Town dropped back into the Championship’s bottom three after Reading’s 3-1 victory at Crystal Palace on Wednesday evening. The Blues now sit in 22nd place behind Palace who also have 33 points but whose goal difference is nine better.

A draw with Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on Saturday would be enough to take the Blues above Palace depending on their result, while a victory could see Town leap ahead of the Owls in 20th, QPR in 19th, Reading in 18th and Scunthorpe in 17th if their games go the Blues' way. Town travel to Scunthorpe next Tuesday.

Elsewhere, Jon Stead made his debut for new loan club Coventry as a 56th minute sub as the Sky Blues lost 4-1 at Newcastle.

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Bluetone added 22:48 - Feb 17 Just when you think it can't get any worse it does.
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BeeneyITFC added 22:49 - Feb 17 the players have to wake up and smell the coffee
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Skip73 added 22:50 - Feb 17 I hate to sound negative but I'm beginning to think we're doomed now, Last nights performance sounded like a team destined for the drop. We must win at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday. I think that RK's time is nearly up.
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COPOSTCODE added 22:50 - Feb 17 O dear....Can u haer that Fat Lady Singing yet ??
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Mungo added 22:54 - Feb 17 Where we deserve to be. The table doesn't lie this far into the season. Still plenty of opportunities to get out of this mess but need to stop mucking about with uneccessary changes to line ups, positions and formations.
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blueoveru added 22:55 - Feb 17 Evans & Clegg hired him for a publicity stunt & now they must fire him ,keanes' reign has been a total disaster & if we are serious about trying to stay up ,then he has to go.
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xrayspecs added 22:58 - Feb 17 A minor point Phil - a draw with SW on Sat would not take us above them, they would still be a point ahead. X.
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6fish added 22:59 - Feb 17 To be honest I think its the fans who need to wake up and smell the coffee. There has never been a stage during this season when relegation wasn't the issue yet fans on here and elsewhere have blindly assumed "Keano" would turn things around and we'd wizz up the table for a late play off spot! Still as Keano says "any fool can get a side to mid table in the championship", seemingly not our fool though.

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BeeneyITFC added 23:04 - Feb 17 We just need to stay behind the team, to give us any hope! :( :(
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Skip73 added 23:07 - Feb 17 Not yet Copostcode but she is clearing her throat.
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punch_bowl added 23:10 - Feb 17 even though im crapping myself and have sat on the fence about keano...i think we need to buckle up for a tough ride but the table can easily gulp up many other teams....we have game(s) in hand and better goal diff.....lets pray for the next 2 away matches being kind to us and it might be a diff story!
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firmfoundations added 23:18 - Feb 17 Our problem is that in Clegg and Keane we have a pair who as far as managing a football club is concerned have neither nouce nor ability and until both join the ranks of the unemployed we are in real trouble. Are we doomed? Too early to call that one but we have a real troubled couple of months ahead of us and the psychological impact on our players of being back in the bottom three is probably the biggest problem we have to over come. I just wonder if Marcus Evans would keep senior managers in any other division of his empire that consistently fail.

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OnlyOneSirBobby added 23:21 - Feb 17 whilst yesterdays performance was poor, especially 2nd half, the fans proved we are right behind the team and as long as we continue to get behind EVERYONE at the club, and that includes keane, im confident we can get out of this mess....we are just 6 points away from derby in 12th, its still so tight to even be claiming we're doomed or whatever, peterborough are doomed, we would be doomed if we were 9+ points adrift, but we're not, we still have to play scunthorpe twice, id be more worried if i were a qpr fan as they are tumbling!! come on guys, whilst the table is looking very ugly tonight, there is still so much football to play, we are certainly not doomed

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rml123 added 23:23 - Feb 17 Will Sheffield Wednesday not get a point for drawing with us then?
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blue added 23:24 - Feb 17 20 Feb Sheffield Wednesday A 23 Feb Scunthorpe United A 27 Feb Bristol City H 6 Mar Blackpool A 9 Mar Cardiff City H 13 Mar Scunthorpe United H 16 Mar Watford A 20 Mar Barnsley H 23 Mar Plymouth Argyle H 27 Mar Swansea City A 3 Apr Reading H 5 Apr Derby County A 10 Apr Nottingham Forest A 17 Apr Doncaster Rovers H 24 Apr Newcastle United A 2 May Sheffield United H LAST 7 games toughies in my eyes all playing strong and battling up the top or survival.

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evansblue added 23:33 - Feb 17 This is all pretty exciting from where I am sat and normally dull meaningless games against the likes of Shef Wed and Scunthorpe suddenly have meaning and purpose. I am sure we will be stronger as a club off the back of this flirtation with league one. Perhaps its the reality check us supporters need as we constantly talk of promotion yet since 1986 we have spent just 5 years in the top flight and have no divine right to be in the Premiership or even challenging for the top flight.

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PhilTWTD added 23:33 - Feb 17 Oops, got that wrong, got Palace and Wednesday mixed up. Think it's right now. Late night last night.
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WirralBlue added 23:50 - Feb 17 I wouldn't like to say for certain that Town will win any of those games, they all look tough to me! I doubt anyone could have predicted at the start of the season that our 2 most important games could be against Scunthorpe United!!
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NorthStandTony added 00:02 - Feb 18 The only good news is Stead has gone, embarrassing player at this level.
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nthstd added 00:16 - Feb 18 The word team has been used by many. Tragically we don't own lots of the players in the team. £8.2m wasted Get us a proper football manager now
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62WasBest added 00:35 - Feb 18 Keane walked at Sunderland. Shame he doesn't do that here.
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Paul added 00:41 - Feb 18 In the relegation zone behind a team who have had 10 points deducted. Keane has spent millions and we are going backwards. He has to go.
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sirbobbyrip added 01:03 - Feb 18 Please put Yao in the Squad for Wednesday Away!
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Blueknight85 added 01:31 - Feb 18 we do have a game in hand though :D
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ITFCSOULJA added 01:39 - Feb 18 WE IN THE DOGS MUCK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is my opinion of the club with simon clegg and Marcus Evans bringing in Roy Keane because he was a high profile manager not ;( if Jim magilton was in keano's shoes Jim probably would be sacked Christmas time because he is not so high profile manager,all I say bring back burley because his jobless at the moment thinking in prospective.

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