| Keep the faith 16:13 - Feb 18 with 2593 views | Herbivore |
I've seen a lot of people comment when last season's epic run in is mentioned that doing it at this level will be really, really tough, and that is of course correct. Worth noting though that our first 14 games this season yielded 11 wins, 2 draws, and 1 defeat for a total of 35 points. Match that again at the end of the season and we'll finish on 101 points and I'd be staggered if that's not enough for second place. It's going to be hard, we've got some tricky fixtures to come, but our experience of going on extended runs to close out the season coupled with the confidence that we can do so at this level will be a huge plus psychologically over the coming months. |  |
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| Keep the faith on 16:18 - Feb 18 with 2530 views | BlueBadger |
42 POINTS 42 GOALS |  |
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| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 with 2513 views | ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |  |
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| Keep the faith on 16:21 - Feb 18 with 2520 views | GlasgowBlue |
I think we are more than capable of repeating that early season form. But it still may not be enough.
Leeds and Southampton were stumbling around for form early doors but they look relentless. now. 4 teams could finish on 100+ points. |  |
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| Keep the faith on 16:34 - Feb 18 with 2462 views | Garv |
Could be something to be said for the fact that McKenna has been in this (very similar) position with us before, none of the other three managers have with their clubs. |  |
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| Keep the faith on 16:55 - Feb 18 with 2394 views | Jimmy86 |
| Keep the faith on 16:21 - Feb 18 by GlasgowBlue |
I think we are more than capable of repeating that early season form. But it still may not be enough.
Leeds and Southampton were stumbling around for form early doors but they look relentless. now. 4 teams could finish on 100+ points. |
I think we had our blip at the wrong time, in that, Southampton and Leeds then really kicked on and went up a gear, having been less than convincing earlier on in the season...
I call it a blip, but we still didn't lose an awful lot in that time and similar to last season it was draws that were costing us... It's one of those where you question whether in that run you'd have lost a few more and won a few, instead of so many draws and whether we'd be better off as a result, but I think not losing is a good trait | | | |
| Keep the faith on 16:58 - Feb 18 with 2365 views | Churchman |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
There is nothing wrong with having faith in a team on 66 points after 32 games that’s lost only 4 games all season. It may be unlikely given how well the competition is playing, but it is possible. Why not? It may disappoint you, but our team is a good one.
Delusion is thinking the football world should be halcyon place it once was - Local business men and rich people owning clubs like little fiefdoms, sepia coloured football, flat caps, Sheffield Wednesday players taking a bribe, people knowing their place, Churchmans sh£thouse steaming out of both ends on a cold day from the fetid trough, players paid a pittance and happy with it along with a sponge of freezing water from an ARP bucket down the shorts when injured.
Insanity is wanting those days back - despite my love of 70s football, music, fashion and window cake. [Post edited 18 Feb 2024 17:01]
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| Keep the faith on 17:01 - Feb 18 with 2370 views | StokieBlue |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
Living in France with that lovely produce and wine and this relentless negativity is something you consider a good use of your time.
Very odd indeed.
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| Keep the faith on 17:04 - Feb 18 with 2325 views | Churchman |
| Keep the faith on 17:01 - Feb 18 by StokieBlue |
Living in France with that lovely produce and wine and this relentless negativity is something you consider a good use of your time.
Very odd indeed.
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They do eat some rubbish in France. Garden pests in shells, chopped up animal heads in jelly. Maybe Mr Happy has chewed on a few too many eyeballs. | | | |
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| Keep the faith on 17:13 - Feb 18 with 2272 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Keep the faith on 16:55 - Feb 18 by Jimmy86 |
I think we had our blip at the wrong time, in that, Southampton and Leeds then really kicked on and went up a gear, having been less than convincing earlier on in the season...
I call it a blip, but we still didn't lose an awful lot in that time and similar to last season it was draws that were costing us... It's one of those where you question whether in that run you'd have lost a few more and won a few, instead of so many draws and whether we'd be better off as a result, but I think not losing is a good trait |
The one win in nine was a killer. If only we could have turned a couple of those draws into wins we would still be second. | |
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| Keep the faith on 17:23 - Feb 18 with 2218 views | _clive_baker_ |
Definitely every reason to have a lot of faith, regardless of how this season shakes out. But you're also right that faith in finishing top 2 should absolutely still be there.
Ultimately if you distil this now to a 14 game 'mini season', if we do what we did in the first 14 of the season we'll add another 35 points to our tally and finish on 101. Of course you would get very good odds on us achieving 2.5ppg from here, but it's not like we aren't capable of winning these games.
Big week coming up, the fact we could be sat here this time next week on 72 points from 34 games is ludicrous, and that would very much leave us right in the mix going in to the final 12, with a full week to prep for Plymouth to kick that off. |  | | |
| Keep the faith on 17:23 - Feb 18 with 2211 views | nodge_blue |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
Give us a B_U_D_G_I_E
What have you got..... |  |
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| Keep the faith on 17:29 - Feb 18 with 2183 views | Aviator |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
Surely that would need two fine lines. | | | |
| Keep the faith on 17:30 - Feb 18 with 2177 views | Illinoisblue |
| Keep the faith on 17:13 - Feb 18 by GlasgowBlue |
The one win in nine was a killer. If only we could have turned a couple of those draws into wins we would still be second. |
The Stoke and QPR games really stand out as missed opportunities given the form of those two. But if you look at that blip as a whole, played Leicester twice, Leeds away, had players away for internationals, had illness and injury in the squad. To still be right in the mix is pretty amazing. |  |
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| Keep the faith on 17:33 - Feb 18 with 2148 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Keep the faith on 16:55 - Feb 18 by Jimmy86 |
I think we had our blip at the wrong time, in that, Southampton and Leeds then really kicked on and went up a gear, having been less than convincing earlier on in the season...
I call it a blip, but we still didn't lose an awful lot in that time and similar to last season it was draws that were costing us... It's one of those where you question whether in that run you'd have lost a few more and won a few, instead of so many draws and whether we'd be better off as a result, but I think not losing is a good trait |
The blip is much like last season, where too many people let the results dictate the narrative. We battered Norwich at home and deserved the win. Leicester home and away were always going to be tough games and we got 2 well earned draws against a very good side. Beat Sunderland at home, battered Maidstone in a game where we play that 50 times and win 49 of them. Leeds deservedly beat us at Elland road, which is no disgrace in all honesty against their quality. It's really just the 3 games against QPR, Stoke and Preston I look back on with a sense of regret, 2 of which were away, and there were mitigating circumstances in all, especially against QPR and Stoke. We're probably 4 points short of that blip actually being a really good return from a difficult set of fixtures.
The fact is we're not in a position where we can have 4 or 5 of our best 7 or 8 players unavailable and not feel it, as we saw against QPR.
We're back to much more squad depth now, with the January arrivals, Burgess back, Burns and Davis back from injury and Morsy through his bans. We'll be even more so if Williams gets himself back to the form we saw in October time. It's just a case of taking 1 game at a time now and seeing where it leaves us. Rotherham first, a win would take us level with Leeds, they then have Leicester on Friday. It's not unthinkable that we're above them this time next week with it back in our hands (given we have Southampton to come to PR). | | | |
| Keep the faith on 17:34 - Feb 18 with 2135 views | BiGDonnie |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
I'm glad supporting Ipswich brings you so much pain.
You utter melt. |  |
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| Keep the faith on 17:36 - Feb 18 with 2125 views | Keno |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
And we all know which side of those lines you sit!
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| Keep the faith on 17:39 - Feb 18 with 2098 views | Herbivore |
| Keep the faith on 16:21 - Feb 18 by GlasgowBlue |
I think we are more than capable of repeating that early season form. But it still may not be enough.
Leeds and Southampton were stumbling around for form early doors but they look relentless. now. 4 teams could finish on 100+ points. |
I think it's very unlikely we'll see 4 or even 3 sides finish on over 100 points. We've all got some tough games left to play, we're all likely to drop some points here and there. I think 98 would be enough, which even then is a record haul needed for second by a big margin. | |
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| Keep the faith on 17:45 - Feb 18 with 2060 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Keep the faith on 17:30 - Feb 18 by Illinoisblue |
The Stoke and QPR games really stand out as missed opportunities given the form of those two. But if you look at that blip as a whole, played Leicester twice, Leeds away, had players away for internationals, had illness and injury in the squad. To still be right in the mix is pretty amazing. |
That Norwich game is shaping up to be the biggest league derby for both teams since, well I can’t remember. |  | | |
| Keep the faith on 17:50 - Feb 18 with 2026 views | Herbivore |
| Keep the faith on 17:45 - Feb 18 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
That Norwich game is shaping up to be the biggest league derby for both teams since, well I can’t remember. |
Play off games in 2014/15 surely, buh? | |
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| Keep the faith on 17:51 - Feb 18 with 2021 views | BlueBadger |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
When do you plan on finding it? | |
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| Keep the faith on 17:51 - Feb 18 with 2017 views | BlueBadger |
| Keep the faith on 17:01 - Feb 18 by StokieBlue |
Living in France with that lovely produce and wine and this relentless negativity is something you consider a good use of your time.
Very odd indeed.
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Yeah, but they ARE surrounded by French people tho.... [Post edited 18 Feb 2024 17:55]
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| Keep the faith on 17:53 - Feb 18 with 2000 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Keep the faith on 17:50 - Feb 18 by Herbivore |
Play off games in 2014/15 surely, buh? |
That wasn’t a league game! (In the sense of the regular season I was meaning) [Post edited 18 Feb 2024 17:53]
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| Keep the faith on 17:58 - Feb 18 with 1933 views | Mullet |
| Keep the faith on 16:20 - Feb 18 by ElephantintheRoom |
There’s a very fine line between faith, delusion and insanity. |
And two cheeks wherein, you'll still not find an asshole as big as you. |  |
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| Keep the faith on 18:47 - Feb 18 with 1788 views | Churchman |
| Keep the faith on 17:30 - Feb 18 by Illinoisblue |
The Stoke and QPR games really stand out as missed opportunities given the form of those two. But if you look at that blip as a whole, played Leicester twice, Leeds away, had players away for internationals, had illness and injury in the squad. To still be right in the mix is pretty amazing. |
Yes and no. I get what you are saying in that at the beginning of December I had those fixtures as four points or more. But in the circumstances of the time, I saw them as two points gained.
The one disappointment for me was Norwich. We were miles better than them but somehow the occasion appeared to get to our lads a little. I hope it’s a lesson learned. | | | |
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