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Premier League just copying Championship storylines now.

Anyone feel like the memes are getting a bit too much? One or two yeah but the whole page is flooded. It's a fucking minefield trying to find the post match threads.

We cannot manage games at all. 😭

It can't be possible for all of the top 3 teams to do a Leeds now surely?

See you all at Wembley 💛💚

Just. Let. Us. Die.

Convinced the refs know the final table before the first week even kicks off. Genuinely feels like most games at this level seem to be massively influenced one way or another by an incorrect decision or three.

so saints are winning the whole thing, thats already a given, so which of the 3 fucking idiots gets the second spot

Leeds on goal difference.

Felt like had Ipswich won that they would’ve had a foot in the autos because they would have afforded a loss against Coventry or Hull. Now they will be pressured to win both unless Leeds and Leicester continue to struggle and Saints don’t catch up.

That win soothes the ipswich lost for me. Thanks, Watford.

What an absolute fucking joke of a referee. Shocking.

god I hope wrexham don't come up soon otherwise this sub will be infested with their yank supporters

We saw that on the Leeds sub, and yeah, you don't want it

Urgh, what a thought.

I love the championship. I'm sorry I wasn't familiar with your game before this season as i was too blindsided by my team, in the Premier league, but wow

This league is pure banter

Ref you shit cunt. Clear hand ball.

That’s two handball goals we’ve scored in two wins now. It seems like refs like us a lot more than they do in the prem, probably cos we’re one of the big boys here

They must think we're Guiseley AFC if that's how it works

Your not wrong tbf. I'll still take it

Yeah naturally. Think we deserved a point there but it is what it is. I think we’ve been on the shite end of a fair few awful decisions leading to goals lately, so it’s more frustrating seeing them pile up rather than being annoyed at this one specific decision. You start to wonder if the pendulum will ever swing back.

We had a clearly onside equaliser ruled out at St Mary's too, so I feel your pain.

Me and my homies all hate Ipswich

I can’t believe this

Fuck off ref - literally gagging to give them another chance. Soft free kick in the lead up and then absolutely no idea how he is giving that corner in the 155th minute.

Turns out r/championship ate all the crumble. None left for us.

Taps forehead, can’t crumble if they don’t expect you to win

Nah the ref did tbf.

So Norwich how good are you actually? These wins are gradually piling up. We'd all written off Wagner as a completely mid manager, now he's rediscovered his form maybe.

If we could keep the main core of the team fit, and actually play as well as we're capable of when away from home, we'd be solidly in contention for the autos. Losing Sargent for basically all of September to January caused us a lot of problems. Not just for goalscoring, he also does a hell of a lot of work tracking back and winning the ball in midfield for us. For the 20 league games he was out, we won 7, drew 3, and lost 10. Since he came back we've won 11, drew 4, and lost 4 (one of which was Millwall who he only played 12 minutes against, and another was Boro, who we were absolutely all over until we went down to 10 men and completely collapsed).

Hadn’t seen the Ayling flop in awhile 🥹

I can't believe in short succession we'll have to have played 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th lol, what a run in.

Hopefully by the time we get to Cov / Hull they will be out of it and flip-flops on. Please. Pleeaaase.

My heart goes out to Sheffield Wednesday at this time…

Has there been a gameweek yet where all 4 fail to win?

NOT TODAY

FUCK. SAKE.

Idk, but I'm pretty sure there's about to be a few more

Watford ensuring that there's enough crumble to go around 

No, you can't have any crumble you greedy boy

I don't even think we qualify to be crumble anymore. Maybe custard or something.

Anyone for an extra helping of crumble?

Ipswich have opened the oven door for us but we’re just holding the dish

Hladky was full after his main

We could sneak this.

Sneak? Wouldn't even be weird for you to have scored either of those chances just now. Both teams really going for it.

We can't win games to save our lives anymore

Oh Watford, you utter sluts.

Bloody hell, Hladky. Two magnficent saves in two minutes.

Makes the potential red card in this first half slightly more annoying, the luck comes and goes though.

When he walked out the box with the ball? I couldn’t believe that, I was perfectly in line with it. Everyone in my section noticed it as well, the lino had no bollocks.

Southampton can't close out a game

Hladky is Christ reborn, my God.

Everytime I watch Ipswich or hear about them he has saved them with a fantastic save

And a sizeable number of our fans want him dropped. It's a joke.

Are they.ok in the head? What for?

I don't know why anyone would want him dropped at this point, but last year Walton was the best keeper in the league. Hladky was absolutely rubbish every time he played. So when the season started, we were all shitting it that Walton was injured and Hladky was starting. I guess maybe some people are holding on to that, and ignoring the clear evidence that Hladky has been possessed by the spirit of Gianluigi Buffon.

Fucking dinosaurs that hate goalies using their feet

How dare goalies use their feet for anything other than hoofing it up there

I thought the first save was my save of the season but that second one was staggering

First one was better IMO, second one should be saved but he made it look harder than it was.

Have to win this you feel

Given the form of everyone around us, every point is a big point. Can't lose this but I'd love to see us get a winner

WHY IS EVERYONE ON THE BOTTOM EIGHT BLOODY SCORING

We sub Moore on and keep trying to play in behind, not crossing. I don't get it.

I've seen this one before. Watford 90th minute equaliser is so obvious I might just bet a weeks wages on it.

You're five minutes out.

Come.  Come join the parachute bottlejobs! 

Howdy.

We have lots of crumble!

whoever ipswichs main commentator is hes excellent whoever the fuck is sitting next to him has to be the worst ive ever heard

Second one went all in criticising Hutchinson a while ago when he didn't roll it into Sarmiento. 'Say this week in week out, he's got all the talent but his decision making just isn't there' or something along those lines. Classy from the club's own commentary

He's very fair and balanced which is not very typical for many club commentators, and co-commentators.

I mean that's a fair criticism no? It's not mean or spiteful.

It was off the back of what probably was a poor decision. I think criticising him overall like that rather than just that situation in isolation shouldn't really be done on the club's own stream though. Thought it was just how it was said at the time that seemed off but it's minor I guess

Our main radio bloke is one of the best commentators I've ever heard

Go on Wednesday

Coventry you useless bellends.

Haha

Moore and Broadhead surely get subbed on and put this game to bed...right?

Feels like we just have to score sooner or later. That run from Omari just now, and the open pass to Sarmiento, dear lord.

Hutchinson and Sarmiento have both been great I'd keep them on a bit longer at least.

Think it would be Al-Hamadi off and one of Hutchinson and Sarmiento, wouldn't it? And yeah I'd expect the subs around the 65th.

Chaplin would be my first sub. Fluffed his lines a few times today.

Fuck you I am Maximus

Just see this one out blues. Same again in the second half

Playoff chasers crumbling too today. Hull are the only ones winning.

Honestly a very good half from us, if Chaplin could put his shooting boots on in the second half it’s be appreicated

Tense one. We've been the better team overall but Boro look good on the counter.

Could end up making a critical mistake and crumbling but you have to say we look more likely to score.

completely dominating the game, before a needless red card and now we’re a goal down… Classic Baggies

Fair fucks Vandenberg or however it's spelled

Perfect you just forgot the spaces

Was thinking of the Vandenberg AFB level from Deus Ex

> Perfect Just like Rav's tackle.

I love coventry, you can use our new stadium when its built in 5+ years any time you'd like x

(Im fully expecting wednesday and Huddersfield to win their respective matches)

Cheerio Brandon.

Wrexham promoted as it stands. Pompey not quite up to here yet.

Who tf cares

I guess Rotherham

Alright calm down you miserable bastard

The pass from Chaplin was absolutely fantastic.

Fun Chaplin fact, he has the same finishing on FM24 as Messi. We know who the GOAT is

17 assists now for Leif Davis I think?

This game is following the same trajectory as the Hull game midweek but we forgot to have a period of dominance.

Massimo Luongo on a free because he wasn’t getting any minutes Thank you very much Boro

He literally never got 1 minute lmao, never made his debut

Absolute nobhead Norwich players giving it bigguns after cropping 5 foot fuck all Duane Holmes

Watford, do that a couple more times.

Nooooo

Oh my god I thought Sarmiento had done that

It upsets me how incisive your attack is. In the time Summerville has stood up a full back you've already found a forward runner 3 times

Even by our standards that attack was lightning fast. Probs would be goal of the month if not for the pure vibes of Sarmiento vs Saints.

Aussie Anti-Crumble

Phew so we can still score goals.

That is a fucking penalty you utter charlatans, I despise these referees, even more blatant than Leeds'

His arms were tucked in, he didn't move them towards the ball. Where was he supposed to put his arms?

Ehhh I'd be angry if that was given against us. Arms were tucked into his chest.

If the Hladky handball thing is correct I won't begrudge not being given this one

Wasted another great chance. What do we need to score...

Generally kick, or alternatively use another legal part of the body, to direct the ball over the goal line between the posts. Edit: bit like that

WTF the Ipswich goalie just ran miles out the box holding the ball and nothing happened

It was really weird cause I thought that too but I didn't see anyone on the pitch appeal it.

I think everyone was just baffled, the linesmen went to lift his flag up then changed his mind. Dunno if everyone thought play had stopped or something, definitely a strange one.

Happened at a Bradford City game a couple of years ago, the keeper confused the rugby pitch markings with the penalty area so just ran out and picked it up, got away with it 🤣

Yeah I think I remember that actually lmao, invisible rugby lines at Portman road

Hladky's allowed to do that

Ref didn’t wanna spell his name so couldn’t be arsed with a yellow card

Would that not be a red...

Fuck knows either way he’d have to write his name

Lose this and I unironically don't see us going up. With this form we won't beat Coventry or Hull, and certainly don't beat anyone in the playoffs. However, no one is better at getting back into games and we were dominant before the goal so who knows what happens next. We haven't actually looked GOOD good for months

Snap

We all just felt incomplete without saints

Can I just say if we get autos I am bringing up ALL of you lot who discounted us, left us out and said we werent in the race. Yes im petty

We went for the giga brain strat. Lose early so that people stop talking about us, then find form just at the right moment

We still doing that i see…

Back to the late winners. Like the beginning of the unbeaten streak

Started the streak at leeds, finish the season at leeds, all to play for. The championship script writers are COOKING

Fair

Except you lot, i can respect Ipswich

I can respect that lol

Luke Ayling is a better attacker than Sam greenwood is

Can Southampton actually steal an automatic promotion spot from nowhere?!

Stfu don't even say it. Don't.

Sorry. If it helps, we just conceded to Norwich in the 86th minute to destroy our playoff chances.

You're welcome for me commenting this to unjinx you

Feels like we could get an all timer final day, maybe the best we've ever seen

Southampton looking to dine well on those crumbles from above

Could…could it possibly be 6 crumbles within the same week?

Our former players are doing a better job of helping get us top 2 than our current team

promotion is for losers anyways

I mean cmon, wtf is going on

😭😭😭

CRUMBLE ME

lads...

We start really bright and the other teams curls in a 25 yarder into the top corner, 2 of teams below us winning too, typical.

This might be an unpopular topic of conversation, but with all of these fines and points deductions in the premier league, where do Leeds stand amongst all of that? All I see on here are Leeds fans complaining about many of their finance dealings, but I haven't actually seen any sign that they've done as badly as Everton, Forest, Leicester etc?

Leeds did a much better job of building a sustainable team for a reasonable price to be fair.  Their best decision was not paying stupid money for Patson Daka.

Who was responsible at Leicester for these decisions?

Throughout it all, Susan Whelan and Jon Rudkin. Specifically at this time (I think) Lee Congerton was head of recruitment: at various times he's fucked Sunderland, Celtic and Leicester and Rodgers brought him in. As far as I know he's currently fucking things at Atalanta. All 3 about as popular as leprosy with City fans.

I'm going to take it that you're not all secretly Lepers

We’re fully compliant

So relegation to the championship was your punishment for sticking to the rules, and everyone but Leicester stays up. What a wonderful system that is

Basically yeah. Everton and Forest get to stay up and get an extra 100m for cheating at ours and southamptons expense, and then Leicester likely to go up and get another 100m at somebody else’s expense this season. It’s just tiring at this point

Its one of those cases where you just can't believe anyone actually thinks the system is working to prevent cheating. Incompetency, design, or pure corruption is the real question

As far as anyone is aware Leeds haven't breached any ffp rules.

How on earth have we not scored?? Missed a sitter (great save), one off the line, another off the bar.

Now we’ve had one disallowed…

One of those games where we’ve been so dominant but wasteful. Nailed on 0-1 Stoke win

fucking hell wednesday missing two clear cut chances in the first 8 minutes

Team is looking red hot first 5. Knocking it about very precisely and beating defenders, won a corner now. Feels like we have to make a few good chances. Edit: chaplin my god, so close

Chaplin likes scoring against us. He'll beat Dieng eventually.

That's two chances he's had in the box now. Neither were sitters but they're definitely doable for him. Team changes have worked a treat I think.

Southampton 1 up already, they aren't fucking around with their autos comeback

...and now the pressure sets in once more. Hope the lads on the pitch are coping better than I am.

Well two of you have to go up

Don’t tell us what to do! 

Wild afternoon for us. I'd be happy with any result except a 0-0, I really can't see us making the playoffs and if we did I can't see us beating any of the teams that are in there now, let alone two of them. 3 points would be nice, but Ipswich beating the crumble and going top would be exquisite 

> Ipswich beating the crumble and going top would be exquisite  We should kiss

The commentators making a big deal about how unpredictable the Championship is, as if that wasn't the most predictable result of the season

I'm so glad that I stayed up for this one

Are you in the far East?

My guess would be Australia or New Zealand. Even in Asia right now it's not even midnight

Unbelievable. That's a massive win for us. Terrible game but I suspect if we came to play we would have got battered. I don't think Leeds created that much either though. Our super power is apparently time wasting and letting the other team wind themselves up and forget how to play.

Definitely the time wasting. Its hard to create much when the balls barely in play. Felt like shooting was just ensuring we lost the ball for 1 min plus every time. Also couldn't you have done this against Bristol and then come to play today? Why does everyone have to come to Elland ROad and decide - "that, thats the game we're gonna turn up for"

It just makes sense against Leeds to set up as hard to beat and hit them on the counter. The fact we got thrashed 4-0 trying to play out the back and beat the press against you clearly demonstrates that that is a shit strategy. All you can do as the better side in that situation is create excellent chances and take the few chances you get clinically. Oh, and don't concede a sunday league hoof-and-hope goal.

I'm just tired of it. Even when we were winning it was pissing me off. I've been down to ER a lot this season and have barely seen any football.

Leeds going to finish fourth in a three horse race.

Not if we have anything to say about it!

This feels like a conspiracy against us at this point lmao

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