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That has been the unspoken bit of our season.

All of that. Leeds will hit a rough patch.

Not good enough full stop against decent sides all season. Funny how it goes tits up either side of the transfer window.

Miles off Saturday got lucky, miles off it tonight. Playing catchup now. According to Leeds fans on social media they’ve already been promoted so we were only ever playing for the play offs. Lots of water to flow under the bridge.

Not at all. Saw some stats published at weekend had him in a list within top players in Europe for ball retention. Just reporting what I saw.

Downes is integral to how we play I’m afraid. Up there with the best in Europe re ball retention. No Downes no ball retention. No replacement.

Bang on the money there. 13/30 points thus far against teams in top 10 on Saturday.

He has indeed, but like most fanbases we do love to apportion blame and responsibility when things don’t go our way. Not sure its always productive.

At least we’ve established who tonight’s scapegoat is.

He does indeed.

Common denominator is absence of Flynn Downes.

I was there too. First away match. As I've mentioned before it was scary for my 9 year old self to be surrounded by so many who sounded like they were pirates. They f**king looked like them as well.

I bet he was and quite rightly so. Should have multi quoted it for context. Response to a poster at HT said the first half performance was why Leeds would finish second. Turned out alright in the end and that half of football wont be the reason why Leeds may well finish second, but to an extent we are still in the driving seat.

This could be a real turning point. One of those games where a good side wins despite not really firing on all cylinders

So I was right at HT then, just an infantile knee jerk reaction!

Agreed. The learning is all part of Russell Martin's modus operandi, so that won't have done us any harm at all.

Shows how important Downes is. Thinking back to September after his raw chicken livers.

At least we’ll see what they’re made of. If they’re not up for a comeback at home against a team in the lower reaches of the league then it doesn’t augur well for a tense promotion run in.

It’s not form though is it? It’s a poor half I’ll give you that.

I presume you posted this widely on here before the game started, otherwise it’s just an infantile knee jerk reaction to us getting beaten.

Possibly because it’s an obvious default from where we are. We took 13 points out of 30 from teams 1-10 at start of today. That may well be our downfall. Second half still to come though.

Saints most famous fan might just have a dropped the biggest bollock at PMQs. Trying to make a crass transgender joke in response to Starmer 90 seconds after the latter had mentioned that the mother of Brianna Ghey was in the gallery. Oh dear!

Ah! February in the Maldives, best time of year to go.

Tried to watch the first series as my niece was working on the series for the Beeb but couldn’t get into it. Gave season 2 a miss.

4-0 now.