Ted Maul

The bloke's been playing 180 minutes a week after an ACL. I'm genuinely amazed he's gone this long without some sort of injury.

He's always been a defensive midfielder. In fact, his first game at RB (Spurs away?) was deemed an absolute disaster, never to be repeated no idea why we're at a point where everyone's just accepted that he's a bang average full back.

Not too disappointed with that. You need some experience in there but hopefully Evans and Monga both get plenty of minutes off the bench.

You can tell why there was so much resistance to it being used for so long. What happened to hot-spot?

Surely it couldn't have been as low as that- home ends looked at least half full on average, so would have expected somewhere between 17-20k

We haven't seen anything close to 20k in a league game since 2013 (covid aside). Anything around that level would be a success.

It was only a few weeks ago that Arsenal were dropping points and everyone was talking about them bottling it again. Long, long way to go and pressure starts to do odd things to results at both ends of the table. Plenty of twists and turns left yet.

Statement win for Boro, bad day for Cov. Ipswich will win the league.

Gets a lot of unnecessary stick on this forum. Never going to be a world beater, but looks a solid enough player to me.

ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD

Not pretty, but we saw that last 25 minutes out fairly untroubled.

Keep saying it... I can't remember a Leicester player I disliked watching more than him.

Derby going through their identikit Championship songbook.

This might be a significant result, particularly if Boro back it up by beating Hull later. Cov have been scraping by a bit recently.

Some absolute flannels going after this on twitter

I'm out. Not convinced I'll make it back out of the pub for the game. That's the real quiz.

Potentially. Maybe there's more to it, rumours flying around behind the scenes of worsening financial problems, who knows

Genuinely don't know where we go from that. The side was starting to look like something we could get behind but they were outfought from the first minute today. Back to square one. Easy option to sack the manager, but who's backing these clowns to get the replacement right?

Bournemouth just fluffed my accumulator n all. Lovely afternoon.

At least he'll be suspended for boxing day

'Former Leicester stopper, Ben Hamer' is extremely generous to him.

Ayew get up, you gimp. Honestly cannot stand watching him play football.

Stolarcyk again (ole ole)