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  1. I only start to relax when we have 53pts. And only relax fully when the arithmetic says we are safe. This season is no different. We still have a bit to do.
  2. For a City 'legend', he used to get hammered by some fans at certain times in his career.
  3. What about our opponents' Xgs? How have they changed or otherwise?
  4. Why are abusive about someone's opinions on a podcast you don't have to listen to/can simply ignore. You have enough opinions - why don't you create your own podcast if you don't like what you hear from Ian G?
  5. Swansea seem to me to be one of the most boring teams in league. Their 72 per cent possession stat is meaningless. For a team like us, we kind of had to play the way we did today to beat them. Imagine how their fans must have reacted to today. (I’ve seen how some of our fans have .)
  6. I don’t disagree with that but I don’t see it as do or die. Perhaps I just have a little more patience than some, however much I hate it when we lose.
  7. It really isn’t do or die, though, is it? We all hope next season is an improvement on this one, as this season has been a small improvement on the last one. Too many fans at too many clubs want to be angry or become angry about too much. We all hope for better but we’ll be better off if we leave the hyperbole aside. There will be another season after the next one and another season after that.
  8. It was astonishing, wasn't it? A time-wasters' charter. Their tactics broke up any flow or momentum, which was what it was designed to do. (We would have done the same, I'm sure.) To those that say 'we never would have scored', that's certainly possible. But we definitely won't be able to score after the final whistle. We nearly did from that late corner, and we've all seen very late goals in games. At least apply the laws properly.
  9. It was (a diving header, that is). I think the winner was a header as well.
  10. That’s a fair point if we’d had six days to prepare like Boro and not 120 minutes on Wednesday. But we looked shattered in the second half. Rob Dickie was knackered.
  11. I didn’t see it at the ground because I was caught outside in the ticket-distribution fiasco. But it looks a clear and outrageous handball. I thought so the first time I saw it on the highlights. It seems to me, though, that although they had VAR in operation, there were very few cameras, which seems ridiculous. Someone might know more about this. Were there other angles?
  12. Misses a penalty is a generic term as you well know. And it was a poor penalty: no deception in it, nice height, not in the corner. But someone has got to miss. So no blame. He played well.
  13. For the second week in a row, we recreated one of the most famous full-time scores in our history. And we come away disappointed. it was a mad, fun night. Bit of passion on and off. Ticket chaos. I, like many others, missed the first 20 minutes. They didn’t have my ticket. But somehow rustled one up after a long wait. There were hundreds, possibly thousands - home and away - still outside the ground at ko. We played well. Williams and a few others were outstanding (eg Vyner and Dickie, Bell. Even Mehmeti got involved and lasted the course). I don’t know how we didn’t score in that second period of extra time. (Well, I do. It’s us…obvs.) We didn’t pass to Knight-Lebel at wing-back. He was just a body, trying to bottle up the right. I knew we’d lose the shoot-out. PL shooters and they took first pen (statistical bonus, as you know). I said to the bloke next to me when Bell was poised: ‘he’s going to miss this’. You could see it. But some poor bloke has got to miss. If Nakhi had converted his cross (delightful move by the way), we wouldn’t have needed the tears. Interesting night. Sad outcome. But better than listening on the radio.
  14. Turn up, see who’s not knackered/unfit, and try to take on a side that is at home and has had six days to prepare. Tall order. Getting something from the game will be a significant achievement.
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