I think games like last Tuesday can work in your favour if you learn from them. No prizes are handed out before Xmas. Don't need to hit the front until the final straight. No need to panic in the first mile of a marathon.
The only thing random about Nob end is the fact that they've only won 1 home match against a poor Massive 1-0 whereas they've won 5 on the road.
But that's only 3 points and we have 32 games to go. Sir Alex never worried unduly about dropped points here and there before Xmas, he got his squad all primed and finely tuned for the second half of the season. And we are in a league where anyone can beat anyone, the teams above us are dropping points too. Fleetwood, Ipswich and Sunderland last night for example. And Portsmouth.
I'd agree one game at a time. I'd also question Accys squad depth compared to ours. With a hectic schedule that might play into our hands.
Oh I don't particularly see Accy as a long term threat this season but it would still be useful to know what the league looked tike should all teams have played the same number of games.
Yep, I don't buy into that. I remember City pipping United with Agueros last minute goal on the final day of the season. Ferguson will have looked back at that point in time and realised that a couple of stupidly dropped points early in the season cost him. We may well do the same come the end of the season. Of course that can be said about about every team but you can't control what other teams do, only what you do. Of course you accept you are gonna drop points but it's harder to take when you are two up at half time.
Of course it was hard to take and I would rather have the points. But I think there's a bigger picture, the way we lost may even prove to be a good thing across the season as a whole. No prizes handed out this time of year. 8 points from 11 games at the start of 2006/7. Lost 7-0 at Barnet in November 2000. Sack McMahon!
The point is that at this point in time and for the last couple of months we are playing catch up. Yep, the teams at the top end of the table are all dropping points so that's why it's vital we don't drop points like we did in the situation with Donny. Come the end of the season it may not matter but right now it does. You dismiss those three points dropped as if they don't matter. Trust me, the manager and players will still be hurting over that.
Of course they are hurting - that was my last point. Hurt is a driver.
Statistical faffery! It's the table at the end of the season that matters.
Historically weve always played catch up and that's why we have a great playoff record. We go into them on a high and not disappointed because weve slumped at the end of the season. Dropped points are always disappointing, of course, but we can't win every week. What I'd take from the Donny game is the positive of comprehensively outplaying them and the lesson of how we can't just switch off thinking the game is already won.
Oft quoted cliche which is absolute tosh. You only get to where you are at the end of the season by getting results in all the weeks before it. That's why managers get sacked during the season. Because of their league position.
It may have given them the positive to go out and be more determined but it doesn't escape from the fact is that from the position we were in it was three points dropped. And that means it makes the game of catch up that bit harder.
We're going up as f&**ing champions, believe
Hmmm, friendlies, where the bigger teams put in 110%
There's only one occasion where we've gone into a play off campaign having slumped towards the end, and look at what the result of that was.
Same old entrenched position. Not listening.
I did say to a certain extent because they are way above our level but we did cause them problems.
Classic Voy. Tell me about your entrenched position with Madine. It's pretty clear you don't like him, you don't want him to succeed and you're happy when he has a bad game because you think it backs up your point. The fact it might cost us points makes you feel better. Was it you talking about the bigger picture?
that's not true either!
Oh I think it very much is.
You want to think it is. You've got a drawer in your filing cabinet devoted to it.
I have. Filed just under it is the one where you stated you're happy for us to just be a L1 team.You want to think it is. You've got a drawer in your filing cabinet devoted to it.
Another comment isolated from the context and filed away to be used out of context when it suits.I have. Filed just under it is the one where you stated you're happy for us to just be a L1 team.
How can something like that be out of context? It was said whilst Sadler was here and with our current manager.Another comment isolated from the context and filed away to be used out of context when it suits.
You're the most literal person I've ever come across.
Last Tuesday was a shocker of a game. I've not felt like that since Blackpool v Bradford City play off semi all those years ago.
Keep the faith Ghost
Of course in hindsight have we have drawn 4 of those 7 defeats we'd be right up there and so a draw away from home and taking two points off a home side above us should also be seen as a positive,
It is. None of them in great form results wise so maybe with Pompey at home you'd give them the edge.
Hull lost to the team now top. Not a shock. Lincoln have had a wobble, back on track yesterday. They bought well. Crewe have a variety of very good young players and a clear way of playing that they are very good at. It's a very tight division, anybody can beat anybody. It's a cliche but it's particularly true of league one this season.
