not a great day for Bristol Footie fans City 0-4 middlesborough James off. Carlisle 4-0 Rovers Coles off I think both sets of fans will be avoiding winding each other up. Carrot crunchers (yeovile) have won as well which is bad for my lot. a long way to go this season but serious relegation issues at Rovers

Strange to highlight that one result. I feel for Matty who tells me that the players, chairman and manager are locked in the dressing room even now. And yes, I've already made the joke about not being able to afford a locksmith.

I'm delighted we're six points away from avoiding relegation (historically) with 19 games to go. 50 goals up - only Watford can equal that.

Indeed. Top scorers in the country alongside some irrelevant team from West Yorkshire. They're doing really well. When we played them they were appalling. Just goes to show.

With how mad the championship can be sometimes, even though it would be a surprise, I wouldn't be surprised if Watford went up to Leeds in April and won. Of course Watford would need to keep there relative small squad fit, which is a big ask.

Anyway Cardiff away up next for the orn's. 

I was more highlighting the sending off really.

Barnet 1 - 1 Shrewsbury...........not a disaster, but not the result Barnet need given their current position especially given the home advantage Underhill provides. I don't think the team will be particularly happy about their performance today, but with Fairclough back in charge of the team they have started to fight, something they weren't doing a couple of weeks ago. I think they've probably turned the corner now, but given the extra games they've played, Barnet need to start picking up points against beatable sides.

I'm sure Tricky will have similar arguments about his team

Ah, I see.

James will certainly win his appeal. Looked like a penalty, yes, but a sending off? Bizarre.

Now I've seen it on tv replay it look even less a sending off. Three defenders goal-side and one of them right in the goal mouth.

Tricky will be pleased. Hereford seem to have found their legs of late

Never in a million years was it a sending off, he will win his appeal I should imagine.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2011/01/the_championships_biggest_flop.html#281476

Pretty much sums us up very well

Yes, we finally won a game!    And if the other scores stand, we've moved above Bristol as well

Edit: no we don't - stupid BBC were showing the updated table based on current scores, not the table at the start of the day    But we have a game in hand, so we will soon be above Bristol

You know full well that I work on Saturdays, don't drive and cannot get to a Town match even if I wanted   

Good to see the lad Wickham get a goal after spurning advances from the Premiership heavy mob and signing a new contract with us

QPR beat Coventry 2-1

Rangers looking good for promotion

Just really hope we can avoid defeat on Tuesday and reach the final. especially since the comments from that t*t Fabregas, who seems to think that teams assembled with tiny budgets should play open expansive football to the Arsenal Foreign legion and their deathly quiet prawn sandwich supporters.

Pity we couldn't have played a real football club like Tottenham in the Semis where at least you know you generally get an intense atmosphere. 

btw don't worry about Matty : he loves winding me up and I love winding him up and we both love hate each other really

I think ticket prices have been the bain of many a real football fan. Given the financial state of our clubs it's unlikely to change either

As for Essan, he's a Ceefax watcher, not a football supporter. He's also my bitch and I own him

464 away fans doesn't help.

Prices will be one factor, but QPR is shoehorned into an area of London which isn't football mad and the ground is a relic, which does make a difference. It makes ours look new and shiny, which it isn't!

And in this recession the fact that it was live TV will have knocked a bit off. I didn't watch it, but if it was on free to view TV then that will also make a big difference. Our opening game against Derby attracted 26,500 when 30,000+ would have been anticipated had it not been on the BBC.

As Matty said to you on FB, that's a lot of money for the club. Sadly that's just the way it is these days.

Tottenham????? a real club??

You mean Stratford Hotspurs??

Ipswich wont avoid defeat tomorrow  FACT

They might not get hammered 4 or 5 , but they will get beat.

As for the fan issue, yes sadly some Arsenal fans are quiet , only because their mouth is full of prawns. A sign of the times whern you have a 60,000 ground which is FULL. Many aren't of the variety that shout and gester , I am sure if Ipswich could fill a ground that big( borrow some Norwich fans maybe) with the facilities that Arsenal have then they will probably attract a fan that is less inclined to shout about.

Personally I think singing is what fans should do.

Still hoping and we do have a chance, would mean more to town fans than 3 Premier league titles and a couple of FA cups would do to Arsenal. The liklehood is though it will be Arsenal and give it 6 months and most of their fans will barely remember they were in the league cup final.

As for fans, I'd always rather it was 15'000 supporters supporting "Our" Town and "Our" County than 50'000+ quietly supporting a Brand club. I remember going to Portman Road for the 93 FA Cup QF and the Arsenal supporters were amazing back then, there was a fair bit of trouble before and after the game, but the atmosphere made the hairs stand up. In contrast,I've never heard such a large away following make as little noise as Arsenal did 2 weeks ago, what a change in 18 years, they were like a bunch of cardboard cut-outs!