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Yeah, until Christmas Eve. 24th of December, that offer expires. Details and terms on the website, Levi'selisters.com.com.com. Forward slash the Squareball. Yeah, it's me, Michael, and Rob, as we debrief that one then, Man City 3 leads to, and as always, it's the hope that kills you, isn't it? I must admit, I do prefer it when League United

have made me feel like I'm about to have a heart attack.

Those games are a lot more enjoyable than just the apathy of recent weeks where you're sort of zoning out, whereas this week felt like I was going to collapse watching that second half. And hopefully that is now a blueprint to move forward from.

Yeah, the first half was pretty much as we expected, wasn't it?

We were like, well, this is kind of boring because they're just going to win.

And then all of a sudden, it got interesting for a bit.

I think in the end, we deserve something from that, didn't we?

I would have said second half. We properly shook them.. It was nice. It was done with just quite basic stuff, on it? Just putting pressure on them. It's what we've always wanted to see this season. And it's what we have seen in moments or the odd game. And I think that's sort of just been added to my confusion in recent weeks where it feels like we've been caught between two ideas. And we've seen Farga has gone direct a bit more at times this season. And then he seems to have gone away from that in recent weeks to dreadful results. And then we've seen in the second half today, it's like, no, we're low is better when we do that. And the crowd getting to it, the away end was great all day to day. but you could see everyone, everyone knew what we were doing. Yeah. It made sense, didn't it? I think that's the frustrating thing about the hope killing you in this regard. We saw a far better second half because it worked. Because it worked. We caused one of the runaway best teams in the country loads of

trouble because we just went directing to chuck the ball in behind them. And we'd seen glimpses of it in the first half when the wingers were on hadn't we? So it was really frustrating to see us just be so passive, I think, in that first half in conceding. Again, it was another and it just felt like sit and wait for the opponents to score.

But then we really gave...

We didn't wait long.

Well, indeed.

We didn't even. that first half in conceding. Again, it was another one. It just felt like sit and wait for the opponents to score.

But then we really gave...

We didn't weigh long.

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