A few good results and this will be forgotten about.
Quote from: pauliewalnuts on January 13, 2019, 11:05:16 AMThis is bad but it's nowhere near as bad as 86-7, stood there with 12,000 others rattling around in the ground watching European champions of four years previous decay in front of your eyes in what seemed like a wanton act of self harm.I am old enough to have been around during the descent into the third division but too young to remember it but for all the nostalgia of taking 300,000 to Port Vale, I bet the long term decay that led to that wasn't much fun either.The lowest point for me was being part of a crowd of about 5,500 at Selhurst Park on Easter Monday 1987 when we lost a vital relegation six pointer 3-0 to Charlton. That for me was the day we went down even though technically we weren't mathematically down at that point.
This is bad but it's nowhere near as bad as 86-7, stood there with 12,000 others rattling around in the ground watching European champions of four years previous decay in front of your eyes in what seemed like a wanton act of self harm.I am old enough to have been around during the descent into the third division but too young to remember it but for all the nostalgia of taking 300,000 to Port Vale, I bet the long term decay that led to that wasn't much fun either.
Quote from: Dave P on January 13, 2019, 01:43:22 PMA few good results and this will be forgotten about. Therein lies the problem though. The run starting with Preston was supposed to be "easy". So far, we've got 2 points from 9, with a massively in form Hull up next. Never mind catching up with the top 2, even 5th and above looks like disappearing over the horizon soon.
Quote from: Risso on January 13, 2019, 02:13:22 PMQuote from: Dave P on January 13, 2019, 01:43:22 PMA few good results and this will be forgotten about. Therein lies the problem though. The run starting with Preston was supposed to be "easy". So far, we've got 2 points from 9, with a massively in form Hull up next. Never mind catching up with the top 2, even 5th and above looks like disappearing over the horizon soon.But 5th isn’t over the horizon. We could be 5th in 4 games time. Not underlying how disappointing yesterday or the past few weeks have been, but it’s far from our lowest point.
Nice words, Chris. But I've read similar, a number of times, about all of our failures over the last, God knows how many, years.We can't sugar coat that performance, on the back of the Swansea one. In simple terms, the manager has had no positive reaction from the players since Swansea, and we have to be very concerned about that.I'm pretty sure this squad has been lauded as "the best in the division", many times by many on here. I have recently posted, somewhat tongue in cheek, about the many predictions of "15 points from the next 5 games" . But why would so many predict that if, as it transpires following yesterday's game, we actually have a "poor" squad?For me, we have a decent squad for the division we are in - as well we should have after the time and money spent on it - and we should never really be out of the top 6.The fact we're struggling so much has to be down to how this squad is being managed and motivated. My worry is this. Now the honeymoon is over, do the players think they've been given another dud/easy ride? Once that happens, we're fucked.