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I suppose most people's idea of us "going for it" is football people choosing the footballers, and Steve keeping well out of it/just "signing the cheques"

I really hope so. It's absolutely devine to be right, delicious, it's what we all crave; but that would mean City being shite and struggling grimly against relegation next season, and as much as I love being right, and being seen to be right, I don't like seeing us being shite.

Yes, Kalas was out for months.

It's called: One team in Bristol. And you only have a phrase like that when there's two or more teams in one place. They don't tend to go around Norwich saying: there's only one team in Norwich. I don't suppose. Norwich played the Few earlier in the season, I'd imagine they called them Bristol too. The pair of us are pretty anonymous, as professional clubs go. Unremarkable. So unremarkable are the Few I am convinced that when they started wearing the comedy quarters jester strip again in the 60's or 70s or whenever, it was a desperate attempt to be noticed, because they're never going to get attention for their football.

Much of what you write there applies to, say, Brentford in the PL. Or Burnley, under Dyche. You sound resigned to our mediocrity here but a regular of this forum might be forgiven for thinking that you are wanting more, and better, from the club, its owner, its staff and management. And matchday officials ........

So, what are we bothering for then?

Marley Watkins came closer than most to achieving this, when smashing Tommy Kalas's chin with his nut at Wigan, I think it was

Needed someone swift to "cover" Forbes, or Mark Hughes, or whoever was the solid but slow and cumbersome No.5 that everyone other than Liverpool seemed to have back then. He was Kyle Walker before Kyle Walker was born

Try calling it a "Sing when we're winning (but not always even then) section,"

Missing something this ^ ^ (although I love that they have got a comma in there), fer me .... how about: "CREATED BY THE POOR, TRASHED BY THE FOOTBALL LADS BETWEEN ABOUT 1968 AND 1989, STOLEN/CLEANED UP/GENTRIFIED BY THE RICH" ?

What was yer third?

Chubby Tomlin, Psycho, Belgians in the Concourse! "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning .... " Free the Trumpton Ten (are they out yet?)

I believe that the ladies were trying to establish their game a century ago but ran into some ... difficulties with the, er, blokes at the FA (otherwise they might be a bit more, stand alone, by now)

Whoever scouted him needs a pay rise (or an offer to come back); whoever coached him and/or decided to get rid, needs .....

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?