Not by me, although obviously I think everyone expected better of Luton! The Ipswich team is far better than Lutons, although if they want to prove me wrong and go and do a Luton then fair play, they have my blessing.
Be interesting to see the state of the relegated teams.. Ipswich have built something of a Championship dream team so they'll be ok i think. But the others lets see. Southampton are just hopeless and Leicester, well lets just hope those cunts finally get whats coming to them and a proper...
It's not too excited, its just paying attention to the opposition. None of the teams below Boro are showing they have what it takes to get in. In terms of quality, maybe Norwich i'm surprised by, they could go on a run... but they've been totally hopeless recently.
It is, and its brilliant of course... but given the spend relative to the division we're in, its no surprise the run has come now rather than at pretty much any other point since i've been watching. It's easy to get that spend wrong but it looks like we've largely got it right, which is great...
Dunno if you can just call it a run at this point. Since Lampard came in we've amassed as many points give or take as the top teams. He's been here a while now which leads one to suggest we are just in fact, a top team.
It's not really. The keeper is obvious, 3 of the back 4 are obvious, Grimes is obvious, Rudoni is obvious and being kind at least 2 of the front 3 are obvious. None of these get rotated too often when fit.
I think its much like the EMC, Wright situation. To me it was always obvious he'd want to at least try and get them into the same team... same applies to Rudoni and Torp, its clear Lampard really rates both players and with good reason.
I'd have accepted coming out of those 3 games being within 1 win of the play offs, if we can come out of them still actually in the play offs then we've played a blinder.
As I said before, not beat a single team currently in the top 6. Just grind out constant wins against the shite in Wilder fashion. Anyone who would rather take on Burnley has lost it.
Tough away game for us to come out of the break with mind you, especially on a Friday night.
Can't see anyone below Boro at this point, although I think Boro themselves are also pretty shite and will fall away.
I don't think a great deal of WBA or my pre season dark horses Bristol City, but both are tough to beat and thus probably more suited to running the course.
I think we're a...
Yeh can't say I've been a huge fan over the course of his time here but he's been decent recently. Coupled with Bidwell being absolutely honking atm I'd imagine he's the first choice LB as things stand.
Not 'deserving' to get dropped is pretty irrelevant. I suspect he'll be keen to get Rudoni in as soon as he's fit because he's been brilliant for quite some time.
Class player, just offers something a bit different to everyone else. When at his best he terrorises his fullback and luckily for us, he is coming back to his best.
Grimes, Torp and Rudoni are my favourites and probably the better players but no complaints if Allen is in playing as he did. He's ahead of Eccles and sicknote now that's for sure.