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  1. Liquoricetyke

    Liquoricetyke Active Member

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    Great point today.

    To go to a team who could have gone top tonight without...

    Benson
    Anderson
    Kitchen
    Morris
    Oullare
    Williams

    ...is a great achievement.

    So far, we have played the teams currently lying in...

    3rd
    4th
    5th
    7th
    9th
    10th
    13th

    ...and still come away with a point a game.

    Once we've let the players gel a little, get a few injured players back, understand the managers style more and get a settled starting 11, I think we are going to be fine this year.

    Last year was a slow burn...you never know!
     
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    dodgey defence Well-Known Member

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    You should be a politician :D
     
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    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    And next we have the team in 8th. We do seem to have a slightly trickier than average start to the season.
     
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    dodgey defence Well-Known Member

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    And if they beat us we've been beaten by the team in 5th blah blah blah, league tables don't mean anything yet.
     
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    Stephen Dawson Well-Known Member

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    Soon we'll have played a team in 16th etc. I can understand the reasoning but I find it stupid taking the attitude a defeats o.k today they're above us in table.
     
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    lk311 Well-Known Member

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    Tell the Forest fans that ;)
     
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    redrum Banned Idiot

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    Blackburn were a basket case club pre season didn't make a signing skint and sold there best player. I keep hearing excuses, but we never beat Luton, bournmouth have millions, stoke are in good form etc league tables mean nothing this early. Its time to stop the excuses improve the performances and get some points blackburn should be seen as a winnable game.
     
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    dodgey defence Well-Known Member

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    Forest are in free fall and should be worried but win a few games in a row and it will quickly change their league position.
     
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    redrum Banned Idiot

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    Your even using the fact we played Cardiff and they were 3rd on the opening day just down to the fact there name begins with the letter C. Nothing to do with football come on tables don't mean anything at minute.
     
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    lk311 Well-Known Member

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    It’ll mean a lot to the fans though, and probably Houghton who will be lucky to survive.
    All joking aside, the table can and will change
     
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    dodgey defence Well-Known Member

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    I thought Houghton would have done a good job there but like you say it looks like he won't last much longer.
     
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    I thought the mantra was... No point looking at the table until a least ten games in.. except when it suits our point..
    The league table will ebb and flow as always
     
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    Why is everyone calling him Houghton? It's not even pronounced like that?!? o_Oo_O
     
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    I don't think it's so much the general attitude to defeats, more the draws. In isolation, I'd have taken a draw before each of the Cardiff, QPR, Birmingham and Stoke games. But we do need to start winning.
     
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    If we avoid defeat at the weekend we'll have had a better start than last season.
     
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    Because he's Great.
     
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    We always used to finish mid-table in the old League 2. I'd be happy with that - keeping clear of the relegation battle and having a tilt at the play-offs now and then. Next 4/5 games will be a good barometer. We're miles off the top three teams this year, but so are most clubs.
     
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    Liquoricetyke Active Member

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    Those are the positions they are in now after 7 games, meaning we haven't played any of the "out of form" teams yet and still took a decent points tally.
     
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    If we'd have won all our games we'd be top. If we'd lost them all we'd be bottom. Funny old game......
     
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    I'll be disappointed if we don't go all out to win Satdi, we should have the confidence after the Stoke performance. The look of concentration on Woodrow face , I reckon he's got more in his pocket when it comes to free kicks.
     
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