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Author Topic: Positivity  (Read 41267 times)

Offline Smirker

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #75 on: April 07, 2018, 12:58:55 PM »
There's nothing for us to play for in the Premier League. We'll never win the league or get in the CL, it'll  be Europa at a push and bimbling around 7th to 15th forever with the odd cup run. The Championship is a far, far better league.

We won't win the league or qualify for the CL with the current team in the current footballing climate, no.

In my lifetime, Blackburn, Chelsea, Man City and Leicester have won the league. Granted, three of them required obscene levels of financial doping to win it and the other was a near miracle.

But the point is, things can change. We won't win it now, but we could in the future. Tottenham have come very close twice and are CL regulars now. Is it really that unthinkable that a club who have been champions of England seven times could win an eighth title?

One thing is certain - we won't win it playing in the Championship.

Being PL gives us a better chance of the cups too.


Offline Stu

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #76 on: April 07, 2018, 01:26:20 PM »
Without a multi-billionaire willing to chuck about 1 or 2 billion quid at us then we've no chance. That's not going to happen, so I think it's time we pulled up a chair, relax, and accept our place with the also-rans.

Offline Smirker

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #77 on: April 07, 2018, 01:29:58 PM »
Without a multi-billionaire willing to chuck about 1 or 2 billion quid at us then we've no chance. That's not going to happen, so I think it's time we pulled up a chair, relax, and accept our place with the also-rans.

Spurs don't spend like an oil club and they challenge for the title and play in the CL every season.

Dortmund came back from the dead in Germany.

Montpellier won the French league.

I'm not accepting that we can never win the league again or even finish top 4.

It can be done with good running of the club.

It's just difficult.

We will get there eventually.


Offline Three Spires Villa

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #78 on: April 07, 2018, 01:50:01 PM »
The way we are playing at Norwich, not sure we will make the premier league next season

Offline Stu

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #79 on: April 07, 2018, 01:52:18 PM »
I admire your optimism but I look at our record and we've won one league title in 108 years. Anything is possible I suppose, and we're due a win in 2052.

Offline Ads

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #80 on: April 07, 2018, 02:29:46 PM »
Fuck off.

Call it off until the play offs. Time off work to see us Tuesday and Friday? These bottling gutless ******. Fuck off.

Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #81 on: April 07, 2018, 03:56:52 PM »

Offline garyshawsknee

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #82 on: April 07, 2018, 03:58:23 PM »
Soon be summer.

Offline Smirker

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #83 on: April 07, 2018, 03:59:30 PM »
I'm still being positive, but accepted autos are gone now after today's pathetic loss. Horrific results recently.

But I'm positive we will go up via the play offs.

Who's with me!?!


Offline Risso

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #84 on: April 07, 2018, 04:02:21 PM »
I'm still being positive, but accepted autos are gone now after today's pathetic loss. Horrific results recently.

But I'm positive we will go up via the play offs.

Who's with me!?!



Not me.  On current form there's no way we'd even get to Wembley, never mind beat the likes of Fulham or Cardiff.

Offline Three Spires Villa

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #85 on: April 07, 2018, 04:58:29 PM »
Positive? Because the master tactician has got us into the playoffs, we should be happy we have got him! I’m amazed, it’s a disgrace we are not in the top two, or close. No positivity from me, angry and very disappointed

Offline nodge

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #86 on: April 07, 2018, 05:28:50 PM »
I'd have snatched your hand off to be in this position last season. Get the one more win to confirm our play off place on Tuesday and help Fulham go up automatically. Millwall will get another 10 points max from the games they have left. Then rest some players because they look like they need it, give some of the fringe players/youngsters a run out. If we end up 6th and have to play a Cardiff team that's just dropped into the playoffs I'd take that. If you look at Hull's results in 2016 from January until the play off final it was a rollercoaster, seems to be the Bruce way. I still think we'll do it

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #87 on: April 07, 2018, 05:29:12 PM »
A big positive is I was out all day so knew nothing about the game until after FT. Small mercies and all that.

And this is still a shit poxy league.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #88 on: April 07, 2018, 06:42:37 PM »
There's nothing for us to play for in the Premier League. We'll never win the league or get in the CL, it'll  be Europa at a push and bimbling around 7th to 15th forever with the odd cup run. The Championship is a far, far better league.

This season has mostly been a breath of fresh air but really down to how terrible we've been since 2011.

It's not like we've dominated the league in the manner of a Wolves or Newcastle.

Not sure how much different this season is to the ones we had under MON given we're likely to finish 4th or 5th now and we finished 6th in those years.

I accept the premier league is a mostly a closed shop but you can still have decent top half seasons playing good football and winning plenty of games as Burnley are doing currently.

Offline olaftab

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Re: Positivity
« Reply #89 on: April 07, 2018, 06:45:02 PM »
I'm still being positive, but accepted autos are gone now after today's pathetic loss. Horrific results recently.

But I'm positive we will go up via the play offs.

Who's with me!?!
Count me out.

 


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