hypochondriac

I'm up to Leeds on Friday. Let's hope the team has a couple of days away too over that period and then we might look a little less lethargic during the games that actually matter.

At least it means Leeds will be putting a lot of exertion into our game. Hopefully it gives them a few injuries and then they get playoffs anyway.

Can the club do some sort of reset before the playoffs? I know we have been up and down this year but it feels like the season has taken its toll on everyone. We need to find a way to draw a line under it and move into the playoffs with no hangover. A couple of days away or something? No idea what could work but it's psychological as well as physical. It looks to me like Martin doesn't really know what to do (he has Ralph vibes towards the end of his tenure.) I'm not sure he has the required fortitude for another season if we don't go up.

Hopefully that's the last time we ever see Mara at St Mary's. Brooks too to be honest. Quite a few have been average to poor this year.

Not too much of an exaggeration to say that couldn't have gone a lot worse. Really need some positives to take for the playoffs. Hoping someone stands out a bit.

A spirited defeat against a mostly crap team isn't really doing better than expected.

Sue's been on the vino again. Nurse...

It would be difficult for you to make a case that our style of football has not contributed to the volume of goals we concede. It was largely the same with Swansea.

Yep. It's propaganda football where you have 60+% possession and lose 5-0

Success is getting promoted. You can enjoy some of the journey but rather like when we got promoted in league one, no one gives a shiny shite about Huddersfield going on that mega unbeaten run over that period. What matters was that we got promoted.

Lets remember how full of it you were during the unbeaten run and how we should enjoy it and how amazing it was. I replied at the time saying it was completely meaningless if we don't go up. I'd say it's more likely than not now that we don't get promoted.

Surely we should be staying away from wingers who like to dribble with the ball? We already have some of them and they are not suited to the system Martin plays.

I think what this does do is underline that we absolutely deserve our place in the table. We have been outclassed by a better team with better players playing a better system. If we go up I would be worried we would get tonked.

Oh God we're going to lose the semi and he's going to go on about "any other season" "two points a game" etc etc. I can see it now and next year we're going to have Stephens, Smallbone and Fraser starting every week.

Woukd be interested to see the stats but are we the most wasteful team in the league?

Doesn't bode well for the playoffs that must win games we show little urgency and in fact look more likely to concede.

Who was the Wilcox replacement at city? Maybe just get him in.

Good oppostunirty for some new ideas next year. Either we stay down in which case a refresh may be a good thing, otherwise a new man with the financial muscle in the prem. Wilcow talked a good game and did a good job in some areas but he's always going to jump when a team like united come knocking.

There haven't really been any recent performances to speak of. Besides, this is a step below where he was. Plenty of players look a fair bit better when they take a step down (look at Vestergaard and Hoedt for example.)

Time for Alex to actually earn some of his obscene wages. Chance for him to leave the club as a little bit of a hero.

Bazunu not being great doesn't make our backup keepers any better.

It was this graph:

Probably. It's mainly to do with the motivation being a political or religious ideology which to be fair you could argue is any killing except accidental.

I was genuinely surprised by that figure. If I had to guess I would say stuff like antifa violence and I remember a few shootings in America but not much in the UK.

I was genuinely surprised by that figure. If I had to guess I would say stuff like antifa violence and I remember a few shootings in America but not much in the UK.