Pliskin

Brendan is mainly responsible for our demise. He inherited the best squad of players we’ve ever had, and slowly let it wilt into nothing. He cared about nothing but himself, and ever since the FA cup, it was clear he expected a bigger job to become available for him, and it never did, from then he developed an extreme case of the “****ems” and just tossed it all off, he left the gas on and left the building to burn. His achievements mean nothing to me, in my personal opinion he goes down as our worst ever manager, because of his attitude, the way he conducted himself and the way he ripped the soul out of the club. I don’t dislike anyone in football as much as I dislike that man. As the OP states, Enzo is everything he isn’t, we’re a joy to watch again.

Now I’m on board. The thought of Abdul ruining Chilwell’s career……..

My fear is, if we were to draw Coventry, it would distract us from the league? Would the lads be focused on revenge and take their eye of the prize….. As you can tell, I’m terrified that we will somehow **** promotion up, so the slight chance of any distractions makes me feel uneasy.

To be honest I’m not bothered. I’m inclined to say Man City, because I think Cov could be a disaster. We absolutely cannot sacrifice the league, and my fear is a cup run might end up distracting us, especially if we draw Cov. I haven’t recovered from relegation yet, so if we were to mess promotion up I’d likely implode. It’s great to have a run, but I’m still very much in two minds about it.

The closer this gets the more worried I get. There’s a genuine chance they could come here and turn it into a scrap, and Nick something. This is a must win game for me, I just hope that we can take from the Bournemouth game, and get back to winning ways with a convincing win.

I’ve just watched them and thought the same. BBC are a turd on the shoe of sports, they rest are.

I said at the start of the season that he was going to be the main choice due to his abilities on the ball. The system suits him down to the ground. But, the most impressive thing is that all of those fears we had about him with his lack of pace, have all been dismissed. He’s been Susan perb.

Fantastic performance. By far the better team and looked every bit a P/L side. Hopefully acts as a confidence boost for the rest of the season.

****ing twatted that one.

In your defence, I don’t think you expected it come after the capitulation that was Leeds.

That will do, **** this off and focus on QPR.

It’s not no, a few people have suggested we should go all out to potentially possibly play Cov in the next round. It definitely wasn’t you.

Great pod yet again. @Ric Flair hit the nail on the head. This is no longer about how talented we are, it’s about fight. We’ve got 12 scraps coming up, and it’s going to tell us a lot about this teams mental resolve.

If you think going all out tonight to potentially play against Coventry is a good idea, you’re ****ing mental.

Can you imagine sacrificing an automatic promotion place because you “went for it” in a competition you’re not even going to win?

Situations dictate your approach to the cup. If we field our strongest 11, and lose Winks and Ricardo for the rest of the season, we’re screwed. Had we been 12 points clear, the game may have been viewed differently, but you have to put sentiments aside in situations like ours, we can’t afford to take a risk in the FA cup, just to satisfy the fans love affair for it. I’d love to have a proper go at Bournemouth, but given the last two results, we simply can’t do anything that will compromise our league position, we can’t afford to screw this up, the immediate future of this club depends on promotion. Get the job done, and think about this next season.

We won’t lose again this season.

We will beat these and then draw Man City in the next round at home.

“Gaffa, why are you picking me? I’m fit”

99.9% of the initial posts on here including my own were born out of sheer frustration. Technically despite what sky will say, we’re technically the best team that’s ever played in this league. We’ve bought a Phoenix to a pigeon race…. The painful thing is we really should have been out of distance by the time they equalised…. Leeds being one of the leagues better sides will go for the jugular if given a chance, which we gave them. It hurts because we all want to be the best, we want to break Reading’s record, we want to be the best team that’s ever been in this league, and we want to win another trophy, trophy’s at any level mean success… Despite the doom, I still think we will win the league, and we can still break Readings record but would need a near perfect record, which we’re capable of. It would be a desperate shame not to do something great, because we’ve by and large been excellent, and it would somewhat water down how good we’ve been. However, despite what a lot of people have suggested, I think it bodes well going forward, because it’s clear Maresca has got what it takes to assemble a squad capable of competing in the PL. Forget this now, move on, we’ve got 12 games to amass as many points as we can, and maybe take a PL scalp along the way.

Doesn’t help when you work with a Leeds fan and two forest fans and are just getting pelters all day….

We’re technically brilliant, but we’re soft.

This really needs to stop. Surely last season is enough to indicate this. People need reminding we played alright for 70 odd minutes, but lost a crucial game….. it’s still a defeat regardless of how we played…… and that habit can stick.

I think the best way to describe the situation is. The defeat hasn’t derailed us, but it has made a comfortable situation uncomfortable. Leeds have managed to close in to within arms reach and applied pressure to us that we haven’t really had all season. Despite the doom and gloom, it is still in our hands (sorry not sorry) and a couple of wins maintains the distance from Leeds. We do however need to have a collective sit down and a talk, because it really isn’t great to collapse so easily to your closest rival.