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If Hughton started with Skalak he might have played a killer ball in the first minute that Hemed got on the end of and we could have picked Boro off as they pushed for an equaliser and been 3-0 up at half time. Without the Dale sending off we may have won, we equally may have lost (quite a few...

This decision is one of probably tens of thousands of decisions, from training decisions, team selections, tactics, pre-match approach, through to in game decisions (play it long, short, cross it high, low, power, placement, shoot it, pass it left, pass it right, pass it back, take it on)...

What about that decision made it impossible for us to score a second goal to win this match?Nothing. We still had plenty of time to compensate for any mistake from the ref. Why does that decision from ref play a bigger part in the game than our defensive error that left a man unmarked to tuck...

No. It couldn't. There was thirty minutes in which the players, and hughton, could affect the game, that they couldn't get the win is down to them, not the referee or his decision to send of Stephens. That this game would make the difference between automatic promotion and play offs, is a result...

Nope. We finished in third place because over the course of the season we failed to win more points than Boro (or Burnley) and conceded more goals than Boro. That is the culmination of 46 games. It is as much to do with failing to beat ten man Wolves even with the promising position of a penalty...