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Happy days....really fond memories of the 5-4 win up at Carrow Road with the MLT hattrick after being down and out and Ken Monkous goal to start the fightback. Great escape year and was a local game before me just before leaving the Air Force.

What a toothless, pathetic display from this side. We so badly need a striker and JWP has been abysmal....but he is not alone there.

For me, a pretty strange season so far. If we are able to get 2 more results in the next week then we will be knock out stages of Europa, semis of League Cup and pushing for a top 8 finish again. If anyone had offered this in the summer I think everyone would have been over the moon. Puel is impressing but it has been strange. At times our football has been sublime - and at other times atrocious (Hull and Sparta spring to mind!). I think everyone would agree we are lightweight up front with Long and Rodriguez absolutely useless so far. For me the highlight is Puel having faith in playing the younger players and giving them a chance. I think it is no coincidence that their enthusiasm rubs off on the rest of the team. Still plenty of twists and turns to come I'm sure but so far Puel has impressed and the way he has the whole squad involved is pretty miraculous and seems to have everyone working together. Would be really interested to hear of Guan or any of the ITKs have any updates on what the mood in the camp is, what they really think of Puel, etc.

Very strong depth in numbers - particularly with some of the younger players starting to shine and complete for places. Definitely think we are weaker in terms of up front - we are struggling badly in that area - but stronger everywhere else.

We will lose if Cuco the Clown starts. The guy is awful. Really hope Sims and Reed get a chance to play. Not sure where the goals will come from assuming Austin does not play.

100% agree with VfTT......please don't play Martina (ever again). How he is a pro footballer when he can't defend and can't cross a ball under no pressure is beyond me. I would much rather have Yoshi at RB than Martina. Would hope that Cedric can play 2 games a week as he had a lengthy spell out. Be interesting to see who he goes up top with - Long/Rodriguez (who are both in woeful form) or Olamula?

That is an insult to Telfer who was solid. Cuco the CLown on the other hand.........he is just a p*** poor player who should not be anywhere near the 1st team. Just don't see where goals are coming from. Writing was on the wall against Hull.....ponderous, slow no attacking threat and it has steadily got worse from there. McQueen was good 1st half and that was about it. The rest were awful.....poor Austin: zero service and we are not even creating chances to miss any more. Puel has some serious soul searching to do and a lot to put right.

Sort it out Puel - these performances are simply not good enough. F*****g s***e and I would rather Yoshi at RB than the abomination that is Cuco the Clown.

OMG - that must be just about the worst peice of play I have ever seen from a professional player. Take a bow you useless c**t Martina.

Really has been very, very poor with zero creativity or cutting edge and we even look shaky defensively now. Worrying times - if you can't score you are not going to do well in many games and we never look like scoring. Shane Long has reverted to type (****e), Jay is a shadow and Austin has zero service and needs 3 or 4 chances to score one. Redmond - totally anonymous and no drive or flair in midfield. Simply put, we are currently an awful, awful team to watch.

This is painful to watch.....we have not had a single shot in the 2nd half and don't look like having one

Sorry, but no-one can be happy with this lacklustre performance. We simply have no movement in midfield and it is so slow and ponderour and never looks threatening. I just don't get it - we were so dynamic a few weeks back and now we are just terrible.

We so desperately need a striker in the January window. Without one, we could well be in a relegation dogfight as there is almost zero threat up front from us.

How the f**k is Martina a professional footballer?

Well, that was ****e. Utter ****e. We just never look like scoring and our fluidity of earlier this season is but a distant memory. Shane Long has been absolutely terrible as have the midfield 3 of Hojberg, Clasie and JWP. Our build up is so slow, delivery into the box shocking and our forwards look like they could play for the next month and not come close to scoring. Worrying times and Puel needs to start earning his money now. This is simplynot good enough.

Absolute f******* sh***. Martina should not be anywhere near the first team: total liability. This now means we need to score and, as ever, this looks highly unlikely with our ponderous play and lack of quality up front.

Hi Winner - yeah, spooky., I was looking at Zwift Strava segments and seeing how we were close to being 'twinnies'!!!! I also experienced a drop in resistance on the Watopia mountains yesterday after the FTP test (which nearly killed me!!!!) Like you, I think the Kikr underestimates the power. I did a challenging hill round my way at the weekend and it seemed much easier after a couple of sessions with the Kikr. On my dumb trainer it had me pushing out 4 Watts per Kg and now with the smart trainer it is around 2 To be honest, I am trying hard not to be too anal about the whole thing as, at the end of the day, I do this out of enjoyment rather than trying to be a racer. Approaching 50 that ain't ever going to happen! However, it is still nice to be able to outpace younger riders and to feel good outlasting many folks on the mountains and hills!!!! I certainly found out West that although not being quick on the mountains keeping it nice and steady I would overtake many folks that went out hard and had to keep stopping to regroup and recover. The tortoise and the hare spring to mind.........

What a difference a smart trainer makes. On my dumb trainer FTP exercises claimed I had an FTP of around 300 (I wish!) but when I did it today, 181....way, way harder and much more realistic. Unfortunately power to weight hovers around 2 and don;t know how to improve that.

Another stunning day here in Northern Virginia - incredible weather for this time of year (got to 72) and had a great 40 mile ride with a bunch of good folks with lots of hills. Truly stunning scenery and pretty fast, especially for this time of year. We finished just in time as a couple of hours later the weather turned and dropped 25 degrees and became really windy and rainy! Truly blessed to have such great riding country round here and so many good people to ride with.

Sorted! Looks like the issue was my son had left the PS4 on (which has an active Bluetooth on it) so maybe this was interfering somehow. Turned the PS4 off, did the spindown and hey presto - all seemed to work OK and power output was much mroe what I would expect to see. Cheers for the tips guys.

Thanks for the heads up guys......going to give Wahoo a call today. Tried everything suggested on the various sites and no dice. In some ways it is quite funny: I am connected via ANT+ and made sure I did not have my phone near me late last night. Hopped on and tried disabling ERG and then went on a ride. It was on the flats and started OK with good feel for the right resistance and within 60 seconds I could not even turn the pedals! Something, somewhere is not quite right! I reckon a private FB group would be excellent VfTT!

Cool - just set up my Snap and very, very disappointed and scratching my head as to what I have done wrong. I can barely turn the pedals and my power output has gone through the floor. Even in an easy gear it is tough to turn the pedals and no matter how many times I do a spindown the result is the same. I know ebough about my road riding to know this thing is miles off right now. Outdoors on my own I can hold a 22-23mph for a good amount of time on the flats - on the Snap (using Zwift) it is about 15.5mph and feels like a ton more effort than riding outdoors. If you can shed any light on any fixes that would be great - otherwise I think I will be returning the kit.

Cheers VfTT.....gave that a go last night and certainly makes the time go way faster. I am still waiting on my Kikr Snap so am having to use my old non-smart trainer (CycleOps) and had it at medium resistance but all felt a bit too easy and not able to elevate HR enough so will need to make resistance higher. I had kind of forgotten how much easier (but harder) it is cycling indoors. No wind resistance, having to hammer the whole time and sweating like there is no tomorrow. Winner - have you noticed a difference re. difficulty on Zwift since you got your smart trainer?

Sure the p***k will whine about something else. The turnout in this election was quite low - quite surprising when you think what was at stake. The stay aways cost the Democrats this election. Two deeply flawed candidates and the most flawed won - not a great feeling. Can't help thinking that Trump may actually end up being more liberal than many Democrats. Now that would be fun to watch to see the Republicans implode....or maybe that is just wishful thinking!

You are a **** of the highest order buctootim. Crying like a baby because a vote did not go your way - and missing the crux of the argument.......people complaining about the outcomes of votes/elections and yet not participating in said votes/elections. This is the way democracy works - whether you like the outcome or not. And, once again, I am not pro-Trump but I am pro-democracy and respect the outcome. Do you?