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Fair result overall and the way it happened was probably funnier and more enjoyable than winning would’ve been. Got to be happy with that, off for a beer.

1-1 about right from a really entertaining half I’d say, been trading spells of ten minute dominance. Both defences done quite well to restrict it to half chances other than the goals tbf.

Great game, as this fixture somehow always is. We’re causing carnage down our left.

Exact team I’d have picked for this I think haha, we shall see. Reckon the running around a lot men today is good.

Austin and Abbott are ideal for a game like this IMO, great at pressing and running around loads, winning battles and stuff. It’s at home where we don’t always need them.

He didn’t actually handle it did he thinking about it, he just booted it again. If you were there screaming for a red card at the time then fair play, you know the rules better than I do! Anyway, fucking hate these early kick offs.

I’ve never seen another goalkeeper pick up their own goal kick before or since, let alone get sent off for it. The fuck was I meant to know!?

To be fair, literally no one appealed for a red at the time because no one knew that was a rule. You could’ve had 100 different refs there I reckon and struggle to find one who’s pulling out a red for that in the first few mins of a play-off final, letter of the law or not haha. Not a great day...

This is largely how I see it. Am expecting you to properly come after us early (a bit like the PO final really), and then the game is set by whether you can score at least one in that time. We’ve got much stronger as games have gone on this season (we’ve only conceded one second half goal so far...

Djibril Cisse’s son just made his debut for us. 12 of our matchday 17 have never made a league appearance for the club as far as I can tell. Not sure what anyone is gaining from this. Slocombe gets a game, I guess.

On in the background at the pub quiz so can’t offer much commentary, but always good to see circus act Kyle Hudlin.

It’s somewhere in the middle. I thought you deserved the win and it was a very good away performance, but you also scored with your first shot about half an hour in and had given us two or three very good chances to go in front. If one of those goes in then it’s an uphill battle getting back...

Chesterfield aren’t going to low block us, which seems to be this season’s problem, should be a decent game. It will probably go to whoever deals better with having less possession than they’re used to, both been tending to put 60%+ up this season which feels unlikely either way. Could also be...

Scott or Brown, not sure it matters. At home we need the extra body in the box far more than we need yet another central midfielder. I just don’t get what Maynard is doing half the time. Crowley’s spent a season as probably the outstanding number ten in the division but has now been moved to...

My patience with Maynard is running low now. He just can’t win a game unless it’s against a team he has obviously better players than, which is not the sign of a great manager. God knows why we’re playing nine defensive players at home, why our one creative outlet is basically part of the back...

Don’t give up hope, you wouldn’t be the first side to pick a team that got this reaction specifically to counter how we try and play and it work brilliantly in the last couple of years.

Who is trying to get in at 2pm!? They deserve to wait.

A shame to see the state of Sacchi’s Milan these days.

Whether it makes us any good or not is up for debate, it did two years ago and it didn’t really last year, but it isn’t controversial to say we always dominate possession at home.

You aren’t going to control midfield/possession against us anyway, no one ever does, especially at home. I don’t know much about that Vale team but legs to press us into mistakes and then pace on the counter is generally what beats us. Looking forward to today, got a bit of big game feeling...