It's a Twitter wum that seems to show up on my feed a lot too since the Ipswich game for some reason. That place is a bin fire.
The way Borough scored the last goal reminded me of us when we were scoring for fun knocking the ball about one touch instead of Rudoni and EMC taking hundreds of touches to put in a shit cross.Pressure on FLand the players today If we lose today I can see us blowing it to be honest.
We know you can see us blowing it, you've said in 3 times since last night.
Some of you lot on here need to calm down, this cannot be healthy.
Have we been caught yet?
There's no need to go through our injury list, flu and suspensions yet again at the same time as our hardest run of games for the season. Our squad is now stronger than before and most of our players are now back as well.
The next 6 games will show us where we are.
Leicester H
Millwall H
Norwich A
QPR A
Oxford H
Middlesbrough H
We don't have many difficult games left as we've played most of them in the last couple of months. We have a steady February and March. April looks a walk in the park but most of our opponents could be playing for survival.
We also had basically the same sort of Christmas period under Frank last year that was very up and down and then after, went on a great run. The way the squad is built is never sustainable for loads of games in a short period of time unfortunately but I see no reason why we don’t get back to stringing together a few wins in the next few games.
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We were 1/60 with the bookmakers at one pointIt was like some of our fans had never watched a full football season before
Chris sutton said on the radio " ah they are up thats done " when asked about coventry being promoted
13 point lead over 2nd was absolutely huge
Lets not try and deflate how piss poor our last 9/10 games have been to allow the gap to close
Yes exactly. We were in pole position.
If we let it slip now its a failure in all honesty.
Not saying we will though, but we were ridiculously clear
Who is to say more experience won't come in? Still two weeks left to sign a player.
The two we have signed came in early which suggests some work had been done before the window and we wanted them. They don't seem like second or third option signings.
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If we fail its a huge failure
9 points from our last 8 games btw , lose today , well
We're in a good position regardless of what order we got the points in. We're not the best team in the league or certainly not the best squad but there we are at the top.
Everyone had us down as a play off team, if we get top 2 its an incredible achievement.
Quite a few bookmakers and journalists had us down as automatic contenders didn’t they
I don't think so. Generally the parachute teams and Small Heath piss takers were all fancied to do better.
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We're in bad form though now , which will become a larger problem should we fail to win today or tuesday
I'd agree we want to be getting at least 4 from the next 2 really. I just can't get down on failures that haven't happened yet. I'm hopeful we'll kick on having got through a tough run still top. Need a couple more through the door though.
Some on here won't make it out alive I don’t think.
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Lets see how today goes
Lose and i think we are officially in a bit of a pickle and losing top spot becomes a real possibility
form would be relegation form and the only top 6 side to be displaying incredibly bad form too
We do have a favourible run in but we dont look the same side we did 10 games ago so we need to find that spark again
Win and hopefully the platform to get back fully on track
Lose and i think we are officially in a bit of a pickle and losing top spot becomes a real possibility
form would be relegation form and the only top 6 side to be displaying incredibly bad form too
We do have a favourible run in but we dont look the same side we did 10 games ago so we need to find that spark again
Win and hopefully the platform to get back fully on track
BTA, Torp, Esse, Yang. Plus more to come. That should help significantly. I'd argue BTA is our POTS.
Lampard talks about getting the players to believe in themselves
No chance if there mentality is anything like ours
No chance if there mentality is anything like ours
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I can see how the energy levels were run so low over December and early January. If they’ve recovered since then, better performances should follow. The question I have is if the squad has actually just burned out in the first half of the season, today will answer that.
Could really have done without Thomas getting himself sent off but that aside we’re nearly at full strength for both games.
Yeah Thomas was ridiculous for that. But i’d imagine he’s been disciplined internally
Probably been fined. Question marks over mentality are fair too, it’s often easier to handle being in the chasing pack than the ones being chased. Lampard himself is the only one with experience of handling that kind of pressure.
Some fans have short memories though, Lesta in 23/24 were miles ahead and at one point I remember there being the prospect they’d bottle it into the playoffs. Just a recovery near the end which got them over the line.
i think people are just nervous as we have the usual expectation to “cov” things up
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Im just not used to being in this position , but the speed at which 13 points have evaporated has made me panic tbh
Yep exactly where i’m at tbh.
That’s why i was hoping we could have a productive January and get what we need.
Not convinced we have it quite yet
The next few games are important. If our current form continues I can't see us being any higher than third by the end of January.
We need at least to steady the ship and get four points from Leicester and Millwall. Six points and we can start to believe again.
We need at least to steady the ship and get four points from Leicester and Millwall. Six points and we can start to believe again.
If only we’d hung on for 3 points against Preston and Charlton, we would have had 4 more points and given us a little more breathing room. Anyway, just hope we regain our free-scoring, free-flowing style of play starting today.