Many people may look curiously at the title of this thread so I will address it to begin. We are currently having the mother of all slumps and are loosing to teams far weaker on paper than the ones we are due to face this month.
However this is actually the make or break month of our 15/16 promotion push. IF we loose our next 4 games we will be finished BUT if we manage to win 3 and draw 1, it will be game on big time and the Ricoh would be busy again for some huge make or break games.
I am a cautious optimist but hate pessimism. While our form is enough to make you want Prozac we still have a chance and I really think if we can click again like we did early season we can start winning big matches.
n.b Have kept my counsel on TM situation, but I think should we finish with a whimper he needs to go.
Like your optimism but just can't see it happening myself. But listening to Armstrong on the phone-in tonight he was really upbeat,and he seems to think the team can get the wins needed to make a final push.You do need confidence without doubt but there's none being shown on the pitch is there ?Many people may look curiously at the title of this thread so I will address it to begin. We are currently having the mother of all slumps and are loosing to teams far weaker on paper than the ones we are due to face this month.
However this is actually the make or break month of our 15/16 promotion push. IF we loose our next 4 games we will be finished BUT if we manage to win 3 and draw 1, it will be game on big time and the Ricoh would be busy again for some huge make or break games.
I am a cautious optimist but hate pessimism. While our form is enough to make you want Prozac we still have a chance and I really think if we can click again like we did early season we can start winning big matches.
n.b Have kept my counsel on TM situation, but I think should we finish with a whimper he needs to go.
That would give us 66pts. Bradford in sixth are on 64pts NOW!
Season over.
Many people may look curiously at the title of this thread so I will address it to begin. We are currently having the mother of all slumps and are loosing to teams far weaker on paper than the ones we are due to face this month.
However this is actually the make or break month of our 15/16 promotion push. IF we loose our next 4 games we will be finished BUT if we manage to win 3 and draw 1, it will be game on big time and the Ricoh would be busy again for some huge make or break games.
I am a cautious optimist but hate pessimism. While our form is enough to make you want Prozac we still have a chance and I really think if we can click again like we did early season we can start winning big matches.
n.b Have kept my counsel on TM situation, but I think should we finish with a whimper he needs to go.
Exactly, if we lose and give it 100% and fight to the death it's much better than losing the way we keep doingI feel if TM wants to keep his job then he needs to get his team fighting until the end, whether that'll be enough to go up, I don't know? But it would at least show us he is still capable of motivating his men.
Might well not be.Winning every game left will more than likely not be enough.
Many people may look curiously at the title of this thread so I will address it to begin. We are currently having the mother of all slumps and are loosing to teams far weaker on paper than the ones we are due to face this month.
However this is actually the make or break month of our 15/16 promotion push. IF we loose our next 4 games we will be finished BUT if we manage to win 3 and draw 1, it will be game on big time and the Ricoh would be busy again for some huge make or break games.
I am a cautious optimist but hate pessimism. While our form is enough to make you want Prozac we still have a chance and I really think if we can click again like we did early season we can start winning big matches.
n.b Have kept my counsel on TM situation, but I think should we finish with a whimper he needs to go.
There would still be 3 more games after that
....and in order for that to be of any relevance, all of the teams above us would have to pick up virtually zero points in the next 4 games to leave us still in with a shout with those 3 games left.... and that is provided we win three and draw one of our next four. We have only won 4 in the last 22 and just failed to score at home against a team that has shipped nigh on 90 goals this season.
This has been THE most depressing run I can remember. ( my first game was in 1985)
I think the only thing in our favor is we play all the teams above us so the chance to make ground increases significantly.
This has been THE most depressing run I can remember. ( my first game was in 1985)
Many people may look curiously at the title of this thread so I will address it to begin. We are currently having the mother of all slumps and are loosing to teams far weaker on paper than the ones we are due to face this month.
However this is actually the make or break month of our 15/16 promotion push. IF we loose our next 4 games we will be finished BUT if we manage to win 3 and draw 1, it will be game on big time and the Ricoh would be busy again for some huge make or break games.
I am a cautious optimist but hate pessimism. While our form is enough to make you want Prozac we still have a chance and I really think if we can click again like we did early season we can start winning big matches.
n.b Have kept my counsel on TM situation, but I think should we finish with a whimper he needs to go.
I think we kidded ourselves too a bit. I know I did.We have had our chances. Time and again this season, we've bottled it when the opportunity was there.
I see nothing to make me believe almost half a dozen other teams will self destruct, along with us actually winning the required games.
Won't happen.
Stupot kept mentioning the fact that we were dropping points all those months back, but because we weren't losing, a fair few people called him negative, but he was indeed proved right.
I do find it slightly bemusing that after so many months of a downward trend and our not scoring goals and our sliding down the table, that some still believe we have a chance of making the play-offs.
It is now a monumental task and would be so even for a side in red hot form, let alone one like ourselves losing games, shipping in goals and not scoring.
I do think we may well win today, but I fear the 3 games after we will suffer badly (Wigan, Millwall and Bradford).
Stupot kept mentioning the fact that we were dropping points all those months back, but because we weren't losing, a fair few people called him negative, but he was indeed proved right.
And if we finish 16th that's so much better than 17th!Exactly.
Laughable really people failed to see that we weren't offering anything and our performances. "You can't moan we are 4th, you can't moan we are 5th, you can't moan we are 6th, you can't moan we are 3 points off playoffs, you can't moan we are 6 points off playoffs@
Those 2 goals against Doncaster were particularly shocking. Just dreadful defending, handing the opposition the goals on a plate.If we had hung on v Swindon away, Oldham at home and those 2 howlers to concede 2 v Donny that's 6 points that were pretty inexcusably thrown away.
Well at least we won't have to play against the shite teams that just park the bus knowing we cannot break them down! You never know their over confidence may leave the door open for us to score a goal which would lift the confidence. If we had scored the penalty last Saturday we would have won that game.Well yeah, but after losing to Colchester, Scunthorpe, Rochdale, Fleetwood and Shrewsbury, you would have thought the last thing we would want to be doing is be playing the very best teams in the league.
And if we hadn't have let those two stupid goals in against Doncaster and if RCC hadn't have completely fluffed that cross against Sheff Utd. and if Phillips hadn't have chested that ball back straight to a Burton player in our own six yard box and if we had put all those chances away against Peterborough and if Fleck hadn't have given that stupid penalty away against Rochdale and if we hadn't let that really late goal go in against Oldham and against Port Vale and if we had hung on against Walsall and ........Well at least we won't have to play against the shite teams that just park the bus knowing we cannot break them down! You never know their over confidence may leave the door open for us to score a goal which would lift the confidence. If we had scored the penalty last Saturday we would have won that game.
What niggles me more than anything is the neglect from the management. It became obvious before the January transfer window even opened we needed another maybe even two strikers, Armstrong was never going carry on with his goal spree and also as a striker he was on his own, players were signed plenty of them, Rose, Hunt, Lorenzen, Cole, Ramage, Stephens but no strikers and when at the last minute we got Darius Henderson it took weeks to play him despite the lack of goals. Am I wrong ?
If I was Sisu I would have worked within budget until Xmas.
A. If limited chance of promotion then stay within budget for the rest of season.
B. If there is a good chance then put money and give it a punt.
The team did A and Sisu did B.
They need to go.
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