Uncle Buck
Ghost Writer
- Jul 7, 2003
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Superb (and yes I am bored);
1. With great respect to a recent Premiership team like Leicester, we should be beating teams like them
It is frustrating that we're not getting the 3-pointers, but it's too easy to say that every team we get a draw against are relegation candidates, which seems the stock response of glass half-full merchants like you Dwayniepops.
Didn't we say the same thing about Crewe, Burnley, Coventry, etc etc
My more optimistic take is that a year on we are now far more comfortable in ths league and fewer and fewer teams can impose themselves on us.
This higher level of performance will bring its due reward sooner or later. If you cast your mind back to March-April and recall how we were getting outclassed by nearly every team we were playing, I think the progress since then has been excellent.
2. No, for the entirely logical reason that most teams are finding their feet and best formations/selections. Teams like us particularly so who have some new players to integrate.
3. That's not a new argument TLB - that's repeating an original unargued assertion and then putting "bollocks" on the end of it As such, I stand by my original comment that bad results at this stage are far less important than at the end of the season because you have plenty of time to do something about them. Commonsense, surely?
But to carry on your parallel, if we got it down to 12 an over off the last two or three from a big deficit, you're going to be disappointed if you don't finish the job. No disrespect to Coppell and what he achieved, which deserves plaudits, but sport is above all else about finishing the job, crossing the winning line, doing it at the business end of the season, that's what makes real reputations.
4. Does anyone still think Crewe was a must-win game? Or that not winning one of our first six fixtures was such a terrible thing?
Things certainly seemed to have cheered up around here since then, anyway
I think it was the case that McGhee still had to try out new formations. And, who knows, that experimentation may not still be finished.
Certainly August and September is a good time for managers to do that kind of stuff.
1. With great respect to a recent Premiership team like Leicester, we should be beating teams like them
It is frustrating that we're not getting the 3-pointers, but it's too easy to say that every team we get a draw against are relegation candidates, which seems the stock response of glass half-full merchants like you Dwayniepops.
Didn't we say the same thing about Crewe, Burnley, Coventry, etc etc
My more optimistic take is that a year on we are now far more comfortable in ths league and fewer and fewer teams can impose themselves on us.
This higher level of performance will bring its due reward sooner or later. If you cast your mind back to March-April and recall how we were getting outclassed by nearly every team we were playing, I think the progress since then has been excellent.
2. No, for the entirely logical reason that most teams are finding their feet and best formations/selections. Teams like us particularly so who have some new players to integrate.
3. That's not a new argument TLB - that's repeating an original unargued assertion and then putting "bollocks" on the end of it As such, I stand by my original comment that bad results at this stage are far less important than at the end of the season because you have plenty of time to do something about them. Commonsense, surely?
But to carry on your parallel, if we got it down to 12 an over off the last two or three from a big deficit, you're going to be disappointed if you don't finish the job. No disrespect to Coppell and what he achieved, which deserves plaudits, but sport is above all else about finishing the job, crossing the winning line, doing it at the business end of the season, that's what makes real reputations.
4. Does anyone still think Crewe was a must-win game? Or that not winning one of our first six fixtures was such a terrible thing?
Things certainly seemed to have cheered up around here since then, anyway
I think it was the case that McGhee still had to try out new formations. And, who knows, that experimentation may not still be finished.
Certainly August and September is a good time for managers to do that kind of stuff.
