| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... 09:49 - Nov 25 with 4184 views | violablu |
Preparing for life in League 1 with Chambo as player-manager.
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 09:55 - Nov 25 with 3574 views | WD19 |
Clearing up the mess after the civic reception yesterday to celebrate our FA Cup win last week. |  | | |
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| ITFC in 6 months' time you say? on 09:58 - Nov 25 with 3559 views | chicoazul |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 09:59 - Nov 25 with 3559 views | floridaboy |
God forbid that happens! If we go down and there is still half the season to go, would like to think Lambert would stay and Get us back up, just like he did up the road.
Just wish people would be a bit more positive. We are not down yet!!! | | | |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 09:59 - Nov 25 by floridaboy |
God forbid that happens! If we go down and there is still half the season to go, would like to think Lambert would stay and Get us back up, just like he did up the road.
Just wish people would be a bit more positive. We are not down yet!!! |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 10:02 - Nov 25 with 3544 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
I 100% think Lambert will remain in charge if we go down. |  |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 10:36 - Nov 25 with 3494 views | Guthrum |
Yes. Town having survived in the Championship with Lambert setting about organising his team for next season. |  |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 10:38 - Nov 25 with 3477 views | billlm |
Have to agree with guthrum, |  | | |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 10:46 - Nov 25 with 3455 views | Guthrum |
We're in a tricky situation. If we were still bottom at the end of March, that would be desperate.
Are people really saying it's impossible to make up a 6 point gap in more than half a season, with a dynamic manager, the team now full of fight and a transfer window opening in just over a month's time? | |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 10:46 - Nov 25 by Guthrum |
We're in a tricky situation. If we were still bottom at the end of March, that would be desperate.
Are people really saying it's impossible to make up a 6 point gap in more than half a season, with a dynamic manager, the team now full of fight and a transfer window opening in just over a month's time? |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... (n/t) on 11:01 - Nov 25 with 3414 views | Guthrum |
Momentum. People talk about a "new manager bounce" as if it guarantees wins. However, we had a squad who lost three on the trot. Even draws are an upturn from that.
If Lambert's bounce can carry us through to January without further significant damage, then there is a chance to reorganise and get in a player or two. Probably not £10m worth, but something.
If we can average a point per game (maybe one win to cover a couple of defeats), we will still be in touch. There are several teams - notably relegation rivals Bolton - with form worse than that.
Edit: It may not work out that way, but it isn't entirely rational to write us off as doomed yet. [Post edited 25 Nov 2018 11:03]
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 11:05 - Nov 25 with 3393 views | gtsb |
I think we'll go down and it won't even be close BUT I'm not one of those who thinks it will be disastrous for the club. I actually think it might be the rock bottom we need to hit. Lambert will stay and this club will rise again. On a side note I was talking to a Norwich fan I know last night and he said he loves the championship and the drama of it all and knows when/if they go up they lose some of that enjoyment as all they want to do is survive as they know they can't compete. Going by that analogy I actually think we'll have a more enjoyable season.....for once. |  | | |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... (n/t) on 11:01 - Nov 25 by Guthrum |
Momentum. People talk about a "new manager bounce" as if it guarantees wins. However, we had a squad who lost three on the trot. Even draws are an upturn from that.
If Lambert's bounce can carry us through to January without further significant damage, then there is a chance to reorganise and get in a player or two. Probably not £10m worth, but something.
If we can average a point per game (maybe one win to cover a couple of defeats), we will still be in touch. There are several teams - notably relegation rivals Bolton - with form worse than that.
Edit: It may not work out that way, but it isn't entirely rational to write us off as doomed yet. [Post edited 25 Nov 2018 11:03]
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| It's completely IRrational to write us off at this stage on 11:13 - Nov 25 with 3362 views | Dyland |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... (n/t) on 11:01 - Nov 25 by Guthrum |
Momentum. People talk about a "new manager bounce" as if it guarantees wins. However, we had a squad who lost three on the trot. Even draws are an upturn from that.
If Lambert's bounce can carry us through to January without further significant damage, then there is a chance to reorganise and get in a player or two. Probably not £10m worth, but something.
If we can average a point per game (maybe one win to cover a couple of defeats), we will still be in touch. There are several teams - notably relegation rivals Bolton - with form worse than that.
Edit: It may not work out that way, but it isn't entirely rational to write us off as doomed yet. [Post edited 25 Nov 2018 11:03]
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That's footy fans innit. Completely irrational half the time, clueless the rest of the time.
I include myself in that btw :) |  |
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| "Lambert will stay and this club will rise again" on 11:18 - Nov 25 with 3356 views | Dyland |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 11:05 - Nov 25 by gtsb |
I think we'll go down and it won't even be close BUT I'm not one of those who thinks it will be disastrous for the club. I actually think it might be the rock bottom we need to hit. Lambert will stay and this club will rise again. On a side note I was talking to a Norwich fan I know last night and he said he loves the championship and the drama of it all and knows when/if they go up they lose some of that enjoyment as all they want to do is survive as they know they can't compete. Going by that analogy I actually think we'll have a more enjoyable season.....for once. |
That's one possible outcome. Not the most likely one unfortunately.
Come on ffs. You think it will be BETTER to be relegated and try and come back, than survive and push on from this division? It's a baffling viewpoint.
It's not a nailed on certainty and while there is still more than a snifter of hope I suggest we all get some positive vibes going and fight for every little scrap, to the end, all the way.
As I said the other day, I understand the resignation to relegation, I feel it myself and have to kick myself out of it and remember we're not dead yet. Relegation would be nothing but an abject disaster for ITFC. Looking for a silver lining is cognitive dissonance working in top gear. [Post edited 25 Nov 2018 11:24]
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 11:21 - Nov 25 with 3337 views | homer_123 |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 10:46 - Nov 25 by Guthrum |
We're in a tricky situation. If we were still bottom at the end of March, that would be desperate.
Are people really saying it's impossible to make up a 6 point gap in more than half a season, with a dynamic manager, the team now full of fight and a transfer window opening in just over a month's time? |
It's certainly possible Guthers. There is one slight issue in that we still haven't won a game under Lambert. At the risk of re repeating myself, all the great work he is doing is moot unless we win and get some confidence.
We look better than under Hurst but, oddly, suffer the same problem, it's just in spells. |  |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... (n/t) on 11:21 - Nov 25 with 3339 views | Guthrum |
Not disagreeing with you about the state of the club. Altho some of that has to do with circumstance (massive inflation), not just the ownership.
Statistics are great for illustrating broad trends, but there will always be anomalies which buck those. Especially in sport, where each game is a discrete event with its own set of circumstances. Catch a team on an off-day or having made the wrong selections, it is quite possible to win against someone much stronger on paper.
Town only need to do that a few times - while showing consistency ourselves - and we will be in with a fighting chance.
We handled WBA better than high-flying Leeds did, came very close to snatching a draw. | |
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| "Lambert will stay and this club will rise again" on 11:22 - Nov 25 with 3333 views | Coco |
| "Lambert will stay and this club will rise again" on 11:18 - Nov 25 by Dyland |
That's one possible outcome. Not the most likely one unfortunately.
Come on ffs. You think it will be BETTER to be relegated and try and come back, than survive and push on from this division? It's a baffling viewpoint.
It's not a nailed on certainty and while there is still more than a snifter of hope I suggest we all get some positive vibes going and fight for every little scrap, to the end, all the way.
As I said the other day, I understand the resignation to relegation, I feel it myself and have to kick myself out of it and remember we're not dead yet. Relegation would be nothing but an abject disaster for ITFC. Looking for a silver lining is cognitive dissonance working in top gear. [Post edited 25 Nov 2018 11:24]
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If we go down, we go down and will have to deal with it. The club probably won’t fold so we may as well be supporters and and stop feeling sorry for ourselves and strap in for the rollercoaster. We’re the underdog let’s start revelling in it. Coyb. |  |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... (n/t) on 11:25 - Nov 25 with 3314 views | homer_123 |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... (n/t) on 11:21 - Nov 25 by Guthrum |
Not disagreeing with you about the state of the club. Altho some of that has to do with circumstance (massive inflation), not just the ownership.
Statistics are great for illustrating broad trends, but there will always be anomalies which buck those. Especially in sport, where each game is a discrete event with its own set of circumstances. Catch a team on an off-day or having made the wrong selections, it is quite possible to win against someone much stronger on paper.
Town only need to do that a few times - while showing consistency ourselves - and we will be in with a fighting chance.
We handled WBA better than high-flying Leeds did, came very close to snatching a draw. |
I think you are being generous with regards to WBA, though that is football. | |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 11:27 - Nov 25 with 3305 views | Guthrum |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 11:21 - Nov 25 by homer_123 |
It's certainly possible Guthers. There is one slight issue in that we still haven't won a game under Lambert. At the risk of re repeating myself, all the great work he is doing is moot unless we win and get some confidence.
We look better than under Hurst but, oddly, suffer the same problem, it's just in spells. |
Rome was not built in a day. It took McCarthy four or five games to sort out Jewell's mess. We may not have won, but neither have we been spanked 6 - 0.
One thing we do have on our side is time. 28 games to overcome the deficit. | |
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| "Lambert will stay and this club will rise again" on 11:29 - Nov 25 with 3299 views | gtsb |
| "Lambert will stay and this club will rise again" on 11:18 - Nov 25 by Dyland |
That's one possible outcome. Not the most likely one unfortunately.
Come on ffs. You think it will be BETTER to be relegated and try and come back, than survive and push on from this division? It's a baffling viewpoint.
It's not a nailed on certainty and while there is still more than a snifter of hope I suggest we all get some positive vibes going and fight for every little scrap, to the end, all the way.
As I said the other day, I understand the resignation to relegation, I feel it myself and have to kick myself out of it and remember we're not dead yet. Relegation would be nothing but an abject disaster for ITFC. Looking for a silver lining is cognitive dissonance working in top gear. [Post edited 25 Nov 2018 11:24]
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I never said it would be better, I said I don't think it will be as bad as many have predicted. | | | |
| fair enough on 11:34 - Nov 25 with 3281 views | Dyland |
| "Lambert will stay and this club will rise again" on 11:29 - Nov 25 by gtsb |
I never said it would be better, I said I don't think it will be as bad as many have predicted. |
The subject line is still a pretty hefty supposition on your part though :) | |
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| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 11:35 - Nov 25 with 3278 views | Whymarkmariner |
Unfortunately you now have not only a situation in the Premier League where you have a top half dozen and the rest fighting relegation, you also have a Championship that consists of the teams that are relegated with vast sums of money and hold on to Premier league players or you have teams that are well run, that genuinely invest decent money and then you have teams like Town. With an owner who as soon as he gets a decent asset sells him, tells the manager to bring in someone at a fraction of the price and then has the cheek to say the money has been spent on wages. ME came in thinking he would see Premier League football within two or three seasons, through bad Managers he hasn't achieved that. He employed McCarthy on a very good wage to get us out of the Doh-Dah and to balance the books every season. Once fans became totally fed up with Micky Mouth he was fortunate that MM's tenure was up and the cry was for an up and coming guy, hence PH. Unfortunately for him yet another poor manager or at least one that wasn't aware of what was needed to survive and so we come to our current situation. Not good, but until mathematically impossible we can't say that relegation is inevitable. | | | |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 12:36 - Nov 25 with 3145 views | Burwell_Blue |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 10:46 - Nov 25 by Guthrum |
We're in a tricky situation. If we were still bottom at the end of March, that would be desperate.
Are people really saying it's impossible to make up a 6 point gap in more than half a season, with a dynamic manager, the team now full of fight and a transfer window opening in just over a month's time? |
How about if those around us change managers too, what happens then? Is our new manager bounce cancelled out? |  | | |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 19:24 - Nov 25 with 2845 views | Guthrum |
| Crystal ball: ITFC in 6 months time... on 12:36 - Nov 25 by Burwell_Blue |
How about if those around us change managers too, what happens then? Is our new manager bounce cancelled out? |
Then we shall still be a few games ahead of them in the process. The "new manager bounce" is, in reality, just the effect of reorganisation and perhaps a boost to morale from someone coming in to sort out a shambolic situation with the team stuck in a rut of poor results. Fixing the problems and finding a system which works will take time for them just as it is for us.
Really, I'm quite surprised Bolton haven't pulled the trigger already. | |
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