"We shouldn't be where we are with the players we have got," insisted Downing. "We still have the players to get results and performances."But you don't want to get into that habit when you think: 'Here we go again'. We've got a massive game on Saturday, in which we've got to put things right."We have to be man enough to stand up and have a right go. We have a good team but we need to win games and get some points on the board as quickly as possible."West Brom, with it being a derby as well, if we get a win then everything looks a lot more rosy."Looking at the table, we are down there, but is it so tight you can soon fly up. Then we can go into the Christmas period looking a bit more confident."When you are shipping goals, it is tough to take and sometimes confidence can be affected as a team. But whether we are confident or not we have to fight for points."
Too good to go down? We've played well two or three times all season, we haven't beat anyone above 13th, our squad has a distinct lack of quality, theres no fighting spirit, our defence is a shambles and our manager is a blithering idiot who talks bollocks and doesn't insprire the players or fans. That'll be a no then.
Downing does not say that we are too good to go down in the quotes attributed to him in that article. That is the headline and the angle of Nursey's piece, as exemplified by the closing part, "TOO GOOD? WE'VE HEARD THAT BEFORE, STEWART…". Look at the actual quote, and ignore the spin:Quote"We shouldn't be where we are with the players we have got," insisted Downing. "We still have the players to get results and performances."But you don't want to get into that habit when you think: 'Here we go again'. We've got a massive game on Saturday, in which we've got to put things right."We have to be man enough to stand up and have a right go. We have a good team but we need to win games and get some points on the board as quickly as possible."West Brom, with it being a derby as well, if we get a win then everything looks a lot more rosy."Looking at the table, we are down there, but is it so tight you can soon fly up. Then we can go into the Christmas period looking a bit more confident."When you are shipping goals, it is tough to take and sometimes confidence can be affected as a team. But whether we are confident or not we have to fight for points."