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The way we played for 80 minutes suggests that the boro loss galvanised the team. Even after the two bad misses we still looked totally in control and the more likely to score. You can't legislate for the manner of the goals conceded, it wasn't about bottling it or being soft, it was just unfortunate. I'd expect that if the reaction to Boro was focus and playing our best football, then the reaction to this will be anger and maybe a bit more bite.

It deflected off two players!!! Fatawu could have gift wrapped the ball for him, but he couldn't have stopped the ball travelling in three different directions. Jesus, step away from you scapegoating and just accept it was an incredibly fortuitous goal.

I think it's the absurdly bad disallowed goal and the two deflections that mean we can put this down to bad luck. 'Luck' has given leeds a three goal swing tonight. But, of course, better mentality in front of goal and luck maybe doesn't come into it.

No, we lost the last ten minutes 3-0, for 80 minutes we were ahead, and really should have been comfortably ahead. Leeds didn't even have a shot on target til the 67th minute. Say what you like about those last 10 minutes, but the first 35 of that 2nd half, Leeds were hanging on for dear life and had no clue what to do in possession. We were the better team for 80 minutes, and then we were the unluckiest team for 10 minutes.

I'm sorry but are you trying to blame Fatawu for a goal that deflected off two defenders? Inexplicable logic.

Typical comment in post match thread: 1. List the following actual reasons why we lost: missed chances, disallowed goal, poor officiating, lucky deflections. 2. Then insist that the real reason we lost was: a) poor substitutions, b) bottling it or c) both of these. This wasn't a bottle job we were fighting til the end, we just got beaten by some undefendable goals. And the substitutions were spot on daka and mavi were both knackered and starting to make bad passes (not to mention had blown their lines in front of goal). Everyone's disappointed but, other than the poor finishing, we did everything in our power to win that game, and were hugely unlucky not to get even a point let alone lose by two goals.

Not sure what's more frustrating - the disallowed goal or the fact that even without that we should still have been three nil up, or once again a ridiculous piece of luck costing us points. Or maybe just Leeds celebrating like they've won the league - which no doubt their fans now believe they have as good as done.

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Trouble is, even back then we were too honest as a club. We stuck to the salary cap rules enforced on teams coming up to the PL, rather than doing a forest and gambling on future success.

No. that didn't pass through wigston. Probably the branch line to Rugby. here: https://www.google.no/maps/@52.5801699,-1.1296315,3a,75y,11.49h,95.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPbLVi9Nx0aXBPm_VtRzDqw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DPbLVi9Nx0aXBPm_VtRzDqw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D125.34747%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

No, but oddly enough the other day i remembered that we didn't have bubble bath but washing up liquid.

I don't think it's necessary to allocate a level of difficulty, but really to give some perspective of the position of the opponents. Thanks for doing it. Looking at it - there's a reasonable argument to say we have the easiest last two games, given that preston and blackburn aren't likely to have much to play for - everyone else will be playing teams that may still be involved in relegation or the playoffs. Mind you, as you say, this can change dramatically every week.

Cool. I picked up a 2nd hand copy in Hinckley (of all places). It's really interesting, though it does meander wildly at times; quite, i would say ahead of it's time -

Of course, recent rule changes have thankfully restricted the use and propensity of helmet contact.

You can see on his face after goals and wins how much he's enjoying his time now. He's like a big kid - it's great to see. A lot of people on this forum laughed or cried at his signing by us, but he's been sensational, undroppable...

You can actually go even further than that and say that the only time we've lost games is when we've had trouble with shooting accuracy: Hull - 21 shots, 1 on target Leeds - 10 - 1 Boro - 12- 4 Cov - 8 - 4 (bit of course totally different reason for losing that one. Boro - 24 - 2 In a sense, no one has really 'beaten' us, we've only really beaten ourselves.

Sure, but it usually relies on a series of heavy wins and/or defeats.

Appreciate the work, but i think it might be more interesting to break it into three (1-8, 9-16, 7-24) as those seem to be the 'pushing for play-offs', 'nothing to play for' & 'relegation dog fight' brackets - unless you have your own, better logic.

You could simply argue that they didn't have to play leeds and southampton twice.

No way you can predict it - but say we lost the 4 games to blow the 9 point advantage and all remained equal between us and Ipswich (if we blow more games than that, GD won't be a factor), that's only four games where we'd have negative GD, the rest would be either equal or +GD, meaning we'd have far more chance of actually increasing our GD than decreasing it. The only way it might be negated is if we lose those four games extremely heavily and fail to win any game by more than a small amount. It would also require Ipswich to have numerous consistently big wins. Again, the rest of the results remaining equal, we'd have to lose 4 games by 3 goals taking our GD down to +31 (this has not happened once this season), Ipswich would need to win four games by 3 goals. (they have only won two games all season by such margin). If it's that close that it comes down to GD, chances are we'll still have a superior figure.

It's only scary if you believe that Leeds are capable of winning all their remaining 13 games....

If you can't be arsed to look, then don't be arsed to make judgements.

Back in the 90s, in london, a professional sweep taught me to turn my brush upside down (ie bristle ends facing forward) and to slide it along on the wooden part of the brush head - so it lasts longer but also reduces the amount of stuff that goes underneath.

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