Why do we always bottle the big games?

[Claretnblue]

Lol must admit it doesn't read well ... what I'm trying to say is that u have to fight for it ... we had barton and Boyd ! U have Stephens and Bruno ... top players

 

[Stuart Munday]

As I said before , we can't WIN the defining matches here

Sums it up, I'm not sure we bottle them but always seem to get a red card or injury or lose a silly goal in the defining games.

 

[Claretnblue]

Pottert u put what I thought into words , move on from the result lads and fight for it!!!

 

[pasty]

Lol must admit it doesn't read well ... what I'm trying to say is that u have to fight for it ... we had a cheating nasty thug and Boyd ! U have Stephens and Bruno ... top players

Corrected for you.

 

[BBassic]

Probably still going up but we do seem to f**k these games up fact! Derby in the play-offs, The Massive last season and Burnley and Derby at home, Palace also we f**k them up

Right. That year we played Derby we snuck into the playoffs with a last gasp goal at Forest. Derby, if I recall, were one of the best outfits in the league that season and we were quite categorically second best and frankly lucky to even be there.

Last season we lost out on promotion by two goals leading us to our second 'bottling' in which we lost FOUR players to injury in the first leg and were unlucky not to be three up in the first twenty minutes of the second leg.

For my money our only ever legitimate bottling was, as you say, against Palace.

But whatever, sure, we're bottlers.

 

[neilbard]

Right. That year we played Derby we snuck into the playoffs with a last gasp goal at Forest. Derby, if I recall, were one of the best outfits in the league that season and we were quite categorically second best and frankly lucky to even be there.

Last season we lost out on promotion by two goals leading us to our second 'bottling' in which we lost FOUR players to injury in the first leg and were unlucky not to be three up in the first twenty minutes of the second leg.

For my money our only ever legitimate bottling was, as you say, against Palace.

But whatever, sure, we're bottlers.

Read my post mate didn't say we were bottlers just said we f**k up the games that matter!

 

[BBassic]

Read my post mate didn't say we were bottlers just said we f**k up the games that matter!

I read it. I took your statement of us consistently ****ing up big games that you thought we were bottlers. Seems reasonable enough an assumption.

I stand corrected.

 

[Claretnblue]

U may not like Barton but he is the reason wer mid table now. U will need this type of player next yr ... watch Colbeck when knocky tried to take a quick throw in . THAT is the premier league. If ur naive u get beat.

 

[neilbard]

U may not like Barton but he is the reason wer mid table now. U will need this type of player next yr ... watch Colbeck when knocky tried to take a quick throw in . THAT is the premier league. If ur naive u get beat.

We couldn't afford Barton mate

 

[pasty]

We couldn't afford Barton mate

Good.

 

[OzMike]

Ever since we've moved to the Amex, we always manage to **** up the biggest games. After we went 1-0 up we should have gone for the throat, instead we tried to put 11 men behind the ball for most of the remaning time and got what we deserved. Yes Newcastle's 1st was a bit fortunate but that is going to happen if you keep giving them the ball back and allow them too much space.

I'm not overreacting btw, I still think we're in a healthy position but people on here need to stop banging on about us being 'Champions', we saw them playing tonight and it wasn't us, lets hope we can get over the line in 2nd, hopefully we've got some more winnable games on the horizon.

This, why can't we play like we did on Saturday in every game.
Chalk and cheese tactics.

 

[portlock seagull]

Ever since we've moved to the Amex, we always manage to **** up the biggest games. After we went 1-0 up we should have gone for the throat, instead we tried to put 11 men behind the ball for most of the remaning time and got what we deserved. Yes Newcastle's 1st was a bit fortunate but that is going to happen if you keep giving them the ball back and allow them too much space.

I'm not overreacting btw, I still think we're in a healthy position but people on here need to stop banging on about us being 'Champions', we saw them playing tonight and it wasn't us, lets hope we can get over the line in 2nd, hopefully we've got some more winnable games on the horizon.

ain't this the truth. And a request from me to the rest of the North Stand. If we can ditch the we're already promoted songs that the footballing gods are taking a dim view towards, that would be good. From a self respect perspective if nothing else. Even heavy drinking isn't an excuse. We ain't on our way just yet. We're if anything likely to **** up if you look at the history books. Just saying. Like.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Always is an exaggeration.

If we had drawn against Reading & Newcastle we'd have been 1 point worse off now. Mandy's the time I read that we'd rather have a win & a defeat, than two draws.

We have got a good record against the top 6. Newcastle are the only team that are going to take 6 points off of us this season. That is a fact.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

ain't this the truth. And a request from me to the rest of the North Stand. If we can ditch the we're already promoted songs that the footballing gods are taking a dim view towards, that would be good. From a self respect perspective if nothing else. Even heavy drinking isn't an excuse. We ain't on our way just yet. We're if anything likely to **** up if you look at the history books. Just saying. Like.

Superstitious nonsense.

 

[Driver8]

U may not like Barton but he is the reason wer mid table now. U will need this type of player next yr ... watch Colbeck when knocky tried to take a quick throw in . THAT is the premier league. If ur naive u get beat.

I'd rather get relegated than have Barton in my team.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I believe it is, if we'd won tonight we'd have been 4 clear of Newcastle and 9 clear of Huddersfield. Now Newcastle are 2 ahead of us and brimming with confidence. It's probably us and Huddersfield fighting it out for 2nd place and the form they are in i'm not feeling great atm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q93v7hGZA

 

[portlock seagull]

Superstitious nonsense.

what's superstitious. We look extremely capable of blowing our automatic chances and only an idiot thinks we can go up via the POs...so why sing (in February) that we're on our way? I'd leave it until we've bossed the other two likely candidates. Which btw we haven't. In fact we're last or 1st loser in that mini league. So it's a bit premature to sing that song.
Some would say arrogant. And they've got a point. I just hope to God we don't end up with the proverbial egg wiping exercise.

 

[Claretnblue]

Whilst u may not like Barton he is a superb midfielder . There are comments saying u would rather be relegated but Ramires should be the target of your aggression .

 

[Thunder Bolt]

what's superstitious. We look extremely capable of blowing our automatic chances and only an idiot thinks we can go up via the POs...so why sing (in February) that we're on our way? I'd leave it until we've bossed the other two likely candidates. Which btw we haven't. In fact we're last or 1st loser in that mini league. So it's a bit premature to sing that song.
Some would say arrogant. And they've got a point. I just hope to God we don't end up with the proverbial egg wiping exercise.

There are no footballing gods to upset.

 

[Megazone]

We bottle the big games because our fans expect us to mess up.

It's called Spurs syndrome.