How quick things change in football

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I think it says more about how stupid a lot of football fans / people are. It's a 46 game season, and I never understand why people get so down and dejected about losing a couple of games. And guess what, we'll go through another bad patch soon and all the morons will be out again saying how terrible we are and how Gus has taken us as far as he can etc. And then they'll all shut up when we get good again.

Sorry but if you don't see why people were grumbling after 3 wins in 16 and a 3 nil home demolition by Watford then I don't know what to say.

Similarly whilst some positivity for me is back ill wait until we beat a team in the top 6 before believing we have any chance in the playoffs.

 

[Twizzle]

I think "expect" is overestimating our chances.


1 Cardiff 27 19 57
2 Hull 27 8 49
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3 Leicester 27 25 47
4 Crystal Palace 27 15 47
5 Middlesbrough 27 9 47
6 Watford 26 12 43
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7 Millwall 27 4 41
8 Brighton 26 10 40

Of that lot, the only team I can say with any confidence that we are going to finish above is Millwall. That said, we could as easily finish second as sixth, so obviously lots still to play for.

Surely this is ignoring all the clubs below us?
Okay so we may not be strugglers, but some lower clubs are buying, changing finances with new owners, and replacing less than successful managers.
Will they be looking at the playoffs salivating?

Albion fans should surely judge our future aspirations
on past results. What if Ulloa is rubbish or gets injured?
What if we have to sell players beginning with B at the end of the transfer window?

 

[Twizzle]

Sorry but if you don't see why people were grumbling after 3 wins in 16 and a 3 nil home demolition by Watford then I don't know what to say.

Similarly whilst some positivity for me is back ill wait until we beat a team in the top 6 before believing we have any chance in the playoffs.

I think you'll agree that a decent result over a higher team won't mean all that.
We could follow it with a loss and a draw v lower clubs and be lucky to stay in the top 10

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I think you'll agree that a decent result over a higher team won't mean all that.
We could follow it with a loss and a draw v lower clubs and be lucky to stay in the top 10

It's not the teams below us we have problems (other then that very bad stretch) with its the teams above that we seem unable to get a win against.

 

[SeagullSongs]

Sorry but if you don't see why people were grumbling after 3 wins in 16 and a 3 nil home demolition by Watford then I don't know what to say.

Similarly whilst some positivity for me is back ill wait until we beat a team in the top 6 before believing we have any chance in the playoffs.

It's a moot point, but we lost 3-1

 

[essbee]

Even though it's only January - I'm going to recommend Commander as poster
of they year.

Simster is obviously playing second fiddle here

Chelsea - is that in Fulham?

 

[Twizzle]

I think "expect" is overestimating our chances.


1 Cardiff 27 19 57
2 Hull 27 8 49
--------------
3 Leicester 27 25 47
4 Crystal Palace 27 15 47
5 Middlesbrough 27 9 47
6 Watford 26 12 43
--------------
7 Millwall 27 4 41
8 Brighton 26 10 40

Of that lot, the only team I can say with any confidence that we are going to finish above is Millwall. That said, we could as easily finish second as sixth, so obviously lots still to play for.

Surely this is ignoring all the clubs below us?
Okay so we may not be strugglers, but some lower clubs are buying, changing finances with new owners, and replacing less than successful managers.
Will they be looking at the playoffs salivating?

Albion fans should surely judge our future aspirations
on past results. What if Ulloa is rubbish or gets injured?
What if we have to sell players beginning with B at the end of the transfer window?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

It is very amusing.

Now lets get back to saying how tremendous my post was

You're still a tosser, and don't forget it

 

[kevtherev]

We have had a good result against Ipswich, beaten Newcastle reserves and nearly managed to f*** up a 2 goal cushion at home. Let's not get to carried away just yet. Although before everyone says, kevtherev moaning agian, the signs do look very promising again, I think we will run Arsenal very close and I am very excited about Ulloa(don't quite know why, I suppose if you sign enough strikers, you got to hit the jackpot with one, sooner or later lol)..onwards and upwards, Wembley here we come.(in the play offs)

 

[Twizzle]

It's not the teams below us we have problems (other then that very bad stretch) with its the teams above that we seem unable to get a win against.

Trendy. What we seem to do is history. Look how many points we lead those below us by!
They also want changes to bring dividends, and all are examing the remaining games with views to playoffs or avoid relegation.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Wembley here we come.(in the play offs)

And the Cup Final!

 

[Commander]

Sorry but if you don't see why people were grumbling after 3 wins in 16 and a 3 nil home demolition by Watford then I don't know what to say.

There's nothing wrong with grumbling a bit when we've lost a couple of games, it's the 'Gus has taken us as far as he can', etc bollocks that annoys me. No team in the world wins every game, and no team in the world never goes through a bad patch. Anyone who's ever actually played the game should understand that.

We are so lucky to have Poyet in charge of our football club, and we are even luckier to have Bloom in charge of him. Anyone who can't see that when we lose a couple of games on the trot should have a look at Stockport, and
remember that we very nearly had Jim Gannon in charge instead.

 

[Simster]

There's nothing wrong with grumbling a bit when we've lost a couple of games, it's the 'Gus has taken us as far as he can', etc bollocks that annoys me.

So in that wonderful post where people lined up to tell you how great it was, all you were actually saying was that mutts nutts, kevtherev and goldstone are bell-ends?

 

[essbee]

Simster's right.

Worst post of the year so far.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

So in that wonderful post where people lined up to tell you how great it was, all you were actually saying was that mutts nutts, kevtherev and goldstone are bell-ends?

Simster's right.

Worst post of the year so far.

How quickly things change in football, eh

 

[Meade's Ball]

I generally see it as the regular dunderheads who collect stats in certain spells to support their general wish for change or their enjoyment in souring the view of the club and dulling the wondrousness of the last couple of years. They haven't a nice word to say and no one wants to be around such people really. They're the ones who can't put together the news of the financial losses and the fact that with a limited budget in a competitive market we'll rely on something other than just forking out on the guaranteed success of likely superstars. We might have to scrape the barrel a bit and locate and pluck the unknown, barnacles if you will, from the ships we're not too aware of. In doing so we need a manager with a certain air of class and wish to deliver a style suitable for him as well as the club, and with his loquaciousness and charm talk those players who could be somewhere better to join us for a ride. Only a dunce or the clinically depressed would be so hopeless in these times and fail to see the continuous improvement of the squad and their place in the top half of this league. And with recognition that the financial side of things will be increasingly tight, that it takes a man like Gus to herald the ship, to guide us through sometimes rough waters, and lead us to believe at least that we'll harbour ourselves in the highest echelons of this division and above given just a little more time.
I think of those players of last season, such as Painter, Dicker and Calderon, who seemed out of their league, but this season fit in when called upon and sometimes excel. We're becoming a squad without weak links and that surely is down to a little bit of funding and Gus' marshalling of those within. This didn't all happen by chance. Brilliant management and i am grateful.

 

[Simster]

Simster's right.

Worst post of the year so far.

Sometimes, only sometimes mind, you do make me chuckle, essbee.