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23RD JANUARY D Barnsley v Cardiff City H AFC Bournemouth v Sheffield Wednesday D Coventry City v Nottingham Forest H Luton Town v Rotherham United H Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers A Millwall v Norwich City A Preston North End v Reading H Queens Park Rangers v Derby County A Stoke City v Watford A Swansea City v Brentford A Wycombe Wanderers v Birmingham City SUNDAY 24TH JANUARY H Bristol City v Huddersfield Town

We look shocking. Only real decent moment was Marvs cross which Friend did brilliantly to get across Akpom. In my view its not the players its the tactics - let them play on the floor! Maybe Spence down the right at some point

H Blackburn Rovers v Stoke City H AFC Bournemouth v Luton Town D Bristol City v Preston North End A Cardiff City v Norwich City A Coventry City v Sheffield Wednesday H Derby County v Rotherham United D Nottingham Forest v Millwall H Queens Park Rangers v Wycombe Wanderers A Reading v Brentford H Watford v Huddersfield Town D Barnsley v Swansea City

Hopefully his new club will also be at least matching his wages so he isnt expecting us to pay out the difference. Id prefer us to loan someone to replace Britt as we dont know which league we will be in and who our manager will be.

Happy for a comfortable win, happy for Warnock (who has won me over), happy for people like Bola Marv Wing Saville who have gone from pelters to praise. We arent at the Karanka stage yet where I went into every game thinking we will grind then down and win, but I cant think of a game where we couldnt not lose. The guys having a Boxing Day off could mean that for the first time in a long time, most if them dont need to go into training on 25th, which I am guessing would be a nice change. I just hope they dont over induldge and feel mentally fresh to go on a winning streak. I bought Football Manager on the Xbox and Roberts got injured 2 weeks into pre-season.

D Birmingham City v Middlesbrough H Brentford v Reading A Huddersfield Town v Watford A Luton Town v AFC Bournemouth D Millwall v Nottingham Forest D Rotherham United v Derby County H Sheffield Wednesday v Coventry City A Stoke City v Blackburn Rovers H Swansea City v Barnsley D Wycombe Wanderers v Queens Park Rangers

TUESDAY 8TH DECEMBER A Coventry City v Luton Town H Huddersfield Town v Sheffield Wednesday D Millwall v Queens Park Rangers D Stoke City v Cardiff City D Swansea City v AFC Bournemouth H Watford v Rotherham United WEDNESDAY 9TH DECEMBER H Barnsley v Wycombe Wanderers H Brentford v Derby County D Bristol City v Blackburn Rovers H Norwich City v Nottingham Forest D Preston North End v Middlesbrough H Reading v Birmingham City

Barnsley v Nottingham Forest - H Bristol City v Derby County - H Luton Town v Blackburn Rovers -A Middlesbrough v Norwich City - D Millwall v Cardiff City - H Preston North End v Sheffield Wednesday - D Queens Park Rangers v Watford - A Stoke City v Huddersfield Town D Swansea City v Rotherham United H Wycombe Wanderers v Brentford A

Just to touch on the 6 draws or 2 wins/4 losses arguement. If someone says 6 draws, you cant then turn around and say but what if you took a risk and got more points from the 4 losses - thats not how it works! The underlying facet of this question is not how the points are earned but rather who they are earned AND LOST against. We have seen the damage that can be caused when losing to teams around you (didnt we lost to Bournmouth and Watford in a week when chasing top 2 under AK?) so a point at least would have been NW priority out of this game, not just to keep out points ticking over but also to limit Brentford to 1 gained. I was happy with the point before, I am happy with the point after. Regardless of whether people thought we could have flipped the coin and gone for the win, NW remained focussed on his minimum and achieved it. I was never a fan of him before he came to us but the transformation has been unbelieveable and arguing about whether we should have got 6 points away to Blackburn and Brentford is much better than hoping teams below us get points deductions and more of Charltons players refuse to play on. Roberts not even featuring is weird, and as we have seen in recent times with Bamford and Harrison, just because they dont play here doesnt mean they arent good enough - its just at the time their qualities seemingly werent what the manager was looking for. Even Traore took a while to get starts and win most of us over as we thought he was too much of a risk with minimal end product.

AFC Wimbledon v Wigan Athletic H Bristol Rovers v Fleetwood Town H Charlton Athletic v Rochdale H Crewe Alexandra v Peterborough United A Hull City v Burton Albion H Lincoln City v Gillingham D Northampton Town v Accrington Stanley D Oxford United v Doncaster Rovers D Shrewsbury Town v Swindon Town A Sunderland v Milton Keynes Dons H

Birmingham City v AFC Bournemouth A Blackburn Rovers v Queens Park Rangers D Brentford v Middlesbrough H Derby County v Barnsley D Huddersfield Town v Luton Town D Norwich City v Swansea City H Nottingham Forest v Wycombe Wanderers H Rotherham United v Preston North End D Sheffield Wednesday v Millwall H Watford v Coventry City H

Dont think a single player that started played badly, i think the 3 CB and 2 CM were fantastic. Didnt click in the final third and Blackburn were flinging themselves in front of everything but as with AKs team as long as that core performs well we have a chance. I hope we dont have to make tough decisions on any of our CB in the January window.

Nah Saville has been class I think. Him and Coulson providing a rigid screen.

We are just first to every loose ball, winning almost every 50/50 and knocking it about well. Hope we dont let up and tire. Really enjoyed that half

Boro live on Sky Britt Assombalonga smiles Doesnt mean he's scored Long time in a while where we have gone into games and I have expected us not to lose