Dan

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?

Rare draw.

I'm not anti them because they can't bankroll us, I'm anti them because they are quite clearly incompetent. If Aiyawatt gives things a proper shake up, gets some new people in and demonstrates he's learning then there is a way back. The odds aren't in his favour though. Given he sniped at the fans at the end of last season despite it being the tamest of criticism to the most avoidable relegation in Premier League history and let two of the main architects mark their own homework.

Rodgers served up that disgusting first half of the season, first seven games especially, but further dog shit upon the World Cup return, and instead of binning him they decided to take out a loan to fund signings because he wouldn't play the players he had. They're all a disgrace. I wonder if the penny will finally start dropping in this fanbase about how badly we're run. We haven't become well run because we've beaten a load of sides we have five times the budget of. It's the same people. Top's got to either sell up or finally start running the club properly.

Goals decided in a studio. League positions decided in the courtroom. I can only conclude there's sabotage.

You here have inadvertently (I think?) made me think of another way here to make a win likelier - so you've backed an absolute banker there in Herediano (they won 2-0) but what's stopping you putting in a load of teams at 1.05, 1.08 etc... on later days and then taking the cash out early? I reckon you'll get offered a pretty generous cash out if you land the underdog as your first pick. I hadn't even thought of this.

I think it is partly what started the collapse under Rodgers. I want to think with more of his own players he wouldn't take this attitude but I don't really believe that. Anyone who watched the first 20 minutes could see the gulf between the two sides. We very much opted into that yesterday and were quite lucky to not be punished.

That probably pushes our game with them back a week from when I guessed it would be (16th April).

I can live with it against better sides but not in games like that. They were really poor, four defeats in a row going into that game and it wasn't hard to see why. We keep pressing them and we can have that probably wrapped up by half an hour. His attitude in that game last night was well off for me.

It's all relative though isn't it. If you're more tired than your opposition that is a disadvantage. Said it at the time and stand by it but we needed a body or two in January. We lost a couple of heads in the squad and it's meant we can't rotate as effectively as others.

Our end not bad, not brilliant. Their home end really poor.

It's both obviously a dive but Choudhury took a bit of a chance putting his hand there. It was about the only thing the ref got right all game (bar the failure to book him). If people genuinely don't think that's a dive we're living in a hilariously deluded time.

Delighted to see this. It's a great method. It just has to pay. They've taken some more leagues off I've noticed. Calling it now this feature is gone by May.

Jesus Christ. These are the dark ages.