03 Feb 2019 13:16:46
Guys, I hink it's worth pointing out that, at the start of the season someone had offered us 2nd place on 3rd Feb with a three point gap to 3rd and a 10 point gap to 7th, we would all have taken it!
See it as a starting point and not an end or a trend. How we finish at the end of the season is about how we do from here on in and not what we've done to get here!
No point going on about who we could or should have signed because we can't do it! Yesterday even at three nil, the players didn't give up and yet thousands of fans left!
Everyone including the players needs to believe! Nobody who posts on here knows who the top two or top six are going to be in April, or you would be down the bookies.
The exciting thing about the future is that it's yet to happen, therefore it can be influenced. What can we do to influence it, get to as many games as you can and cheer like a looney until the final whistle blows! If you heard a player saying" that's it we're doomed, we're going to be in the championship next year, "you probably wouldn't want them playing! I don't think this group of players deserves us to give up on them!
03 Feb 2019 14:02:42
I agree Spanish
I've been looking at the fixture list and there's quite a few games to come where the top 6 or 7 have to play each other and that ensures either or both will drop points.
I feel sure nobody is going to run away with top spot as Wolves did last season so even if it comes down to the last match as it could well do, have you seen the fixture list? Ok a home game would have been nice but I'll take Ipswich away (currently 5pts adrift at the bottom of the table and I don't see that changing much) .
Look at some of the others, of the current top 8 teams only Derby are at home on the final day and that's to WBA. I hope it's done and dusted for us before then though, the play offs are the last resort.
03 Feb 2019 14:16:04
Agree with both of you. I still think we are top 2, unless another team puts together some incredible run, which is virtually unheard of in this league this season.
03 Feb 2019 14:22:23
I’m never negative. I see it logically. Never over optimistic either.
A question Spain mate.
How can our form not influence
A. Managers decisions
B. Managers team selection
C. Managers formation
D. Players confidence.
E. Players ability.
F Players motivation.
How can u not consider recent form.
Doesn’t make any sense to think this is day 1 of season cause it’s not. It doesn’t matter where we are now.
We post on what we see and anybody that sees promotion from here is wacky backy delusional.
I love how we play and we can tear teams apart but.
03 Feb 2019 14:37:15
Aus, Bielsa has only one way of playing. he sets his team for the high energy, high pressing game. It will win us more games than we lose but yesterday we came up against a team that matched our energy. There aren't many teams that can do this in the championship but teams i guess will try and follow Norwich others will sit back and defend.
03 Feb 2019 14:59:49
Precisely. To say as Spanish does is slightly naive.
03 Feb 2019 15:24:07
Aus “ anyone who sees promotion from here is wacky, backy delusional! †Well I guess I just have to roll a few joints and offer them to any other delusional fools from here who still actually believe we can be promoted this year! I think there are a few of us still!
In trying to answer your question about form, it’s the coaches job to influence all of your points D, E and F . How he does that working with his coaching team is by your points A, B and C. Bielsa taking the blame for the performance, is part of his way of doing that. I believe we are good enough to win promotion, i believe we have the players to do it. What’s important is that they retain that believe as well and that’s a big part of the coaches job. If that’s slightly naive, count me in!
Now pull up a stool and take a drag! There’s promotion to be won!
03 Feb 2019 15:28:55
Sorry Aus, not yet doom ladened. Got to agree with Spanish and the lads. If someone had given us top two at the start we would have said "get real" I prophesied top six/ play offs as reasonable. So to be where we are is a big, big, bonus and I believe with a few tweaks we can regroup and charge on. I believe it's a 5 team run in for promotion so it's a bit of a lottery. Who's to say that we won't be one of those five. Certainly we deserve to be.
03 Feb 2019 17:33:07
Spanish, roll me a spliff. I still dare to dream.
03 Feb 2019 20:26:28
Oh Aus, 2 top posts, then your account gets hacked again. Sod’s law innit!?