Chicken Dancer

We look solid enough tbh, but don't look like scoring. This season's Boro.

In fairness he only returned to training on Friday.

Didn't they make good money for Henderson? Seven years ago. 2011 they sold him? Sure it was the summer after we sold Carroll in the January.

Man Utd at home is the leak. It's apparently on the Sunday, although it's probably wrong.

(most) of our signings of the last few years have came relatively out of the blue. Last summer can't remember the likes of Diame, Clark, Yedlin, Murphy, Sels etc being linked for example. Even Wijnaldum and Mitrovic happened fast if I remember correctly. Could be wrong like, but I'm not worried at all.

The ten minutes from when Gayle scored, Villa equalised and then their result being confirmed was fucking magic. That's exactly why you follow football. What a day yesterday was.

If (big if) we win the league, will he do a John Terry?

Gayle v Norwich. If I remember correctly at that stage it would have put them 7 points clear of us, it really took the stuffing out of a team who I thought would be our main promotion rival. Second Murphy away to Brentford for me. We had just lost to Blackburn the last championship game before, were looking really shaky at the time. Brentford equalised and by all accounts it was backs to the wall, then we scored against the run of play and went on another decent run. Seemed a pivotal goal.

Thought Perez had his best game in a while. Mbemba was good too. Our best performance in a while, although they were shit.

Think Brighton will win at the weekend and then lose away to Leeds. After Saturday, we really should be picking up 9/9 from the next 3.

Think it's just the one defeat against Blackburn wearing it ? Wonder if it'll get the same cult status as the two tone yellow kit the last time we went up.... f***ing love that kit !!!! ....... Fancy another 2-1/3-1 tonight but would take a point Fulham first game I think?

Would be delighted with 4 points from the next two games. Something that Rafa said around the time of the Sheff Wed/Blackburn game stuck in my mind..."we need to learn how to draw", them points against Bristol City and Norwich were huge, even if we did shoot ourselves in the foot big time, and as disappointing as the Bristol City game was, I think the confidence we got from coming back was massive and probably led to the result at Brighton. Agreed. A point gained in the end. If someone offered us 7 points before Bristol City, Brighton and Huddersfield we would have taken them in the order they were given. Mental that at half time against Bristol City, Huddersfield were 2 points behind us with a game in hand. Funny old game.

I realise they're a strange bunch but there's some nutcase on their forum saying he would rather have Anichebe on the wing over Matt Ritchie.

Fulham next week looking like a tough game. Would go as far as to say it's probably the hardest we have left this season. 4 points next week and I'll be a 9.99.

I'm in tears here. 16 minutes. What the fuck is that

Yeah it's definitely been the most competitive Championship season I can remember. Win on Saturday and we are almost there.

They only really know how to play one way. If we stay solid until half-time I would fancy us later on. Thought we looked loads fitter than Brighton last night. Huddersfield are bound to go gung-ho from minute one, they need to win if they want automatic. I'm betting a lot of Brighton fans actually want us to win now too.

Wish I could relax about this. Mind their fans seem very, very confident which reminds me of how Leeds fans were going on back in November. Obviously Brighton are better than Leeds but just hope there is a combination of them bottling it and our players stepping up like we have in the (majority) of big games since Rafa came in.

If Sels had made the mistakes as Darlow the poor cunt would have topped himself by now. Darlow makes an error a game.

Ciaran Clark leaving TGI in the Metro Centre last night.

eh? The greatest player in the history of man will not have his legacy damaged because he went out at the last 16 stage. He just scored a record amount in the groups didn't he? He will win the Champions League again before he retires.

I know Defoe is a very, very good player, but fuck me. They have a thread on RTG 'Defoe or Ibrahimovic'

If these don't go down this season they never will. They're absolutely toilet.

On the bus back now. Fucking class Shelvey blowing kisses to their fans at full time. Back 5 immense.

Since we were last down, an average of 93pts win the league, and 87.5pts get you promoted. I think the chasing pack this time will mean that needs to be slightly higher, but we should have enough. Convinced if we're in the top two after Reading away on March 7th we will be fine. Going to be an interesting 4 weeks.