Paul B
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I blame the football for sending me down that route.Nice to see you briefly post match. You were hammered.
That was on our original itinerary but the Heaven and Ale was so good we stayed in there a bit longer than originally intended.We had an excellent pint in "The Old No 7" and a good pork pie albeit at the extortionate price of £1.50.
Amazing Paul how you are still motivated enough to write these, I sense it's getting more difficult with every passing week. but I am very pleased you still write them.
What's worrying is even amongst those worst teams, I find it hard to imagine how we could win a game of football.The despair is palpable. Keep going, Mr B.
That we’re still above the dotted line, albeit on goal difference alone, having not won a game of football for seventeen matches really tells you a lot about how awful the league is this year. Even the supposed best teams haven’t looked brilliant (bar Ipswich IMO), but the bad ones are really bad. In pretty much any other season, not winning a single game of football in over a quarter of a year would see any team long gone by now.
It could well be the case that one win and a couple of draws (meaning just one win in twenty) could still be enough. We can’t say that we weren’t given every opportunity.
Others will have no issue pretending that last-gasp survival is indicative of a higher level of understanding when it comes to the beautiful game, so I wouldn’t worry too much about how you may or may not look.even if we sneak staying up by a point or goal difference I will feel a bit of a hypocrite celebrating a true fluke where the absolute shiteness of others has kept us rather than anything much this dull, poor team has done.
Ryan I agree about the overall standard - I don't think this is a great league and the poor teams (and we are definitely in that group) are really poor. However, although they didn't have to do too much, I thought Barnsley looked OK - they have a flexible attacking system with a back four who are all comfortable on the ball and Kane not being played in front of the back four. They might well be the team to watch in the play-offs.The despair is palpable. Keep going, Mr B.
That we’re still above the dotted line, albeit on goal difference alone, having not won a game of football for seventeen matches really tells you a lot about how awful the league is this year. Even the supposed best teams haven’t looked brilliant (bar Ipswich IMO), but the bad ones are really bad. In pretty much any other season, not winning a single game of football in over a quarter of a year would see any team long gone by now.
It could well be the case that one win and a couple of draws (meaning just one win in twenty) could still be enough. We can’t say that we weren’t given every opportunity.
They looked competent and organised, for sure, but given they’re still technically in the race for automatic promotion by proxy of doing the basics does make me feel this season is such a wasted opportunity. With our budget and the past couple of seasons we really had a chance to be where Plymouth are, let alone Barnsley.Ryan I agree about the overall standard - I don't think this is a great league and the poor teams (and we are definitely in that group) are really poor. However, although they didn't have to do too much, I thought Barnsley looked OK - they have a flexible attacking system with a back four who are all comfortable on the ball and Kane not being played in front of the back four. They might well be the team to watch in the play-offs.
Do we know for sure that MK spent real money? If so, certainly nowhere on the scale we did.Apart from MK Dons the rest of the dross at the bottom have an excuse, us and MK Dons have spent money and were in a stronger position.
It doesn't look that impressive that our manager has been involved with both of the really unimpressive clubs this season.
They looked competent and organised, for sure, but given they’re still technically in the race for automatic promotion by proxy of doing the basics does make me feel this season is such a wasted opportunity.
I thought Herbie was a little underrated with us, because after we splashed out to keep him on loan he didn't quite look the part like he did before that.Ryan I agree about the overall standard - I don't think this is a great league and the poor teams (and we are definitely in that group) are really poor. However, although they didn't have to do too much, I thought Barnsley looked OK - they have a flexible attacking system with a back four who are all comfortable on the ball and Kane not being played in front of the back four. They might well be the team to watch in the play-offs.