Nice one Deepcut. Tidy each way return of Minella Indo and the wife and I had I Am Maximus too, so a very successful National.

Yes please

I’ll go halves with Danny, but taking the full accolade and praise when we win and the prize will be staying in Northamptonshire.

I really hope that Birmingham come down. Only because of the disgraceful way that they sacked John Eustace, whilst the club were in sixth position, and replaced him with the hapless Wayne Rooney, who oversaw their rapid descent towards the relegation zone, and then sacked him fifteen games later.
Yet another shining example of bean-counters thinking that they know best. When they dont.

This is the one for me. Please let it be so.

I think what you’ve written is FACT.

Koiki truly showed what difference having a dynamic full back can make. I don’t really appreciate how much we’ve missed him this season until we saw his 45 mins last week.

Book me on please.

I probably would have gone Appere today due to his endeavours, but I’m also going Koiki. Not just because of the goal, but that does tip it in his favour. Very positive 45 minutes from him in a game that did lack quality from both teams.

Well what a pleasant want to end what has been a very challenging block 8.

Only the 4 points from a set which sadly included a battering from our friends the other side of the Nen.

But to finish off beating Derby, who previously hammered us 4-0, and keep a clean sheet is very pleasing. I imagine 7 points was the target but we have to settle with 4.

Block 9 starts on Friday.

Reading A (3-1 W)
Port Vale H (0-1 L)
Carlisle H (2-2 D)
Fleetwood A (3-0 W)
Exeter H(2-0 W)

Our Block 9 has huge implications at the bottom of the league. I’d say there’s genuine chances of relegating Fleetwood and possibly Carlisle, though they might be gone by then.

Finish on a high boys, get some wins 🙌🏽

Reading 0-1
Port Vale 2-0
Carlisle 2-0 and relegation ⬇️
Fleetwood (3-0 w)
Exeter(2-0 W)

We’ve secured 2 more points so far than the like for like and have a good chance to finally score a goal at Fleetwood. Great to see a few clean sheets and solid performances. Possibly a bit unfortunate to not have 9 from 9 but a good week for Block 9 😄

Who? Never heard of him, seems to have a massive chip on his shoulders, Cobbs reserves about his level.

Mate he was garbage. Scored the odd goal from midfield but was a low point in some woeful teams for us in the early naughties.

He never really got much stick from the fans as the whole team tended to get the stick, so his beef with us is bizarre.

That game was genuinely about to be the most forgettable one of the season, and then Koiki did that 😂😂 What an unbelievable goal. I had honestly forgotten how quick that guy is as it’s so long since he’s been anywhere close to fit. What a difference he is to the other full backs!

Mathematically the first team who can’t go up and can’t go down

That trophy will look great in the cabinet 🏆

Although so much better to consider them as part of the entire season rather than in isolation.

Overall, it is a marathon, not a sprint.

Hear hear.

JB said another of our injured players could be ready tomorrow, I think that may be Willis so he could be on the bench.

The injury list is shrinking fast and most look like they will be fit for their summer holidays. What this should mean is that they all should be fit for pre season unlike last year when several players took minimal part in pre season friendlies and JB had difficulty finding 11 fit players for the opening game, look how badly we tired in the second half against Stevenage. Hopefully this will lead to a better start to the season as we will not be so hamstrung with hamstrings and this season we only took 14 points from the first 15 games.

Don’t remind us of Blocks 1,2 and 3!

Can we close this please. We're going to be nowhere near the playoffs

I just came on to say the same thing but you beat me to it.

There’s two straight away 👀

I’ll pose a question.

If we’d gone for Taylor from Luton at the same time that Lincoln had, and been successful. Would an in form poacher have won us some of those close games you mention?

My gut says yes, and I’d also imagine he’d have chosen us due to location. So possibly just 1 extra player could have made all the difference.

"Things shouted out by the knob head who sits behind his laptop" could be a feature!

First time in Sixfields history, the East Stand have attempted to get a song/chant going? *


* Inane squeals of "Cobblers' by a group of six year olds doesn't apply!

You’re describing most of the chants from the West Stand Upper aren’t you 🤭 plenty of Non league esque chants creeping in.

It was good to hear some volume from the East Stand. That’s where many of us started off 🙌🏽

  Thank you Larry and Tvor for your opinions 

I respect them both despite not agreeing. Regrettably we will never know what would have happened if we’d gone for it, but that is football.

Roll on next season 👍🏽

In fairness  I said terrible touch when Mitch got the ball (it was), but the second wasn’t too bad 

I think mcwilliams celebration may have had something to do with contract, just a reminder he's still here

Seemed to be playing as a striker and was weirdly effective. Kudos 👍🏽

So comfortable today. Got to say that I can’t see an escape for Vale based on today. They just didn’t look threatening at any point.

Bowie was excellent today. I really hope we offer him a contract which will at least give him something to consider, I think he is developing into a fantastic player.

Two nice goals today and a very easy clean sheet.

Let’s relegate Carlisle on Saturday 👍🏽

He's done it!

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Bowie. What on earth was the match sponsor watching 😂😂