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Sounds like you'd enjoy the colonoscopy I had a few weeks ago mate. Would highly recommend it if you're looking to have even more fun.

If this what the game has become - if this is what passes for a good battling performance now - I'd really be questioning the wisdom of fools like us who invest real time and money into this stuff. Is this really good? Because it's certainly not **** enjoyable. (And before you say it, yes, I might indeed go and do something else with my day.)

A little soon for that sort of statement don't you think??

Well I, for one, am inspired.

It's like starting a family

At least Elmo is still employed by the club, if we get really stuck.

Frame that, you might never say it again.

I guess it's just another unavoidable freak injury then! Nothing to see here.

Copy that message to your clipboard, you're going to need it a lot.

Neither is a casual conversation with a Leeds fan!

This. Ignore the crowd reactions people.

Honestly folks. I'd rather share a flat with a Bluenose than spend 5 minutes with a Leeds United supporter. There's no worse crowd at Prem or Championship level, that includes Milwall. What a bunch of insufferable clearings in the woods.

If only that were the ugliest thing about us.

They are probably not watching nearly as much of this tripe as we do.

Gerrard on the touchline resembles Tactics Tim more and more with every game.

Who?

New low.

Leeds fans are a disgrace, all the time every time. Never met one I could stand.

32% possession are we playing City again?

Buendia's just a much better player for me. I do get the pace argument, but that is literally all Bailey offers. His footwork is atrocious and he gives the ball away a disgraceful amount. I just don't really rate him if I'm honest. So, Leon Bailey blinder incoming

Still no Buendia. Jesus Christ.

I see Emi's agent has been busy. Links to Atletico and Manure in the last 48 hours alone. Am sure the rest of Europe will follow over the coming months.

Very very worrying.

My ex-roommate and very close friend is a physio for one of the URC rugby teams, i.e. one of the biggest rugby union franchises in the world. He is an expert in knee injuries and we routinely talk about how they come about in football because ligament damage is generally ubiquitous in rugby whereas it's a sporadic injury in football owing to the different levels of physicality etc. One of his major bugbears is conditioning, he says professional footballers are over-conditioned compared to a lot of other team sport athletes, particularly in preseason, and this is why so many season-long injuries occur earlier rather than later in seasons. So that's where I'm getting my fixation on our strength & conditioning coaches from, it's not just idle speculation, but even if it were, doesn't take a genius to think we should take a look at our regimen and make sure it's fit for purpose.

If you had a club nutritionist and players were out of shape, s/he would be called into question and probably lose their job. Likewise if you have players with no history of major issues elsewhere breaking themselves after a few games of football with us, then yeah, I'd say someone should be asked a few questions at the very least. If you don't think so, I don't think you know much about the work that goes on behind the scenes re: modern sports science and medicine.