I didn't choose. I had no choice. I'd love a straw to clutch. A win tomorrow and we're all smiling again but as Paulie mentioned earlier, every bloody week we look for 'that' performance to say we've finally turned the corner. Until now it's still not arrived.
We have to win a game just to get out of the bottom three, as it stands. That win seems really difficult to come by. I also agree with Paulie, really good post. We do not have the players to sustain a run of wins, the January transfer window was a disaster, other than an untested Samatta (sorry, but I don't really see that much in him either, needs to play with a partner I reckon). To not address the centre of the park should be an embarrassment for Dean and Suso. We are sleepwalking to relegation. I don't want it, I want fight, consistency and bottle from the players, and from Dean for that matter. Sadly, we don't seem to have a great deal of that either. Hope for the best but expecting the worst I'm afraid. Fuck, I'd love to be wrong.
Quote from: Rudy Can't Fail on June 20, 2020, 06:42:22 PMI didn't choose. I had no choice. I'd love a straw to clutch. A win tomorrow and we're all smiling again but as Paulie mentioned earlier, every bloody week we look for 'that' performance to say we've finally turned the corner. Until now it's still not arrived. Of course it's a choice. We made more signings than anyone in the summer and have one of the youngest squads in the league. An unexpected break is better for us than almost any other team because it was a chance to reflect on what wasn't working. Loads of you have decided there was nothing from the game the other day to give us hope but I don't agree. Luiz played the role that has been missing and is rightly being called our player of the match for it, Targett and Mings looked like they had a better understanding and Davis showed he can be a target man for us.All that said if you all want to start planning for the championship you can go ahead, I'll just go back to ignoring this thread for a while.
I just want us to stay up, even if it means nine 0-0s. Couldn't care less how we do it so long as we stay up.
All that said if you all want to start planning for the championship you can go ahead, I'll just go back to ignoring this thread for a while.
Quote from: paul_e on June 20, 2020, 07:26:32 PMAll that said if you all want to start planning for the championship you can go ahead, I'll just go back to ignoring this thread for a while.Surprising to find people worried about relegation in a thread called "Anyone starting to get worried?"
The thing is, it is still possible to stay up but no-one has yet made a convincing case as to why our form will suddenly improve to a level it hasn't been at all season while hoping that other clubs won't. Same coach, same players, same tactics. It's like our result against Sheff Utd. Taken in isolation it was a point against a good team who played poorly. But everything that happens between now and the end of the season has to be seen in the context of what our rivals do.
Quote from: Villan82 on June 20, 2020, 07:46:36 PMI just want us to stay up, even if it means nine 0-0s. Couldn't care less how we do it so long as we stay up.We're not going to keep 9 clean sheets in a row.
One thing this season that reminds me of the relegation one was that back then, every week, I'd find myself thinking "maybe this is the week that we turn it around and start to show a bit of quality" but it never happened.In that season it was a little different in that the entire club had pretty much accepted relegation by January (in which we did nothing to try to stop it).However, I've found myself thinking the same thing this season, week after week there is either no improvement at all, or we look better and worth a win and throw it away needlessly (which is even more frustrating).We are just so flat, paceless and predictable every week. Even when we don't lose, we never really look like we know what it takes to win matches at this level, and that for me is the fault of the manager. As someone else mentioned, his game management has been directly responsible for losing points which would have seen us far more likely to stay up now.He sounds really plausible when you hear him speak, and it is very hard not to like someone with the sort of background he has got, but sometimes i find myself thinking back to the play off win and the feeling then, and I look at where we are now, and it is just so, so disappointing to think we have allowed things to spiral so awfully out of control.