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Might be 2? Not sure though

It was a foul

Not like him...

You must be forgiving him for the last 15 minutes when he genuinely found a Leicester man with 1 out of his last 10-15 passes. Killed us.

Worst thing to come out of today is that we're going to have to play James Justin for the next 3 Championship games. His total inability to pass the football is a fvkcing liability. KDH still, also, cannot pass the ball. We shoot ourselves in the foot with the basics. We also need to stop pressing as high as the opposition penalty box because we're sitting ducks. Moments before the red card, KDH, Winks and N'didi were all 20-25 yards from the Chelsea goal. It's just suicide.

I'd love to see us under Maresca with a creative 8. I'm convinced we take the gamble of pressing so aggressively because he feels that's the only way we'll create anything. Said it a thousand times before, but for all the strengths of KDH and N'didi, they're both awful at finding a pass. So we press with everyone and leave ourselves exposed, which isn't ideal when you have slow centre halves. Until we address the lack of creativity in the middle, I'd like to see us be more selective with our press. It looks suicidal at times.

Our pressing has been suicidal. We probably feel we have to press as we don't have the creative players to make chances of our own, but when you're conceding that many chances, just take your foot off the gas for 5 minutes.

He'd be fine in the Prem, but for a top side. He's a good defender, but put him in enough 1v1s and it's going to cost you eventually.

1-0 or 6-0, it's just a slight disappointment we didn't benefit from a shock result.

There's every chance the time lost not securing this property may cost a fair bit just on increased mortgage rates, assuming they continue to trend upward in the short to medium term. It's unknown of course, but there's a set of circumstances which could play out that would mean not spending a little more now actually hurts your pocket. Without being daft, I've always thought that if the house is right, get the deal done. Finding a house that works for you and that you like isn't easy, so it's not worth quibbling over a couple of grand when everything aligns, in my opinion. Especially when you consider that £5k extra isn't £5k more that you actually pay. It's £5k more on a mortgage that you'll no longer have in 5-10 years. Very approximate maths here but based on a 4% interest rate, the difference between a 562k mortgage and a 567k mortgage is £27 per month. Over 10 years that's just over £3k, which is a very long period of time and given the sums involves it's difficult to imagine you'd feel that. You'd like to think in the longer term we'd see lower interest rates, too. Don't spite your nose to save your face because you didn't win the negotiation game, basically. Of course sometimes there is a deal to be done, but it sounds like you're pretty close on price. Obviously don't take my advice as gospel, I'm definitely not a financial advisor and I'm no property expert either. Just offering my perspective that securing the right house is the most important consideration here. I've always found it frustrating to see people lose out on a house they love because they wouldn't part with cash they could afford. I've heard of people searching for years and a lot of it boils down to the psychology of needing to feel as though they've secured a bargain. For me, I've always preferred to make sure I get the house I want and end the search. Maybe I'm just impatient

Now there's a depressing thought

Honestly at this point I wish we just let them have their super league.

What really grinds my gears is how thick most people are. I used to consider myself to be of around average intelligence. I still do not think I am particularly intelligent, it's just that the vast majority of people are thick. I should not be in the 25th to 30th percentile, but I probably am. It's infuriating dealing with other people being consistently disappointing without being especially impressive yourself. Either I've somehow surrounded myself by a disproportionate volume of dense people, or intellect doesn't follow the normal distribution that logic would dictate. Constant state of helplessness.

It's an 'I was there' brag. Doesn't make it any less annoying.

The use of the word 'was' in the plural and second person past tense, popularised by Micah Richards.

Can bottom half clubs not come together and agree to say bollox to the rules and all start with a points deduction? Kind of makes it meaningless then.

Glad it's not just me. He's such an odd footballer. For somebody who scores so many goals, his technical ability is so limited. His main attributes are pressing, speed, and finishing. He'd probably make a better striker than a midfielder. His touch is awful, vision limited and weight of pass verging on laughable.

We simply don't have the players to make this style entertaining. It isn't inherently 'entertainless' (almost certain that isn't a word) as a style. Our starting 8s are KDH and N'didi, for goodness sake. Both good players with their own strengths, but have you ever seen either get a through ball right? Absolutely not, so instead of ceding possession, more often than not our technically limited players play it safe. I really don't know why such a large chunk of our fanbase appears to dislike Enzo. It's baffling. I'm all for debate and discussion on potential shortcomings, but it's outright vitriol. We're top

Okay, but we have a 4 point gap and have taken 4 points from the past two games. Both away from home against half decent outfits, during a time that we're struggling. I think QPR was genuinely crap. Sunderland was more evidence of a drop in confidence, for me. Today we've ground out a point. Not the time to be talking about hypothetical failures. By all accounts we've been pretty rubbish the past two games, yet we continue the ppg from those into the final 9 games and we end on 100 points. Yet we will play worse teams, and you'd like to think we'd probably put in some better performances, too. Look, I get it, it's getting a little tighter. I do think people are shitting the bed a little much though.

On paper, yes. But when we got relegated most people on here feared the worst. I'm not saying he's perfect, and there's still time to go yet, but we sit above Leeds and Southampton in the table who also have Premier League players in abundance. It isn't all bad. Ultimately I think Enzo's game is highly dependent on having technically gifted players, and coaching. With the volume of fixtures recently, we'll have barely trained shape and routines. Meanwhile, it's not surprising that the loss of Pereira has coincided with us looking a little ordinary. He plays a key role in the midfield. He's intelligent, nippy, and has real quality. Without him we can look sluggish, and it's an awful lot easier to double up on Winks with no Ricardo to worry about. I think we'll see an upturn in form after the international break. A bit of time on the training pitch, and hopefully N'didi and Pereira starting, will make all the difference. Hopefully next season we'll be able to recruit a core of quality midfielders of the Sensi profile, potentially funded by a KDH sale. To write him off after a two week wobble is ridiculous.

Okay, I've misunderstood your stance slightly. I do think some folk on here don't fully appreciate why 'the spreadsheets' are so important to our future reality. Agree it's sad. Been covered to death, but the restrictions that were meant to save clubs from themselves are now so tight that they make growth only the result of near-perfection.

That's just the reality. Those spreadsheet stipulations translate into real life mediocrity for a very long time should we fail to achieve promotion. It's the real life ramifications people are arsed about, not the numbers in the spreadsheets in and of themselves. Can't believe I'm having to explain this.

While the form of Ipswich is impressive, it's just their turn to beat the teams we breezed past as well. I'm not saying they'll fall off a cliff, but they'll drop points more regularly from here. If we put together solid 2ppg form, that should be enough. Only ourselves to blame if we can't manage that.

Also, what's the point in a European tour? Getting pasted with our (even weaker) championship squad? Plus, we saw what Europe did to our squad in a 38 game league season. Imagine how that looks in a 46 game season. It'd be crap. If you want a getaway to a European city, just book a holiday.

Not winning promotion arguably rules out any meaningful cup run or success for the next decade. Promotion.