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Hopefully Leicester can give them a pummeling on Boxing day to trigger an Ipswich wobble whilst we win both. Then it's a 4 point gap and we can see how they handle Leeds\Saints breathing down their necks.

2 points dropped and with the top 3 being so strong it's a blow. We're on track for 87/88 points which looking at the last few seasons would get us 3rd. The 4 game run in September might end up being our undoing for autos.

It's all about winning and scoring goals. I enjoyed league 1 because we were winning. I'm enjoying the champ again because we are winning and I'd enjoy the prem if we could get our fair share of wins and decent football. The league isn't actually that important TBH.

Much better performance today, when we get more direct we look decent. Hopefully this is how we will play going forward.

We'll make lots of pretty patterns on the pitch and then B'ham will score. Should be looking for a win but I'm not confident.

5th in the table despite RMs one dimensional approach to every game. Imagine what we could do if we had a tactically aware mgr

The board should have seen enough to make an assessment of RM by now. Mine is that he is mid table quality at best. I'd get rid before our season gets flushed away.

Got to admit I thought Leeds would tear us a new one but relieved to get 3 points. Must build on this and get a real run going - Stoke, Rotherham, Hull, Preston, B'ham, Millwall - 15 points out of that lot would get us back on track for auto promotion if we are serious - and we should be. Keep with this lineup and tactics if it works.

This is a Leeds spanking all day long. Therefore I predict 3-0 to us. This is SFC we are talking about after all.

For me the jury is out on the players until we get a manager that can coach and has higher standards than RM. When the manager has such low expectations of them you can't tell the slackers from the rough diamonds. A decent mgr would find out soon enough.

SInce the start of last season we've had more managers than league home wins. To be fair RM has inherited a difficult situation but all he has done is pour more petrol on the fire. The fans have rightly had enough. What is even worse is I can't see anything that gives me hope it will improve. Nothing personal but I'd get rid now. It is not working. SR should sack themselves too, yes RM is the manager but they are the ones doing the appointing and they have not made one decent appointment as of now. How much money are they prepared to burn?

Why wait? The performances are not going to improve and every week promotion slips away. Time to cut our losses and part ways with RM. It was another failed experiment.

If you want some pragmatism and a decent champ mgr to boot. Always thought he was hard done by last time he was here.

Ipswich should beat us, they are on a run and looking good, we are a confused ruderless mess. 3-1 or 4-1 to them.

I saw nothing last night that gave me any confidence that this will improve. RM should go now, he doesn't know what he is doing. However the deeper issue is the fact that SR have had 3 goes at appointing a manager and have failed 3 times. It's their no 1 task and they have consistently got it wrong. At least Gao got it right with Ralph. SR should fire whoever appoints the manager. I was excited for this season, thought it was a brilliant opportunity to regroup and get our mojo back but it's looking like a re-run of the dark days of last season. Made Leicester look like Man City through our own tactical incompetence. Men v boys

I'm going to stick my neck out and predict that we'll conceed at least 1 goal. Controversial stuff. Now where's my job as a Pundit?

Nasty result but a good wake up call. This league is dog eat dog and SFC are not going to be given any favours. Leicester next, let's hope this result has sunken in by then and we start to see more urgency.

They will make it difficult but we've got to be looking at 3 points here. Time to start turning SMS into a fortress.

We need to keep Che, AA, Alcaraz and Tella. That is a strike unit that will get us promoted. I cannot see us replacing them with anything better so why let them go? They are under contract and we need them. Defence is where the club needs to focus. CB would be my priority.

Agreed, Che could get 25+ in this league. Even if we replace him with quality it's hard to see another striker getting much more than Che will probably get anyway. For me we must try and keep Tella and AA, both are going to play a big role this season. It's all about momentum now, 3 points is what we needed and that's what we got. Job done and on to the next game.

If we are serious about getting out of this league then we have to be looking at 3 points. We are not in the Prem now.

Good test, Norwich will be somewhere around top 6 come the final whistle. Got to keep Che and AA, when they really hit their straps the goals will flow. 8 goals today, already loving the champ. Mental league.

A rare opening win and the board is already ticking over. Momentum is everything in this league. Got to keep Tella regardless of what Burnley offer, he's going to have a big role this season.

If we want to get out of this league at the first go then we need to get momentum asap. 3 points should be the expectation here.

He was a great player for us but a 40 y.o taking part in a 46 game slog of a season with big expectations on the players? Not sure about that.