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We completely dominated the first half. Second half, they were only the better team if you take the better team as being the one that dominates possession. That was a deliberate ploy; as you rightly state, the high intensity and aggression of the first half was not sustainable, hence the...

Tbf, the squad they came up with was for the most part an above average League 1 squad, so they needed players they knew could perform at this level. That's their modus operandi; spunk loads on a new squad whenever they need one, because they don't have to think about cash turnover. It's...

Tbf, War and Peace is about familial relationships in Tsarist Russia and how they're affected by the Napoleonic wars, and I bet it would be less revered if it were about you needing to give a new signing more time.

Christ, are these terrible puns ova now?

No, nothing clear cut, but a couple they could have made more of. They obviously had the shot off the post, and there was one quite late on where it seemed to open up on the edge of the box for one of their forwards, but he hit it straight at Rushworth. Based on chances / half chances across...

That just reads like sulky fans whose team have just lost a big game. No biggy. If someone's got abuse walking back to their car, though, then you can understand why they're pissed off. Can't stand that shit. Morons.

I never know how serious people are with belief in these things. Our Middlesbrough supporting friend seems fairly convinced; he may just be enjoying how annoyed it makes me, though. It does stretch back a long time; in fact, in the league, to the very dawn of time itself. From the Big Bang and...

Because we've been tactically more astute, more clinical, showed more desire, and just generally been better than you in those games. We haven't had '20 years of hurt' against Norwich. Most of that time we weren't in the same division, and for a lot of the time that we were, they just had a...

It isn't. There's clearly some psychology going on there, but in recent years, it's mostly been that they play a brand of physical football that our teams have generally struggled against. This year, we just let them off the hook, and it was extremely frustrating. It's really boring that we...

They're clearly a good team, but we got in their heads and they lost them. Seriously, stop this fucking nonsense. It means everything else you may say can't be taken seriously. You said it yourself, we got the tactics spot on, we also wanted it more, got in the Middlesbrough players' faces and...

HELLO, RYAN GILES.

Thought it was a very odd game to bring him on in. Amused that his first action in English football was to blooter a cross way into the stand, though.

I would, and the one on Grimes, which was worse. They lost their heads pretty early.

That's the cup, though. I think the Wolves game was on terrestrial tv a couple of years ago.

Yeah. No blame on the ref for missing that, but it was sly and cowardly.

It probably wasn't an easy game to referee, played at 100% miles and hour with real aggression, but it did feel as if they got away with a lot more than us. Saka's booking was very poor.

Is this a joke post?

Saka and Wright absolutely superb. Onyeka excellent debut (first action as a City player a sweeping pass out to the wing). Thomas and Lati excellent. No-one poor. A performance with proper cojones. Need to use that now.

Fucking brilliant. Didn't see that coming.

First 35 minutes of that were insanely good. Saka, EMC, Wright, Rudoni and Onyeka all superb. Utterly dominant and deserve to be further ahead.