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Yes, well done to the club. Well done. This club can get things done well.

@pikeysrobins "At the final whistle the Emirates Stadium was already half empty ....." so begins the guardian's reflection on Arsenal losing yesterday.

That's human nature. Us being top over 5 games now is like Rory McIlroy playing another round on Monday and going: look at me! I'm winning now!

Course he will, if someone a bit bigger offering a bit more comes in. I just hope we're all shattered and weeping and wailing and hanging out "Don’t leave us, Liam" bedsheets, and signing up to the Bayer Leverkusen forum to tell them what a rotter he is, and wondering who our hapless owner will bring in to keep us in the Premier League, when he buggers off.

It's often the ones that daren't ever start their own threads, but will pluck up the courage to have a little snipe at those that do. Funny old world ....

It happens almost everywhere, everytime, in that situation now. It's not the 1970s anymore. That sort of loyal support is pretty much extinct, don't fret about it, we're not the ficklest, we're pretty much just like everyone else around the country

Outstanding performance but a schoolboy error at the end there, giving a penalty to the midtable side with nothing at stake and going nowhere but the beach, at the expense of the team hovering around the bottom three or four, with rather a lot to lose. In April. Tut, tut. Whereas Lee Mason, in the (46th) game v Birmingham City in 2017, chose not to award us, the home side, a (pretty clear) penalty, us being on the beach with nothing at stake and Birmingham almost certain to go down and never to forgive or forget should he penalise them. And probably be hanging around in the car park afterwards.

Played today in their win at Blackburn I believe

... back to reality (however do want me, however do you need me .... )

And with some success, before reverting to the more fashionable and contemporary attacking fullbacks that couldn't defend, and our form going to pot

A sign of things changing for the worse (for Leeds) or the pressure cranking up at the top?

It’s a bit of both, at a guess

The lack of soft furnishings in modern football concourses is a disgrace, some plump cushions would've helped no end yesterday. Dale Vince won't have this problem with his new ground made from wood, straw and lime render (plus hemp drapery)

Can't quite believe that is Lez, off here, on there. He's actually real. Still getting used to @Davefevs actually being real. Amazing. We likely to see "Alan" Robbored on there - don't tell me he's actually a real bloke, too?

Yeah we do, it's stuck somewhere between about 14th in the Championship/second tier, and just a little bit higher than where the Blue Few currently fester in L1. Letting in a little too many, not scoring quite enough. In front of about 12,000 people. So we're doing alright, as things stand. Manning in (until ....)

They have the same effect on us, Preston ...

"They're a good side," says 98% of managers and coaches after almost every game, either to explain a disappointing draw or loss, or to buff a win. In the 70s, managers (although not Alan Dicks) were big gob gobshites rubbishing anyone and everyone, like they were Muhammed Ali.

They're not the club though, are they mate? They're just ships that pass in the night, so to speak. It's, er, us, we're the club. Can you get enthusiastic about us?

Had Arsenal drawn at Anfield in May 1989 it is my firm opinion they would not have concurred with you there, Dave

Yeah, the further away an away game is, the more you take an away draw. Every day of the week, including Saturdays.

They still seem to have enthusiasm, our charming/naive West Country cousins; whilst we last had any of that about 1977 (three successive relegations take their toll; we truly do not believe). There's been the occasional flowering, outbreak, of colour and enthusiasm amongst our support over the last 40 years but it's only ever very short-lived. We are jaded, and numb; the miracle is that people still come to AG in the numbers they do

Bigbury Nige, as he's known down them parts ...

If we want promotion from this division then I would think rather a greater percentage of our support than ever before now understand that that is only likely and can only be hoped for with a change in ownership (whilst acknowledging that such a change does not guarantee anything of the sort). We are, currently, stuck between a rock and a hard place, treading water. It would seem. Hardly surprising that people are agitating for something more, something new or fresh, in the circumstances (whilst being ever so careful what we wish for).

There's three slots for going up, not even the mighty ("we are not worthy") Leeds United can fill all of those; and four play-off spaces, to give you a shot. We're not a Leeds? We're not even a bloody Luton, for crying out loud.

We've had our nice little trip down there now, quite happy for them to tootle off back down to L1 and resume playing the Few et al, whilst we crack on with yer Leeds's, yer Leicesters'ss, and yer Sunderlands (ie the big boy's)