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Author Topic: Anyone starting to get worried?  (Read 219815 times)

Offline CT

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1650 on: February 24, 2020, 09:47:14 PM »
Start getting worried people west ham are bloody beating liverpool ffs.  This could turn their season around

Or not.

Thank god.even a point for them would be a disaster for us

It's not finished yet! Plus, West Ham are fighting like fuck.

Offline Drummond

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1651 on: February 25, 2020, 12:17:23 AM »
Anything could happen for the rest of the season.

Results start happening that's nobody expects.

Offline OzVilla

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1652 on: February 25, 2020, 05:29:55 AM »
Absolutely, crazy results usually start with about 6/8 games to go.  I recall Leicester being dead and buried, absolute certainties for relegation and behind at the Albion I think.  Turned the game around and went on a mad run to stay up.  The following season we all know the rest.  We'll need at least a couple of those crazy results to go our way or we'll be toast.

Offline GarTomas

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1653 on: February 25, 2020, 06:51:18 AM »
Just imagine, if from strong positions in each of these three games, we had got draws against Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs at home. We'd be on 28 points and fairly relaxed about things after this round of games.

We have thrown away so many points.

That said, we are so fortunate that the teams around us have started to struggle too.

I take the positives that we are competitive in games more often than not. Need to close out a few results.

McGinn returning will be a massive boost as well.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1654 on: February 25, 2020, 06:59:58 AM »
I think one of the main problems has been consistency. We went from the euphoria of a last minute win in a cup semi final to playing garbage at Bournemouth and playing very well against Spuds to playing like a team of strangers against Southampton and it's happened a few times this season. That is what's going to cost us in the end if we don't buck our idea's up.

Offline alanclare

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1655 on: February 25, 2020, 07:28:37 AM »
Worried? Me? Nah.

Offline Abbeyfealeavfc

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1656 on: February 25, 2020, 07:53:13 AM »
As bad as the result at soton was, other results have gone our way again. We can't keep relying on other teams to f-ck up. I still think 37 points (4 wins may be enough to keep us up)
It's now an 11 game season and we have a point advantage on the bottom 3. I certainly will be supporting the team/lads to get these 4 wins (until it's mathematically impossible) as the alternative is unattractive to me.UTV!

Offline robbo1874

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1657 on: February 25, 2020, 07:59:23 AM »
You’d be naive not to be worried now. I wasn’t that worried until a few weeks back- time’s running out and points very hard to acquire. The manner of the Southampton loss was very worrying. You can’t play like that and expect to stay up. I think because we’re one of the bigger names, other clubs might be trying extra hard to send us down too.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1658 on: February 25, 2020, 08:02:21 AM »
"It's not finished yet! Plus, West Ham are fighting like fuck".

I think that this is significant - WHU went into a game that realistically, they had very little chance of getting anything from, but had a real go anyway. Can you see Ville doing the same? This could be the difference in the end - attitude and passion.
« Last Edit: February 25, 2020, 08:04:19 AM by tim »

Offline robbo1874

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1659 on: February 25, 2020, 08:12:22 AM »
I used to work for a firm where the owner said he hired people on 1) attitude, 2) ability and 3) experience. In that order. I thought he was a bit of a twat because of that, initially. But they are quite successful, so I changed my thinking after a bit. Back to Southampton though and where were all 3 of those attributes?

Offline SheffieldVillain

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1660 on: February 25, 2020, 08:26:24 AM »
"It's not finished yet! Plus, West Ham are fighting like fuck".

I think that this is significant - WHU went into a game that realistically, they had very little chance of getting anything from, but had a real go anyway. Can you see Ville doing the same? This could be the difference in the end - attitude and passion.

I see your point but yes, against Tottenham. We also pushed Liverpool to having to score a last minute goal to beat us so arguably were closer to a result against them than West Ham were.

While we really aren't very good, let's not make the teams below us out to be any better. If they were they wouldn't be below us.

Offline Luke8

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1661 on: February 25, 2020, 08:42:20 AM »
"It's not finished yet! Plus, West Ham are fighting like fuck".

I think that this is significant - WHU went into a game that realistically, they had very little chance of getting anything from, but had a real go anyway. Can you see Ville doing the same? This could be the difference in the end - attitude and passion.

That’s only really significant if you take literally just the last game as a barometer of how each team is going to play for the rest of the season, which obviously won’t be the case.

Literally the game previously for both teams, we competed and played well against a better team than us (and should have taken something) while West Ham fought and battled their way to given up a two goal lead against fellow relegation strugglers.

And we actually came closer to beating Liverpool than they did.

Edit - Hadn’t noticed Sheffield making pretty much the same point - sorry! Also, forgot West Ham played Man City in between the games I mentioned. They were rubbish though so the point still stands.
« Last Edit: February 25, 2020, 08:45:28 AM by Luke8 »

Offline themossman

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1662 on: February 25, 2020, 08:55:40 AM »
Spam are a shit team for sure. My specific concerns are that they still look more likely to nick a result against big teams than us and that if it comes down to a last day head to head they’ve got more bottle across the team. I hope I’m wrong obviously.

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1663 on: February 25, 2020, 09:34:40 AM »
It’s the if Spam played like they did last night or Villa like they did against Spurs, and they both lost.
It’s Russian roulette relegation, they both keep pulling the trigger and nothing happens.
There is a bullet in the chamber and one of them has their name on it.

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1664 on: February 25, 2020, 09:46:32 AM »
Dont get why we raised our game against spurs who are better than us but absolutely perform pathetically against Southampton. Had we performaed like we did against sours we probably could have got something.

West ham showed fight and were unlucky i want to see the samw from our players.

 


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