It will be the new Sutton (23 Viewers)

Brighton Sky Blue said:

Norwich L
Stoke L
Birmingham L
Charlton D
Southampton D
PNE D
Ipswich L

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Yeah considering we’ve only lost 5 in the league and one was at home I should have realised.

shmmeee said:

Yeah considering we’ve only lost 5 in the league and one was at home I should have realised.

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I mean, they're probably just projecting ahead for a few games' time!

shmmeee said:

Blame CWR

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Without a win I think

All this inevitability of promotion was always bollocks. People saying after less than half a season that if we caught it would be failure, a disaster, unthinkable. Would they have said same if MR was still manager

Brighton Sky Blue said:

Norwich L
Stoke L
Birmingham L
Charlton D
Southampton D
PNE D
Ipswich L

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Yeah - and I'm not counting the Stoke cup game. Need to pick it up, starting at QPR.

If there were ever a club and manager who would blow it… it would be us and Lampard.

Won the league in December didn’t we? Opta this, opta that. My concerns about being eventually figured out were pooh-poohed. People actually thought we were the only team capable of putting together any decent form good enough to be unchallenged across a long 46 game season. They saw it as negative or whatever, but I think it was realistic, it was never gonna carry on. Some were discussing points records.

They look like they’re playing with a horrible pressure looming over them, but they’re human. The walls will continue to close in though if we don’t step out of what’s causing us to stumble - Tactically, mentally, physically, all of it. We needed an answer a while back and soon we’ll be out of lives if we don’t find one A lot of noise about Ipswich having a lot of away games coming up is another feeble assumption that we’ll be fine.

What I did notice last night pre match was one of the first things Lampard said about Boro being 3 behind us. Usually when asked a question relating to league position, he’ll say he’s/they’re not thinking about it. They’re feeling the pressure alright. Said all along that I don’t think we have the nerve to finish what we started, and I’m still there.

Our defence in general and our away form are set to scupper us.

Brighton Sky Blue said:

Nor should the likes of myself use the forum as a venting tool immediately after a game...it is pretty cathartic though!

I will say though, I get why people think 'if you're like this about bottling promotion, you wouldn't stick around in the top flight when we're getting battered every week'. The thing is, I grew up with relegation battles, then getting relegated, then lots of time finishing in the bottom half and getting relegated a few more times...that's all par for the course and I'm cool with it.

It's having done so well in the first half of the season to be on course to achieve something really special then sliding into entering the record books for throwing it all away that would just be too much of a kick in the balls. The playoff final was one thing, and it hurt, but we were a very late comer to the playoffs and Luton had finished third...it was more their time than ours. For this though, it would be the collapse of legends only comparable to Keegan's Newcastle who still came second and took it to the last day.

It would leave me thinking that we're essentially never going to get back to the top flight.

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How many relegation battles did you witness? Cant have been many from the top flight

Grendel said:

How many relegation battles did you witness? Cant have been many from the top flight

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The first I remember anything from was 95-96, then more of 96-97 and my dad cracking off champagne. We have been a bottom half/relegation battling club for most of the time from then till the last few seasons.