David Stockdale: "We're not in a relegation fight"

[Wellesley]

No mate, I wasnt implying you were, o I was. Goes to show how message boards can be read in lots of ways! What is for sure is that our players have been sh!t this season and we are 3 points from the relegation zone with a player who doesn't seem too worried about it. Time he and the rest of them shut up and showed some fight on the field and won some points.

What are you having a pop at me for?

 

[Working class pride]

Amazing the players and manager have not worked out that they are in a relegation battle. They have been utter shit this season but it seems that they have not noticed. Funny that, because the league table is published every week.

 

[Medwayseagull]

The other magic quote in today's Argus was that Hyypia claimed to have plans B and C but the players haven't been able to carry them out. One of these plans appears to be using a long throw. Now in my book that doesn't qualify as a plan.

Stoke under Pulis always considered it Plan A.

 

[Bozza]

I get it now. We're not in a relegation fight because we're not bothering about the 'fight' bit.

 

[Rugrat]

Bunch of jokers our players, but what is new? Can some tell them that what they write in newspapers is just chip paper. Greer, Stockdale, Hypia and the rest of the jokers running around in our blue & white stripes are judged by points. They already have taken the club to the best we can hope for is mid table and the worst is relegation. Time they shut up and started to show some fight on the pitch.

The whole thing is stage managed imo .... goes down well in the US!

 

[Pogue Mahone]

What are you having a pop at me for?

Erm...Oh God...Now I'm a little confused.

I'm probably being thick, a bit like Stockdale. Bloody footballer...

 

[Pogue Mahone]

This quoting thing, it's all gone a bit awry, hasn't it?

 

[Rookie]

I like Stockdale and think he has to put up with some unnecessary abuse, but he is clearly just plain wrong about this. All the talk of backing Hyypia and the players have had meetings mean nothing, the 90 minutes on the pitch are just plain dreadful.

 

[Working class pride]

I get it now. We're not in a relegation fight because we're not bothering about the 'fight' bit.

Ah yes, of course.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Having seen absolutely nothing on the pitch which I could interpret as 'fight' then I'm inclined to agree with him.

2014-15: the year we were relegated without a fight.

 

[symyjym]

Why leave out the "confident of pulling clear of trouble" bit?

 

[Meade's Ball]

Isn't he just saying he has confidence in the squad and doesn't feel in a state of horrendous panic over being near the bottom with so many games to go?
That sounds reasonably sensible. Better than I AGREE WITH YOU ALL THAT WE'RE SHITE AND THESE DOLDRUMS ARE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAG OURSELVES OUT FROM. I AM A FINN BINNER.

 

[Wellesley]

Erm...Oh God...Now I'm a little confused.

I'm probably being thick, a bit like Stockdale. Bloody footballer...

I'm not sure who is quoting who,. My brain hurts.

 

[Wellesley]

This quoting thing, it's all gone a bit awry, hasn't it?

Who said that?

 

[Working class pride]

Who said that?

Said what ?

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Is his comment that "we're not in a relegation fight" essentially, "we're too good to go down"?

 

[Working class pride]

Is his comment that "we're not in a relegation fight" essentially, "we're too good to go down"?

Either that or he has not read the league table.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Isn't he just saying he has confidence in the squad and doesn't feel in a state of horrendous panic over being near the bottom with so many games to go?
That sounds reasonably sensible. Better than I AGREE WITH YOU ALL THAT WE'RE SHITE AND THESE DOLDRUMS ARE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAG OURSELVES OUT FROM. I AM A FINN BINNER.

He may be saying that. He may very well be saying that.

But he has said it in a way that suggests arrogance and complacency.

Confidence in his team mates is all well and good, but to suggest that we will pull clear if we play like we did against Millwall - well, that's a little bit stupid, isn't it? He must know that a massive improvement is needed, and if he thinks that we haven't noticed this too, well, he is deluded and thick.

It's a tad annoying to see what is happening, but to hear everyone in the club suggesting that all is well, and nothing needs to change.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Sockdale has become the club's official sock puppet. Are they putting mind altering drugs into the player's food at Lancing ?

 

[Don Quixote]

Has he looked at the table? How can he even deny it?