Embarrassingly predictable. Just when you think that our season couldn't get much worse it sinks to a new low every time. The fact is we didn't deserve anything. Could've and should've been 3 or 4 goals down by the time we somehow nicked an equaliser. All we have to do from that point is not act completely incompetently for the next few minutes and we would've stolen a point away from home against a relegation rival; still probably not good enough to keep us up but it would've at least been something. Then, wouldn't you know, we put together an absolutely calamitous passage of defensive play and manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of a result. Did Gibson and Williams celebrate our equaliser by each downing a pitcher of Punk IPA before the game restarted? That's the only way I can explain their defending in the move that led to the winning goal. I'm so sick of it man. I just want this season to be over already, as Morty says it's like death by a thousand cuts. Survival is always within our grasp yet we all know that we're not gonna be able to reach it. Even now I'm looking at the table and part of me is thinking that we're not actually any further off safety than we were before this game, and that if we can just put a couple of wins together we'll probably be outside the bottom 3, but I know that we're just not capable of it. Eughhhh.
Pukki really was the only one who came out with any credit. Tries his best and he did brilliantly for the goal, but he is just given a winless task playing as a lone striker. Rowe was also exciting off the bench and certainly added a bit of impetus. I'd definitely like to see him start next time out. The rest, just crap. I'm sorry to say it but Kenny McLean is dogshit. Shouldn't be anywhere near the starting XI at Premier League level yet somehow is viewed as undroppable by Smith and even Farke before him. He slows the play down every single time he gets the ball, is constantly giving it away, get him out the team. Rashica had his worse game in a yellow shirt. A couple of nice runs from Williams in the second half aside the backline didn't have a single composed moment all game. PLM and Rupp as a midfield two were far too lightweight and easy to bypass. It was torturous to watch. I actually went to leave as soon as Leeds scored the winner, but literally couldn't get out because the stairs were blocked by a group of our own fans fighting each other and the stewards having to separate them. Says it all really.
Can't even be arsed to get into the officiating or VAR. It's consistently fucking awful. Bamford was offside and interfering with play for the first goal and Ayling somehow escapes a red card for going in studs up on Rashica in the first half. But hey, that's just part of being Norwich City in the Premier League nowadays. It's infuriating but right now I think we could have every single dodgy VAR decision go our way and we still wouldn't be close to staying up.
Final thing I will say is that the atmosphere at Elland Road was fantastic, as good as I've ever experienced at an away ground. There was even fun in the away end at half-time when the lights in the toilets went out and in the pitch black everyone started singing "We're Norwich City, we'll shit in the dark". That really was as fun as it got though. We're a complete mess right now. Feels like all the good work that has been done behind the scenes in the last few years is starting to unravel. I've never been in the 'Delia Out' camp, but I am really starting to feel like now that unless something changes at a boardroom level we're never going to compete in this league.
I honestly though have no idea how this is going to go, but I don't have a particularly good feeling.
