Hurrah! Pompey are safe and will be playing in the Championship next year. What a relief.
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We are staying up! We are staying up!
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It also helps if you have players that look as if they have actually played the game before. Ours donāt.
If JHT & Knapper were to be disposed of, who have we got? Wilshire? The only memorable thing I can recall him doing on the pitch is scoring a memorable goal in 2014 againstā¦oh yes, us.
Dreading next season already as I donāt imagine that the new owners were planning on a complete rebuild, which looks necessary to me. I hope they surprise me but I canāt help feeling that the disaster of this season will have caught them totally unprepared for what needs to be done. I suspect they were planning on a couple of purchases to ensure promotion next time if we just missed out this season.
Our downturn in performance has coincided with Wilshireās arrival so I hope he would depart with JHT if we went for a clean sweep.
The signings have been as woeful as the coaching so I think we need more experience than Knapper as he has paid well over the odds for very average players who donāt appear to be championship quality.
I just think things have become so bad that drastic action needs to be taken, if not itās going to cost Attanasio a lot of money down the line.
Iām sick and tired of this club repeating its mistakes.
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So, The Mighty Whites battered The Potters 6-0 at Elland Road this afternoon, inching ever nearer to promotion back to the EPL once again.
It was a slick showing, as slick as a slick slippery thing, and if only todayās level of performance could be guaranteed next year, back in the big boysā league, then Iād have absolutely no worries at all ā¦ ā¦ ā¦ unfortunately ā¦ ā¦ ā¦ 
M.O.T.
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Come on Dave, letās enjoy the moment, the future will take care of itself.
M.O.T.
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6 of normal time to go. Looking like Leeds are up.
Stress!!??
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Congratulations to Leeds United. A team always capable of an āoff dayā, but for me they are the most talented, attack-minded and entertaining team in the Championship.
Congratulations due to Burnley, too. You have to admire their remarkable defensive record but they are pretty dull to watch.
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Agreed. I couldnāt bring myself to watch the Burnley Sheffield game because I knew it would send me to sleep, but mainly because I watched the Leeds game earlier and a second live game in one day might have resulted in a tiny amount of marital discord. But good news Leeds are back amongst the big boys again. I just hope they manage to stay up next season 
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An excellent day to stand on the Kop. The atmosphere in ER is as good as it gets in England. We play the best football in the division and with a decent goalie all season weād have won the league by now. Today was beautiful to watch. I still want to win the league though so iām taking it a game at a time as they say & we have a tough fixture up next. TV schedule robbed us of the chance to celebrate after the game today. Covid robbed us last time. Farke has done a wonderful job.
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And itās confirmed ā¦ ā¦ ā¦ The Mighty Whites are back in the Big Boysā League next season. 
Looking for you, Man U.
M.O.T.
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Well done today Mike
Pretty big game next then. Fingers crossed for you.
We are a much stronger team than I thought. Based on the last 10 games we are firmly bottom of the Championshipā¦holding the rest up!
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Congratulations to Leeds and Burnley. Canāt argue with those points totals after that number of games. Fingers crossed all 3 promoted teams then experience a better season than this seasons 3.
Despite our recent history with Sheffield United and the oaf shaped footballer which was Billy Sharp I hope they make it up.
Wilder described this as a transitional season and has turned it into much more than that and he deserves a break or two having rebuilt an entire squad with far more success than even he could have hoped.
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There are those at many clubs who will tell you Parky is an intransigent dinosaur. Thereās no plan B etc. Itās a weird argument. Almost no managers have a plan B. Did Pep show his flexibility during their recent barren spell or was what he actually showed erā¦ intransigence.
We saw at National League level Parky was so much more but being ahead of schedule comes at a cost and so not having the money yet to put out together a team which could similarly bully league 1 has not been pretty. After the Wigan debacle and the desperation of the teams selection against Brizzle it was inevitable Parky wouldā¦ pick the genuinely awful Jay Rodriguez; bring back James McClean and George Dobson.
Everyone in the ground thought weād struggle to get a draw pre match. Step forward Parky.
Moved Matty James from the back of the midfield 3 to the front. No more being reduced to your best passes going to wing backs in their own half. No more looking to play 1-2s when your legs canāt run and your 2 colleagues wouldnāt know a 1-2 if someone counted it out for them.
Instead, hello Matty James of Leicester City vintage. Rolled back the years at the most timely moment imaginable. Our pursuit of 2nd looked most likely to end this afternoon.
Insteadā¦ he stood in the opposition half. Sprayed lovely pass after brilliant pass. Could ignore the weird runs of Dobson and Rathbone and play with the big boys in their back yard. Ran the show and won us the game. Simples. As ever with our fans all the credit goes to the goal scorers 
The late goal conceded could yet prove the single most costly goal conceded this season but after recent months weāll take the win.
Barely dared hope for a Charlton win. Nothing prepared us for a 0-4 win. So, for at least a week itās now a 3 horse race.
My ace timing andā¦
The look of a man who thought it was a good idea to stand in the away end with a bloke whose just put an initial Ā£60m into his clubā¦ without but 1 security man.
Heās seen his team put in an extraordinary performance for the first time in months when it really mattered and then theyāve been subjected to 30 minutes of our loudest, finest, rudest songs.
Fair play, a number of us now have video of Rob singing āJames McClean, he hates the f@@k@n@ kingā flat out to the tune of Voulez Vous 
Iām not sure if thatās a recognised ownership model but itāll do
As others have said above, congratulations to both Leeds & Burnley - the best two teams in the division without question. They can spend the Summer looking forward to some tasty games next year and hopefully avoid the bounce back. It will be an interesting battle to see who joins them with quite a few of the candidates having a last minute wobble. We beat Bristol City to keep ourselves in the mix to stay up but annoyingly others at the bottom are doing exactly the same - itās going to be tense!
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History suggests both will struggle and Parkerās specific EPL history suggests Burnley will sadly come straight back down unless heās learnt at least some of the lessons from the many mistakes heās made thus far.
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LHT & assistant sacked, Wilshere appointed temporary head coach for the rest of the season.
Knapper survives for the moment. With ex. Arsenal personal in charge what can possibly go wrong from here?
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Our cup overfloweth!
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Heāll surely never actually be fit enough to manage though will he. Probably pull something walking from the car park to the ground.
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