I know loads of people who now have STs who went in L1 and L2 but they'd pick and choose a handful of games
Glory hunting? Principled and consumers of a good product. In my view we should be viewed more positively. SISU did everything to challenge the resilience of the most committed let alone people who know they are not keen on watching their home club in Northampton and Birmingham. The years of decline etc. it’s there for all to read about.
You only have to look at Sakamoto! He looked ill and struggled, he only played him cos MVE has got the sickness bugWhich in itself won’t exactly do much for performance levels to be fair.
Football attendances in general were lower across the board in those years.Excluding Northampton and St Andrews, attendances were average to poor until recent years.
Even before SISU, they were very average. 21K in our first season at the Ricoh, and we struggled to regularly sell out at HR.
Yeah, I came second in both not so long back, but you don't get owt for runner up unfortunately.I’m convinced we’ll win the Nobel prize for literature and the Miss World contest before we win a league game up here.
While maybe not turning up we have ia lot ofChelsea fans who watch our matches - they love FrankFootball attendances in general were lower across the board in those years.
We shed support in the SISU years for obvious reasons.
I'd say we now have, for the most part, a re-engaged fanbase and youngsters who now want to be City fans. There may be some casual fans who'd have told you they supported Arsenal or Manchester United in the wilderness years, but they will be a small minority.
Maybe Trump should by us?I’m convinced we’ll win the Nobel prize for literature and the Miss World contest before we win a league game up here.
I doubt the rumour re Bamford is remotely accurate
#WrightOutNot sure why that should stop us
If it is that flu bug, it’s bloody horrible.You only have to look at Sakamoto! He looked ill and struggled, he only played him cos MVE has got the sickness bug
To have an opinion that we didn't comfortably beat Charlton, is quite frankly nuts.Finally calmed down ENOUGH to process last night and post.
Firstly, take away all the noise, top of league in Dec, 5 points clear, etc - unreal I know!
But sadly, my head is noisy with what I have been seeing in recent weeks, and yes Frank that is the championship, I know! Here are my thoughts and before people jump on it, it's only my opinion/how I feel and as a caveat, I am as glass half empty as they come!
- We haven't comfortably won a game in weeks, and no Charlton doesn't count as it was yet another game where we conceded first.
- Haj is so frustrating in so many ways, his general vibe and casual nature only goes well for him when he is scoring but the man cannot head a ball for his life.
- Not winning last night was so Cov, we will never be given a better chance to win at that place. I don't want to hear any of this valuable point rubbish, the way the game panned out, we should 100% have won.
- I'm fully aware that us winning so many games has made me very spoilt/privileged etc, but that doesn't take away the issues I am starting to see in the performances, notably the lack of ability to keep a clean sheet. I have no idea how we ever went on that run.
- Why is it, EMC is giving away on average about 5 fouls a game? It's not even his fault half of the time tbh, but the referees are so bad, they just don't see the game in the same way as most people who have played it. The one last night where the lad fell over on the byline was a absolute joke.
- The oldest record ever played I know but lack of squad depth was ALWAYS going to catch up with us, and it will only get worse in next few weeks.
- I don't think we go up, AMAZING start but I just don't feel it.
- Despite our incredible run this season, we never beat parachute teams - ever. There has been Ipswich and Leicester so far, we will 100% lose at Southampton, then maybe we draw with Ipswich but don't be surprised if by the middle of Jan we are 5th or 6th.
- Lastly, the 2 clowns on the second tier with their jinx "we were wrong about Lampard" video too, people like that will LOVE to see us fall away and annoyingly they will all likely be delighted when it happens.
There, had to vent and get it off the chest. Again, this is just my view and yes, perhaps I am simply so terrified of being disappointed that I am going with this negativity to protect myself lol, but I'm nearly 40 and Cov have made me like this!
Let's hope we can win on Saturday, or else I can see a real meltdown from me, which will be interesting as that evening I am with the other half of the family in Finland.
I don't really get the bit about not winning comfortably tbh. You expect teams to roll over for us?Finally calmed down ENOUGH to process last night and post.
Firstly, take away all the noise, top of league in Dec, 5 points clear, etc - unreal I know!
But sadly, my head is noisy with what I have been seeing in recent weeks, and yes Frank that is the championship, I know! Here are my thoughts and before people jump on it, it's only my opinion/how I feel and as a caveat, I am as glass half empty as they come!
- We haven't comfortably won a game in weeks, and no Charlton doesn't count as it was yet another game where we conceded first.
- Haj is so frustrating in so many ways, his general vibe and casual nature only goes well for him when he is scoring but the man cannot head a ball for his life.
- Not winning last night was so Cov, we will never be given a better chance to win at that place. I don't want to hear any of this valuable point rubbish, the way the game panned out, we should 100% have won.
- I'm fully aware that us winning so many games has made me very spoilt/privileged etc, but that doesn't take away the issues I am starting to see in the performances, notably the lack of ability to keep a clean sheet. I have no idea how we ever went on that run.
- Why is it, EMC is giving away on average about 5 fouls a game? It's not even his fault half of the time tbh, but the referees are so bad, they just don't see the game in the same way as most people who have played it. The one last night where the lad fell over on the byline was a absolute joke.
- The oldest record ever played I know but lack of squad depth was ALWAYS going to catch up with us, and it will only get worse in next few weeks.
- I don't think we go up, AMAZING start but I just don't feel it.
- Despite our incredible run this season, we never beat parachute teams - ever. There has been Ipswich and Leicester so far, we will 100% lose at Southampton, then maybe we draw with Ipswich but don't be surprised if by the middle of Jan we are 5th or 6th.
- Lastly, the 2 clowns on the second tier with their jinx "we were wrong about Lampard" video too, people like that will LOVE to see us fall away and annoyingly they will all likely be delighted when it happens.
There, had to vent and get it off the chest. Again, this is just my view and yes, perhaps I am simply so terrified of being disappointed that I am going with this negativity to protect myself lol, but I'm nearly 40 and Cov have made me like this!
Let's hope we can win on Saturday, or else I can see a real meltdown from me, which will be interesting as that evening I am with the other half of the family in Finland.
Every team is raising their game against us, but the xG was ridiculously in our favour for that one. It’s people’s nerves about bottling the season, based off two games where we haven’t actually played badly, that are allowing some pretty absurd comments in recently.I don't really get the bit about not winning comfortably tbh. You expect teams to roll over for us?
I don't really get the bit about not winning comfortably tbh. You expect teams to roll over for us?
Ok both fair points.To have an opinion that we didn't comfortably beat Charlton, is quite frankly nuts.
I don't think Middlesbrough are all that though, so it's by no means a foregone conclusion that they win them all.
There was no excuse for not winning that at all.Every team is raising their game against us, but the xG was ridiculously in our favour for that one. It’s people’s nerves about bottling the season, based off two games where we haven’t actually played badly, that are allowing some pretty absurd comments in recently.
100% this.Every team is raising their game against us, but the xG was ridiculously in our favour for that one. It’s people’s nerves about bottling the season, based off two games where we haven’t actually played badly, that are allowing some pretty absurd comments in recently.
Well that wasn’t the tactic yesterday at all, we played a 5 and tried (successfully) hitting on the break. We only switched up once we were a man up and it made good sense to go for it.We're not at a point where we need to panic but equally there's warning signs for all to see. Would be foolish to ignore those, all well and good giving it 'we are top' but that can soon change.
The biggest concern for me is leaking goals. Even when we were keeping clean sheets we were letting other teams have decent opportunities. We're now getting punished for allowing those chances. Our tactic can't just be we'll score more than you, especially when the goals aren't flowing like the were.
Think our expectations for the January window might be too high. We certainly need bodies in but realistically how many first team ready players can we sign. Look at Woolf and KKH, you've got £6m there and the general consensus so far has been 'not good enough'. Not sure they're bad players, think you have to factor in how difficult it is to not play for weeks / months then be expected to come in and match the level of a top of the table team.
Work for Lampard and the coaches to do. If they can make the tweaks that lead to us not leaking goals we've got nothing to worry about.
It was a poor clearance from Rushworth. But we should defend a standard throw in much better than that. We totally switched off down the flank.
The kick from Rushworth that enabled them to have the throw in at all was needless and sloppy, set the tone for what followedDalsiva definitely has some culpability for the goal, as do others, it was a shocking passage of play from us.
What was sloppy is that someone passed to him with a Preston in close attention and he was forced into a left foot kick under pressure - and then no one was with the runner - got to release the ball earlierThe kick from Rushworth that enabled them to have the throw in at all was needless and sloppy, set the tone for what followed
It was Rudoni who was left in the wake of their fullback! Lack of match fitness stopped him getting back to stop him and then JDS did not push towards him to reduce the angle on the cross.Definitely. I think it was EMC (correct me if I'm wrong), he was in a much better position (it looked). Dasilva had got beat and wasn't getting back, EMC had time to get over and cover.
I'm not putting the blame just on him though, most of the team switched off.
A lot of stuff & nonsense thereFinally calmed down ENOUGH to process last night and post.
Firstly, take away all the noise, top of league in Dec, 5 points clear, etc - unreal I know!
But sadly, my head is noisy with what I have been seeing in recent weeks, and yes Frank that is the championship, I know! Here are my thoughts and before people jump on it, it's only my opinion/how I feel and as a caveat, I am as glass half empty as they come!
- We haven't comfortably won a game in weeks, and no Charlton doesn't count as it was yet another game where we conceded first.
- Haj is so frustrating in so many ways, his general vibe and casual nature only goes well for him when he is scoring but the man cannot head a ball for his life.
- Not winning last night was so Cov, we will never be given a better chance to win at that place. I don't want to hear any of this valuable point rubbish, the way the game panned out, we should 100% have won.
- I'm fully aware that us winning so many games has made me very spoilt/privileged etc, but that doesn't take away the issues I am starting to see in the performances, notably the lack of ability to keep a clean sheet. I have no idea how we ever went on that run.
- Why is it, EMC is giving away on average about 5 fouls a game? It's not even his fault half of the time tbh, but the referees are so bad, they just don't see the game in the same way as most people who have played it. The one last night where the lad fell over on the byline was a absolute joke.
- The oldest record ever played I know but lack of squad depth was ALWAYS going to catch up with us, and it will only get worse in next few weeks.
- I don't think we go up, AMAZING start but I just don't feel it.
- Despite our incredible run this season, we never beat parachute teams - ever. There has been Ipswich and Leicester so far, we will 100% lose at Southampton, then maybe we draw with Ipswich but don't be surprised if by the middle of Jan we are 5th or 6th.
- Lastly, the 2 clowns on the second tier with their jinx "we were wrong about Lampard" video too, people like that will LOVE to see us fall away and annoyingly they will all likely be delighted when it happens.
There, had to vent and get it off the chest. Again, this is just my view and yes, perhaps I am simply so terrified of being disappointed that I am going with this negativity to protect myself lol, but I'm nearly 40 and Cov have made me like this!
Let's hope we can win on Saturday, or else I can see a real meltdown from me, which will be interesting as that evening I am with the other half of the family in Finland.
Correct - Rudoni tracked the runner, but didn’t inconvenience him. JDS did what all our inside defenders have done since Frank arrived and protected the space (watch Thomas, Grimes and Kitching do it every game). it’s hilarious that JDS is being given the blame.It was Rudoni who was left in the wake of their fullback! Lack of match fitness stopped him getting back to stop him and then JDS did not push towards him to reduce the angle on the cross.
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