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Author Topic: Have you stopped checking?  (Read 8984 times)

Offline Taylor

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #30 on: March 15, 2016, 08:18:08 AM »
The worst thing is that TV and radio pundets just now say "it's two out of three to go down". They don't even bother to mention us any more.

Offline Ron Manager

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #31 on: March 15, 2016, 08:35:07 AM »
I spend time checking Leicester's fixture list and the possibility of them winning the thing. I think they will come very close but fail right at the end.Spurs will probably do them in the 11min of injury time in the very last game.

For us the hope has gone. Unfortunately Randy Lerner has not.

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #32 on: March 15, 2016, 08:50:12 AM »
I haven't checked for ages. That said, if we did suddenly win the next two I wouldn't be able to help having a little peak at the table, just in case.

Offline MoetVillan

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2016, 09:02:19 AM »
I thought we were down a couple of weeks before Christmas.  Last time I checked on points was when we last won, and then everyone was saying if we win three on the bounce we are back in it.  I even thought then that winning three on the bounce would still have us right in the shit.  As it turned out we never even got to dream.

Offline Duncan Shaw

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2016, 09:03:28 AM »
The other teams are leaving the door open and any team with a bit of fight would have closed the gap. But it's fight we don't have.

It's this for me - we've been "only" 8 then 9 points adrift for what 6-7 weeks, and a bit of fight would have seen us close that up at least a bit and got the others panicking even more.  I find that makes it even more frustrating.

Offline UK Redsox

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2016, 09:30:34 AM »
The other teams are leaving the door open and any team with a bit of fight would have closed the gap. But it's fight we don't have.

It's this for me - we've been "only" 8 then 9 points adrift for what 6-7 weeks, and a bit of fight would have seen us close that up at least a bit and got the others panicking even more.  I find that makes it even more frustrating.

Considering how crap Villa have been, its incredible that the team is still only 9 points from safety.

Even being just slightly above dismal, would have seen Villa in with a chance of taking the possibility of survival into May

Offline levico

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2016, 09:33:06 AM »
I only check when we win, so..........

Offline CJ

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #37 on: March 15, 2016, 09:35:18 AM »
I occasionally check but just to see who's going to come down with us.

Offline ClaretAndBlueBlood

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #38 on: March 15, 2016, 09:39:09 AM »
A long time ago. I was surprised to learn we are  only 9 points adrift. Thought it would be about 20.

that's the worst part, if we hadn't given up in January, we could have saved ourselves

Offline Bottom Right 89

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #39 on: March 15, 2016, 10:04:30 AM »
Anything other than a win on Saturday will convince me to stop checking. Based on previous seasons we will need 7 wins and a draw from the remaining 8 games - considering we have to play Man Utd and Arsenal away and Chelsea at home this would be an impossible dream even with Big Rons 92 team let alone Gardes Gremlins.

Offline wince

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #40 on: March 15, 2016, 10:05:39 AM »
with 3 wins more we would be in a better place and likely to battle our way out. As other pointed out, the other teams in the mix have been shite and we have had more than ample oppurtunity to play ourselves out of this. But.....

Offline garyshawsknee

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #41 on: March 15, 2016, 10:18:38 AM »
I saw it the other day for the first time in weeks. Thought we were on 19 points.

Offline Brend'Watkins

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #42 on: March 15, 2016, 10:24:07 AM »
Should we win Saturday and the following Saturday (I know, I know) I will don my reading glasses and revert to feverish final games run in mode analysis.

Offline Risso

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #43 on: March 15, 2016, 10:25:29 AM »
No, haven't checked in weeks, and hate having to scroll right to the bleedin bottom. I've actually been keeping a closer eye on the Championship and League 1 to see who we'll be playing next season.

Offline fbriai

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Re: Have you stopped checking?
« Reply #44 on: March 15, 2016, 10:27:11 AM »
I stopped after the Liverpool debacle.

The writing was on the wall long before then, but that was the moment when I thought the game was finally up.

 


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