RyanioBirdio
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The biggest issue for me is that we’ve been complacently sinking into trouble while the teams below, who are already done for as it currently stands, have started going for it. We’ve been naively thinking that drawing every week is fine and dandy while people say how unlikely it is that the teams below us will magically start winning, but here we are, outside of the relegation places solely on GD and potentially just one weekend away from being second bottom of the entire division, let alone fourth. Because actively winning football matches, rather than simply not losing them, is everything.
We have basically been adopting the role of a boxer who is in the last couple of rounds of a fight that their corner is telling them they’re going to win on points, so has decided to let their opponent throw haymakers and uppercuts galore while trying to cover up in the corner. We have been absolutely begging to be knocked down, and if that happens over the next week then we’re going to have to start swinging wildly while we’re dazed and quite probably cut. It makes every scenario the hardest possible version of itself.
Great, we got a point against Peterborough. Cambridge just beat them. Oh, cool, a draw against Port Vale. Accrington just beat them. Gosh, wasn’t the Sheffield Wednesday point excellent? Burton just beat them. Ah, well, losing to Bolton isn’t a big deal on paper. Cambridge and Morecambe both just took points off them. We are taking more and more hits and I’m still not sure that far too many people realise what’s happening.
The good news is that it sounds like Liam Manning realises that holding on for dear life and praying for the bell isn’t going to work, and is urging us to throw some shots. Yesterday it finally looked as though we were willing to at least try. We missed, but if we don’t throw then we can’t land, and if we don’t land then we’re going to lose. We have to fight back.
We need to keep swinging, and I really hope that more people get on their feet and start making a racket if it happens, because it’s going to be a hell of a lot more helpful than sitting down and marvelling at how many times someone can get hit in the head.
We have basically been adopting the role of a boxer who is in the last couple of rounds of a fight that their corner is telling them they’re going to win on points, so has decided to let their opponent throw haymakers and uppercuts galore while trying to cover up in the corner. We have been absolutely begging to be knocked down, and if that happens over the next week then we’re going to have to start swinging wildly while we’re dazed and quite probably cut. It makes every scenario the hardest possible version of itself.
Great, we got a point against Peterborough. Cambridge just beat them. Oh, cool, a draw against Port Vale. Accrington just beat them. Gosh, wasn’t the Sheffield Wednesday point excellent? Burton just beat them. Ah, well, losing to Bolton isn’t a big deal on paper. Cambridge and Morecambe both just took points off them. We are taking more and more hits and I’m still not sure that far too many people realise what’s happening.
The good news is that it sounds like Liam Manning realises that holding on for dear life and praying for the bell isn’t going to work, and is urging us to throw some shots. Yesterday it finally looked as though we were willing to at least try. We missed, but if we don’t throw then we can’t land, and if we don’t land then we’re going to lose. We have to fight back.
We need to keep swinging, and I really hope that more people get on their feet and start making a racket if it happens, because it’s going to be a hell of a lot more helpful than sitting down and marvelling at how many times someone can get hit in the head.
