SteV

Commentary aside, I’m genuinely puzzled you found that “painful to watch”? First half hour maybe, and to concede late on is obviously massively frustrating, but I thought our second half performance was really good, and if anything, quite exciting to watch. West Ham and Brentford games would be my idea of painful to watch, and this performance was miles away from them.

We’re already guaranteed to be in them (at least).

Yeah, I think we have due to the combination of who plays who in the remaining games.

None considers us, and we do not play like, plucky underdogs against the bottom two-thirds of the league.

30% of the league we’re competing in spend just as much if not more.

Clearly, it needs rectifying asap, but in the long run, it’s far easier to stop conceding late goals, than it is to continue to score them, so you’re probably closer to being a good team in this scenario, than if you’re constantly pulling it out the fire late on. Granted, shortly after having conceded late again probably isn’t the best time to argue this.

Yes, excellent point.

Aye, think he got away with that potential sending off. Probably 60-40 (at least) in favour of a red IMO. Bit rattled and raggerty for a while after that, but much better second half.

For those that like to plan ahead:

If Murphy’s shot is three inches further inside the post, it goes in, we win, a sub has scored, and everyone says Eddie is great. Them’s the margins.

Have they changed it from last season then? Last year 1st played the winner of 16th v 17th and 8th played the winner of 9th v 24th etc

The higher up you finish, the easier your last 16 game should be. But not sure it really works out like that, so they could sack it off a bit. Although so could we possibly, depending on how things look after the next set of games.

I don’t know if it’s mathematically secure (and am I fuck trying to work it out) but I think it would take an awful lot of results to go against us for us to not get a playoff now.

Do we still think he should be on loan?

Canny change of mood towards him within half a page 😂

Their manager pulling a sickie apparently.

Not the way Szoboszlai stuck that one away last night. Although I doubt he has as much of an ego as Salah, so maybe he’d let him take a pity pen at some point if they were already comfortably ahead.

I imagine even the majority of mackems would find that vomit-inducing.

Basically whether we’ve brought the full squad or left anyone at home to rest.

VAR in the CL is a different world

According to this one more point to guarantee a play off spot.

Just me n da kids now. Too many 🐍 x

Cheese sandwich and ready salted crisps.