[Albion] Was the cup run too much of a distraction?

[Thunder Bolt]

I was thinking that our form has dropped since the New Year, which is also when the third round of the FA cup started.
Last year Southampton were also a semi finalist, and were fighting against relegation right up to the last game of the season, with Swansea losing out.
It's a similar situation for us with Cardiff at the moment.

Only 3 weeks ago, many were saying they'd accept relegation if we'd got to the final & won the cup.

Just a thought.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

More likely beating Crystal Palace twice caused the players to get complacent each time.

 

[zefarelly]

No

We were shit long before the cup run started and most of the first team weren't involved until later rounds.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

We were poor for a large part of the games against West Brom and Millwall, so it wasn’t like we were saving our quality for then.

 

[nicko31]

It made no difference at all..

 

[Scunner]

No.

 

[saafend_seagull]

We were awful all season, gone backwards massively.


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[Goldstone Rapper]

The team have got bored of Chris’ messages and tactics. He’s stopped being able to motivate them.

 

[BensGrandad]

I think the financial rewards as we progressed changed CH views and had he stuck with his original choice of team for the cup we may not be in the position we are now. So the answer has to be Yes to a degree.

 

[GOM]

It made no difference at all..

In my opinion, cup runs can either help or hinder, rarely make no difference.

 

[RandyWanger]

No. It was the best part of the season.

 

[Durlston]

I think now, with the way things have turned out then I would say yes. Yes it was.

We only had one replay but going up to West Brom on a cold Wednesday night in February was a hard, tough as nails tie. It took a lot out of us in our next league game at home to Burnley.

 

[dazzer6666]

No

We were shit long before the cup run started and most of the first team weren't involved until later rounds.

This.

 

[trueblue]

Imagine how low morale might be if we hadn't had a couple of wins in the Cup.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I think the financial rewards as we progressed changed CH views and had he stuck with his original choice of team for the cup we may not be in the position we are now. So the answer has to be Yes to a degree.

**** me you can get a degree in anything these days. Congrats BG

 

[Weststander]

No.

We’ve been crap at playing football for much of the season.

Alamo defending and having no decent CM’ers other than DS, was going to get found out once opposing coaches studied our games. It did.

 

[Durlston]

Its worth pointing out that after every FA Cup game we played, we then lost our next league match. FIVE games.

That says it all.

 

[GT49er]

No.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Its worth pointing out that after every FA Cup game we played, we then lost our next league match. FIVE games.

That says it all.

I had noticed that, too.

 

[essbee1]

But you could argue that Burnley suffered from their Europa Cup run with a really poor start to the
season. Same thing in my opinion. Only since the start of the year have they begun to 'recover'.

I think our players are just knackered and jaded.