Blades

With several connections with family and friends in Sheffield, it's a disappointment that this game's not on a Saturday. The game with Sheffield Wednesday earlier in the season meant that we had a houseful. For this game it'll be the usual routine. We'll be coming to the game from our various work places at various times. It looks like we've settled on the Horse and Groom as the pub of choice this season, though we need to sort out tickets for forthcoming games. We've not used the services of 'Fiddler' and the Essex Branch to get our tickets much this season, mainly because we're not sure who will be going until a late stage. But we need to sort it out soon.

As for the game against The Blades, it looks like a chance to extend our unbeaten run. But we thought that about Plymouth and QPR. This could easily be another banana skin. But if we really are going to push on, we need to win games like this. Playing 4-5-1 seems to have tightened us up at the back, particularly away from home. At home it needs to be more like 4-3-3. With Lloyd Sam and Jerome Thomas we have the players to make it work for us. Let's hope it works on Tuesday night.