Micky

Be interesting to see what the close season vote will be in May.

What we need now is for somebody in the dressing room to explain to the players that we are losing. Therefore we need urgency. and lots of it. We don't have time to 'keep possession, knock it around at the back, go sideways, back, keep possession and eventually manufacture one poor effort on goal in 30 minutes', aka RussBall. Urgency to get level, urgency to get in front, urgency to put the game to bed. I don't want 80 fuckin' percent possession, I don't. I want more goals than the opposition. FFS.

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It's not really being defeatist though it's it. It's based on our woeful record against any of the top half sides. We won't be catching Leeds and will do well to get past Ipswich. Nothing defeatist about it, just good judgement based on form.

Great midfield and front players. You can carry so many!

You could see it coming. Crap.

Shit, momentum is with Leeds now.

Yep. Let's just hope that Leicester don't suffer a suckers punch here. Leeds are more than capable but Leicester should've had this one done by now.

Daka, daka, daka.... Dooooh

They are, as are Ipswich. Physicality is an area I think we lack in, skill wise we match them.

That's quite damning, met any team with a little quality and we struggle.

No, with the players and depth of squad he's got he owes us a promotion. Unfortunately i think it's beyond him.

Said it before, say it again, very good side, they keep going. With them and Hull in the playoffs I don't rate our chances.

The problem is, he will hold his hand up, but he won't learn from it.

Don't think it makes a blind bit of difference to be honest. We are playoff bound, both Leeds and Ipswich will be in front of us.

Russ said after the west Brom game that he didn't mind if we played it out from the back and it went wrong and we concede a few. I'm assuming he has a plan to retrieve the situation.

No brainer, Leicester by a country mile.

Done. Controlled the game for the most part, tons of positives in there, Stu motm, but lots of good performances in there. Clean sheet as well, good night all round, well done RM and the boys, great start to my weekend.

Top save

Playing 'bravely' from the back is going to be our undoing here. But Brookes might score as well!

Scraped to half time. Comfortable for over 30 minutes but then we revert to lethargic mode and it's like the keystone cops. We don't capitalise enough on our dominance of the ball, loads of possession but creating very few chances. We need to score the next goal here, if they get it it's going to be very tough.

Especially as its looking highly likely that they would need to win the south coast derby as well...!

Personally I think the curse of sky will strike again, 2 nil baggies.

Whilst i understand that you were just trying to be facetious with your reply, I think you may have got most of it correct. Without promotion this season i think we will see a lot of quality leave the club. I also think that if we don't make it this season we could be a long time in the championship, bigger clubs than us have spent a long time trying to get to the premiereship. I'm not advocating giving up on anything, just starting that I don't rate our chances of winning playoff football. For what it's worth i think we will stay in the autos race, but it's going to go down to the wire, but if we don't make it is going to be a long way back.

I'm not giving up on them at all, I think they have been amazing, I've really enjoyed watching this run. Problem is, unlike most other seasons this is not a two horse race, Leicester have run away with it, Leeds and Ipswich are up there with us, and the pace has been relentless. But I stand by what I said, I don't think play off football will suit our style, we always give teams a chance. If plan A doesn't work for us we generally rely on the bench and stick to plan A, sometimes you need to do something different to break teams down. So I'm not giving up on them at all, it's been a great run, but at the end of the season the only prizes anyone will remember is the promotion prizes, not the 25 game run prize.