Finnegan

Delete this shit ffs. Firstly, nothing is finished, secondly Ipswich have performed miracles this season and deserve the plaudits and thirdly it's the most hypocritical shit I've ever read. I swear every week on here it's omg boo hoo Ipswich have won again how dare they it isn't fair poor Leicester.

I've said this before, probably actually around the time we best Southampton at their gaff, but the plan never actually changes. Not significantly. You'll get thickos asking we can't play like that every week or saying Enzo finally gets it or some other rubbish and those same people are going to be frothing next time out when Preston park the bus and it's pass pass pass again. But the plan isn't any different. Enzo has set us up to counter, in a way, all season. That's the point of passing it out from the back so drastically and having a keeper and centre back that can beat the press right from our goal line. We want to draw teams in and then beat the press and attack swiftly. It's just much easier to do against a team like Southampton who are going to come and engage. It doesn't matter what style of football you play, if you are so dominant that teams are terrified of you then sometimes they're going to go in to an insanely low block and make the game boring. It's boring whether you play Pepball or Kloppball either extreme makes the match dull if the opponent won't come out of their six yard box. It's not really Enzos fault. But his way or Peps way is the best way of breaking that down on the whole which is why teams comfortable in possession typically win more titles than teams over reliant on counter attacking.

Just don't see it. Think Leeds will beat them by a couple tbh. Personally, in the next few days, I can see QPR lose to Leeds, we draw at Preston and Ipswich drop points at either Hull or Cov. 95, 93, 93 going in to the last game needing a point against Blackburn because of our goal difference. But we'll beat them to be Champions in a nervy game.

Two absolutely rough fixtures for Ipswich coming up in their current form. Strong possibility we already have enough points to be honest. Absolutely need to be Champions though and would love to go up on a proper run so let's win both please chaps.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

He's got such big Knockaert energy.

Let's not have our Arsenal moment now thinking we're up mind. Need to go and beat Preston now.

Commentators acting like we've not hammered anyone this year. We pumped them four one at their own gaff.

Great for confidence and hopefully not necessary but also, let's be honest, just in case it's nice to get that goal difference nicely back up above Leeds.

Brendan Rodgers could only ever wish to be half the manager Emery is.

All Forest memes aside, though, I absolutely do think the refs audio with the VAR should be on the broadcast. If I got to redesign VAR, and I'm confident I could do it in a way the majority of fans would accept, one of the first things I'd be looking to do is make it more transparent. In cricket and rugby you can hear the ref / umpire talking to VAR equivalents. Not sure why it'd be such a problem in football if they've got nothing to hide and it'd help the viewing public understand when there's a delay.

Ah well. That's game over tbh.

Not just that decision though is it. All three goals were bonkers. They should be two nil down, they've basically been hammered. One of their worst performances and they somehow have three. The first was the stupidest penalty you'll ever see and the second Boro basically just declined to defend

FWIW, in case I sound salty, we got unbelievably spawny against WBA they should have scored about 10. Can't bemoan Leeds a bit of luck. But Christ I feel we handed them the four leaf clover after full time at the weekend.

I'm genuinely astounded by anyone's argument against VAR being that that goal "shouldn't need VAR." You literally just watched it happen - as you did like, probably ten million times before VAR? For what it's worth, I agree VAR should work with a proper benefit of the doubt rule. They should watch it maybe twice at something like half speed with a max of like 30 seconds to make a decision and if you can't in that time you just give the goal. If you're having to draw lines on the pitch to work out if a pixel of a toe is off or onside then I agree, benefit of the doubt should go to the striker. But shit like this? It takes one re-watch at half speed and a brief pause to see he's blatantly a country mile off just as it took one re-watch earlier in the year to see Daka was onside because a defender kicked it backwards. This shit is easy to clear up in seconds. Before VAR, an absurd amount of goals by the likes of Mo Salah and Harry Kane were literally five or six meters offside with linesmen just asleep at the wheel. You all act like this is just a freak one off that shouldn't happen but this does all the time.

Sure and yet. History has seen some absolutely unbelievably bad offside calls in both directions. It is impossible for a human linesman to be looking at both the ball being struck and the defensive line at the same time, our vision just doesn't work like that. Reviews of offsides should be as much of a given as goal line technology, it's just obvious. Leeds will never get three easier goals than this, just bonkers.

I am so ****ing fed up of the lack of VAR in this league. I don't give a shit how many trogladytes want to cry about armpits, there's no excuse for not having it for offsides. It's cost us multiple times this season. Shit like that could cost us promotion. It's not even close, there's borderline daylight ffs.

Leeds look absolutely shit. They're in a bigger tailspin than us. If Boro hadn't literally given them two free goals they'd be facing a hiding here. Boro get Thomas off and there's still time yet.

What a ****ing hit that is. 2 all.

Boro defending against us: Boro defending against Leeds:

Aw come on. Let Bamford take it.

What an absolute donkey. Why do that.