Dunno if it's not more that they think we are.

Even that spaffing could have resulted in a large profit on BBD and probably only a slight loss on Gallagher if contracts were protected and they were sold at the right time. Goes to show you have to invest (and not dick up the sale point and contracts).

Knowing that will happen, as you clearly do, and with half the first team seemingly injured, it seems appropriate to commence with the doom and gloom. We're in a proper rut and we've all seen this movie before.

Shouldn't have bothered watching this - I might as well have put a replay of the Stoke game on. Practically the same fucking game.

I'd bench him for whoever just to put a rocket up his arse.

It certainly seems like we usually get them during morale-sapping defeats, just to make things even worse.

Can't remember if I posted it, but I said making all the subs with 30+ minutes left was a mistake. And now we have JRC hobbling around, worsening whatever injury he just picked up. Adrenaline is clearly getting him through it, nice ball from him to Gueye there, but I'd be surprised if he's not out for weeks after this.

I did say I wouldn't have sent him out yet. Sanderson will be starting the next few games, we'd better hope he's up to it. Litherland too, who might need to be brought on at some point.

A tug? Hyam slightly touched him, very briefly. He felt a slight touch and went to ground. I'd have been tempted to book him for diving.

I don't see much between them on evidence so far. I'm fairly sure both of those goals tonight are going in against Pears too. He's improved a lot but he isn't any good in either of those situations.

Can't be serious? That would have been one of the weakest penalties I've ever seen. Someone slightly touched his arm for a millisecond and he collapsed like his skeleton had just imploded.

Hmm just to extend the painful hope for a bit longer.

Don't think he'd have gotten away with this shit tonight if Travis and Tronstad were fit.

It's the most composed I've seen him too. He often looks like he's just scrambling away making hasty decisions but he's been taking his time at the right moments. Deserved a goal just there too. Their keeper has had a good game. Not quite Johansson levels, but he's been a real thorn. In a normal game at least one of those has gone in by now.

Exactly, and I'm so fucking tired of it happening every single season.

That was shit refereeing. There was far more cause to give us a penalty on that first corner when two of our players were being wrestled excessively, than there was to give them a free kick for the retake. Refs never seem to give penalties for attackers being dragged around at a corner though. In normal play that's a penalty.

Well almost right...he just did a shot from outside the box that belonged in the bin. Awful effort.

Looks like another one of our best players is injured too now. Back to his feet and playing on it seems, but won't be surprised if that turns into a proper injury soon the way things are going.

Goodbye season. Brittain injured, 2-0 down undeservedly. Owners not interested in investing. Might as well try scrape a few more wins and pack it up for the season. Sick of the predictability of ALL of this shit.

Nah, it wasn't.

He'd just punched the ball out under pressure, then rightly kept an eye on it until it was clearly heading to the back stick, he hardly 'went walkabouts'. The header was point blank, flapping at the ball and hoping for the best is about all you can do. I'd argue he could have taken a slight step back to give himself more time to react, but that's a hindsight thing and if the lad had really bullet headered it that could have been worse than closing the space. He didn't save it, so ultimately he takes some blame, but it was hardly 'a shocking error'.

I know right? I've only seen this about a thousand times before.

I don't agree that he has.

Yep, they have some sort of fucking voodoo over us I swear. I have a mate who's a good bloke and a Cov fan, that and how they were with us that year at theirs when we mathematically lost the league, I have a bit of a soft spot for them. But these matches between us are really starting to piss me off.

And there it is. It's so predictable.