Quote from: ciggiesnbeer on December 27, 2015, 09:01:29 PMQuote from: Chris Smith on December 27, 2015, 11:44:42 AMQuote from: Ads on December 27, 2015, 10:52:08 AMWe have lost one out of the last four and to the team that will come 2nd or 1st. We have actually started to play well, show increased fitness to press as a unit and to sow character and salvage a point from a goal down. Its small but purposeful steps.We have some confidence, we have a striker in good fom and we have an opportunity to beat two sides to bring us within a result of Newcastle and Norwich, whom we play again in February and May. Its far from over.I agree with the thrust of that but walking out of the ground yesterday I could not escape the thought that despite our best performance of the season and dominating possession we still only had a point to show for it. It is as though the Gods have decided we are going down and there is nothing that we can do to stop it. Perhaps when the fog of 2 days worth of alcohol induced melancholia clears I will regain some rational perspective but at the moment I think we are being punished for the combined idiocy of our recent managerial appointments and our Saviour has arrived too late.Same. Which is a shame as in another season this team & manager could have been rather exciting. But I just cant see any way out of this one. Same again. Fair play to Garde for getting that performance out of them but it feels more like a defeat. I think by the end of the season he could make us an average premier league team but it'll be too late to save us.
Quote from: Chris Smith on December 27, 2015, 11:44:42 AMQuote from: Ads on December 27, 2015, 10:52:08 AMWe have lost one out of the last four and to the team that will come 2nd or 1st. We have actually started to play well, show increased fitness to press as a unit and to sow character and salvage a point from a goal down. Its small but purposeful steps.We have some confidence, we have a striker in good fom and we have an opportunity to beat two sides to bring us within a result of Newcastle and Norwich, whom we play again in February and May. Its far from over.I agree with the thrust of that but walking out of the ground yesterday I could not escape the thought that despite our best performance of the season and dominating possession we still only had a point to show for it. It is as though the Gods have decided we are going down and there is nothing that we can do to stop it. Perhaps when the fog of 2 days worth of alcohol induced melancholia clears I will regain some rational perspective but at the moment I think we are being punished for the combined idiocy of our recent managerial appointments and our Saviour has arrived too late.Same. Which is a shame as in another season this team & manager could have been rather exciting. But I just cant see any way out of this one.
Quote from: Ads on December 27, 2015, 10:52:08 AMWe have lost one out of the last four and to the team that will come 2nd or 1st. We have actually started to play well, show increased fitness to press as a unit and to sow character and salvage a point from a goal down. Its small but purposeful steps.We have some confidence, we have a striker in good fom and we have an opportunity to beat two sides to bring us within a result of Newcastle and Norwich, whom we play again in February and May. Its far from over.I agree with the thrust of that but walking out of the ground yesterday I could not escape the thought that despite our best performance of the season and dominating possession we still only had a point to show for it. It is as though the Gods have decided we are going down and there is nothing that we can do to stop it. Perhaps when the fog of 2 days worth of alcohol induced melancholia clears I will regain some rational perspective but at the moment I think we are being punished for the combined idiocy of our recent managerial appointments and our Saviour has arrived too late.
We have lost one out of the last four and to the team that will come 2nd or 1st. We have actually started to play well, show increased fitness to press as a unit and to sow character and salvage a point from a goal down. Its small but purposeful steps.We have some confidence, we have a striker in good fom and we have an opportunity to beat two sides to bring us within a result of Newcastle and Norwich, whom we play again in February and May. Its far from over.
I think we will get points in the second half of the season, but agree it looks too much. Such a shame as some of these players look as if they could be good. Such a shame re Amavi as he was excellent, Veretout is showing he is a player as is Ayew.
The fear is that we finally knit as a team in time for relegation, then have to start it all over again in the summer. And on that cheery thought I'll bid you all goodnight
Quote from: Des Little on December 27, 2015, 11:43:37 PMThe fear is that we finally knit as a team in time for relegation, then have to start it all over again in the summer. And on that cheery thought I'll bid you all goodnightYeah thats the final insult. Relegated teams do not keep their good players and lose their overpaid useless ones, it is the opposite. I fear we are in for a large rebuild over the summer replacing some of the new blood while keeping those who are past it, indifferent and useless.
Quote from: ez on December 27, 2015, 10:12:47 PMQuote from: ciggiesnbeer on December 27, 2015, 09:01:29 PMQuote from: Chris Smith on December 27, 2015, 11:44:42 AMQuote from: Ads on December 27, 2015, 10:52:08 AMWe have lost one out of the last four and to the team that will come 2nd or 1st. We have actually started to play well, show increased fitness to press as a unit and to sow character and salvage a point from a goal down. Its small but purposeful steps.We have some confidence, we have a striker in good fom and we have an opportunity to beat two sides to bring us within a result of Newcastle and Norwich, whom we play again in February and May. Its far from over.I agree with the thrust of that but walking out of the ground yesterday I could not escape the thought that despite our best performance of the season and dominating possession we still only had a point to show for it. It is as though the Gods have decided we are going down and there is nothing that we can do to stop it. Perhaps when the fog of 2 days worth of alcohol induced melancholia clears I will regain some rational perspective but at the moment I think we are being punished for the combined idiocy of our recent managerial appointments and our Saviour has arrived too late.Same. Which is a shame as in another season this team & manager could have been rather exciting. But I just cant see any way out of this one. Same again. Fair play to Garde for getting that performance out of them but it feels more like a defeat. I think by the end of the season he could make us an average premier league team but it'll be too late to save us.As a couple of us have said, yesterday would have been an acceptable "Shows promise, needs a few more additions" performance in August, but we're too far behind now.
Norwich is our 38th league game in the 2015 calendar year. Our record in the first 37 is W6 D7 L24 Pts 25.
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