapon to put on against an obdurate opponent who have stifled us and kept us out.

Nice video. The squad really does sound together. Reminds me of the atmosphere under Farke before the recruitment disaster following the second promotion and the collapse in atmosphere after that, not only seemingly among the players but between the club and the fans. Whatever happens for the rest of this season, things are healing, I hope.

Totally agree. I have my doubts whether Rowe would be satisfied with this super-sub role, though.

Overseas I like Nantes - the French Canaries. They've won the French league about seven times but are now a shadow of their former glory. Got an important win yesterday which may help keep them in Ligue 1. In Germany, I like Mainz. Gutenberg and all that. And they've done very well over a decade for such a relatively small town. Also in danger of relegation this season, though.

I have a soft spot for the Devon teams since I lived there once and it's a lovely county. I really hope Plymouth survive. They beat us by playing football, unlike Sheff Wed who got their point by kicking the sh*t out of us - I hope they go back to L1 where they deserve to be with that kind of brutish industrial football. And I don't say that just because they were 'physical'. Preston were physical but on the whole not thuggish, just disciplined. I also like Exeter. A nice city, with a football team on the rise. Torquay are a basket case at the moment, though, ten points deducted and in danger of slipping into the seventh tier of football.

Sounds like Kenny's going to win it, which is fair enough. Sometimes there are seasons where no one deserves to win it and other times there are half a dozen candidates who can be argued to merit it.

The point is that there is a week between the penultimate and final games of the season. Is it beyond the realms of possibility that they close the voting, say, mid-week and count the votes in the following days, or, if we have made the play-offs the voting period be extended?