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The next 5 games are going to be massive really. It’s not unthinkable that Leeds / Southampton and Ipswich could be within points of us. I’d confidently state we will beat QPR, however Leeds, Southampton, Hull and Sunderland are trickier fixtures on paper. We saw yesterday though, that surprises happen and we need that to happen more to the other three in the games until the end of the season (which it will) and we should get over the line with a bit of space to breathe.

Updated. As we get closer to the end of the season, I’ll adjust the colour coding from top 8, to include teams that are chasing for relegation / play offs. Week Leicester Southampton Leeds Ipswich 33 Hull Rotherham 34 Leeds Millwall Leicester Birmingham 35 QPR Birmingham Huddlesfield Plymouth 36 Sunderland Preston Stoke Bristol 37 Hull Sunderland Sheffield Wed Cardiff 38 Southampton Leicester Millwall Sheffield Wed 39 Bristol Middlesborough Watford Blackburn 40 Norwich Ipswich Hull Southampton 41 Birmingham Blackburn Coventry Norwich 42 Millwall Coventry Sunderland Watford 43 Plymouth Watford Blackburn Middlesborough 44 West Brom Cardiff Middlesborough Coventry 45 Preston Stoke QPR Hull 46 Blackburn Leeds Southampton Huddlesfield At the moment, as things stand, the average position based on the current table for the teams we have to play are: Leicester - 11th Southampton - 11th Leeds - 13th Ipswich - 14th Anyone that wants a predictor by guessing the scores: https://www.worldfootball.net/table_calculator/eng-championship/ I took a pessimistic view and put in losses against Southampton and Leeds, then draws with WBA and Hull. We still won the league on 105 points. Leeds 2nd, behind by 3 points. If we do lose a few more though and the 3 close the gap to within 6 points, it could get really interesting.

Week Leicester Southampton Leeds Ipswich 33 Hull Rotherham 34 Leeds Millwall Leicester Birmingham 35 QPR Birmingham Huddlesfield Plymouth 36 Sunderland Preston Stoke Bristol 37 Hull Sunderland Sheffield Wed Cardiff 38 Southampton Leicester Millwall Sheffield Wed 39 Bristol Middlesborough Watford Blackburn 40 Norwich Ipswich Hull Southampton 41 Birmingham Blackburn Coventry Norwich 42 Millwall Coventry Sunderland Watford 43 Plymouth Watford Blackburn Middlesborough 44 West Brom Cardiff Middlesborough Coventry 45 Preston Stoke QPR Hull 46 Blackburn Leeds Southampton Huddlesfield

Shock as humans make mistakes. Every team in the world makes them. That’s football. If we didn’t make them, we’d be the greatest team ever. We are more consistent than every other team in this league. I will say it again. Today was an off day and we’d have won that game 8 out of 10 times. We go again on Friday. Chin up, no need to cry over split milk. What is done is done. LETS BEAT BLOODY LEEDS!

Agree. Vestergaard and Vardy being the grab the easier on the chances and this game is forgotten. It’s just one of those days and it happens.

On another day, we win that. It’s just a bad day at the office. We all have them and that’s life.

Chances are, these are one of the worst league teams we will play next season. We need to be better than them. We need to win. We need 3 points.

We’ve got to pick ourselves up and beat these.

Or last …

How is Praet still on the grass?

We’ve not really altered that much @ozleicesterto be honest. If I a criticism of Maresca this season, it’s been that in game management has been poor.

One of those days …..

We’ve not been great. However, the reality is they’ve been worse but have managed to score twice.

A massive 45 minutes then. I don’t fancy our mentality to cope with the pressure to be honest, if we start to drop points.

I see his brother has dismissed the “broken heart” and blamed lifestyle choices and diet.

It’s not great at all. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ The average sea surface temperature is up on last years record high. Analyst are all ready forecasting the warmest February on record.

Apologies! I agree not everyone is “flexing” as I originally wrote. I do think your average family though has higher living expectations than 30 years ago. We definitely have wealth gaps in society and that has got larger within this period. The cost of living has squeezed the lowest earners much harder. I did some work with the Trussel Trust last year and they made a valid point to me. We’ve always had poverty within society, however with the world we live in, it’s more actively promoted so people are aware. They can only advise how many people they’ve supported and it has grown year upon year. It’s hard to put a number on how many require support now. Never mind 5, 10, 15 or 30 years ago. Unfortunately not everyone will reach out. It’s an aside from this really, however certain private companies have pushed to make larger profits during the crisis as well. We’ve all seen that with some announcing record profits.

Is it though? Joking aside, the world has changed. Gross take will be higher due to inflation, however as a % it won’t be. Wage inflation has caused fiscal drag, as we’ve got more people than ever, and also more people in the higher tax bracket. Overall though, we’re rebounding from an event that was as catastrophic to the world economies as a war. We haven’t taxed as heavily as the post war rebuild surely? The borrowing thing is interesting. “Keeping up with the Jones”, 30 years ago, meant a new Ford Focus and maybe at a push some new UPVC windows and a 30” CRT” TV. Now you have everyone flexing with not just cars, it houses, TVs, boats, planes, phones, teeth, spending money at Salt Baes restaurant buying golden steaks etc. Even the 10 year old requires a phone etc to fit in! It’s ridiculous and social media is largely to blame, as it has driven this. This has surely pushed the cost of borrowing through the roof and disposable income is now being squeezed. Immigration as a % of world population will be the true figure to look at. Overall numbers are bound to be higher and the media love to splash out this without context. However, we aren’t exactly the biggest island in the world, so the Rwanda thing whilst it’s ridiculous on paper, the concept isn’t that stupid when you consider the person per square mile. It would not have been as controversial in my opinion, if we were deporting everyone to a more modernised country such as Australia etc The drag from social payments, Long and short of my ramble though, this has been teetering for a while. I don’t think any party, be it Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem etc could have navigated through uncharted waters with great success. You could argue in hindsight that some of the stupid stuff that has been done could have been avoided. The furlough funding was at its heart, maybe too kind and we’ll be paying back that bill for generations. However, Baz Luhrman said all of this in 1997 and if you reflect on this now, most of this was right then and it’s right now.

If we can get any money for him at all, then get Grønbæk, that would be a better all around for us. Issue is, that price is getting higher!

Who will be left from the relegation though, that actually features by the start of next season? Justin, Ricardo, Faes, KDH? Ndidi and Vardy might not be here. By all accounts, he was close to Ricardo, so who knows. It is a massive elephant in the room. We have a rebuild to do and we may be relying on players coming on largely on free transfer to do that.

I honestly don’t think it makes that much difference. You only need to go into a Foxestalk match day topic. People will moan as we are not 4-4-2, smash it long, miss the midfield and it’s basically not a basket ball match. Football has changed to be a more tactical and technical game. Some people don’t find it as entertaining and exciting, so the core fans base is changing. The demographic has changed that attends a match as well. Are the younger demographic more introverted? Who knows, however it will play a factor in my opinion. That may change again when we actually expand the stadium and have more general sale tickets etc. I do wonder how lo no it will be before they start piping in crowd sound into the stadium though!