Stopharage

Keep the faith. This is the perfect set-up for a confidence boosting win. Trust the process…

Win this and go top of the league. Even then you’ll still have most of the forum ranting that we’re not smashing other teams with Football Manager scores. Lose this and I’ll be ranting that we’re not smashing other teams with FIFA on beginner level scores. Must-win just to stop the rot and finally put some pressure on the teams at the top.

Faes- MOTM for Belgium, bombscare for Leicester. Also, when’s Ndidi back from injury?

Some on here seem to be revelling in this. In the same way that the slavering Neanderthals start moaning the moment Winks plays a short pass. If we’ve done wrong, punish us. Simple as that. But have some consistency. As long as the process is fair and transparent, I’ll take whatever punishment our actions deserve. Having said all that, if someone gave fans of most clubs the opportunity to go through this Kafkaesque legal rigmarole in exchange for the 10 years we’ve had, they’d bit their hands off. We’re Icarus. We flew too close to the sun and ended up drowning but let’s face it, soaring towards it was a total blast. We weren’t helped by Rudkin applying beeswax and advising us it was sun-resistant though.

Upside: Might make getting a season ticket easier when more of the plastics leave.

Not sure that a transfer embargo is the punishment that the EFL think it is. Are they not aware of how dreadful our transfer dealings have been before this season?

Won’t be them, they’re too busy entering a death spiral whilst exploding over the England Shirt.

Palmer has probably done us a favour by knocking some sense into Faes.

Sterling’s value must have depreciated as much as the currency. That free-kick was fantastically awful.

Great to see Hamza playing like a Captain. Unfortunately he’s playing like Captain Tom.

We’ve given Daka 3 years. Fair to see we’ve been pretty patient.

This ref is about as bad as we've seen.

Faes to score the winner to stop the haters. What end will it be at though?

Fairly meaningless comparison all things told. We have so much of the ball that recoveries are likely to be far less frequent.

This ref is great...

Flat ball? More like flat team.

Doyle has had a good game. Fatawu has been decent as a more defensive winger than normal. Worst I've seen Winks, and KDH and Mavididi continue their bad form. The ref has been diabolical, laughably bad.

Was that a save by Mads or a massive, massive slice of luck?

This aged well.

Oh good, we're doing the whole 'let's see how many gilt-edge chances we can miss this game'.

Think we need some sort of perspective here. We’ve lost 3 in a row, that’s concerning. However, the last 6 shots on target against us have all gone in. Middlesbrough had 2 on target, 2 goals. We lose that 1-2. Leeds have 3 on target, 3 goals. We lose that 3-1. QPR have 2 on target, 2 goals. We lose that 1-2. We’ve had games where we’ve been lucky earlier in the season but we don’t seem to be getting the run of the green at the moment. Deflected goals against our rivals seem to be the norm. We’ve lost key players at crucial times. We also have a number of players who have woeful consistency. Yet, despite that we’re still top. Some on here go on like we’re 15 points outside the playoffs. We may still blow it but the stats suggest we’ll come good.

The priority signing for next season is getting a leader on the pitch. We're too nice and fairly insipid at times. We're looking sluggish today, most of them have been off it.

Were we trying to play football?

That is diabolical defending. Really, really poor.

Quite Poor Really.