This really is bad. Really really bad.

They are just a bit better than we are (not massively, but a bit) and seem to want it more than we do

They've changed their minds now, saying the video shows the ball was a long way over the line, have to say that was my first impression.

Academic now as it's 0-1 and we don't look like scoring if we play until midnight.

I'll never understand the trend for expecting League One keepers to be able to take a touch and pick out a pass and chastising them if they just get it clear. Charlton gifted us a point and we very nearly gifted Blackpool the lead then.

That looked well over the line, got away with one there...

Brady needs to realise we can’t go toe to toe with the top 4 or 5 sides in this league. Everyone else we can match.

Precisely this. Going 4-3-3 from the start, with a centre mid covering at right back, away from home, against one of the league's best attacking sides with a point to prove, was absolutely nuts. If we kept it tight until the last 15 we had every chance of nicking something, as we did at Sixfields - they're shaky at the back and showed it with the defending for our goal, but we needed Monthe in between Sherring and Guthrie to shore things up at the other end and compensate for Hondermarck and Brough inevitably getting exposed.

Keep the faith, Peterborough are very capable of chucking away a four goal lead in a big game 

Without a natural right back on the pitch, and a Conference-standard left back, we needed to go 5 at the back for this one or Mason-Clark and Poku were always going to rip us a new arsehole on the wings, and that's exactly what's happened. The frustrating thing is they're there to be got at in defence, the marking for our goal was abysmal and you can see why they're shipping goals. If they do go up and don't get a whole new backline (and a new keeper) they'll get ripped to shreds at that level.

Take his goals and assists out of this team and it's at the other end of the table. He's single handedly papering over the cracks.

They need a bigger ground, there's limited room to expand their ground, we've got a prime site to develop with lots of room to expand, they've actually got the resources to do a proper job of the redevelopment, and Franklin's Gardens is as big as we're ever likely to need. A ground swap might make more sense than sharing!

Guthrie. No one else more than a 5/10.

Well, we were s*** tonight and we still won. Promotion teams tend to do that.

Lewis. Ran the show from midfield, always positive and looking to create something, and won us the penalty.

That second half performance was outstanding. That's set the standard now. Can see FGR running away with it but no one else in this league has been consistent and there are two automatic spots up for grabs.

Feels like a huge game for our season this, it'll tell us where we're at and where our expectations should be.

If we get pumped today we're probably outside the playoffs again, looking at a very blotchy inconsistent form record and generally not turning up against the big hitters in this league. If we go there and get a result we'll quite possibly be in an automatic spot with three wins on the spin including an away win against a team who finished in the playoffs last season and will be up there again this time.

This ifollow thing isn’t complicated. If it is genuinely an alternative for people who can’t make the game and is not about price then stream for the same price as a match ticket. The club is protected and might even make some more money, at least people then get a choice. What about supporters who are suffering a debilitating illness, what’s that then tough luck. Lower league football needs to drag itself out of the dark ages. Whilst we are at it is the match program available digitally yet, I’d pay for that as well.

Speaking as someone who now lives in the Manchester area, it's cost prohibitive for me to go down to Sixfields every Saturday to watch the Cobblers, so I tend to do away games in the North unless I happen to be back down in the Northampton area anyway - and of course  the home club keeps visiting fans' gate receipts. I paid to watch all but two or three of our home games last season on iPlayer so that's £200 or so of revenue that the club will miss out on from me this year and I'm sure there are many many others out there that this applies to as well.

Good luck with your new keeper Roberts, boy you are going to need it !

Wow, you went to the effort of signing up for another club's forum and creating a profile - complete with profile pic - just to say that? Has the lad shagged your missus or something?

I'm actually feeling a bit more glass-half-full about the Cobblers after today, which is refreshing. If they show the same fight and character they did today, I honestly think that team is one creative midfielder and one competent striker away from being a team that comes straight back up. We got our tails up as the game went on and we realised Sunderland were nothing to fear - and you'd hope we'll have the same attitude towards opponents in L2.

We're actually alright across two thirds of the pitch. In the final third we're shocking - both creatively and in terms of finishing.

NTFC Nut, For christ sake !!!! Sammo, really ? He was that good  he has done nothing as manager since he was sacked. All 3 of them need to go back to the youth set up, if you think that one or all three of them are the solution then i really do give up.

He was unlucky to be sacked and we've had far worse since, many of whom (Johnson, Page, Hasselbaink) were people with 'track records'. What competent manager do you actually think is going to come here and work for peanuts, sign players for peanuts, get that team motivated to play for the club and give absolutely everything they've got even when the chips are down?

As I see it, the remit for whoever comes in next season is to rebuild a team with more of a spine to it, with the quality to actually create some chances, to fire that team up sufficiently to win more games than they lose and, ideally, have a tilt at the playoffs (although with the shoestring budget that we're likely to be on, playoffs should be a hope rather than an expectation). I honestly couldn't name a candidate out there who I think is a realistic target for us and would be a better bet than Brady.

Give him the job for 12 months, or, if his conditions aren't met, I wouldn't even mind seeing Sammo and Rico given a crack with an experienced DoF - I actually think Sammo was one of our better managers over the last 15 years and at least had the team playing some entertaining stuff and scoring goals, which is going to be an absolute must if we're not going to have the budget to go for promotion next season (I can't sit through a season of finishing 12th playing Curle-ball).