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Post by dxterrier on Apr 21, 2024 15:47:56 GMT 1
We likely are going down but I don't see us properly struggling next season. We don't have financial issues which kept us down for 11 years last time and we have a good squad foundation for league 1 with an owner willing to back us. Also, from listening to the second tier podcast they've said that they've seen a lot of league 1 this season and it is abysmal football. You think?? We don't have a striker with a true strikers instinct, that can score 10+ goals a season, we don't have a midfielder who can boss a game, or can pass a ball consistantly and that will be all to apparent, even in league 1. Even the decent players we have now will be gone, Nicholls, Helik, Sorba and probably spencer will be off
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 21, 2024 14:26:36 GMT 1
Wednesday deserve to stay up. They actually have some fight within them. Hope we drag Birmingham down with us next week. I’d rather Birmingham beat us, and we take Plymouth or Blackburn with us. Both of them less likely to have a title push compared to Birmingham and Weds. What makes you think we will be anywhere near the top end of league 1?? with the current squad, much of that squad we are going to be stuck with, do you really think they will do well in league 1, I can see another relegation battle next season
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 20, 2024 22:14:18 GMT 1
For years we have operated under a culture of lets just invest as little as possible and hope for the best, sometimes that works, but only when recruitment is good enough to offset the small investment. It worked with Stuart Webber, but since he went it hasn't, ok we got lucky with Carlos. Unless that culture changes or we vastly improve recruitment then we are stuck in league 1 for years, or worse When was the last time we had a striker who you knew would get 15+ goals a season?? When did we last have a player who could be regarded as a matchwinner I thought it was very telling that Oggy couldn't get a player to agree to an interview today, because none of them wanted to say something they shouldn't were the words used. I think there is something very wrong at the club that has contributed to relegation(lets be honest its happening) Unless we radically regenerate the squad with at least a core of players who are "proud and honoured" to wear the shirt then we cannot progress, without that happening would it really surprise you if we were in another relegation scrap next season, and I mean a league 1 relegation scrap. This has been years in the making as the club has been too content to just try and patch things up or paper over gaping cracks, that was always going to end badly
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 19, 2024 12:08:21 GMT 1
Unless we beat Swansea(which no chance in hell by the way) It wont matter Ever thought about taking up motivational speaking!? Just being realistic, we will not beat Swansea, Brum will beat rotherham
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 18, 2024 23:28:32 GMT 1
Evans turned it down earlier this season as well. Unfashionable manager but he does get results. Hopefully he has them fired up and does us a massive favour. Unless we beat Swansea(which no chance in hell by the way) It wont matter
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 18, 2024 0:58:26 GMT 1
Nice to see plenty of optimism but sorry chaps I have none. Can only see at best another draw, I think whatever fight was left went with that penalty, that was enough to prove we will get no help from the football gods. I fully expect Brum to stuff rotherham, expect at least two of the teams around us to get a result, I predict a 2-0 loss here with one being another questionable penalty while Ruddoni, Koroma or healy could get shot at the other end, no penalty and gets sent off for covering the pitch in blood I have felt the writing has been on the wall since failing to beat rotherham, and collapsing against West Brom. We have that collapse in us, which seems to be a mentality problem, soon as we are under pressure and Birmingham, especially Bacuna and Pritchard are going to come screaming at us from the first minute
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 14, 2024 17:08:12 GMT 1
Everything in that is absolutely spot on apart from Thomas will get a move back to the Championship imo. We’re stuck with the majority of this squad, and it isn’t one that will frighten any of the better sides in League 1. Many of our squad will probably still be playing at a level above where they should be. I don't know enough of Div 3 to know who the good teams are but presumably, they will be promoted. What I do know is last year's Div 3 Champions have struggled in the Championship, as have the Wendies, who accumulated over 90pts last season. Ipswich have been excellent though, obviously. Quality wise, I think the bottom 8 or 9 in this year's Championship have been really poor & have been pretty much on a par but they include Plymouth & Wendies who walked Div 3. I expect we will lose Helik, Nakayama, Rudoni, Burgzorg, Thomas & maybe Balker but we need a big clear out to rid of us of the losing mentality of our squad. We will get far more decisions in Div 3 than we have here, we are bound to get several home penalties & none of the opposition are going to be anything like the calibre of Leicester, Leeds & Southampton. The main difference, if we do go down, will be that I'm sure KN will support as, as much as he can, to get back quickly. This, clearly, does not mean I expect us to walk our way to the title, however, I do feel I'd be disappointed if we weren't challenging, as a few wins would restore players' confidence quickly. That being said, I am not willing to accept we will be going down just yet, the players were very good yesterday & were clearly robbed, we deserved, & should have had, 3 pts. Plymouth win at Leicester, Birmingham win at Coventry, and the bindippers let Blackburn win at Elland road, the first time they have lost there all season. Then we get the worst penalty decision against us, in the 9th/10th minute of injury time, which should have been 5 mins....how many more ways can the football gods scream "come in HTAFC your time is up"
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 22:36:03 GMT 1
I don't think there is any love lost between us and bacuna and the dwarf hates us, either one could beat us on their own right now and both will be bang up for it My bigger worry is that Bacca is 10 times the player any of our midfielders are. Definitely, and as much as we don't like Pritchard, if he fancies it, and he will, he is 10 times the player on his day of any of out front line and more than a match for our vanarama leauge standard defence
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 22:22:50 GMT 1
Abandon hope, its easier. failing to even try to win at rotherham, collapsing against west brom, collapsing agaist preston, still having to play bristol and swansea who by tonights showing can brush us aside, still having to go to ipswich who will likely still be in with a shout of automatic, and still having to face 2 former players who can be matchwinners and will be desperate to put us to the sword. All that is enough to kill hope, thats reality. We are down thats not a prediction, its a spoiler The dwarf might be desperate to do us but I don't know about Bacca, after all Tom Edwards backed him over the racist Brum fan abusing him at St Andrews (straw clutching 🫣) I don't think there is any love lost between us and bacuna and the dwarf hates us, either one could beat us on their own right now and both will be bang up for it
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 22:19:30 GMT 1
I honestly don't think it matters who you play when it gets to this stage of the season. Certainly not when you’re playing as poorly as we are. Would you back us to even win a game in League Two are the moment? I wouldn't back us against them up the M606 at the minute
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 22:04:18 GMT 1
Fuckkng hell....why are they doing this to us, the agony of hope. Abandon hope, its easier. failing to even try to win at rotherham, collapsing against west brom, collapsing agaist preston, still having to play bristol and swansea who by tonights showing can brush us aside, still having to go to ipswich who will likely still be in with a shout of automatic, and still having to face 2 former players who can be matchwinners and will be desperate to put us to the sword. All that is enough to kill hope, thats reality. We are down thats not a prediction, its a spoiler
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 21:52:03 GMT 1
Mad that we still have a chance. Just when we look finished we get another shot. And every time we get that chance we fail to take it, I think the only chance we have is wendnesday losing every game, brum losing the other 3 and us somehow sneaking a point against them. We have no chance in hell against bristol or swansea
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 21:43:34 GMT 1
Talk about clutching at straws our next 2 opponents have just scored 7 goals between them tonight. make that 8
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 21:42:00 GMT 1
Only 4 added minutes at Birmingham. Come on Cardiff. Plenty time for brum to win 2-1, its gonna happen
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 21:40:52 GMT 1
Not sure, Leeds and Leicester seem to be stuttering a bit Won’t stutter forever though, someone has to win the title. At the very least Coventry will have some fight. Just hope its not the beeston bindippers, think we have had it either way but at least a very minor comfort would be them choking and choking again in the play offs
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 21:36:12 GMT 1
If we can get 4 points, Blackburn are definitely going down. Can’t see them getting anything in their remaining games. Might only need 3 points if their GD takes a hammering from Leeds, Cov and Leicester. Not sure, Leeds and Leicester seem to be stuttering a bit
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 21:30:41 GMT 1
They're a decent side, far better than us. Quicker to name the sides worse than us... 😉 Thats a very short answer, Rotherham and thats debateable
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 10, 2024 12:09:26 GMT 1
I don't think AB carries much blame at all. This decline started long before AB arrived, it started with DH's illness and the horrible mismanagement in the second PL season and no lessons were learnt. We replaced Wagner with Siewert, who wasn't up to it, then the Cowleys, who should have done better than they did, fair enough they kept us up but the decision to remove them was the right one. Then we landed a gem in Corberan but that was tainted with the whole DH/PH thing going on behind the scenes, selling Karlan Grant and not replacing him, again horrible mismanagement despite a major improvement on the pitch, we still have not invested in an out and out match winning striker, thats attrocious mismanagement. I don't blame Carlos for walking. Again we don't learn, we just throw Danny Schoefield under the bus, who again wasn't up to it, nor was fotheringham, we didn't replace O'Brien or toffollo I thought they had finally learnt when they got Warnock to come in, who did what warnock does, he made the players believe they could get out of it, and they pulled it off, when KN took over and they persuaded Warnock to stay on I thought finally they would start to turn it round, ok I didn't expect us to be at the top end of the table but I was confident under warnock we would have been comfortable, but it seems KN and co learnt straight from the old regime and here we go again, only this time we look far less confident, and far less capable of escaping. I think AB can be a great manager, he certainly has the pedigree, but he is hamstrung by not having a squad good enough to stay up, a squad that doesn't look like they believe they can do it. I do think this season is a step too far, I don't think we will stay up, the luck has run out and last night showed how fragile we are...Preston were there for the taking and we choked, I think the writing is on the wall
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 2, 2024 10:51:52 GMT 1
I've blocked the Old Trafford game from my memory 😁 The 1992 game was something else though. Remember it vividly, mostly for the police horses/dogs on the pitch and the fighting between the Terrace and the Open End. It was known as black thursday if i remember rightly. It was a horrid end to a strange season, where we had been amongst the leaders all season until Chris Marsden got injured and we dropped off the pace, costing Eoin Hand his job, Ian Ross took over then Marsden returned like Lazarus along with getting Peter butler on loan and we had a storming finish to the season. If there had been another 3 games we would have gone straight up, but Butler's loan didn't cover the play offs and Marsden got injured again. Despite a very good draw at posh in the first leg we suffered from that so familiar defensive collywobbles we still suffer today in the second leg and were punished for it. Still to this day I think its the most gutted I have been to lose a game
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 1, 2024 23:40:56 GMT 1
Sometimes, you know when it’s all done and dusted. I remember the second leg of the pay offs v Barnsley at home, when at about 60 mins, you just knew. Similarly, after the second goal v Posh. But, we are nowhere near that yet. Loads of minutes left for us and all our relegation rivals to play. It’s all to play for and not defined by one poor choice in an extremely tight game. There’s still hope. There is hope, but what there isn't is enough desire on the pitch, there doesn't seem to be that passion to fight right to the end in every game, at this stage last season you could see it and feel it and I was 100% sure we were going to do it. We can stay up, but the team doesn't really look like they believe it, too many half hearted performances. Seen people say that Rotherham, Windies and Plymouth look worse than we do, are they? People are thinking, can we escape again?? has our luck run out?? and it looks like a lot of the players are thinking the same. To pull this off again we need belief on the pitch, right now there isn't enough, we need a desire to win, to run through brick walls to get over the line, right now its not there To pull this off again we need 100% effort, right now we are getting 50% its not enough
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Post by dxterrier on Apr 1, 2024 23:08:44 GMT 1
Milwall just beaten by rotherham, will come at us like a wounded animal
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 28, 2024 2:06:58 GMT 1
If we are still in the bottom 3 come teatime easter monday then I'm sorry I think we are down especially if there is a gap of 3 points or more so I went for rotherham, plymouth and us
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 19, 2024 2:39:20 GMT 1
I always thought if we slipped into the bottom 3 with less than 15 games left we would go down as I think its a massive blow confidence wise, self doubt sets in. While some of our escapes have been great they have all had some element of luck, and sooner or later luck runs out, oh its still possible that the international break will give AB time to get some steel into the squad, as thats whats needed but anymore performances like the last 2 and I doubt we will get to 40 points let alone the 50-54 needed. Seen a lot of people on here saying the squad is simply not good enough, I worry that the squad thinks its not good enough and look on the verge of giving up
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 12, 2024 18:40:37 GMT 1
Script is already written for this one, go 1 down early, throw everything at them, at least 2 penalty appeals, get one and miss late on, they go up other end 2-0, final whistle, mass meltdown How about this for a script, we go 3 up with 20mins to play we lose 4 - 3, 3 - 3 with 8 mins of injury time they score in the 9th. Plausible, long as you don't try make us believe Bojan gets our 3 goals
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 12, 2024 0:04:51 GMT 1
Did I imagine it (I was a lot younger!) or didn't they play Simply the Best by Tina Turner sometimes at Leeds Road I mean ... we were a middling third tier team with Tim "Coco the Clown" Clarke in goals ... so maybe not "better than all the rest" Yes they did, the last few seasons at Leeds Rd and before that it was You win again by the BeeGees
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 11, 2024 23:55:00 GMT 1
Script is already written for this one, go 1 down early, throw everything at them, at least 2 penalty appeals, get one and miss late on, they go up other end 2-0, final whistle, mass meltdown
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 10, 2024 14:35:02 GMT 1
Might be only one game, but the blow to our confidence and self belief could last into future games. Yes, some decisions have gone against us this half, but no one can defend this second half performance surely? Plus the blow to our GD which could be crucial with it being so tight
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 10, 2024 13:41:04 GMT 1
Why was the Zorg booked ? For taking his shirt off
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 10, 2024 13:34:36 GMT 1
Tackle of the season from Lees there
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Post by dxterrier on Mar 7, 2024 21:54:15 GMT 1
So sorry for your loss mate RIP Melc
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