Dan

They're a strange side Middlesbrough. Their ceiling on their day is pretty high. Definitely a side who could take points off one of those three.

Sickening for Porto. Genuinely think they edged that tie.

Looks like it's another year of just spawning free bets before "Blackmore" steals away my big plans.

I was keeping tabs of things and I did have a bit of a chuckle, a bit of luck on the timing, virtually none of the big priced sides went ahead this weekend. Fenerbahce went behind at about 12/1 but I don't know if they even have the Turkish league anymore.

You look there relatively - you're getting what you pay for.

Wouldn't shock me. Football's on such flimsy foundations. You only have to remember how quickly everybody was happy to forget the super league scandal ever actually took place.

They haven't got a clue what they're doing have they. Totally ridiculous and short-sighted.

It always was ridiculous. If you need to get relegated to force changes through that should've been happening then you've got problems. Doing it in the Championship allowed us to probably take a couple more gambles on players who've paid off like Hermansen and Fatawu but in every other way imaginable it is worse for us to be here.

I think the biggest reason for our decline as a club is that we've become obsessed with appointing dogmatic managers yet don't fully recruit to buy into that style. It's out of kilter.

We'll play reasonably well and they'll knock us out in quite gutting circumstances late on I think.

No league game for three weeks is a blessing to be honest. Think next weekend is a bit of a free hit, think we'll give a decent account of ourselves but just fall short. Time to get our heads together again. We are capable of pulling away. We just need to actually get back to doing it and prove this last five games was a blip.

Yeah I thought this. Soyuncu he is not. He's not an oil-tanker but he isn't quick.

Yeah I thought this. Soyuncu he is not. He's not an oil-tanker but he isn't quick.

Another big money fee and wages for a player that the manager doesn't truly want to use. Recruitment and management still out of kilter.

Correct. The last five games have knocked us down to about par and the fact it's come now rather than at the start is a real worry. I'd be lying if I said my faith in him hadn't taken quite a hit in recent weeks. He's got to get better.

Increasingly of the view he'd get badly exposed in the top flight and that's if we actually do make it there.

It's probably big confirmation bias to think this but I don't think he's even looked close to what he was since that Watford goal. Just seems to have gone downhill. Don't think he's really had a good game since before then.

It'd be a shame to go up the Forest route but we can't just roll over and accept this bollocks. We need to get on their backs more as a team and fanbase.

Been in really poor form yet still gets 90 every game. I don't think Marcal could've been any worse in the last two games.

Do think this is probably true for his lack of goals - it's my main criticism of his but he does almost play like a wing back at times.

Good until they scored their first then it just never quite took off again. Hull's atmosphere was probably the best it's been at that place, which isn't saying much admittedly, but it's picked up for sure.

Think we needed a win given the points dropped against Boro and QPR especially. We definitely need the international break for our league games at least although it's annoying that we're now likely to drop to 2nd. Don't think it was a particularly well managed game again.

You really do have to see this lot to believe them. What is happening?

Really fear we'll pay for gift-wrapping these three points. We went 12 clear of them with a win there.

Is this seriously the ref people were praising?