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On a positive note after today's results
- Thread starter moggy
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Do you never wish for the impossible......Bet you would love them both to lose
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
One game at a time, sweet Jesus
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Yes we do, like I said elsewhere a nice 10 goals to nil please!
Every night.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
They won't
Megazone
On his last warning
Have we all accepted, we'd be happy with Boro winning the title as long as we get 2nd place?
Seagulls1984
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Yeah let's not to be gready !! If we win it we win it then great , but not to bothered !
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Then we'd be second... Not champions, true.
warmleyseagull
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Some very sensible caution on this thread; however you look forward, fact is that we are two behind Burnley and four behind Boro with four to play, and we have a GD of -8 on each. It looks challenging to overtake one of them.
BUT.... there is much in momentum, and, crazy though it might seem, I just think the momentum is our way presently. Five wins out of six, fourteen goals from seven different scorers, and just one goal conceded from open play (in fact one goal conceded from open play in last 960 minutes of normal time (10 games plus last 60 mins at Cardiff). Skalak has added a dimension so that dead ball situations are now a threat. All the bases seem covered.
Boro have an even better record in last 6 but have to play Burnley and us; Burnley have looked to be hanging on to their unbeaten record. I actually think Albion are the most likely of the three to win all of their last four games, which sort of says they are playing with the highest degree of confidence.
I accept that anything might happen - a funny few minutes on Tuesday might scupper us - but there is only so far that hard headed analysis can go; at times you just have to believe, and right now, I believe.
BUT.... there is much in momentum, and, crazy though it might seem, I just think the momentum is our way presently. Five wins out of six, fourteen goals from seven different scorers, and just one goal conceded from open play (in fact one goal conceded from open play in last 960 minutes of normal time (10 games plus last 60 mins at Cardiff). Skalak has added a dimension so that dead ball situations are now a threat. All the bases seem covered.
Boro have an even better record in last 6 but have to play Burnley and us; Burnley have looked to be hanging on to their unbeaten record. I actually think Albion are the most likely of the three to win all of their last four games, which sort of says they are playing with the highest degree of confidence.
I accept that anything might happen - a funny few minutes on Tuesday might scupper us - but there is only so far that hard headed analysis can go; at times you just have to believe, and right now, I believe.
el punal
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Although they are above us, if ever so slightly, I do feel that the pressure is more on Boro and Burnley to succeed. Boro have spent oodles to go up and have the curse of failing in last year's play-off final around their neck. Burnley, having been relegated, need to do the "bounce back straightaway" routine or they could end up like Bolton or Wigan of previous seasons.
As for us, the rank outsiders at the start, predicted to be relegated in some quarters, the "they'll fade away"away merchants - well, we're still here. We won't go away. So whatever happens from now on in it's been an incredible season. Should we not be able to gain a top two spot, it won't be for lack of trying. We then will have the consolation of the play-offs to go for.
Now that's something no-one would have predicted last August.
As for us, the rank outsiders at the start, predicted to be relegated in some quarters, the "they'll fade away"away merchants - well, we're still here. We won't go away. So whatever happens from now on in it's been an incredible season. Should we not be able to gain a top two spot, it won't be for lack of trying. We then will have the consolation of the play-offs to go for.
Now that's something no-one would have predicted last August.
darkwolf666
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Let's look at this in a slightly different way, Boro and Burnley will be looking at our results and saying "when are Brighton going to drop points" both teams know that if we win our games then we will finish above at least one of them, and they know they have to play each other and Boro know we have to play them, so they will be worried with the form we are in at the moment... Every story has two sides, doesn't it?
Shropshire Seagull
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Agreed - also it would stop Burnley taking our unbeaten run record off us.
Am I right in thinking that if Burnley go unbeaten for their 4 remaining games they will take that record from us [as well as our auto-promotion spot too]
Cheggers
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I have recently noticed that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are now smaller than they once were. However, my Gran says that now I am old enough to get a job, I can buy as many Cream eggs as I like. I'm taking a balanced perspective.
They probably already are - their chances of a top two finish are, realistically, out of the window now.