Who thought this team would do well this season?

I got daft? Just because I said you come across as thinking you're the better fan?

See, you can't help having little digs can you?

Lots of people know me. Doesn't mean I have to agree with them on a message board.

 

I said we would finish 12th, i know nowt.

 

When have I said I’m better than anyone? I haven’t.

You’ve had a pop at me with no reason to, after asking people for opinions.

On top of that, you’ve posted nonsense about me. I, like many others on here changed my username after moving from the location that my name referred to. Hardly a crime. Nor is it a crime to one day say - under this username - that maybe it’s time to call it a day.

We have differing views on the club. So what? Challenge them if you like. Argue all day about our views. But I find it pretty pathetic that you’d try and lie about my actions to fit your own view and even sadder that you think that what I posted initially in this thread equates to thinking I’m a better fan. I’m as critical as the next man about the mistakes made. I just don’t want to protest or bleat on here day in day out about how I’m not coming anymore.

Let’s shake hands and move on.

 

Me, I posted during the 1st match saying we were going to be fine, no worries. still think we'll be ok.

 

Why would you want to shake hands with someone you've described as 'sad'?

I think you've got me mixed up with someone else.

 

I was very optimistic that we could do well with Daniel in charge but this was tempered a little by player sales and their replacements. My optimism went through the roof after Fulham but has gradually evaporated completely as the season has gone by.

 

I thought we’d start slowly and come together and take us about 10 games to gel and then start to look OK and survive with a bottom half finish.
Didn’t expect to beat Fulham either.

 

The answer to how well it seemed we might do this time round, at the start of the season, is basically the same as being asked "are you an optimist or a pessimist?".

With a modicum of your own knowledge you can put to use, to try and fog or clear things up.

It never works.

 

I had full confidence in Daniel Stendel to do a decent job for us, predicting after a slow start we'd steadily improve, finishing around 14th. Unfortunately, I also backed the board, having full confidence that after leading us to one of the best seasons in the club's history, they would do everything they could to adhere to Daniel's requests when it came to the size , shape and content of this season's squad. I won't make that mistake again. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

 

What if you're normally an optometrist?

 

Best to look away at the moment.

 

I was pleasantly surprised by the Fulham game both in result and performance. I think it delayed my disolusionment but not for long.

I didn't have a problem with the signings we made but i was worried that there wasn't enough experience added. I was ok with Lindsay sale as it seemed to be inevitable and we always expect some outgoings. I got more worried when Pinnock went. I feared we would have unknowns, inexperience, and no time to develop a defensive unit. The whole 'building' of a team seemed to come secondary to the asset sales. So while i was ok with the players in, i didn't feel it was enough and i had some reservations. The sale of Moore then was the big hit. Selling him was one point but to not have a like for like replacement in terms of goals then did get me worried.

I lived in hope. Never a good strategy, is hope. For me i then felt we had shot ourselves in the foot and we were to relive a season wallowing in the bottom 3. I didn't expect to be so bad and for so many mistakes to continue for this long. Carlisle game showed we were lacking in experience. I started to lose faith in our ability to manage our club way back in September.

 

If you look at the dates, it says Moore left us after we beat Fulham. Maybe we should have taken the hit and lost to them, not sold Moore and won a few more games.

Having said that, we'd need better than Moore to outscore the opposition most weeks.

 

yep, but we needed someone who can score as a striker as well as Cauley. Moore gave us that, if not perfect he was a good fit and played well off Cauley. Problem is our desire to bring in lower league unknowns is high risk. Not saying they won't work but i am a believe that the backbone of any squad needs some experience at this level and some quality

 

I was disappointed that we lost Pinnock and Moore. I was never Lindsay's biggest fan and didn't think he'd cut it at this level.

The Championship is an unforgiving place. I thought we'd be in for a rough ride, but was looking forward to seeing the players develop, gel, and start to come to terms with Stendel's system. I thought we would be able to hold our own against enough teams to be able to scrape through the season and just about survive. But I did worry that we had gone for quantity over quality, as too many players seemed to be more like U23s rather than first-teamers.

I expected Fulham to hammer us.

 

I thought we would struggle, but in was definitely turned by the Fulham game and thought maybe we had enough to compete.
The sale and I replacement for Moore was a major alarm bell for me though. That departure more than any other in the summer underlined the policy.
Without getting into a what can be done debate I think it is now perfectly clear that our current transfer policy will not allow us to compete even at the bottom end of this league.

 

Agree completely,

 

Nudger.

 

I honestly thought we would win more than one game almost 4 months in.

 

I would have put my house on it mate. Glad I didn't though, it's frosty outside.