Lighthouse

Fulham concede 2 goals for the 10th game in a row.

Not a bad end to the 'no one gives a sh*t' derby.

Without wanting to count any chickens, if you were realistically betting on Cardiff I'd say 2 points from their next 5 games looks about right. That still puts them below where we are at the moment on GD. The long odds are understandable IMO.

Looks like Boufal has been dropped again. Must be yet another clueless manager who doesn’t know how to get the best out of him.

I’ve no doubt that’s what RH hoped for. Offloading players in January and just hoping we replace them is stupid from the club.

Last season there were a whole bunch of teams trying to avoid 2 spots and at this stage one win covered everyone from about 14th to 19th. This season the bottom 2 are already gone and a desperately poor Cardiff team is clinging on to the tails of everyone else.

I feel much better going away from the league’s top form side feeling robbed than I would coming away from Wolves with naff all and a key player injured. At this stage, that’s all that matters. This was Cardiff’s chance wasted, not ours.

This, for me. I have no problem with RH preferring Valery to Cedric. It's the lack of depth or a more experienced option I'm not comfortable with. If we're a goal up at Brighton, Valery has been booked and had his 'final warning' with 20 minutes left, I'd kind of like Cedric on the bench.

West Ham alternate between world beaters and appalling, on a weekly basis. By this logic, we need them to be crap and lose tonight, then spank Cardiff next week.

Games we’ve lead and thrown away Draw - Man Utd, Brighton, Derby, Derby again, Burnley, Watford Lost - Leicester, Fulham, West Ham, Man Utd Games in bold we lead by 2 goals.

Huddersfield at home, hopes were never high. It’s our game at theirs which is critical.

Which newbies? We haven’t signed anyone.

Was anyone else annoyed when we equalised? I can live with the 2-1 defeats but dragging it back like that so they could lose it again with 2 minutes left is like a cat toying with a half dead mouse.

Our defenders will make mistakes and be responsible for goals. That’s why they play for us and aren’t Toby or Virgil. Stephens is a Championship player who regularly makes absolute bowlers which throw away results in many games.

Sounds like we put in a much better performance at OT than Cardiff did at Wolves. If we’re still 2 points ahead after Spurs, I’ll be happy.

I said before the game, 2 defeats in our next 2 games and 2 draws for Cardiff is fine. So far we’re up on that, regardless of this result.

Phew, was getting dizzy there for a minute.

Only 2 defeats since promotion and one of them was a pretty good performance just after Poch took over. Weirdly, it’s much better than our home record, no wins since promotion.

I was going to post something about your hilarious first paragraph but I actually find myself agreeing with this BIB. It is an international enterprise and if we could set up an international trial and indeed prison, the cost for which is shared internationally, it's probably the most humane and fair option. Would be a good place to send the Choudarys of this world, where they can't recruit other inmates.

I'd forgotten about Lemina.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. If this comes down to involuntary manslaughter, it's not as easy to sweep under the rug as some dodgy agents fees for African players in Ligue Un.

Jeff, you weren't wrong. This place is nuts.

I'd go with the same team as Fulham but with Armstrong in for Austin.

Seems to think they're going to improve from 0.89ppg over the season to 1.2ppg in the last 10 games, with a disproportionate number of fixtures against the top 6. They're terrible travelers and only have 1 home game left against teams in the bottom half. If they drew their next 2, that leaves us level with a better GD. They then have to outscore us with 4/8 games against the top 6, whilst we only have Liverpool in our last 8.

I'd have said 7 or 8 was fairly optimistic for Cardiff. Beating West Ham and Palace at home (fixtures we got 1 point from), with another point at Fulham and Burnley. I'll stake my claim on them getting 33 points and come back to this post in May. Wouldn't like to guess where we end up relative to that but I would 100% take our run in over theirs.