Schmidt and Chambers aside, and maybe Ramazani, the rest were abject. Josh, Joseph, and Ampadu were particularly dreadful. Sunderland's result was more important than ours today, though.

couldn't agree more. dropped points again

10 changes today and you could tell we have our focus on the league. Let’s hope Piroe stays fit though.. Joseph showed today why we looked seriously at Archer, however it was in a very mixed up team

you expect a poor team display. what you don't expect is individuals to be awful. a day to forget.

Glad Burnley gone through.. more fixture congestion for them

true. sheff u were dreadful today but fluked a win somehow

We were never gonna win the cup, so in that regard today was no big deal. I feel sorry for the fans who had to watch it, especially the ones that only manage to get tickets for the cup games. The extra revenue would have been nice from progression into the next round and possibly beyond, but would it realistically have made any difference to our short term aims and progression ? On the plus side, we had minutes into the legs of players who may feature if called upon, and maybe Farke’s had the chance to see the limitations of some players and potential of others. I’m sure we’d all love to be watching a Leeds team at this stage next season that has at least a small chance of going all the way to Wembley. Fingers crossed.

[quote="tad rhino":28u5807y]true. sheff u were dreadful today but fluked a win somehow[/quote:28u5807y] They’ve been doing that for weeks. Been very poor but getting away with it. Strange team

they aren't a good team, just grind wins out.

That’s a great half. James unplayable again, two great finishes. Get yourself a match ball in the 2nd half son.

wow. what a first half. 2 great strikes from james and nice to get a bit of luck for a change. numerous other blocks and poor last pass choices and executions meant it could easily have been 6. watford look good going forward, fantastic save from meslier at 2-1. keep it going

fabulous 4th from piroe. great feet. pick a month of the match out of that one! james piroe solomon aaronson bogle the list goes on

Don’t know about anyone else but I’m feeling a lot more confident about automatic after the last 3 games. A goal difference of +13 is phenomenal over that run of games. We were pretty solid throughout the team there, despite not having our usual dominance on possession. The thing that pleases me most is that we’re playing with a real unselfish attitude, mostly making the right decisions based on the benefit of the team. Bring on the Mackems. Only poser is does Rothwell come back in for the home game instead of Gruev ?

for me no he doesn't. keep it solid

[quote="tad rhino":uy756v54]for me no he doesn't. keep it solid[/quote:uy756v54] At the moment I would agree. I feel a bit sorry for Rothwell who’s helped us to the summit, but fair play to Farke for some strong decision making.

We are going up. But I am absolutely dreading it in the PL. I don't think we have the structure to stay up. We certainly do not have the players. Hopefully we spend decent money (do we even have it available?) on some rea quality who can keep us in the PL for the first season and we can build from there. Though I am absolutely dreading it.

we will be the 6th richest owners in the league. how have forest done this year? survive 2 years and unless you implode, as we did when bielsa refused to buy players, you'll be fine. plus even if the worst happened you've got another 3 years of parachute payments. I think we'll be ok. wont be easy be get the right players in, and the recruitment depth is pretty good these days, well have enough

[quote="leeds owl":eb4d8vwx]Don’t know about anyone else but I’m feeling a lot more confident about automatic after the last 3 games. A goal difference of +13 is phenomenal over that run of games. We were pretty solid throughout the team there, despite not having our usual dominance on possession. The thing that pleases me most is that we’re playing with a real unselfish attitude, mostly making the right decisions based on the benefit of the team. Bring on the Mackems. Only poser is does Rothwell come back in for the home game instead of Gruev ?[/quote:eb4d8vwx] Cracking performance, and i thought Watford had a good go also, they have some decent players. That Checkvertazde is a good player, i'd have liked us to bring him in as an option at 10. Some fabulous goals. They could lay a glove on Tanaka in midfield, i just can't beleive how little we paid for him, we had Dusseldorf's pants down. Gruev covered a lot of distance and helped control their midfield. I think you will see Rothwell in most home games though, depending on who we play. If they are likely to sit deep and defend for 90 mins he deffo plays, if they will come and have a go, Gruev goes in there.

[quote="DMF":1naeorpk]We are going up. But I am absolutely dreading it in the PL. I don't think we have the structure to stay up. We certainly do not have the players. Hopefully we spend decent money (do we even have it available?) on some rea quality who can keep us in the PL for the first season and we can build from there. Though I am absolutely dreading it.[/quote:1naeorpk] Nothing to dread if we go up. We've got a totally different ownership model now with serious £££. As Tad says, we're the 6 wealthiest club in England with the 9ers (now it just depends on how much of the purse strings they open or can open that will be key). FFP in it's current format caught out Forrest but they snook through it and now are very well established). I think we will have enough ££ firepower to stay up and our home form will be key, Elland Rd will be on fire. I'm confident we can get up automatic now and i think the players are too, but, big next 3 games coming up. If we come out of those in good shape we're as good as up. I'd say 7 more wins gets us at least 2nd place. That win also last night really sends a message out to Sheff U and Burnley that we are going to take some stopping, it will have knocked them both.

Wish I had your confidence!

Another dominant performance and a win in London too! Look a cut above Watford who we were breaking on at will last night, they just didn't have any answer to our counterattacking, could've had 8/9 last night. Some great last min defending and some great shot stopping by Meslier to keep them out. Tough little run of games coming up but we must be sky high confidence wise after our ongoing run (Cup aside)

Away at the min so missed the game, seen the goals tho, 2nd and 4th goals were beauty’s!

Perfect away performance with quick counterattacks after absorbing greater watford possession of the ball which is unusual for us. Farke playing Gruev for Rothwell in away games key to it as he sits and covers better as a 4. Going out of the cup also means no rearranging of the WBA game so we can get three games against contenders out of the way quickly and an easier run in.

Absolute blessing losing that cup game and Farke and the players know it. The League is 1000000000% their focus. They don't want to make the same mistakes as last year. Great point about the WBA game, that's one we certainly didnt want to re arrange.

and burnley do need to rearrange one.....