The bottom three's looking good

Two of them are still there, and having seen Bristol City on Saturday I don't expect them to be moving very far from their current position prior to kicking off next season in League One.

Peterborough are still there, and this despite something of a revival in recent weeks. But look who has gone and joined them? Defeat at Sheffield Wednesday has now seen Shebby's Boys take the third relegation spot.

Is there anybody there?

I'm not getting carried away. There are too many games to go. But right now it's good fun, it's as good as it's been in donkey's (and yes I know we are at Blackpool on Saturday) years, and we, courtesy of Saturday's win, have now moved seven points clear of them.

What a crazy league! It's been so for a number of years but never quite anything like this when you think that Middlesbrough, still harbouring hopes of a play off place, are just eight points clear of relegation.

At what point do you get the opportunity to consider yourself safe? Are we with 54 points? I suspect so but I would like another win just to make sure.

Up at the top, Cardiff are now assured a top six finish. Seventh place Leicester, who like Middlesbrough did, are doing all they can to avoid a play off finish, can no longer catch them.

Cardiff drew with third place Watford who themselves had just beaten Hull 1-0 at the KC a few days earlier. That makes our draw at Vicarage Road look good.

What a squad Gianfranco Zola must have. Fernando Forestieri was outstanding against us, on Saturday he was only named as a substitute as the rotation policy continued.  If we rotated like that we'd be playing with five some weeks.

It's Hull or Watford surely for second place with the other in the play offs with Crystal Palace, almost certainly, and two from Forest, Brighton, Leicester and Bolton.

Things weren't good for Bolton when David Edgar scored at the Reebok, but they came back to beat us 2-1 to trigger a run of seven consecutive home wins. We didn't get any more than that in the whole of last season and this season's total has only reached eight.

Interestingly though we have the 12th best home record in the division but the 13th best away record.

So, having given us that bit of a gap with Saturday's win, we can prepare for a trip to the land of thr tower, trams, rock, candy floss and donkeys, and a beach that looks to be in better nick for football than the Bloomfield pitch looks right now.

We owe them one from last year.

And just before going online comes even more news from Ewood. Our good friend Shebby is already in India but all of Gary Bowyer, Derek Shaw and Paul Agnew have been summoned. There's no one left to run the sinking ship.

The results, stats and fixtures are all below.