Eric The Red

To be more precise it was a few days after the LC semi final 2nd leg at Liverpool and was at the end of a sequence of 2 games a week, including the infamously tedious FA Cup 3rd round replay at home to Norwich. Basically ot was a game too far for our squad.

I agree. All the teams left in the Champions League will want a Saturday slot leaving West Ham Leeds on the Sunday. My guess is we'll be lunchtime or teatime.

I'll go for a draw so it's easier for us to overtake both of them, lol

Looks like the first goes through a defender's (Jack?) legs and is deflected. So probably not as bad as it looks on first sight. Third is a tremendous strike that goes into the top corner. Want my goalie to save both but it could be that most would have let them in.

Definitely want Leeds to stay up, not because I have any particular likeness for them, but to give those of aspiring to get back to 'the promised land ' that survival is quite possible.

On that theme also noticeable that Edozie was the first there. Amazingly he seems to be be well integrated with the rest of the squad. Truly remarkable given the last 6 months, and 2 transfer windows when all we heard that he wanted away.

Another way of analysing that list is that the average over the last 6 years is 72. Still would mean 10 wins and 2 draws from 16 games. Highly unlikely given our performances over the season, but not impossible As Badger says, it's the hope that kills you

Standing and seated

Harsh on Ferdinand, thought he was the only one who looked like they knew what they were doing there

Well at least one of his two posts was dubious/misleading at least. The claim we enquired about JWP could never have been about a transfer last January. Not saying there wasn't a chat about JWP and his future in January and not saying O'Neil's agent hasn't contacted the club and said 'Gary is willing to step in' but I would be amazed, and disappointed if it went much further than that.

I'm afraid you (and a few others on here) are wrong . We have the 3rd highest xG in the league . Our problem is our actual goals are nearly 0.4 goals a game below what we should have scored compounded by us conceding 0.2 goals a game more than we should. So not attacking enough isn't our problem. Not converting chances and not defending well enough is our problem

We also have well over 10 aways but failed to act quickly enough today to get tickets. My own fault for leaving it until this afternoon. Pretty obvious though with such a relatively small allocation that they should have started at 12 or 14, possibly dropping the figure after lunch (as they planned to do on following days).

The bookies must have taken a fe big bets on Ipswich for them to be favourites from what we've seen on the pitch. I would certainly make Coventry favourite based on performances to date. I think it's still too early to be confident of what teams will be promoted but I gather we are about 3-1 to get promoted which seems pretty good odds.

VA leading 2-0after 36 minutes

Well it happened to me. I think it was a WHU away game where we bought 3 tickets but 2 of us couldn't go through illness but only the 1person whose ticket was used(happened to be me) had the game credited to their 'aways'. Perhaps I was just unlucky, or it was a co-incidence but has anyone got an example of where they didn't attend and still got the game credited?