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I know this is not from it - but The The’s Infected is one of my all time favourite albums.

No, haven’t read that. Seems like they were a bigger part of the Oasis story than I realised.

We also first saw them supporting someone. I was struggling to remember who, but it was maybe also Inspiral Carpets as I saw them at the Octagon during that period. They were excellent that night (Inspiral Carpets) and it’s right up there in my list of best ever gigs. It was a real shame The Real People didn’t really make it. They sort of laid the foundations for Britpop then somehow missed out while bands they’d influenced went massive. One of the Gallaghers (can’t remember which one) quoted them as an influence, and I think they helped Oasis out on an early demo.

Just bought tickets for Richard Hawley at The Leadmill in August. Only tickets left for one of the four nights he’s doing if anyone was wanting to go and hadn’t got round to getting their tickets yet.

On Easter Monday Wednesday entertained Norwich in front of 27,362. It was a straight forward 2-0 victory with both goals coming in the first half. Roland Nilsson was instrumental, with our Swedish full back hitting his first Wednesday goal inside the first ten minutes, and then setting Sheridan up for the second. Woods, Nilsson, King, Palmer, Pearson, Warhurst, Wilson, Sheridan (Harkes), Johnson (Francis), Williams, Worthington. All of a sudden Wednesday were considered title challengers. With the top two slipping up and dropping points we found ourselves three points behind leaders Leeds with two games left to play. Man Utd were two points ahead of us, but with a game in hand. On the Saturday Wednesday travelled to Crystal Palace knowing that nothing short of three points would suffice for the unlikely title challenge to be kept on track. It looked on the cards for a while, excellent play from Sheridan to snatch the ball away from Palace and then cross perfectly for Williams to head home gave us the lead at the break. It stayed that way till almost the last kick of the game when Mark Bright ran onto a long through ball and lobbed the ball over Woods head to make the final score 1-1. Woods, Nilsson, King, Palmer, Pearson, Shirtliff, Wilson, Sheridan, Hirst (Francis), Williams, Worthington. Unused sub, Warhurst. The point confirmed at least a third place finish and European football for the following season. The result on it’s own didn’t end our title chance, but Leeds’ win at Bramall Lane the following day did. Man Utd’s defeat at Liverpool later that same day confirmed the title, and meant that Wednesday would go into the final game of the season with the chance of finishing runners up.

Yellows for Dunkley and Hutchinson at Wycombe. Barry Bannan 15 Marvin Johnson 13 Massimo Luongo 12 Callum Paterson 12 Sam Hutchinson 11 Dennis Adeniran 7 Liam Palmer 7 Jaden Brown 6 George Byers 6 Jack Hunt 6 Chey Dunkley 5 Dominic Iorfa 4 Harlee Dean 3 Lee Gregory 3 Bailey Peacock-Farrell 2 Olamide Shodipo 2 Jordan Storey 2 Lewis Wing 2 Theo Corbeanu 1 Fisayo Dele-Bashiru 1 Sylla Sow 1 Joe Wildsmith 1

No they don’t. Are you forgetting four go down in this division?

FFS

Bob Bolder for Skamp’s question

Curran at the lane

Chelsea and Man City? Can remember two for each.

I think that description of Thompson is ott, but was was very highly rated. We paid £450,000 for him at a time when the record British transfer fee was £1.5m.

I think he’s had a good season, but he wouldn’t have made my top five. Not sure when they voted as my Dad has missed a few meetings and didn’t vote himself. From talking to my Dad in the past about WOO there are a lot of people go that don’t attend games, so only nominally Wednesdayites - it can only take someone vociferously championing a player’s cause and you can end up with a whole table voting for him without a lot of knowledge.

Ha ha - my Dad told me that yesterday. My first thought was your reaction.

Just polished off a steak and blue cheese pie, mash and mushy peas. Very nice.

Five goals in the last three games. Two for Gregory to take him to 12, one each for Bannan and Berahino edging them closer as noted by Reesh, and a first Wednesday goal for Storey. We now have either three, five, or six games left. Whichever it is the projection for the trio of Gregory, Bannan and Berahino is for them to get one more each.

Just a yellow for Luongo v Crewe. Barry Bannan 15 Marvin Johnson 13 Massimo Luongo 12 Callum Paterson 12 Sam Hutchinson 10 Dennis Adeniran 7 Liam Palmer 7 Jaden Brown 6 George Byers 6 Jack Hunt 6 Chey Dunkley 4 Dominic Iorfa 4 Harlee Dean 3 Lee Gregory 3 Bailey Peacock-Farrell 2 Olamide Shodipo 2 Jordan Storey 2 Lewis Wing 2 Theo Corbeanu 1 Fisayo Dele-Bashiru 1 Sylla Sow 1 Joe Wildsmith 1

Our first point v Crewe was down to the clean sheet. The defensive changes were after the cut off point so it’s 0.2 for Peacock-Farrell, Palmer, Storey and Johnson, and 0.1 for Hunt and Mendez-Laing. Gregory’s penalty added the other two points. It’s also worth two points In Meaningful Goals. Who Got Us The Points Lee Gregory 13 Barry Bannan 9Callum Paterson 6.3 George Byers 6 Florian Kamberi 5 Own Goals 4 Sam Hutchinson 3.8 Marvin Johnson 3.5Theo Corbeanu 3.2 Saido Berahino 3 Bailey Peacock-Farrell 3Josh Windass 3 Jack Hunt 2.7Liam Palmer 2.65 Jordan Storey 2.6Dennis Adeniran 2 Nathaniel Mendez-Laing 1.3Dominic Iorfa 1.1 Fisayo Dele-Bashiru 1 Massimo Luongo 1Chey Dunkley 0.8 Lewis Gibson 0.3 Ciaran Brennan 0.2 Harlee Dean 0.2 Joe Wildsmith 0.2 Olamide Shopido 0.1 Jaden Brown 0.05 Meaningful Goals Lee Gregory 15 Barry Bannan 9.5 Saido Berahino 9Callum Paterson 7 George Byers 6.5 Josh Windass 6.5 Florian Kamberi 5.5 Dennis Adeniran 4.5 Sylla Sow 4.5 Chey Dunkley 3 Marvin Johnson 3 Theo Corbeanu 2.5 Jack Hunt 2.5Liam Palmer 2 Jordan Storey 2Lewis Wing 2 Fisayo Dele-Bashiru 1 Massimo Luongo 1Nathaniel Mendez-Laing 1 Olamide Shodipo 1 Sam Hutchinson 0.5

Well, that is an odd line up. All the talk on tinkering, was, I thought, just that. Talk. He’s been quoted as saying he’ll rotate but then pretty much kept the same line up. I was confident that there would not be any major changes for tonight. Obviously I was wrong. Got to make sure the side delivers now.

That was Ola Tidman. In the Johnstone Paints or whatever it was at the time v Blackpool. Edit - was supposed to be quoting Bartos not MAL

Ah - ok, had not realised that.

I don’t want to get complacent about Tuesday, but it really should be the game where we can get by with a few absentees. Surely the players we had available last night should be capable of getting a win, especially as they managed to do it against the form team of the division. I wouldn’t be rushing Hutch, Luongo or Dean back if there’s any doubt about them. We’ve enough options at centre half, and last night’s midfield three set up of Byers taking the holding role and Dele-Bashiru and Bannan in the forward roles worked really well. Get those absentees right for the tougher challenge at Wycombe next weekend.