samjones":9ji6bs90 said:Scunny look to be over the line to me given their run in. Its either us or Charlton IMHO
pafcprogs":m063x3gb said:So as injuries bite we enter the defining moments of the season starting with a load of cobblers.
Will Taylor be fit? Is Makasi posting fake images to throw off the Northampton plans? Is DA Machiavelli in a kilt? Will the players run out in Dali masks like Netflix Money Heist? All will be revealed at 3PM.
Elsewhere Pompous and the Charlton massive butt heads to see who can damage the other on our behalf....for once a fixture that helps no matter what. Personally I think Charlton have the potential to be dangerous play off opponents but with Blackburn (H) and Rochdale (A) after todayI would hope for a draw.
If Pompey win they could well win their last two at Bury and then home to Peterbuckle for whom the nightmare of conspiracy theories continue to derail their bid as a cabal of EFL referees continue their vendetta against the charming convicted fraudster Steve Evans. They look to be in their play off death throes and play at Shrewsbury on Tuesday followed by Fleetwood before heading to Fratton for the Pompey play off party ( or the shooting of the first crowd scenes od A Quiet Place 2)
In the grim north Scunthorpe take on relegation haunted Walsall and should prevail...Rotherham bestow the last rites on the Gas condemning them to a derby versus Exeter or Wycombe if all goes well for us ( and them) but a draw would be a fun result for us.
But for the moment we await the first ever bingo style team selection as Derek pulls random names out of a bag and places them on the team sheet....does Matthews come straight back in for Letheren..or does he make a shock start at centre forward after his twitter post of earlier in the season.....
All to play for............
pafcprogs":2xxrytgm said:So eight more sleeps till the play offs...or not...
With TLC morphing into GLC ( and if the GLC can't strike then who can) Argyle pinched a point from Spotland which by general consensus could and should have been three.
The upshot is that it is still in our hands and Joel Grant has scored as many goals in his last three games as Ryan Taylor scored in his last seven....which kind of misses the point, but thats what statistics a re for really....proving what you want them to prove.
Sky certainly think we are in with a shout, breaking the bank to secure the live rights to our trip to Scunthorpe, and there is a mathematical treatise on the Charlton Into the Valley site that analyses nine different ways they can miss the play offs or not....
So whilst Tuesday is key this weekend could bring about a swift revision to the odds....
Charlton host title chasing Blackburn ( is it really a title chase when you have previously won the Premier League?) and are missing Fosu and Mavididi, and possibly centre half Pearce as well as apparently injuries are catching up with them....an away win or draw more than possible here which would leave the Addicks heading to the aforementioned Spotland on either 68 or 69 points and just the one game left.
Rotherham head down to HP with old boy Purrington currently In the first team and potentially resting players for the play offs...as it appears albeit unintentionally are we as Ryan Taylor looks set to miss out again...a win would be spectacularly helpful for us.....so fingers crossed we can do so without losing any more players to injury.
Scunny head to doomed MKD who having sacked their manager are prime candidates for an end of season shock....well I am biased but stranger things have happened....Scunthorpe have dragged out two narrow 1-0 wins at the best possible time but their form is far from convincing.
Unless Steve Evans can convince the European Court of Arbitration that they has jurisdiction over the referees conspiracy that has denied Peterbuckle their rightful place in the play offs that leaves Pompey needing to win at Bury and Bradford needing to defeat a bizarrely rampant Southend to keep their hope alive. Bradford play Walsall on Tuesday night and then finish up at Scunthorpe on the final day so are still technically in sight of 70 points....
There remains the outside yet not impossible possibility of Argyle and Charlton finishing level on points goals scored and goal difference meaning, having both defeated the other 2-0 a neutral ground play off before we even get to the play offs...
Still it would give us more time to get Ryan fit...
COYG