[Albion] Expectations Rant

[jcdenton08]

*cross post from the match thread for visibility*

We are playing (factually) one of the best teams in the country - the world in fact - and have won our last two matches. This does not make us anything other than massive underdogs.

I’ve gone for a 6-0 pasting in the prediction thread and won’t be devastated if I’m correct.

So many people here need a reality check about who we are, where we’ve come from and where we can hope to go.

Some of the entitlement on here has been absolutely sickening - and not just from the WUMs we all know about (Dwayne, Justice, kevtherev, et al) but from posters I like and normally respect.

So IF we get spanked - suck it up, get a f**king grip and remember we are playing away to a team unbeaten at home in 35 games who are going for the TITLE with a wage budget about TEN TIMES the size of ours.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Calm down dear. It's only a game.

Think of your blood pressure.

 

[Bakero]

Expectations starting to Grate. Hard Times ahead.

 

[Questions]

If that’s a rally the troops call why did you mention they were unbeaten in 35 at home.
I’m devastated now. I was hopeful

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

But have you not watched the presser?

It.
Is.
Apparently (I haven't seen it).
A.
Disgrace.

 

[jcdenton08]

If that’s a rally the troops call why did you mention they were unbeaten in 35 at home.
I’m devastated now. I was hopeful

It’s a call for pragmatism…

 

[Questions]

It’s a call for pragmatism…

To hell with pragmatism. Chaaaaaaaarrrrrrge

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

Expectations starting to Grate. Hard Times ahead.

What the Dickens are you talking about?

 

[Flounce]

To quote the Stones

No Expectations.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I feel the OP is unduly optimistic 9/0

 

[Questions]

What the Dickens are you talking about?

It’s all bleak in his house

 

[Reddleman]

Absolutely no issues if we lose away at Liverpool but two things that would really irritate me:

1. We concede in the first 5 minutes - it’s happened way to often for it to be unlucky or a fluke

2. We concede and then concede another within 5 minutes - see above.

 

[timbha]

Absolutely no issues if we lose away at Liverpool but two things that would really irritate me:

1. We concede in the first 5 minutes - it’s happened way to often for it to be unlucky or a fluke

2. We concede and then concede another within 5 minutes - see above.

Chuck in the fannying at the back goal

 

[bluenitsuj]

*cross post from the match thread for visibility*

We are playing (factually) one of the best teams in the country - the world in fact - and have won our last two matches. This does not make us anything other than massive underdogs.

I’ve gone for a 6-0 pasting in the prediction thread and won’t be devastated if I’m correct.

So many people here need a reality check about who we are, where we’ve come from and where we can hope to go.

Some of the entitlement on here has been absolutely sickening - and not just from the WUMs we all know about (Dwayne, Justice, kevtherev, et al) but from posters I like and normally respect.

So IF we get spanked - suck it up, get a f**king grip and remember we are playing away to a team unbeaten at home in 35 games who are going for the TITLE with a wage budget about TEN TIMES the size of ours.

I am not entitled but I won't be dictated to by a stranger on a forum about what I can or cannot say. Suck it up.

 

[Exilegull]

Tough game but I hope Roberto will do a better motivational speech than look at our history suck it up if we get spanked

 

[Affy]

Getting pasted by a world class teams and being played off the park is one thing. Getting pasted because we play badly and gift them goals is another. If it’s the former, then hatsoff and take a bow, if it’s the latter, I will be angry and disappointed.

I am a football fan and I appreciate superb football. If it happens against us then so be it.
I agree, Liverpool are world class and in superb form. But that doesn’t mean we need to capitulate before a ball has been kicked.

Go out there and believe we can get a result and stranger things have happened. We have a good history of late against Liverpool. Anything can happen

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Reckon this will be one of those games where the deep gloom and doom gets turned on its head into: 'Same Old Brighton, Taking The Piss!'

 

[Greg Bobkin]

At the end of the day, it's just one game and three points regardless of the score/result...

I go into every game thinking they are going to lose, so anything is a bonus. However, at the same time, I also know that - on the day - every team could beat any other team in the PL. Whether today is one of those days? Let's wait and see.

 

[macbeth]

great, another thread about ‘reality checks’ how entitled everyone is. haven’t seen one of these before

 

[Coldeanseagull]

This is why you give the kids freddo and not ferrero rocher...they start to expect them every time