Get players in early next season, a good competitive pre season schedule that isn't half our matches against non league / league 2 and we need to start well .. cheers
Even this forum has the same temperament as a toddler at times. Euphoric when we’re winning and raging when we’re losing. One minute we’ve got a great team, the next it’s totally back to the drawing board.
SBT Wednesday 7:45pm: Absolute heroes the lot of them, whatever happens tonight I’m proud after Sunday
SBT Wednesday 10pm: Collins out, Thomas out, Kitching out, they’re shit bottlers
Play offs is no guarantee.
I the play offs last year but Wolves and United away surpassed even the Middlesbrough game for me.
I'd happily be a midtable Championship club for a while if you get those moments.
The Simms and Wright threads are good examples of this. Proper emotional roller coasters
Exactly this. If anyone needs some perspective, always read Robins’ post match interviews.
They’re mostly spot on and he’s frank in his assessments. First, he knows we need more quality to get to the next level (needs to be down ‘sustainably’). Secondly, he’s acknowledged that our lack of depth has finally caught up with us. Just look at the amount of injuries we’ve had against Man U and Hull
I said sarcastically that as soon as I’d seen the team, I should’ve turned around…
Yep, first half of the season I got sick of people around me comparing them to Vik and how they’d have spent the money on a ‘proven championship striker’…
Every year, the same people make out of pocket comments about players to get proven wrong (again) and the routine apology on SBT about how wrong they were.
It is nice that even when Wright or Simms make little mistakes, they’re encouraged now rather than moaned about.
I think criticism of Simms especially was valid earlier in the season. He was lethargic, off the pace and genuinely looked disinterested and lost. As the season has gone on he's shown us what he's capable of and in some way shown that the criticism was valid. He's so much more than he showed earlier in the season.
Wright though looked dangerous from the moment I saw him in the Leicester game and it was clear he just needed to settle into the new country and team to get him firing.
People claiming they're not good enough were wrong for sure, but some criticism was definitely justified at the time.
Wright though looked dangerous from the moment I saw him in the Leicester game and it was clear he just needed to settle into the new country and team to get him firing.
People claiming they're not good enough were wrong for sure, but some criticism was definitely justified at the time.
Every team from championship downwards plays lower division sides in pre season. Robins has often said he finds it nothing more than a fitness exercise. Not sure what the obsession with playing bigger teams is
Because if the games are all too easy then it isn’t much of a fitness exercise.
We didnt exactly test ourselves last season or this and yet we made 2 wembley appearances and a top 6 finish
This is re-writing history to suit a narrative and forgive bedwetting earlier in the season. It's a massive oversimplification of what happened in the first few months. Not having it.
It’s not. Neither of them looked close to £8m strikers. They weren’t winning things in the air, weren’t using their bodies, first touch made Godden last night look like Messi.
It was probably all mental, first proper pro club, new to the country, but they genuinely were much much worse than they are now.
Wright's very first contribution where he hit the crossbar against Leicester showed his quality. In fact, correct me if I'm wrong but it may have been you who'd written him off based on his highlight reel where a comparison was made to Bakayoko.
He’ll have earnt it if he does and will flourish at the right top flight club.
The change in mood from some posters from Sunday to wednesday is crazy.
Be adults.
I dont know why they allow texts and whatsapp messages, Should just be a phone in.
Yes agree with that which is sort of what i meant as for some reason Doug didnt see the thin squad as an issue or surely he would have brought more in January, we didnt need to spend big as we just needed a fuller second string.
I feel we lack experience thats what hurt us. Losing Mcfadzean was a blow as i think had he been here, even if not playing regularly he would have helped Kitching and Thomas and maybe they would make less errors, i am pointing more of a finger at Kitching than Thomas, last night Thomas was just knackered and cannot blame him, but Kitching has made some big errors, Norwich first one comes to mind
Too many details in this thread from what he said on CWR. You lot need to calm down.
How do you know Doug didn’t see it. They would have had targets. Sometimes for whatever reason it doesn’t come off. There is no point then panic buying someone. I would have thought all of our fans wouldn’t have wanted a repeat of what Mowbray did when we dragged in a few donkeys that just made us worse.
“Boost from Tile Hill” did give me a chuckle this week just as Rob and Oggy were so appalled by the comments.
Yeah me too, that said, would have to be prepared to fly half way around the world to do it and put up with pep moaning about ‘his’ players having jet lag
