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A bit of realism please. Its been very poor tonight, it's true, but not even close to as bad as that Sunderland performance was.

Fuck! Please Flynn - get well soon.

Leeds get a 4th.

Smallbone needs to remember what position he's supposed to be playing this half. He charged forward there and left a massive gap for them to break into.

He really has. We don't have anyone even close to his level to step up when he's missing and it really shows in our overall performances without him.

3-0 to Leeds now.

And did she have a fine pair of Bristols?

Great to see Edozie back in the starting lineup. Fraser did amazing in his absence, but he's looked slightly jaded in the last couple of games so going back to super-sub is probably a good thing. Brooks and Rothwell starting is promising. About the best midfield we can field with the players we currently have missing. Arma moving into the middle? Another frighteningly good bench we can turn to if things aren't going our way.

Interesting that whoever created this chose a mountain - a geological feature with a near constant shape and formation - as the backdrop for this quote.

I've been thinking this about every game since November!

I think you're barking up the wrong tree with this. Russ said in his PC yesterday that he takes full responsibility for the way we started on Saturday. He threw himself under the bus, rather than his players.

That's quite a leap. His comments were ill advised in the current political landscape and I can completely understand why Labour withdrew their support for him. I wouldn't go so far as to claim for certain that the Israeli govt allowed the attack to happen. But Netenyahu is an evil cunt, and given his statement about reducing Gaza to rubble in the immediate aftermath of the attack, you can't help but wonder if there might be a small grain of truth in it.

And that is likely not by accident but by design. If the Jewish diaspora didn't feel persecuted and unsafe then his whole narrative of Israel needing to exist as the safe haven, nation-state of the Jews collapses. It's like a mob protection racket on a global scale. He's offering Jews everywhere safety, but he's the one creating the danger in the first place.

It's almost as if there isn't only one team in Bristol, as their forum name suggests.

This is all true, but Edozie's form really took off after Sully got injured and was performing better than KS had been by the time he got cynically taken out at Norwich.

They did. Kyle Bartley is a first choice CB so will be a big miss. And Daryl Dike is a very injury prone striker who has only played 5 games all season (and scored once).

I know that Leeds fan was trying to convince everyone that we're going to come unstuck because our form against top 10 teams hasn't been so good so far, but those next four for Leeds are hardly gimmes themselves... Swansea gave us a game of it in the second half at theirs recently. Leeds needed ET to beat Plymouth at theirs in the FA cup last week (both fielded significantly weakened first 11s though, admittedly) Leicester have shown they're not unbeatable after their defeat at Coventry las month, but Leeds will have to work extremely hard to get anything out of that game And Hudds showed that they are actually much better than their league positions suggests, and if they play like they did against us on Saturday then a Leeds win is far from guaranteed. Put it this way - I wouldn't be rushing to place any bets that Leeds' points haul from their next 4 games will be any better than ours from our next 5.

Too right. I wouldn't want to have to suffer the disappointment of this all over again

How many minutes has he played in total? Not much I'm guessing.

So you would prefer the lottery of the playoffs to finishing second?

They need to improve their GD to overtake City, so they have every incentive to keep going for more.

A fair number of people further back on this thread seemed far too eager to write him off. Not saying he hasn't had his fair share of poor performances, and some of the criticism levelled against him has been valud. But it's always been clear he has ability and It’s really pleasing to see he's worked on his strength and is starting to fulfill his potential.

This, undoubtedly. Nobody is catching Leicester. The best we can hope for is that they take points off our more direct rivals.

It's just occurred to me (and apologies if someone has already made this point elsewhere) that the last season we played in this kit design - 1988/89 - we had a lengthy, possibly our worst ever, run of games without a win. 23 was it? I vividly remember the wild celebrations in the Milton end when we finally broke the run with a 1-0 win against Newcastle thanks to a last minute penalty from new signing Neil Ruddock.

Rightly so. The time-wasting from Hudds while they were leading was pathetic, with the worst culprit being their keeper who went down holding his head when all he had done was bend down to pick up the ball. It was almost Rivaldo-esque. I was so willing us to score another goal or two in stoppage time, because it would have been no more than their shithousery deserved.