Dan

I don't even think the error was a result of the tactics really. It was just a really shit pass. There's no long term concern in that goal for me. It happens and we've not paid the price for it.

My memory of it was we were hit and miss while generally getting the results up until the Southampton game and then excellent after it for a while, bit it all seemed to go bang against Norwich. It isn't to say there weren't good games in the 'average' spell. Spurs was a weird game. We got a bit fortunate with an offside but turned it brilliantly on its head afterwards. Newcastle we absolutely battered.

We're a bigger scalp than Leeds in 2024. The novelty dies off when you've had about 15 cracks at it. Maybe not for teams in Yorkshire but I think given our recent success we at this point would be a bigger scalp.

Two really good bits of play to go with another goal and another couple with him on the pitch. I rate Maresca for doing with Daka - it clearly wasn't his first choice and he's been won around.

This is also true - and then later in the season started underperforming it so we levelled out. 2019/20 was basically just one brilliant run of 9 games. We were pretty average otherwise.

They had chances to be fair, probably being unfair on them - think it was a game where either a narrow away win or a draw wasn't unfair. The goal definitely swung things a bit. I thought we'd go on to get 3/4 again after our 2nd but we gifted them a goal. We've definitely played better games though.

It's the fact we've played a top half side away, not been at our best yet only a big error from us has stopped it being a pretty comfortable routine win. The sort of fixture that Saints and Leeds aren't winning at quite the rate we are. It's the difference. Was absolutely not a vintage performance but we deserved the win. Fully expect us to win the next two as well.

2/3-0 I think. Can see the atmosphere thread getting a bump or two after this.

I think Leeds / Saints form is likely to keep us focused. For how many points we have we really ought to be about 18-20 clear of 3rd and I'm not exaggerating. I'd favour us to get the record now. We're too good against anybody below about 10th.

That's quite a good sign really even if it is surprising. I always thought in 2019/20 we are overly reliant on Vardy's goals and when they slowed down we did, whereas here you seem to have consistent goals from all over the pitch - sign of a good side.

Bayern *****. Just one ****ing goal!

Meh today. Stoke was a lot better.

I refuse to allow us to drop points to these twice.

Fantastic signing. Literally not a single negative about that one for me.

He was the edge we had over the others. An elite level player in a key position that was always that it too old for a bigger club to take a punt on. A real perfect storm of a signing. He was the main reason we always had a chance of beating the odds. Daka is never likely to hit his level but hardly anyone is. It was a one in a million.

This is kind of the point about us being spoilt with Vardy. Nothing wrong with aiming for it but how often a team outside of the top sides has a striker hit 20+ is rare. Vardy truly was what we had over everyone else - he was something clubs like Chelsea, West Ham, Everton etc... have spent hundreds of millions trying and failing to get.

Aguero scored hardly any against us for a top strikers standards, although I was stupid enough to point this out to a mate at half time of that very game when he got 4 in one half. They were about the only goals he got against us weren't they? Think he may have got the consolation in the 1-3 actually.

Someone put Son in here but which one? He's scored the same curling goal against us about 5 times.

Here's one nobody mentioned - Wes Hoolahan for Norwich in the 4-3, 2010.

Yeah I was thinking the same. Sometimes you just have to shrug your shoulders at it. Even the Ramsey goal this season, just an absolute piece of class. I swear Cardiff have scored some belters away here. The Di Maria goal just adds to that whole game for me. Nobody would've given us a prayer of a result after that went in. In-fact I'm sure I heard the other night, they lost a game from 2 goals up (cannot think who to) and it was the first time since they played us.

That was an absolute joke of a game they scored three absolutely unbelievable goals, two of them about a minute apart as well. Couldn't believe my eyes. That Burton cup loss in 2012 was similar as well, they just kept scoring ridiculously good goals.

Ipswich's fixtures until April, with the exception of tomorrow, are really nice. They're being overlooked in this even if they do look to have dropped off. If we come out of that Saints game top I'm about 95% sure we'd win the league, and I'm pretty sure we will too.

Not true. Plenty of other clubs manage it even if unofficially. Our ground layout has killed the atmosphere. It will not improve unless the club demonstrate a desire to facilitate the moves. There is only so much those willing to contribute to the noise can actually do.

We have no 'end' at all at this ground. Save for SK1 I think the Kop is genuinely at this point worse for atmosphere than the family stand. It's a real mess.

Was gonna say thought I was going mad for a minute. Good opening month but a shocker of a September - a month they played us and Ipswich in. Makes you wonder.