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For those who love to read things into something that is probably not there, Benteke's reaction, during the team's lap of honour this afternoon, did not look like a player waving goodbye to the club. It would appear that he is happy to stay, perhaps subject to a 'too good to refuse' offer in the summer.

I thought the FA Cup was traditionally on a Saturday? I thought the FA Cup was traditionally on a Saturday? For decades the final was held at 3pm on the Saturday after the top league had finished.

It says a lot about our chance of relegation that it would only cost £1 to insure the cost of the above.

Perhaps they've all had a week's wage at 100+ to 1, just in case!

With no damage caused, most would have driven off and forgotten about it. Now you've done what strictly was the correct thing, please relax!

I'm looking towards the season being 'post' before deciding whether it was 'mortem'.

I do miss Wiz insisting Lambert will dump us after any amount of success. It got me concerned after recent back-to-back wins.

Why aren't there any nawrich fans on here insisting Lambert is off to Everton?

16 minutes of time!

It is a strange league table that with just 2 games left we could still be relegated or finish in the top half.

About 7-1/8-1 in a treble. Interesting. Might be worth a punt. Thanks. Why not take the 33 - 1 if relegation is what you are ultimately concerned about?

I'm considering a £16 insurance policy that would cover the total cost of a Championship season ticket, in the unlikely event it is required.

Match Of The Day.

Both players made the assist and goal look so simple. Whilst I know it wasn't, it doesn't stop me thinking - why don't we just do that half a dozen times every match!

It is still possible, but is it really 'most likely'?

We won't keep a clean sheet.

Against a booked player seen as a weak link defensively and a sub who has hardly played this season, I think it's to be expected!

Would anyone take matching Wigan's result today? Maintains 5 point gap with one less game left to play for both teams.

By what calculation did you work that out? The figures I've seen state our average last season was 33,873. It is currently higher than last season and after a decent attendance for our last home game, this season's average should be very close to 35,000. Looks more like slightly up, not slightly down.

^Along with a degree of strengthening, ^this^ is what is needed.^ From the article linked above: "It is always impossible to predict the future in football, but, at the ­moment I am 99 percent certain Christian will start next season with Aston Villa in the Premier League." I note the season starts a few weeks before the transfer deadline; Dwight Yorke anyone? Come on Christian, you can borrow my pen!

Not a major overhaul, but we definitely need to address specific areas of the team.Unfortunately, you're probably right about any monies being available. Bringing in 4 or 5 players of a proven top half Premier League standard is unlikely because of transfers and wages. Bringing in half a dozen lower league players is too risky on top of what we have. Doing very little, especially to the defence and midfield strength, relies too heavily just on our younger players gaining experience from this season. Hopefully we'll attempt a minor overhaul, if that's not a contradiction in terms. I still think RL is more concerned about the wage structure than not spending on transfers. IF a few £40k+/week players can be jettisoned in the summer, I think RL will sanction some decent transfer values, provided the new contracts are less than around £40k/week. I expect what value is perceived as 'decent' will vary amongst most! If we re-contract Benteke (possibly the only exception to offering less than £40k/week), it will be a great start.

That's likely but as we don't know what Wigan will do in their next 3 league matches (influence of FA cup final?), how Chel$ki will perform at Villa Park (influence of Europa League final?), let alone how we will perform in our final home game, it is far from certain!

Rugby pitch = 100m (plus no more than 22m behind posts) x no more than 70m. I don't know if there is a tolerance on the length. Villa Park pitch = 104m x 69m. They won't need to change the side lines and they can use the grass area behind the goal lines for the try areas (okay not massive but they must have thought about it already!).

Great news, if it happens. Now there is a contract I'd like to read through, future transfer criteria and all. Instead we'll be left guessing based on media knowledge which is usually pure supposition or erroneous anyway. I wonder what value the board and Lambert will value Benteke at this summer, both in terms of contract offer and accepting a possible bid. I'll start the guessing at £50k/week or sell at £25m by RL and £70k/week or sell at £35m (based on getting it all for buying players) by PL. Just guessing like, as the makems say. We all know the bid acceptance value can be forced by player/agent antics but with the World Cup next year, hopefully Christian will have a lot more sense. Nearly forgot to add, I think CB is rather good.

Nice try. Fail.