Morning all, (as I expect it will be when most read this)
Now everyone has had time to think about our beloved club and take a breath lets just gauge the feeling out there.
Was this a step to far or just another hiccup remember how we were feeling at the weekend. It was, ok we’re not playing to well but we got the away draw and then a great win against top of the league.
Remember we are unbeaten at home but on the other hand 1 draw away is not too good is it.
Also we are (depending on tonight’s results) out of the play offs on goal difference and only 4 from automatic but a win at Stevenage would have put us well into the play offs and only a point off automatic.
After all we have only played 8 games (at what number do we stop saying that) and we could be in Bournemouth’s position. Only saying that because they were in the play offs last season and believe they should be there or there about come May, and have only 6 points of which 3 against us and 3 on the road against bottom of the league.
So let’s gauge feeling how thick the ice Megson is on is;
1 star for very thin
2 stars for thin
3 stars for just right
4 stars for thick
5 stars for very thick
I’m going 2 as I don’t think his home form will save him if we keep losing away. Cos lets face it at the minute we’re more likely to lose at home then win away. On the other hand perhaps the JOC sub trick will. As we drew the second half with him shoring up the midfield. So perhaps I’ll go 3 after that bit of convincing, till Saturday that is.
Catch you all later
Gauging the feeling
posted on 14/9/11
"And it's consistantly rubbish"
That's bollards.
The only thing that is consistent is inconsistency!
Nobody's saying everything is rosy are they??
posted on 14/9/11
Not quite, but there's an incredible ammount of denial.
At least you agree we're consistantly inconsistant though
posted on 14/9/11
"But after 8 games you should be able to see a glimpse of how the team performs"
Yes inconsistantly but looking at other teams at the top they are abit hit & miss so all is not lost we just need to play from the full 90mins & not under estimate the so called smaller teams & i think we'll finish in the playoffs.
posted on 14/9/11
6th to 10th is what I believe this team currently capable of taking into account both form and results.
I agree every team hits a bad spell but what makes it difficult is realising that when teams come to us on a bad day, we should be capitalising not meeting their sub-standard and then grinding it out..
Honest question now for anyone who's regularly been to the home games.
Did we ever come out ready for the KO whistle? or did we only ever start playing in the second half?
to me almost every game's 1st and second half were night & day.
posted on 14/9/11
From the games I've been too we have looked good when trying to put pressure on the opposition. But it seems that we sit back and see what they want to do first which means us sitting back and this is when we get punished. We should stop thinking about their game plan and just go out there and play football and keep the pressure on them. take Bury for example we were totally played o off the park. but when we started trying to push forward (begining of second half) they couldn't cope with a lot of it.
posted on 14/9/11
Suffering, I know we had to roll the ball forward one revolution to kick off the second half at bury but that was the end of our pushing forward
posted on 14/9/11
Fair do's Suffering. But did we come out ready with blood smelling mentality in any given first half?
Sorry brother it was a vague answer to my q!
posted on 14/9/11
I haven't seen it at the start of any match Stateside, so no would be the answer i suppose.
Terry - now i can be the most harsh critic at times and even though funny i believe you are being a tad harsh. We did have 2 goals disallowed and we did put 1 on the board.
All i'm trying to say is if they believed they could play all the time as they sometimes do i.e attacking and not letting the opposition play then we would be a lot better of than we are. Where this believe comes from. well thats another discussion point
posted on 14/9/11
Sure, It is beyond me why Megson unsettles them with the constant change defensivly (formation)..this is down to him and he is to atone for this.
But surly Megsons telling them something and they dont/wont act we can all speculate as to the goings on. But I see players who don't respect what their manager is asking them to do...or the players /can't are unwilling...
Like you I don't want Megson sacked at this point it will ruin us and yet again leave the players in a 'wtf' mentality wondering where they stand when the next gaffer comes in...
It's another season down here it really is, we don't look like we'll get it right this time but we're better than before. And that is in itself improvement. Seriously to be honest I Wouldn't want us to go back up to the Champ and then have such a turbulent season we end up right back where we are again.... Fix THEN progress not throw plasters on the wounds
posted on 14/9/11
AMEN