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Ipswich are even more around us now they didn't draw.

Derby managed 16 shots. None were on target.

Still, they can always draw resilience from the way they fought back from adversity last season.

Four draws. Hold on all eight teams. Pretty please.

Derby 68% possession, 11 shots, none on target (Preston have 3 from 9).

They've sorted it ... for the moment. In fact, they're all sorting it ... for the moment. Let's keep those results as they are, although I'll willingly accept a Preston goal.

Good gawd. You'll have to arrange something like that down here, but sans airing cupboard, etc, you might have to slum it just a tad. Was there an 82 in there? I've always liked 90 Bordeaux. What I've recently discovered having bought far too many of them is that I really don't think too much of...

Are you saying that he's worse at motivation than Sami?

Don't have an airing cupboard, nor any first growths in my cellar. But I haven't chucked that towel in yet. What was it again, 84 points will be enough for automatics, which means that the third place team won't get more than 83?

I was wondering what had happened to that, as it had numerous outings last season. In the interim period, the club badges have changed, and there a few it's taken me a while to work out (e.g. the top two), but I think I've got there. It also means that if you're right, I've lost an early season...

I'm actually not quite as positive as you, because your focus is on automatics rather than the play-offs. I'm still of the view that the latter is far more likely than the former, although it's by no means impossible (and will look even more possible if we can win these next two home games...

My (probably premature) view is that there is a top eight, maybe nine, forming from which the top six will come. There might be one club that disrupts that with a late run, but I suspect that's more unlikely than it happening. Derby, Sheff Wed, Ipswich and Burnley are all within that top eight...