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Exciting game
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But stressful! Chances at either end but hopefully we don't regret Reid missing those two big ones.
Wonder where we would be if Kemp hadn't been benched for the middle part of the season? Guy is pure class and makes us tick.
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Re: Exciting game
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My god, we should have pumped at least 5 past them. Make it nervy, why not!
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Goalkeeper holding on to the ball
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Remember when you'd concede a corner if the keeper holds onto the ball for too long?
Anyone know if this has officially been binned off?
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Re: Goalkeeper holding on to the ball
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Still in force.
Count down from 8 only starts when the last opposition player has left rhe box / isnt obstructing the keeper.
The ref last night was following the protocol and visibly counting down the 5-4-3-2-1
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Re: Exciting game
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First time EVER that we have won 20 matches in a season in League One.
That glorified PE teacher really ain't bad.
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Record breaker...there you go...re-christened.
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As much as the football isnt great i dont think much of the fans either considering we are chasing playoffs. Westley era east terrace was rocking 22 quid to watch that aswell i think is a rip off everyone can see if your gunna play hoofball you need a target man and someone who they can play off. We would get battered every game playing like we do in league 1
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Wesley era didn’t have us live on Sky. I think that hugely impacts on the gates.
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Yep , realise Barnsley had nothing to play for , but smallest seat support I have seen for ages for a club that size.
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We shouldn't have to be playing shite like that with no away following, no wonder we're above them.
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£13 a game if you're a season ticket holder :)
It's been a bargain this season!
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We got battered every game under Westley, oftimes it was the only way we could watch the football. The problem now is if anything that we don’t get battered every game.
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Re: Exciting game
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Profligate is a great word for tonight. Could easily have had 5-6. Reid, Phillips, Harvey and Kemp all missing great chances.
Matt Phillips touch was poor tonight, but his workrate was phenomenal.
Overall I thought we were excellent. Jasper shone and probably shaded Saxon and Charlie for MOTM for me.
Pidge made two phenomenal blocks and won every Harvey set pieces into the box.
If Kemp could do what he's done for the past few games he'd be a Championship player. Was he offside twice or was the limo shit?
Special mention to the ref who let almost everything go and allowed the game to flow.
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 22:26:49 on 21st April 2026
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Agree with all of that, I thought Roberts and Thompson were both excellent too, but the full backs take it, particularly Pattenden.
Revell deserves a serious amount of credit for the squad he's built and the unity they've clearly got. One thing in his comments stood out though, he mentioned not being happy at the attitude towards some of the players on the pitch...that surprised me as from where I stand everyone is (now at least) fully behind them all? I couldn't work out who he meant
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Re: Exciting game
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Reckon Revs is talking about negativity towards our forwards: negativity when they miss chances, when they fail to hold the ball up, or when they do not press with the intensity some would like*. (And I bet Revs isn't impressed by the Lubala stuff. Those doing it may think it's ironic, but it's uncomfortable.)
[*I wonder how many in the stands have tried making back-to-back-to-back high intensity sprints, then having fans moaning when they need a moment to recover. Human bodies have limitations!]
Edited by Clogger at 22:40:21 on 22nd April 2026
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Re: Exciting game
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The stage is set for Bez to have his Ben May moment on the final day to send us to the play-offs.
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Nah, better than that, I called it on Tuesday that he is scoring the winning goal in the final at Wembley that takes us into the Championship.
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And it will be just like this one
https://youtu.be/37IL56df32w?si=T6LvzQOpjggiG90u
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Re: Exciting game
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I must have watched that clip 100 times, I couldn't care less about Rotherham, and it STILL gives me goosebumps (and giggles!) Awesome moment, more poignant now for us than ever
Edited to say Revs should have given it a couple more fist pumps!
So, so want to make it to Wembley with a shot at the Championship, but I'm really not sure my heart (or liver!) can take it...
Edited by Clogger at 20:37:24 on 23rd April 2026
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Re: Exciting game
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Yes please. Would love that for him and for us.
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That would be the ideal outcome for everyone really. It says a lot about our squad this season that he's probably the only one who has 'underperformed'
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If he comes into training with a toilet seat under his arm you know its destiny...
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Doubt Revs heard it, but towards the end of the east there were loud moans about how shit M Phillips apparently is. Mind you, some of the folk who stand there… ye gods
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Re: Exciting game
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Revell heard it and made a comment to Neil post-match about the attitude of some fans towards a player or players. He wasn't happy about it.
I assume it was Matt, who dis have a poor touch all game, nothing stuck, but he ran and ran and ran. No complaints from me. And id sign him up now for next season.
Anyone moaning at full time yesterday needs a big slap with a wet fish. Anyone booing or abusing during a game... what exactly do you hope to achieve? Even when a player is having a stinker, abusing them is hardly motivational.
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 08:59:51 on 22nd April 2026
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Yep and the moaners forget he is 35 and really a winger.IMO worth at least 1 yr contract,we need players like him around the youngers.
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Geezer that sits behind Revs. He stared him out and knows who he is!! Lol
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Spot on, some of the entitlement amongst (a v small proportion of our fanbase) is stunning. It's worth comparing the size of our club, the attendances and history with all of those around us to see how well we're doing. Clearly a lot of that group weren't around for Kettering away under Wayne Turner, or the battering by Canvey Island that was mentioned on here the other day that puts things in perspective.
On Phillips, he was dreadful yesterday, but as you said he worked his socks off, and that's enough for me frankly. He's absolute quality the rest of the time, he deserves some slack. I actually thought it might be Lubala he was referring to - I can't defend him quite as much, but he also gives his all every time he comes on the pitch.
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He looked absolutely knackered by the end. Am sure he appreciated the extra minute's rest he got by coming off just before the end :)
And, yes, I'm aware that's as much us doing the best with what we've got. So. Not a criticism.
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I thought he was a total non-entity earlier in the game but then as Barnsley tired and the game opened up he started getting involved, which maybe tells you something. It's odd that he was brought in and starts without any effort made to get the best out of him.
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He’s a player who’s never really had a “best” position. Through his career he’s played wide, up front, at full back and he does a solid job at all (mostly in a higher level than League One). We play him where we need him and he’s doing a good job there. It comes back to the old story of people thinking goals scored is the only metric to measure an attacking player on. Important sure, not the be all, end all. His quality and levels of effort are evident to see. Last night perhaps wasn’t his best showing in a Boro shirt but nobody can be perfect all the time.
He’s probably doing wonders behind the scenes too for the other players as a role model and an example of what it takes to be a pro at a higher level. I doubt Revs signed him solely for his on field talents.
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Agree with all of these posts. M Phillips has made us better, and I reckon had a big influence on players like Kemp, Reid and Thompson who were all flat during our mid season lull
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Re: Exciting game
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Phillips is better than Reid at holding up the ball, controlling the ball, not flinging himself to the ground every time the ball goes near him and passing/bringing in other players. Just can't shoot very well.
Whereas Reid is awful at controlling the ball and constantly on the floor with his arms out, but has a knack of scoring a few goals.
If you could combine them both we'd have a very good striker and he'd not be playing for us long.
Phillips has definitely helped the team though, not least because we have very few other options.
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It seems to me that he's not particularly well suited to trying to get anything he can on a ball zipping past him at head height, and yet that's all he's being asked to do a lot of the time. When games open up and he gets time on the ball he offers something more than running around, which Bez can also do. But games opening up is usually not what we want.
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Yep, but he hasn’t seemed to downhearted about this, and produces moments of great quality
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Matt Phillips is *class* and the least of our worries! We kicked on towards the playoffs as soon as he signed. Look at the way be can break the defensive line with a turn, trick or cute pass. (Reid's recent header from Kemp's cross was a perfect example.) Sure he's not a target man, but he knows how to make things awkward for defenders. The only danger is if he gets injured - same for Reid
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Yep and any contract for next season will reflect his increased interest jury risk due to age and the fact he probably can't play Tuesday Saturday endlessly.
But I'd still be trying to tie him down.
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Re: Exciting game
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Interest jury?
Injury FFS...
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Yes as I said before plus his age so a one yr one .Can't see many others offering better (other than perhaps salary).
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Agree with everything there
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Agreed thought the ref let a lot go but in a good way, on another day though, that could boil over.
Can't help feeling Phillips has a big goal coming soon.
Edited by RockyBottom at 22:52:41 on 21st April 2026
Edited by RockyBottom at 22:53:06 on 21st April 2026
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I actually really enjoyed that performance tonight. Our defence looked solid and well organised, and the attacking play in the second half was the best I’ve seen from us all season (unfortunately I've had to watch games on the tv, but hopefully I'll be able to attend games next season)
Yes, we were frustrating in the final third and wasted a lot of chances, but at least the job was already done in the first half.
Dan Kemp was man of the match, IMO.
Edited by Jason at 21:50:50 on 21st April 2026
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Yes it was a much better spectacle, as I believe Lincoln was.
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Tonight’s game worried me beforehand. Barnsley can be a tough team to beat so I’m massively relieved. Plymouth drew as well so we can pretty much forget them. We’re only 3 points off 3rd now!
I have to praise Harvey White tonight & over the last few games. I’ve been his biggest critic but he’s really stepped up & been much more physical. Without Dan Phillips in the team we really needed everyone to get stuck in. Louis Thompson has also really done well.
Pattenden & Earley were also a excellent tonight!
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Don't rule out Plymouth yet, they will probably get 6 points in their last two.
It's far from over yet and will almost certainly come down to the final game.
Edited by RockyBottom at 22:05:36 on 21st April 2026
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Sponsors on drugs giving MOTM to Pidge.
Genuine 10/10’s from Jasper and Goode tonight.
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We said Pidge just before they announced it.
He won absolutely everything and saved two definite goals in the first half, possibly even three. Without which we don't fight back and win that game.
Jasper, Saxon, Earley and Kemp were also very very good, but Pidge was correct for me for saving us multiple times early on and then winning everything bith ends of the pitch afterwards (Kemp being offside, especially the second one, loses him points as there was simply no reason to not be onside in that situation).
Edited by Chuds at 00:09:41 on 22nd April 2026
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He is pretty much POTS for these reasons too
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Saxon and Earley eh
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Pidge in fairness was brilliant. Early doors he was the only one of our players who had woken up!
Jasper had an *epic* second half against a very good winger.
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Agree, both quality as was Early, Thompson, good team performance overall
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Tonight showed what a good squad we've managed to put together. Past couple of seasons missing Butler and Luther was a bit of a death sentence.
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Re: 3pts clear and just two teams left chasing.
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Bradford getting that goal against Plymouth did us a world of favours. Huddersfield now mathematically can't catch us so it's just Plymouth (4pts behind us) and Luton (3pts behind us and a far better goal difference) left in the hunt.
I don't want to say it yet. I don't want to say it yet.
I really don't want to say it yet...
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Job done.
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We got the three points. That’s all that matters.
Let’s not dwell on the negatives, like how our finishing in front of goal was EFFING SHITE!
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Making and not taking chances is far more stressful than not making chances at all. Who’da thunk it.
Aaaand unclench.
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Genuinely should have won that 5-0.
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Kemp had zero faith in open goal Lubala there.
Thank fuck for that. Massive result.
Proud of the players and fans tonight.
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Was THAT offside? It definitely looked on to me
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Stressful game.
How have we not score 5 goals here. This is why we don't play attacking football because we can't bloody finish.
And we leave ourselves more open for them to take a chance of their own at some point.
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I just can't subscribe to this way of thinking. We've seen occasions where keeping it tight has cost us points because a 1 goal advantage is more easily undone (although I take your point about only having to score 1 if we can keep them out).
Creating more chances can only be a positive. We should have taken more of them over the last few games and made results more comfortable but that can be worked on. We managed to keep Barnsley at arm's length tonight and I'd even argue Lincoln for the most part despite them scoring twice.
I struggle with the pragmatic approach because you're relying on an individual, or group of L1 players not making a mistake, or someone producing a moment of magic which is absolutely possible with some of the quality in other squads
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It’s this way of thinking that has us closer to the Championship than the National League. Given our resources and recent history that's not an exaggeration.
More chances are always good but can’t come at the expense of conceding more chances too. We will always lose a fire fight with sides who can throw more money at attacking talent. We can however recruit smartly and put together a side that is disciplined, well drilled and stingy with the chances we give away. 18 clean sheets show that we can rely on this squad of players to not make too many errors in that respect.
We’ve been a little more expansive in the last few games (and shipped seven goals). It must be tempered with keeping watertight at the back though. If we don’t go up I think we may be a little more positive next season although that will depend on ins and outs in the summer.
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Just think there was an opportunity to play more freely earlier in the season, with the option to tighten up again if required because I agree that we can rely on the squad to be defensively strong.
And I don't think we can attribute the 5 goals at Bolton to a shift to a more expansive style of play
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Appreciate that but I don’t think there was. We started well and then I think maybe froze a little when we realised where we were and the expectation levels ramped up. There’s also no quicker way for a manager to lose a dressing room than to rip up the playbook he’s been drilling into the side when waters get a little choppy. I don’t think Revs gets enough (or any) credit for how he handled the turbulent spell we had. There were tweaks but the ethos remained the same. He remained invested and kept the squad invested. We’re still punching well above our weight.
The first two goals at Bolton were absolutely attributable in part to playing more expansively. Even after the red card we chased the game rather than trying to shut up shop and protect our goal difference.
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If we can work on taking half our chances then I agree. But whilst we miss chance after chance after chance, is the reward (nil) worth the risk!
But yeah any normal side would have won that 4 or 5 nil and if we become like that then of course it's infinitely better than grinding out a one nil with game management etc.
Horses for courses though. Barnsley were the perfect team to play, nothing to play for, manager leaving end of season, the small difference in a game meaning something and it not can make a big difference in the end result, when the margins are so fine.
Edit: I wonder if our thumping at Bolton led to a change in attitude in our approach?
Edited by Sev at 23:08:49 on 21st April 2026
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Far far more stressful than it should have been. We should have improved our goal difference big time!
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Well happy we got over the line, really good performance that deserved more goals but the 3 points is all that matters.
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Thank God we won, deservedly so.
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This has got 1-1 all over it
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Was that offside? It didn’t look it from the ET
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Hard to tell on the TV but looked like it probably was just.
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Fair enough. How many sitters are we going to miss tonight?
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Absolutely ridiculous. If we don't win this it might be the most pissed off I've been all season.
Reid twice
Phillips
Kemp
Thompson
Harvey White
All should have scored.
I can't bear it anymore.
Edited by Sev at 21:21:29 on 21st April 2026
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We get slated for our style of play by clubs that play square balls straight to opposition across the face of their own goal like stupid cunts three times a half. Stick to FIFA.
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This game is killing me.
Feel something bad is coming.
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Lol Bradford's equaliser popped on screen the second I read this
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Three big chances gone begging. Hope we don’t rue them.
He was injured/recovering from injury/couldn’t get into a winning side for a lot of the time he wasn’t starting. Firing at just the right time now though.
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We slipped down the table massively without him in the team. Whatever the reason was.
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Barnsley creating as many chances for Boro as Boro do
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Because of how we are playing though...
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