I hate to say it.... Or do I?

Leave it man. Don't crush yourself with such desperate hope. Step away from the play-offs!

There's no chance of us winning enough games to make the play-offs this season. We might as well sit back, blood a few of our most promising youngsters and try and play some decent football. And fill ourselves with unfounded hope and optimism that we're going to storm the league next season of course...

Most Leicester fans will know that we:

Will wallop Blackpool tonight making us all believe the play-offs are possible, Pearson is a tactical genius and we will go marching in to the champions league next year.....

.... before losing to Hull having no chance of reaching the play-offs, and with relegation looming we should sack Pearson now.

I'm still firmly in the "no chance but I'll still have a little hope just in case" camp!

If i'd have got 6 numbers up on saturday i would be sitting on a carribean beach now.....

You are correct Marv, if we win the next two, all of a sudden, we'll be going in to our game in hand with the possible prospect of jumping in to the top 6 (or near as dammit).

However, as some point out, we have been here before this season...and last. So I think we should just continue along the 'one game at a time' route. I can understand, as a football fan; being an optimist, realist or pessimist - I just hope that irrelevant of one's philosophy or our chances of the play offs, we all go and provide the team with the same level of support (unfortunately, I know in practice this isn't going to happen in relation to a percentage of supporters).

However, two bits of good-ish news:

Firstly, recent results have probably meant that the predicted points tally for 6th has dropped from around 75/76 to around 72/73.

And at least Derby were the first possible play off contender to fall out of the race last night with Leeds teetering right on the edge!

With the results going the way they did last night, if we win tonight, we're 5 points off the playoffs!!!
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Not listening.

As Malling says, its the never quite extinguished hope that's the killer.

Looking on the bright side, at least last night's result at Leeds means we might be spared the tender ministrations of lancashirewhite and his ilk for a few weeks. Never though I'd feel happy about Forest scoring 7...

No this is like death by a thousand cuts a little hope then cut again.

#iwishididnot believe

I cant concentrate at work thinking about the game!! Bloody City always messing with my emotions....worse than the misses!!

haha the same thing is happening to me... I've got my soul at steak on tonights game with my all my friends and my dad being Blackpool STH's

It feels like we've been 8 points behind the play offs since last March! Even if we do win tonight, I still think there will be too many points and, crucially, too many teams between us and the play offs. I know it's uber negative but I have already given up on the play offs, and just wish this season would end. I've grown sick and tired on hoping and wishing for something to happen that clearly won't.....

The Leeds/Forest result was certainly astonishing. The best take on it, as ever, comes from the Guardian's Fiver:

"I think you learn things when things go against you, who stands up and who you want in the trenches with you" – after Nasty Leeds's 7-3 home defeat to Nottingham Forest, Neil Warnock learns that the first world war would have been over in two days if his players had been fighting in it."