Paul B
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Tim, only someone who was not there would feel able to say what you've just said.Crikey, we are not doing well currently but let’s not talk ourselves into relegation.
There is no way on earth that this team should be near the bottom 4.
We will pull well clear.
And he said ... tempting fate .. feel free to bookmark.
True, I wasn’t there.Tim, only someone who was not there would feel able to say what you've just said.
If we show that we have some fight in us against Argyle I reserve the right to revise my opinion once more. But I've seen so much that cannot be ignored thus far.
Please tell me how we'll pull clear. it will make me feel a whole lot more relaxed.
How do we plug the gaps in the defence?
Strike force?
Etc.
Its a good job that we may need only 3 wins to stay up, as if it was anymore, wed have no chance.Tim, only someone who was not there would feel able to say what you've just said.
If we show that we have some fight in us against Argyle I reserve the right to revise my opinion once more. But I've seen so much that cannot be ignored thus far.
Please tell me how we'll pull clear. it will make me feel a whole lot more relaxed.
How do we plug the gaps in the defence?
Strike force?
Etc.
Should have won - but we have a great ability to not win them. Not even draw them. But lose them. Charlton was a massive exception to the rule. We've been awful in many games. Could you be in denial?True, I wasn’t there.
But I was at Charlton. I was at
Walsall. I was at the Bury game. All matches we should have won.
We have ability. We will appoint a new manager. We will get players returning from injury.
We shouldn’t talk ourselves into a blue funk.
We will avoid the bottom 4. By a distance.
I admire your optimism. Where are the points actually coming from? We have the best teams in the league yet to play away, and a few tricky fixtures elsewhere. We won’t beat Plymouth with the form they’re in; we all know what happens at Northampton every year, and so it goes on. In a couple of weeks our confidence will be shot and the youngsters will be looking forward to returning to their parent clubs. Ledson, Rothwell and Eastwood will have their heads elsewhere.Crikey, we are not doing well currently but let’s not talk ourselves into relegation.
There is no way on earth that this team should be near the bottom 4.
We will pull well clear.
And he said ... tempting fate .. feel free to bookmark.
I think the key point is we’re not in a relegation battle, so we don’t need to pull clear, we are clear. And because of that we need to do far less than those currently occupying those positions to remain clear. We need 3 wins from 14. Take our last very poor 5 games. We picked up 3 points, continue that terrible form and we’re safe. We can even worsen if those down there continue their equally poor form.Tim, only someone who was not there would feel able to say what you've just said.Crikey, we are not doing well currently but let’s not talk ourselves into relegation.
There is no way on earth that this team should be near the bottom 4.
We will pull well clear.
And he said ... tempting fate .. feel free to bookmark.
If we show that we have some fight in us against Argyle I reserve the right to revise my opinion once more. But I've seen so much that cannot be ignored thus far.
Please tell me how we'll pull clear. it will make me feel a whole lot more relaxed.
How do we plug the gaps in the defence?
Strike force?
Etc.
No lose situation for you then, Tim.True, I wasn’t there.
But I was at Charlton. I was at
Walsall. I was at the Bury game. All matches we should have won.
We have ability. We will appoint a new manager. We will get players returning from injury.
We shouldn’t talk ourselves into a blue funk.
We will avoid the bottom 4. By a distance.
You'd hope so - and logically it would be so. But watching us recently, it is very hard to be quite so sanguine. I am also not sure that the squad contains enough of anything much that a new manager could make a silk purse out of this particular sow's ear.We’ll do it . Easily.
Charlton are a good side on a good run. Football doesn’t work like that. Ever put accumulators on? It’s hard enough to predict the results on five games on a match day. Let alone 14 matchdays and 24 teams results. Even people with mr methvens footballing knowledge have predicted wrong outcomes. Who would have thought last season we would have picked up enough to win the last 6 was it.I have not written this season off as one where relegation is a certainty. But those who say we'll stay up - a) which matches will provide the required points? b) what will change / how will it change to ensure we don't let in 2 or 3 goals every game c) - same regarding striking potency?
Don't lose on Saturday and I'll feel more confident. But if we do lose it will be, yes well Plymouth are a good side on a good run so nothing to worry about here.
Well, not really. I agree we will stay up, but not 'easily', as you do. I anticipate some nail-biting Saturdays in April. (Even more nail-biting than normal supporting OUFC).So you agree with me.
Look it’s not a ‘great leap of faith’ to say we are going to stay up. Really it isn’t.
A new manager nearly always delivers a bounce. We need 12 more points to be safe I’d say. There are 14 games to go. 3 wins , 3 draws.
We’ll do it . Easily.
Absolutely. But how many Charltons / Peterboroughs / Plymouths etc v Wigans / Cheltenhams / Vales / etc. Direction of travel and all that.Charlton are a good side on a good run. Football doesn’t work like that. Ever put accumulators on? It’s hard enough to predict the results on five games on a match day. Let alone 14 matchdays and 24 teams results. Even people with mr methvens footballing knowledge have predicted wrong outcomes. Who would have thought last season we would have picked up enough to win the last 6 was it.
It’s possible but unlikely we will get relegated. If we do we do. And as someone once said - we go again