Hard to say. A success in one sense, but if we finished 4th from bottom that would only be because of Pompey losing 10 points. No admin for Pompey and we would be gone. Would rather we finished 5th or 6th from bottom so no-one can throw that label at us that we only survived through Pompey's misfortune.
Hard to say. A success in one sense, but if we finished 4th from bottom that would only be because of Pompey losing 10 points. No admin for Pompey and we would be gone. Would rather we finished 5th or 6th from bottom so no-one can throw that label at us that we only survived through Pompey's misfortune.
Just can't see that if we only survive because Pompey lost 10 points that, that could in anyway be described as being a success.
I want us to finish 5th or 6th from bottom. Then no-one can ever then say we were lucky because of another team's points deduction.
In my opinion what Portsmouth have done warrants not a 10 point deduction, but an automatic relegation.
I feel sorry for their fans, but the way they've built up all that debt, with no realistic intention of paying it back, just to pay inflated wages to their players, is cheating, pure and simple.
If we stay up because of their 10 point deduction, then so be it. A club cheated, and has been punished accordingly.
I won t be looking at it as anything more than a gigantic relief whether we stay up by 3 points or a goal off Clive platts bell end
If we stay up i think it will be our greatest escape ever,considering where we were at christmas
The Rev
Every game is now a cup final,there will be no cup at the end ,just the £4m. prize money,would that be enough with costs covered to persuade the tightwads to part with a bit and give the manager a halfchance of making us competative ,especially as we;re going to be awash with discarded players seeking new dealsI would go for the 1985 "win the last three games" escape.
Keeping strictly to the question. If we stay up after flirting with relegation all season then it can only be relief but success is not a word to describe it. It's failure in anyone's book to be so poor for so long.
As someone else rightly pointed out Pompey lost 10 points so if we scrape home because of that then even more so.
How anyone can see it as success is beyond me.
Please don't talk about lost players etc because on closer examination that really was not the case.
No matter what conditions we have been set a dismal season is not success. We may be successful in staying up but not having had a successful season.
Top 6 would be success, promotion would be success, a good cup run could be a mild success but alas we have had none of those.
As has been proven with just our recent run of games, 5 unbeaten and 2 clean sheets with a few goals scored we have shown what might have been had AT got it together more earlier.
It's been a lousy season, one we all want to forget.
I don't buy all this business of Portsmouth's 10 points. It's pretty straightforward to me: if you commit a foul, it's a free kick. That's the rule. If you go into administration you lose 10 points: that's the rule too.
Keeping strictly to the question. If we stay up after flirting with relegation all season then it can only be relief but success is not a word to describe it. It's failure in anyone's book to be so poor for so long.
As someone else rightly pointed out Pompey lost 10 points so if we scrape home because of that then even more so.
How anyone can see it as success is beyond me.
Please don't talk about lost players etc because on closer examination that really was not the case.
No matter what conditions we have been set a dismal season is not success. We may be successful in staying up but not having had a successful season.
Top 6 would be success, promotion would be success, a good cup run could be a mild success but alas we have had none of those.
As has been proven with just our recent run of games, 5 unbeaten and 2 clean sheets with a few goals scored we have shown what might have been had AT got it together more earlier.
It's been a lousy season, one we all want to forget.
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