| Current position 17:54 - Feb 5 with 6453 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
I know we are on poor form and cannot beat a top side.
However, at the start of the season I wonder how many of us would have accepted 2 points off the top two, 5 points off top and none of the top 3 left to play?
If (and it is a big if) we can recover our form promotion is there for the taking. Come on Town!
Nobody said it would be easy ... |  |
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| Current position on 18:43 - Feb 5 with 3841 views | Pecker |
| Current position on 18:40 - Feb 5 by BlueBadger |
The Fan Experience at PR last season was, according to all the superfans, much, much better when Lambert came in. We still got relegated in the limpest fashion possible. I fear you're overestimating the influence that a bit of a gee-up from the stands can have. [Post edited 5 Feb 2020 18:44]
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You are obviously spoiling for a fight (of words). I am a nice guy so go pick on someone else. Good evening to you Sir. |  | | |
| Current position on 18:43 - Feb 5 with 3838 views | Herbivore |
| Current position on 18:33 - Feb 5 by footers |
What's the betting on us being here next season?
I am more confused as a Town fan now than I have been in a long while. That's probably down to Lambert being equally confused at the helm. |
My head and gut are both telling me we lose in the play offs. |  |
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| Current position on 18:44 - Feb 5 with 3829 views | BlueBadger |
| Current position on 18:43 - Feb 5 by Pecker |
You are obviously spoiling for a fight (of words). I am a nice guy so go pick on someone else. Good evening to you Sir. |
That's the most polite 'I have no answer to that, you are totally correct BB' I've ever seen. |  |
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| Current position on 18:45 - Feb 5 with 3825 views | BlueBadger |
| Current position on 18:44 - Feb 5 by BlueBadger |
That's the most polite 'I have no answer to that, you are totally correct BB' I've ever seen. |
Bloody hell, is this what Bluefish feels like ALL THE TIME? No wonder he's barking. | |
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| Current position on 18:46 - Feb 5 with 3818 views | footers |
| Current position on 18:43 - Feb 5 by Herbivore |
My head and gut are both telling me we lose in the play offs. |
Me too, sadly. The only identity or style of play we've had this term is over a few games, the last of which we've lost, badly. God knows where we go from here. Lost. |  |
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| Current position on 18:46 - Feb 5 with 3819 views | Garv |
| Current position on 18:38 - Feb 5 by BlueBadger |
At this point, the start to this season looks like Lambert's 'blip in form' rather than all the winless runs. |
You post this more than Lambert says he played in Germany. |  |
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| Current position on 18:47 - Feb 5 with 3816 views | footers |
| Current position on 18:44 - Feb 5 by BlueBadger |
That's the most polite 'I have no answer to that, you are totally correct BB' I've ever seen. |
You leave Pecker alone, he's a good man and upstanding member of this board. | |
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| Current position on 18:47 - Feb 5 with 3817 views | BlueBadger |
| Current position on 18:46 - Feb 5 by Garv |
You post this more than Lambert says he played in Germany. |
No, I post about us getting promoted in spite of Lambert not because of more than he bangs on about his time winning in Germany, like the Budgie he is. | |
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| Current position on 18:51 - Feb 5 with 3801 views | factual_blue |
| Current position on 18:19 - Feb 5 by Pecker |
I just want out of this league. Don't care if we do it with an own goal in the last minute of the last game. |
So you'd be happy with League Two? |  |
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| Current position on 18:52 - Feb 5 with 3804 views | PJH |
| Current position on 18:38 - Feb 5 by BlueBadger |
At this point, the start to this season looks like Lambert's 'blip in form' rather than all the winless runs. |
With the playing staff that we have got I still think that the early season us (results wise) is and should be the real us.
There were bound to be some iffy results along the way but the two months or whatever it was without a league win was ridiculous.
I expected us to go back up quite comfortably and early season it looked like we would go back up quite comfortably but what happened between early November and January and what happened in the last two games means that if we do it it will not be quite comfortably. |  | | |
| Current position on 18:54 - Feb 5 with 3799 views | Pecker |
| Current position on 18:51 - Feb 5 by factual_blue |
So you'd be happy with League Two? |
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| Current position on 18:56 - Feb 5 with 3799 views | Pecker |
| Current position on 18:47 - Feb 5 by footers |
You leave Pecker alone, he's a good man and upstanding member of this board. |
I can only wish to be held in the same esteem as you Footer old chap. | | | |
| Current position on 19:03 - Feb 5 with 3792 views | Garv |
| Current position on 18:29 - Feb 5 by Herbivore |
Our form since November is more than just a bit of a struggle. We've been lower midtable form for three months or more. [Post edited 5 Feb 2020 18:29]
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And yet we're 4th and could be top in 2 or 3 games time. That's the point, if we're looking at league position we can't really complain that much, as anyone expecting us to walk the league, even during the early months, were silly. | |
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| Current position on 19:06 - Feb 5 with 3787 views | BlueBadger |
| Current position on 19:03 - Feb 5 by Garv |
And yet we're 4th and could be top in 2 or 3 games time. That's the point, if we're looking at league position we can't really complain that much, as anyone expecting us to walk the league, even during the early months, were silly. |
You're presenting 4th place in the third division as if we should be grateful and organising an open-top bus ride. We were 7 points clear with a game in hand at the top of the table, which was then spunked away on endless squad, formation and style rotation to leave us three points above 7th. [Post edited 5 Feb 2020 19:09]
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| Current position on 19:13 - Feb 5 with 3774 views | Keaneish |
| Current position on 18:02 - Feb 5 by clive_baker |
On paper, our run in could be fruitful and it's certainly all to play for. It's less the league position that concerns me at this stage, it's more our style (or lack of). This year I would've hoped we would see a rebuild and reset, with an obvious strategic direction and identity on the pitch, but I haven't. All I've witnessed is a very much self inflicted derailing of a campaign that had shown some early promise and a side bereft of confidence. Even if we do sh1thouse promotion, we'll be coming straight back down on this evidence. |
I don’t know if we’re bereft of confidence, we just seem to have been playing within ourselves all season. We have ridged passages of play that break down and then look lost for ideas but then again, at times, we look like we could cut teams open at will.
The most bizarre season with no decipherable logic. |  |
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| Current position on 19:17 - Feb 5 with 3775 views | Garv |
| Current position on 19:06 - Feb 5 by BlueBadger |
You're presenting 4th place in the third division as if we should be grateful and organising an open-top bus ride. We were 7 points clear with a game in hand at the top of the table, which was then spunked away on endless squad, formation and style rotation to leave us three points above 7th. [Post edited 5 Feb 2020 19:09]
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Yep, 4th isn't top, hence 'can't really complain that much'.* There's grounds for complaints depending on what your expectations were.
But do you really think being top by 7 points, 8 wins and 3 draws from 11 games, was a realistic expectation at the start of August and form that was likely to continue?
*again, if we're talking purely league position. | |
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| Current position on 19:20 - Feb 5 with 3769 views | Herbivore |
| Current position on 19:03 - Feb 5 by Garv |
And yet we're 4th and could be top in 2 or 3 games time. That's the point, if we're looking at league position we can't really complain that much, as anyone expecting us to walk the league, even during the early months, were silly. |
I expected us to be pushing towards 2 points per game, which is usually needed to go up. We're a fair bit shy of that and miles off it since our fast start. | |
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| Current position on 19:22 - Feb 5 with 3769 views | BlueBadger |
| Current position on 19:17 - Feb 5 by Garv |
Yep, 4th isn't top, hence 'can't really complain that much'.* There's grounds for complaints depending on what your expectations were.
But do you really think being top by 7 points, 8 wins and 3 draws from 11 games, was a realistic expectation at the start of August and form that was likely to continue?
*again, if we're talking purely league position. |
We probably shouldn't have collapsed to the point that we have, rather than going on a winless run that nearly equalled that of Keane and Hurst we should have been consolidating. No-one was expected 'undefeated all season' they were kind of hoping for a settled style of play, first XI and formation. Which given that the manager spent all his time last season effectively treating his games as pre-season games, given the intensity the team generally played with, you'd have thought he'd have gotten down after slightly less time than nearly 18 months in charge. [Post edited 5 Feb 2020 19:47]
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| Current position on 19:57 - Feb 5 with 3741 views | Illinoisblue |
Similarly, if we’d had a terrible start but then went on a great run to get to our current position we’d all be buzzing. |  |
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| Current position on 20:00 - Feb 5 with 3736 views | Illinoisblue |
| Current position on 18:29 - Feb 5 by Herbivore |
Our form since November is more than just a bit of a struggle. We've been lower midtable form for three months or more. [Post edited 5 Feb 2020 18:29]
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Isn’t it 6 wins in 26 if you include cup games. Barely better than relegation form | |
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| Current position on 20:44 - Feb 5 with 3716 views | braveblue |
Form is key. Bottom half at present. Couple of injuries and we revert to back five with two holding - lose 4 goals!! Honestly fear we will not make play offs. |  | | |
| Current position on 20:51 - Feb 5 with 3703 views | MaySixth |
I thought we would finish about 12th so I personally think we are overachieving.
Long way to go this season, people having a meltdown in February is a bit weird. |  |
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| Current position on 21:15 - Feb 5 with 3688 views | Herbivore |
| Current position on 20:51 - Feb 5 by MaySixth |
I thought we would finish about 12th so I personally think we are overachieving.
Long way to go this season, people having a meltdown in February is a bit weird. |
You thought we'd do worse than all the sides that came down in 2018 and all the sides that came down in 2017 too? How come? | |
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| Current position on 22:48 - Feb 5 with 3669 views | LankHenners |
| Current position on 19:57 - Feb 5 by Illinoisblue |
Similarly, if we’d had a terrible start but then went on a great run to get to our current position we’d all be buzzing. |
That's the thing, had we taken this season as a proper rebuild with more youth players, trying to put together an identity etc. and taken a while to get going but now attack the top spots with momentum we'd be feeling much better.
As it is, we started fast whilst weaker teams were finding their feet then turned a chain gun on our feet and are now in a situation where we could really fck this up. |  |
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| Current position on 03:41 - Feb 6 with 3626 views | Illinoisblue |
| Current position on 22:48 - Feb 5 by LankHenners |
That's the thing, had we taken this season as a proper rebuild with more youth players, trying to put together an identity etc. and taken a while to get going but now attack the top spots with momentum we'd be feeling much better.
As it is, we started fast whilst weaker teams were finding their feet then turned a chain gun on our feet and are now in a situation where we could really fck this up. |
The lack of identity is almost as troubling as our poor results of the last three months. I’m
not sure what we are, what Lambert is trying to do, or even how good or bad we are. | |
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