Dan

When we lost to Spurs 2-3 a couple of years ago we let in goals in the 95th and 96th minute and it was the latest a team has led a Premier League game and lost. I know the added time has changed the game somewhat but that's been beaten at least four times since. It's gotten to the point where it doesn't even massively surprise you.

That top one is really good I think. If Ipswich are going to win you can see there being a few goals.

All must wins but this is probably our kindest remaining fixture. You can forget it if we blow this.

New tactic because I'm so bad at this I might as well just utilise it.

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Really slacking on tables, have two weeks worth coming up shortly.

I feel a lot more confident having watched the Norwich game - but then there is a part of me that thought they played right into our hands. They executed virtually nothing that works against us.

The best case scenario is promotion, a fire sale before July and then into the Premier League with a weakened squad and a points deduction. Basically an even safer bet for relegation than Sheffield United were this season, an absolute complete certainty and we then go from there - but to then probably be hit by the EFL when we get back. It's disgusting mismanagement. Some of the absolute worst in English football. 115% wages to turnover what the fuck are they doing!!!!!! This idiot is cut from a similar cloth to Chansiri. Wants to take all the plaudits for anything good that's happened (which I would argue most of which was residue from the previous years) while shirking responsibility for everything else. Nobody accountable. The difference between him and Chansiri is that Chansiri didn't inherit a solid Premier League club. Put him in charge of Brighton for five years and I think this is the sort of outcome you get.

It's unforgivable. What will it take for them to self reflect? £90mil of losses despite selling Fofana and Maddison. It's so staggering you can't believe it.

We've gone beyond slumping in recent years though. There are slumps and then there are collapses. We've produced the latter in three of the last four seasons and that's no exaggeration. Today was a big positive but we're not out the mire yet. The big thing is having players back from injury. The manager has proven himself extremely one-dimensional in recent weeks though.

I have to say for all my extreme bashing of us we did well today. Responded in what was becoming a quite toxic environment and frankly dominated most of that game. We looked a level above them today. Much better. But it's just a start. We need that seven more times. Lets hope the rest of our opposition plays at the same level as Norwich's league position implies. If that's what 6th in the league are going to serve up then good grief.

I'm not even nervous. I've already accepted our fate.

I think Liverpool have this.

Not rushing into it because he knows he'll get there. Fair play to this bloke. Top drawer.

Oh god, not more already.

I can only conclude it comes from the ownership. He ultimately has never had to build anything himself and his shortcomings are being badly shown up now. He has blind faith in those who let him down and when you can't see that in spite of the blindingly obvious you lower the motivation and standards at the club. We got relegated in what I think I have good case to call one of the biggest underperformances in Premier League history and nobody at board level was removed. I was told on fairly good authority earlier that the supposed 'inquest' into last season really was just lip service and it was very much just a case of making it look like something was happening. Our fans will never turn on him because they're too incapable of objectively assessing the difference between him and his father. Now Vichai wasn't perfect by any means, but I think given he'd actually built something and achieved something, he did have that natural knowhow to make a change when they were needed. Top just sadly hasn't got this ability and it's not anymore a case of pushing the bigger teams, it's actually running us into the ground. They won't turn on him, but they have to. It's getting that serious.

People will baulk at this, but I think things are looking so bleak off the pitch if we don't go up this season (and not tonnes better if we do frankly) that this is the likelier route we take. I think perceptions of us are going to change quite substantially. We're going to have to pretty much sell anybody of any value, be able to reinvest virtually nothing of it, all under an owner and board who have absolutely no self-critique, no self-reflection and want to try and point the fingers everywhere but themselves. Today was as red as a flag can get. It was abject. Every single thing you feared it could be. We're mundane, predictable, same system no matter who the opposition, no matter who the personnel we have available. If Maresca is this one-dimensional, which each passing game tells me he is given his persistence despite so much evidence staring him in the face, then I want nothing to do with him. He's being shown as nothing but a fairweather like Rodgers. Absolutely fine when it's all stacked in our favour, but absolutely nothing when facing genuine adversity. Utterly diabolical. That's an absolute disgrace of a result. The Bristol City fans I spoke to after the game weren't even remotely bothered. They largely dislike their new manager. They have zero enthusiasm, probably the least to play for of any of the 24 teams in the division and we go there in such an enormous game and serve that up. I hate to speak in these lazy cliches and buzz words, but I really do think that leadership, grit, determination, bottle - these are absolute fundamentals that we think we're too clever for and this manager despite some of the environments he's spent his years in seems to be one of the biggest culprits. I'm absolutely furious. I think we're absolutely nailed for a play-off loss. I've seen it before and we're going to see it again.

I'll get two weeks of tables done on Tuesday, sorry!

I'm sorry Valencia. Mallorca, thank me later!

My opinion of him is below what I thought possible only six weeks ago. He's a complete one trick pony.

Utter disgrace. We're not going up.