Loco Rojo

At the moment though I don't think our performances have been consistent enough to give me confidence that we'll make the playoffs. But it's irrelevant what I think - do you think our performances since Christmas deserve promotion? Regardless though, there's certainly no guarantee of going back up with the Parachute payments - depends on how it's re-investment.

Maybe the wrong choice of words to describe the frustration that when a team that have played so promosingly in the early season put themselves in a position where promotion is a possibility then come up against a team struggling we can't play well or beat them (unlike Cardiff against Burton today). I guess if teams are good enough to go up they need to put in a more positive performance against those struggling and it certainly didn't sound good today.

Got to agree with you. A draw or a win today cannot hide how inconsistent and at the poor end of the scale this team are at present. We will get better but I don't know what it'll take to do that - although I do believe LJ and co are the right people to do it. We aren't good enough to go up based in this form though and don't deserve to make the playoffs.

How many wheels have we got? Let's be realistic, they fell off months ago.

Very good point. We certainly look more focused today. We've just got to keep it up in the second half and hopefully Heckingbottom won't have regrouped that lot at half time.

Pack doing well too. Really good to see the tempo and desire from City to close the Leeds lot down too. Hopefully the second half will be better than last Saturday!!!

Mr Sod and Mr Law....absolute bastards those two!

I was beginnng to miss it but I knew it wouldn't be far away.....an OTIB meltdown.

Well this is awkward!

Probably to reduce the amount of time fans will be drinking in pubs - on police advice or something.

Still 45 to go guys - lets not get carried away. Its this sort of euphoria that ends up in OTIB imploding after 90 minutes

How bizarre. Clearly he doesn't suffer from stage fright!

Clearly he doesn't suffer from stage fright! Bizarre.

Did I just hear sky correctly that a goal keeper in some game has been sent off for urinating on the pitch 3 minutes before the end of a game? Someone tell me am I misheard that?

True - but tonights result isnt as bad as it could have been or the end of our season either, so we move on (plus I was hoping my words might go some way to appeasing any Otib rage. To late for some in Sweden though!

One of those games - it happens. Doesn't mean we have bad players or incompetent management or coaches. Another clean sheet and we move on to the next.

We really can't sell him. The guy is priceless.

Same line up for three games in a row. We concede and come under pressure so LJ makes subs to input some fresh legs and try to change the momentum back in our favour. Who does he think he is? LJ out FFS!!!!!

Tongue in cheek, but I wonder if it has something to do with the players knowing a good performance from them in front of the cameras, might get them offers from elsewhere (obviously not being serious) Like Hudson once said - 'how do I get outta this chicken shit outfit'?

I think you're right. Landsown, by continuously backing Lee, has dug himself a huge whole with this one. Sacking him now with so few games left, giving a new manager very little time will be too little too late.

One of the saddest things about this mess is that when LJ does eventually go, as the managerial merry go round continues (whether we go down or not), how will SL and club win a large percentage of the fans back. If Otib is a reliable cross section of views of the whole fan base, then this club has a lot of work to do - which will only be harder to achieve if we do go down. And even if LJ turns this mess around and starts to win games again - will it even make a difference to the fans that want him gone? It seems the damage is to far gone to be fixed by LJ. I admired SL's determination to break the mold of constantly changing the manager when things go badly, but i really cant see how this is going to get any better - clearly the last few months have proved that this team under its current management/Tactics etc etc is only heading in one direction and the bit that confuses me the most is despite what is becoming more obvious with each game, SL is sticking with Lee but then makes statements that he will not allow us to go down. You'd like to believe that if he had made changes in December/January time, all of this could have been avoided - but as is football, nothing is guaranteed i suppose. As each game passes though, we are becoming more and more reliant on other results to go our way to save our Championship status rather than being the makers of our own destiny to fight to stay up. I really dont know where this goes from here as clearly SL is continuing to back LJ for the foreseeable.

Or just that we've scored. What's Johnson playing at!!!!!

Fair play to make the changes. It hasn't worked first half so change it up early in the second and get going again. Mind you some will still criticise this too no doubt.

I was really looking forward to an evening of a slightly more positive Otib. That's out of the question then.

Given our current form I can't see beyond a 2-0 loss unfortunately. Go and prove why I don't bet lads! January transfer reinforcements can't come soon enough right now.