Kid Icarus

Not just being a pedant/contrarian here, but that's never been relegation battle status like. Most teams survive on 36 points after 38 games, last two seasons you would survive on 26 and 27 points.

No, it's an easy one to answer (why is Trippier playing so much?)

33 points, with a 10 point gap and 13 games to go isn't a relegation battle.

Give over

Pretty easy one tbf - Livramento, Miley, and Krafth are all injured.

4th, 7th, 5th, and a cup win followed by this season would suggest that by definition it's a blip in the record. Plenty of mitigating factors beyond "every problem must mean change the manager" as well

The problem for me is that one of the main issues I see won't end until March.

They should give me a go.

Horrible week. Desperate to have less football tbh, I'm really sick of it.

I know it might be hard to imagine someone worse than Trippier but there is like. Do you even know anything about the players you want to come in?

Not if they're not good enough and make mistakes leading to goals, which is very likely at this level.

This has the feeling of not ending until we're out of the Champions league like.

Yes, absolutely.

Why would they man Have you actually seen them?

You can't be blaming Pope for that man, our shape all over was an absolute joke there.

So sick of the same fucking story

FML man

Nothing fills me with more dread than us scoring goals. What a fucking weird feeling

You don't get a red unless it's deliberate I think.

Soft like, but it's a pen.

Just talking about our general play tbh, the capitulation from leading thing seems to have everything influencing it considering how often it's happened.

The same argument was made the further we got into 23/24. Not saying it's the sole reason but it's exactly what we look like right now and it looks clear to me that it's playing a big part in why we're not improving.

We look exactly like a team that's low on confidence and playing its 18th game out of 26 in a 12 week period.

Not sure what Murphy's supposed to do there. We're a self-fulfilling prophecy now like, it's like the worst thing we can possibly do in a match is score.

Hit form feels like a stretch I think. I'd say it looks more like potentially the green shoots of something. Don't mind him being tasked with making an impact until he can be relied upon.