I don't know about that Monk. We are excellent away from home (do you reckon Blackpool would fancy getting us in the Play Offs?) and despite indifferent form at the Boleyn, if the crowd got up for it for a midweek home Play Off game (a la Ipswich) we'd probably frighten some teams too much to lose.

All of that being said, I'd be scared of going that route. The play offs are generally won by the team that gets on a run at the end of the year (Palace in '03, us in '04) and if we drop down from the top 2 into the play off spots then, by definition, that wouldn't describe us. The Palace play off final was the worst day of my West Ham supporting career.