Forest, Watford, Leicester, Reading, QPR. Although yes I'd like a point or 2 but you can't argue that these are tough games where dodgy decisions have gone against us in every game so far. Just want us to show more ambition at home. Next two games against potential champions so lets not have a knee kirk reaction.
Re: also Wigan & Blackpool I get your point but didn't we pick points up against forest, Watford, Leicester and blackpool last season ?
Wigan aren't exactly dominating are they? Let's face it, we've gone into each of those games beaten by being so worried about the opposition. Whereas last season we thought we could beat anyone...
think that's the most baffling thing about it all, last season he came up with a formation, a tactic and a style of play that not only sorted him and the team but gave us some thoroughly entertaining matches, but for some reason he got to the summer and suddenly decided the best way forward was to rip up all his plans and do summat completely different. As many have said if it aint broke don't fecking fix it
Wonder if flitcroft has been hypnotised from last season , gone from positive to defending , in his own words he wants galvanising and re energising
Yeah but its about time they stopped making dodgy decisions, at the end of the day making the decision to go and play for a point, with a team that as conceded 22 goals in 8 games when your playing a team in the top 6 is suicidal, and if he paid for that decision with his job i don't think he could really argue.
Some need to get real, I know it's annoying that we had a system that worked and for whatever reason that notepad has been thrown away. Losing Golbourne was a loss, no idea why we think that clubs are not allowed to turn down bids for players. But going away from home with a team with a poor goal difference and playing for a point last season kept us up, if we opened up against Forest, Cardiff and Palace for example we wouldn't be in this league. Just find it annoying we give teams far too much respect. Blackpool, Bournemouth were winnable and as far as I'm concerned every home game is winnable as proved by Hull, Leicester etc last season.
No, we knew we had to win every game to stay up and thats the difference. We have a manager and team that may need all that pressure to perform
Talking to a massive last night in boozer...They've dropped points at home to Millwall, Yeovil, Donny...
I've said in the past what's the difference between winning now and at the business end. Teams who do well in a season Don't have periods when they feel they don't have to not win. It's no good playing for half a season then see it as success when we stay up.
We've done that every year since coming back up though. Play well for half a season when the pressure is there to get results and have half a season of playing for draws. Under Davey and co we had great first halves which saw us in the top half of the table and then bizarrely in december the manager started talking about only needing another 10 points to stay up and completely switched to playing for draws to scramble over the line. In other seasons we've set off really poorly and played for draws until christmas when they realised that they were going to go down when suddenly they started playing for wins and got the results needed. Perhaps football is easier when the pressure is on because your hand is forced and harder when it isnt?
