Dan

Tv off.

This half my god. We look like losing this.

Faes is just total slop. How does he not see it?

I've been very critical of our performances but we've been good here. Could easily have more. These are slop mind.

Also true.

Actually fairly happy with this half. Been well on top really.

Our corners are genuinely worse than sunday league. They're like fascinatingly bad.

A fit Fatawu on his owm probably gets you top 6 at worst.

Dinamo Minsk v Gomel

Very predictable following Whelan's departure.

Kante in terms of how much he elevated a team was behind only about 3/4 players in the world. He was that good. Just a very unique player. Completely blows my mind that him and Mahrez were playing in France, in the latters case Ligue 2, until 24 / 22. Insane how good they turned out really.

I was quite pro Shakespeare being appointed but was pretty clear quite early we'd fallen into a bit of a trap. He never even really wanted it either but felt obliged. In fairness though he got shafted.

I don't think even we're mad enough to give him a new deal are we? Think the small chance of that died with the emergence of James.

I was thinking this about Cartwright maybe. Soumare simply not capable of that goal the other week. Isn't in his repertoire.

Mad if we manage to sell him. You'd not put it past us to price him out of a move though that would suit all parties. For the minutes he's likely to now actually get for us I'd be fine with someone like Page taking them. It's moves like this that'll get us back on track. Soumare's just never been good enough. Really ineffective footballer.

I'd kind of agree and think our individual quality is still probably higher than basically anybody in the division and that is going to carry us to some wins. But that has been the majority of our points so far, I'd be far more confident if the performances were matching. It's not to say we can't get better though. I think in a way if we were doing what we're doing now, getting the results unconvincingly, in April during the run in it would probably get a bit more respect. People calling it negative but I can't help what I'm seeing, it reminds me a little bit of Preston being up there in 2023/24 when every metric pointed to a bit of a freak run of form and sure enough that's what it was, while on the flip side us and Ipswich clearly looked the part. The difference with us to Preston I suppose is we have good enough players to probably sustain this longer, but I do think we're dropping down the table unless the performances pick up.

We're proficient at neither creating or stopping chances. I'd say we've been relatively solid at home and given little away, largely shutting out Birmingham and Coventry, which is pretty impressive. But in away games we are giving away two goals worth of chances basically every game against on the whole pretty average opposition. We're doing well to be 3rd. Nobody will convince me otherwise. If we stay here, or climb further, it will almost certainly be because the level of performance has risen.

It's absolutely ridiculous. I actually really like the nations league and I think it's played a part in the upturn of lots of lesser nations - I'd say virtually all of the minnows have improved a bit. But this is complete insanity, they really didn't think this through. Linking the nations league to the qualifiers should be stopped.

This is true of many of these types of songs. Forest's as well - it's begrudgingly very good at home. Away it's really nothing to write about.

Yeah it's been hurting me for years this one.

Well they're literally not true so what is the point of them? You might as well make a number up.

Actually like the Jersey Budd version and think playing it when we do has made it work - it's better at home now than away. It isn't great away, just sung far too quickly.

In which case just do away with attendance figures full stop.

Yeah and it shouldn't be allowed.

It shouldn't be allowed - haven't been at the games so can't really vouch for Leicester's empties or not but clubs like West Ham take the piss posting a 60k every game when it's just blatantly nowhere near.