| Not really on 11:39 - Apr 30 with 229 views | Dyland |
| Paul Merson on 13:40 - Apr 29 by sjg |
A lot of people on here seem to think they know better than every pundit who has given an opinion on us. If they're all saying the same thing, they might have a point |
Merson is an especially poor pundit, but if any others have parroted exactly the same banal hot air as in your OP, then they are equally sh1t in this instance and I do indeed know better (about this o;ne topic) :)
As someone has already commented in this thread, Merson also works for Sky so isn't going to address the underlying reason why it's very hard for clubs promoted to the Prem, particularly ones out of it for over twenty years. His guff has no context, understanding or insight, and reaffirms how hopeless he he. |  |
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| Not really on 11:47 - Apr 30 with 222 views | jayessess |
| Not really on 11:39 - Apr 30 by Dyland |
Merson is an especially poor pundit, but if any others have parroted exactly the same banal hot air as in your OP, then they are equally sh1t in this instance and I do indeed know better (about this o;ne topic) :)
As someone has already commented in this thread, Merson also works for Sky so isn't going to address the underlying reason why it's very hard for clubs promoted to the Prem, particularly ones out of it for over twenty years. His guff has no context, understanding or insight, and reaffirms how hopeless he he. |
Merson and the other pundits are just repeating one of the set narratives about promoted clubs - there won't be any real analysis behind it and they'll have barely thought about how we actually play.
You'll never see an MOTD pundit segment where they watch a team concede after knocking it long and suggest they should have worked harder to keep possession. Yet, we've all seen us concede that precise goal multiple times this season. [Post edited 30 Apr 11:48]
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| Paul Merson on 12:41 - Apr 30 with 147 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Paul Merson on 11:06 - Apr 30 by sjg |
You are so good at arguing against points I haven't made. Idiot |
"We had a massive advantage in having a squad that had come up through the divisions, knew the way each other played"
"Surely if a team gets promoted from the championship that proves they are better than the standard of that league."
These are your quotes.
You wanted the majority of the team that came up through the divisions to stay together, but also wanted it to be good enough to stay in the Prem. That's the crux of your argument.
Yeah, fine, we all wanted that. You, like Merson, seem to want somebody or something to blame for why we didn't stay up, so you've gone for the 'changed the team too much' theory. This, again, is hindsight. It's just as valid to say we'd have done even worse, we'll never know.
Sometimes there's no blame. It just is what it is. Everyone tried their best and there's no obvious fault. It's also the case that success is very rarely a straight line up. Being one of the best in the world at something is hard to do, that's why it's such a great achievement if you get there. And every successful person will tell you they made mistakes/had failures along the way.
All season you (and a few others on here) have sneered, saying we should be doing this or that, and then we'd be successful, but it's really not as simple as that. Some of you live in a black and white world where 'not staying up' = 'we did something wrong, let's look for places to attach blame'. [Post edited 30 Apr 12:41]
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| Paul Merson on 15:07 - Apr 30 with 97 views | Axeldalai_lama |
| Paul Merson on 12:41 - Apr 30 by The_Flashing_Smile |
"We had a massive advantage in having a squad that had come up through the divisions, knew the way each other played"
"Surely if a team gets promoted from the championship that proves they are better than the standard of that league."
These are your quotes.
You wanted the majority of the team that came up through the divisions to stay together, but also wanted it to be good enough to stay in the Prem. That's the crux of your argument.
Yeah, fine, we all wanted that. You, like Merson, seem to want somebody or something to blame for why we didn't stay up, so you've gone for the 'changed the team too much' theory. This, again, is hindsight. It's just as valid to say we'd have done even worse, we'll never know.
Sometimes there's no blame. It just is what it is. Everyone tried their best and there's no obvious fault. It's also the case that success is very rarely a straight line up. Being one of the best in the world at something is hard to do, that's why it's such a great achievement if you get there. And every successful person will tell you they made mistakes/had failures along the way.
All season you (and a few others on here) have sneered, saying we should be doing this or that, and then we'd be successful, but it's really not as simple as that. Some of you live in a black and white world where 'not staying up' = 'we did something wrong, let's look for places to attach blame'. [Post edited 30 Apr 12:41]
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