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What next.
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Another season in the championship awaits. A great achievement by all concerned. Let's start off by saying a masiive thank you to 'Sir' Richard Wood who it has been announced will be leaving the club. Absolute Legend. I think we are strong in the goalkeeper department. Whether Vickers wants to st...
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Then there were three
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Last home game of the season against free scoring'Boro'. With Wigan and Blackpool gone it is left to three to fight it out for the last relegation place. Oh Yes, Huddersfield can still go down,but only if we get at lest a point out of the last two games. It is all ifs and buts and it could happen that all thr...
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Storm before the calm
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A match against Cardiff that could see us safely in the same division next season. If only we could get three points tonight and ease the worries of the millers fans. We all know they were 1-0 up until the storm came so what has to change tonight? In the last match against cardiff we started with Peltier,...
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The Champions are coming
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Burnley arrive tomorrow already promoted to the premier league. Champions of the league will be confirmed very shortly. Burnley have the meanest defence in the league letting in only thirty goals. Only Middlesbrough have scored more goals (that is only one more). Anything from this game would be...
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Another good result
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Well, that was a great point, which I am sure, most of us would have taken before a ball was even kicked. Some backs to the wall defending, but to be honest, I felt that we managed to protect our goal quite well all game, and fully deserved the point. Can we now spoil the play off party for a third team on the tr...
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W.B.A.
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West Brom come to town for a 1.pm kick off. I am not going to guess our line up because if you read the Advertiser and other outlets it's a bit like looking into an A and E waiting room. Is Peltier fit, will Blackett play a part,Humphreys has a niggle, Rathbone having an injection, Wiles(wont play) starti...
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Hull And Beyond
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A good point on Saturday from our visit to Hull.I certainly would have taken that before the off. However, are there worrying signs emerging at the end of the season? According to Stats( i weren't there) we had three shots at goal but none of those on target. I think it is fair to say that since Barlaser...
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Cardiff
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It's Cardiff up next at NYS. This is a team who have taken seven points from their last fifteen including a 2-0 win over an in form Bristol. C. They sit just below us in the league so some are saying it is a must win game. I think it is more of a must not lose game. A draw would be just about ok imo. It's fairly eas...
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Preston N.E.
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Preston come to town tomorrow unbeaten in their last six games. Three of those last six have ended 0-0. Only Cardiff, Huddersfield and Wigan have scored less goals than P.N.E. However only Burnley, Sheff Utd , luton and Coventry have let more goals in. We have our usual injury problems. Several cen...
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Birmingham City
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I seem to have said this before every match since the Blackpool game, if we can get another 3 points, my blood pressure will stay within much healthier parameters, I might even have to visit a manicurist to sort out my fingernails. Let's hope the Tyler Blackett signing turns out to be inspired, and Chic...
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QPR and other results today
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Finally seeing a chink of daylight between the bottom 3 and the rest. If they keep getting poor results it will soon become a chasm. Wigan did us a favour equalising against the Brummies, pity the black cats had a mare. As for our match against QPR, we don't tend to do things easily do we? We should have won...
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Swansea
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Back on the roller coaster tonight. Which Rotherham will turn up in South Wales ? Swansea have lost four of their last five games. Only four clubs have scored more than them in the championship but only the bottom two clubs have let more goals in. Swansea have more possession than any other team in this...
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Skid Row
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Since our win at Bramall lane we have only won one game from the next thirteen (including F.A.Cup Game). In that time we have only scored eleven times with four of them in one game. Many, including myself felt we had turned the corner with seven new signings and three good results against Blackburn, B...
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Blackpool
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A big match for both teams. I think a point would be a good result. Blackpool are on a bad run and haven't won since late October. They have injury and suspension problems so it might be a good time to play them. Rotherham have a good recent record against Blackpool who haven't beaten us since 1997. McCar...
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Transfer summary
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Credit to the club for giving it a real go this past month. I don't think anyone can argue that the squad isn't stronger. We have also operated in a smart way for the first time in a long time , we got the bulk of the business done early not leaving ourselves in a panic yesterday. Barlaser was only allowed to...
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Jordan Hugill
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Just been announced on a 3.5 year deal. Never been a massive goal scorer but i think its the exact type of signing we need. Always been trusted at this level in good teams. Fair play to the club for pulling it off as if he had gone elsewhere we would have all been wondering why we wasn't in for him.
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Can We Build On The Blackburn result
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I will put my hands up now and say i felt the only thing we would get from the Blackburn game was a good hiding. Three much needed points in January before a very heavy schedule in February. M.T has changed the formation to a flat back four with either a formation of 4.3.3 or 4.5.1. Ferguson on the wide l...
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Lack of belief
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The club lacks any real conviction to be a sustainable championship club. let’s look at the infrastructure, we have a non league standard training ground where if we get any sort of downpour we can’t train. The players get changed in a portacabin (all be it a spruced up cabin after PW complained ) we do...
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Morrison Signs
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Sean Morrison,32 and not played since Feb 2022 signs for the millers. A 6ft 4in leader of men who is a no nonsense centre half. He also possesses a long throw. I make that 12 players who can play in a back four or part of a 3.5.2 formation as either in the back three or at wing back. i believe we are woefully sh...
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Wheels are off
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I will try and get all these stats correct or as near as i can. I think Paul Warne left us after the 'Boro' game where we had played nine league games. Won three, drawn five and lost one. We had a goal difference of six, scoring twelve goals. We appointed Taylor after Wood and Peltier had been in cha...
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Bristol City.
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Not much from that game to warm up the millers fans on a cold afternoon I thought we started ok with us moving the ball about well. However, Bristol found our weakness early, mainly Peltier who is just not this class and Woods exposure to pace. This resulted in two similar goals against and us goin...
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Biased officials
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This is starting to get draining now and the actions of these officials could derail a good season. Yet again today we have played against 14 men and it’s getting boring. Seven yellow cards when we haven’t committed one bad tackle in the game. “Vinny” Kompany made out we were the football anti christ...
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Sheffield United
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We more than deserved that. Not just for our performance on the night but from the last few performances and the injustice with some terrible / biased refereeing decisions. Thought the whole team were excellent but also a praise for Ben Wiles , that was much more like it and i would be saying that even i...
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Norwich
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I think our penalty shout was 50/50 and I dont like to see players sent off but I'm as sure as I can be that (1) Coventry got a last minute penalty against us for less, (2) if its roles reversed and Pukki goes down at Carrow Road it gets given and (3) the Norwich lad committed four fouls today that were all wors...
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Burnley
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Just got back from Burnley. Still fuming. At 75 minutes we looked home and dry. The crowd had turned a bit, their players had run out of ideas and they had started arguing with each other. Job done. The red card is a total game changer. For a start, the first yellow was a joke and he doesn't get that un...
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Cardiff
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Bit of a tame defeat. No energy about us at all. We just havent quite got the quality our rivals have got and if we don't bring lots of energy and hard work to the party we are going to struggle. It looked like our efforts at Coventry took something out of us whereas Cardiff had a free week. It's difficult to o...
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Coventry
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Overall a good performance against a good Coventry side who have won their last three games. The last minute penalty was right in front of us and I've got to say in real time I thought it was one although looking at the highlights it perhaps wasnt so clear cut. Let's just say it's one of those 'seen them giv...
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corruption in football
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Don't know if any of you chaps have seen this or know much about this link. I just happened on this investigation into dirty money laundering through the buying and selling of British football clubs particularly in the Prem and Championship. Worth a watch and a reminder how lucky we are to have a chairm...
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Hull
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This is an easy one. We were just outplayed and lost to a better side. That's about it.
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V Stoke
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Another club that has changed a lot of personnel, including the manager, with O'Neill leaving and Alex Neil leaving Sunderland ( !) to come to stoke. Players like Fletcher, Joe Allen,Tom Ince,Benik afobe and Alfie Doughty have all left. They have brought in Adam Flint,Liam McCarron, Dwight Gayle a...
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