JTG

Just looking at Ipswich’s run-in, not seeing many easy games for them. Obviously they’ve still got us and Millwall left to play which are going to be two massive games, but then I wouldn’t fancy having Southampton and Norwich still left to play given the form they’ve both been in since the start of the year.

First half is best we’ve played since Sheff U, but I’ve got to be honest, I’m frustrated not to have capitalised on how poor they’ve been and gotten a 2nd.

Tbf it’s easy to say before a ball has been kicked, but it looks like QPR has about 3 or 4 players out injured from their strongest starting XI, so it doesn’t seem like the worst time to rest players on the face of it. Mind you, I could well end up regretting saying this in a couple of hours time.

Interesting decision to drop Conway and Malanda. Can only assume we’re managing fitness with it being a 3 game week.

Think it’s a much closer game than that imo. I think the way Hull play is well suited to being the away team - low possession, direct, fast breaks on the counter. They’re unbeaten in their last 8 away from home with 7 of those being wins, and in terms of ppg they’re the best away team in the league.

I think 2 goals from Targett clearly shows we’ve identified that as an area to target (no pun intended), and switching to the back 5 gave him to license to get forwards into those spaces.

Massive win. Feel like that exemplified what has been so good about Hellberg since he came in. He’s adaptable. He has his principles, but he’s not wedded to any particular system or formation. It’s not the first time where we’ve had a few dodgy results and the pressure has been on him, but he’s a problem solver and he comes up with solutions instead of stubbornly persisting with what hasn’t been working.

There’s a place in the old town called 442 sports pub that’s decent. Probably less than 5 mins walk from the main square if you’re anywhere near there. I stupidly booked a short trip to Krakow during the playoff period and ended up watching the home leg against Cov there a few years ago.

Obviously we all know about the points deduction, and perhaps it's more of a reflection of how much Leicester have underperformed this season, but it feels crazy to say that a team in the bottom three has a front three that would comfortably walk into our team.

I feel like it’s a bit captain hindsight to question the team selection. Yes, Ayling had a stinker, but it was hard to argue with reverting to the team that had won 3 on the bounce prior to Cov. Especially since we struggled to break Oxford down, and Ayling has been key to us playing out from the back this season with four assists from CB.

Honestly drives me mad hearing divvys sat around me shouting shoot every time someone gets the ball within 30 yards of goal, never mind the fact they're off balance, on their weak foot, and have about 5 players stood in front of them ready to block the shot. Its like people think they're playing fifa.

We're still in a good position. Ipswich have to win both of their games in hand just to go level on points with us. I'd rather have points on the board than games in hand.

Didn't his Minnesota team set some kind of record for set-piece goals in the MLS last season? Wonder if he fancies a cheeky 3 month promotion charge as part of Hellberg's backroom team and he can show us how to take them cause we're bloody woeful 😂

Aye, plenty of football still to be played and I’m expecting many more twists and turns between now and May. It was only 10 days ago that we were riding the crest of a 6 game win streak and being tipped as the new favourites for the title while Coventry were in free fall. Now we’re the ones looking out of sorts f*****g it up while they’ve had a resurgence and now have an opportunity tonight to consolidate their position at the top of the league.

I think this is an issue for us generally. We’re really good at working our way into positions for the cut back, but then the execution is mostly crap. The player making the cut back needs to do a better job at getting their head up and picking out a man instead of just blindly drilling it across the box, but equally our forward players need to be better at gambling on these balls and putting themselves in positions to get on the end of them. It definitely needs work as it seems to be our main avenue of chance creation.