why are we so negative ?

[tiberious]

well whyt ?i know we have had some sh*t in our history but why do we fear the worst...we have had some great results as well . we just seem to expect the worst

 

[lawros left foot]

That way we're not as disappointed when shit happens

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Because it's 'what we do'

I'm not negative by the way, this IS our year

 

[warmleyseagull]

Suspect it is the fear of failure. Three rubbish attempts at POs and a gutting miss on auto does test the old resilience a bit.

TBH, it is bloody irritiating when them up the road chance upon just one decent season to finish 5th and get promoted whereas we seem to have n (where n is an unusually high number) attempts.

After 50 years, I don't get negative or positive. It just is. Celebrate if we do it, come back again for another dose if we don't.

 

[brightonmark1234]

even thou we lost today we are still in a great position and i believe that we will bounce back against Rotherham on tuesday night

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Suspect it is the fear of failure. Three rubbish attempts at POs and a gutting miss on auto does test the old resilience a bit.

Exactly, understandable to fear the worst after two pathetic playoff appearances followed by a heroic but futile third attempt (having been agonisingly close to automatic promotion).

Having said that, personally I'm still very confident this year.

 

[Hillian1]

even thou we lost today we are still in a great position and i believe that we will bounce back against Rotherham on tuesday night

True that.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I'm still optimistic we can get 7 wins from our final 11, joking... shitting a brick right now!

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Because wallowing in negativity and over-reacting to every loss is a sure fired way of securing promotion?

 

[Rugrat]

Negative because when it goes tits up they can say "told you so" and if it doesn't go tits up then they just keep schtum. It's called win/win

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Negative because when it goes tits up they can say "told you so" and if it doesn't go tits up then they just keep schtum. It's called win/win

Hmmm not sure I'd be saying that Rugrat, not saying we won't do it but we are making it harder for ourselves... but definitely not in the 'told you so' camp.