Can’t say there where many nerves yesterday. Felt more like a friendly compared to the shredded nerves after the Oxford game. I’m sure both clubs want to win the title, but you can clearly see there’s no longer an edge to the games.

12,000 is the realistic, sustainable, home support we could generate outside the Premier League. But it won’t happen overnight.

Yesterday 12,000 offered far more in terms of atmosphere than you’d expect. If we where regularly generating those sort of crowds we’d no longer look upon the stadium as an albatross around our necks. Rather an opportunity to generate greater revenue and initiatives to attract new fans.

I do in part agree with some of the above points regarding hospitality. It’s a great opportunity to generate revenue as filling those suits is not so much about selling to fans, but businesses. By all accounts the facilities are due a major refurbishment…..although it’s not clear if this is directly linked to the takeover. It’s said the current set-up isn’t ideal to maximise usage and revenue.

He met the prospective owners when he flew out to Spain with Sharpe earlier in the year. But nobody picked up on that.

I just don’t get their obsession with Latics. Surely we both just want promotion. Also pretty bad taste the way they’ve took the **** out of Shrewsbury on Twitter. The worst traits of a big club mentality without the fan base or financial support to back it up.

Every opposition team should be respected.

But equally, you pay the big bucks to give yourself the competitive advantage. For that reason I expect Blackburn to win all their remaining games, and respect Mowbray for saying he should take them up automatically. You need that killer instinct and belief you are better than the opposition.

In the league Cook hasn’t shown evidence he can get his team to perform to their full potential for these “huge games”. The story of the season is a failure to beat direct rivals in what would be considered 50/50 matches…..home or away. I don’t put that down to the quality of the opposition as the play-off places have been fluid. The only common factor is when we come up against a team in the play-off mix, the latest being Scunthorpe, we struggle. It can only be a psychological issue, a fear factor. Post Christmas our best win was undoubtedly Plymouth away. But even then we were on the back foot, never threatening to impose our self.

In the run-in every game is “huge”, so you worry how we’ll approach these fixtures. One thing I’ve stopped expecting is Blackburn and Shrewsbury to drop points……whenever the pressure has been ratcheted up, they’ve delivered. It wouldn’t surprise me if both achieve 100pts+.

In retrospect, not selling Powell in January has proven a critical strategic mistake. Even putting the money aside, his performances these past months have been well below par. This is the time of season when the big players step up and win you games. Wildschut did it a few seasons back, Dack is doing it now. Meanwhile I can’t remember the last time Powell created a goal, let alone scored.

With others out of form too, sticking with a similar starting eleven, is making us look predictable and out of ideas. Vaughan, and to a lesser extent Walker, have had a major impact in their last two games. Yet both aren’t starting as we’re trying to accommodate an out of form Powell and Jacobs.

At the end of the season it’s top two or bust. Many of these players will be off without new investment. As it stands our form won’t be good enough for a top two spot. So there’s no point saying any player is untouchable……results speak for themselves.

Missed adding this one.