| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… 06:36 - Mar 11 with 863 views | ITFC_Forever |
….some of which are on us, and some not.
- Fixture congestion thanks to Blackburn, Portsmouth and probably Southampton.
- Injuries and suspension, with several of our better player now out - Philogene, Kipre, Nunez, Matusiwa.
- One of Kipre’s bookings being in the abandoned Blackburn game which meant he had an extra game to get a booking, and one on Saturday for a penalty that should have clearly been given.
- Not signing a better striker in the summer or January. A decent striker could have made all the difference in some of the games we’ve drawn / lost.
- Our ability to produce poor performances with no warning… it’s felt like a two step forward, one step back season all season, and we’ll play well and win a few, then produce a performance like the first half last night.
- Boro and Cov are achieving consistency that we can’t match.
- A proportion of our fan-base has set expectations so high they’ll never be happy due to the size of our budget for the coming seasons. There’s a difference between being disappointed / annoyed / frustrated with a result and the outright vitriol some seem to revel in giving to the players and KMc. Not constructive at all. [Post edited 11 Mar 9:07]
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:40 - Mar 11 with 817 views | Blue_Heath |
Exactly, aside from your last point, fans spend a fortune going to football and give up time with their families etc I think they have the right to expect better.
We can only hope our luck turns in the dreaded play offs. |  |
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:50 - Mar 11 with 739 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:40 - Mar 11 by Blue_Heath |
Exactly, aside from your last point, fans spend a fortune going to football and give up time with their families etc I think they have the right to expect better.
We can only hope our luck turns in the dreaded play offs. |
But that’s football though.
We don’t have a divine right to success. |  |
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:51 - Mar 11 with 723 views | Benters |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:50 - Mar 11 by Reuser_is_God |
But that’s football though.
We don’t have a divine right to success. |
Spot on bud. |  |
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 07:12 - Mar 11 with 637 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:40 - Mar 11 by Blue_Heath |
Exactly, aside from your last point, fans spend a fortune going to football and give up time with their families etc I think they have the right to expect better.
We can only hope our luck turns in the dreaded play offs. |
Their choice.
When you make the choice to spend money on a ticket and travel to a football match, every sane person knows there’s no guarantee of the outcome, and that anything can happen, good or bad. | |
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 07:33 - Mar 11 with 578 views | SitfcB |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:50 - Mar 11 by Reuser_is_God |
But that’s football though.
We don’t have a divine right to success. |
Someone on Twitter was saying at HT last night that the fans there should get a refund, pathetic  |  |
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 08:41 - Mar 11 with 447 views | bsw72 |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:40 - Mar 11 by Blue_Heath |
Exactly, aside from your last point, fans spend a fortune going to football and give up time with their families etc I think they have the right to expect better.
We can only hope our luck turns in the dreaded play offs. |
"Right to expect better" - no, there are no rights to expect anything, no contract with the club or minimum level of performance gauranteed, it's sport and is unpredictable - it worked in our favour in 2023-4 up against the likes of Leeds and Southampton with their bigger squads and more money.
Just goes to show how the burden of being a promotion favourite can pull a team down, as much as the freedom of being an underdog can raise the game.
No-one makes any of the fans go to matches, spend their time and money - that's a choice and you have to take the bad with the good. |  | | |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 08:47 - Mar 11 with 425 views | waveneyblue |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:40 - Mar 11 by Blue_Heath |
Exactly, aside from your last point, fans spend a fortune going to football and give up time with their families etc I think they have the right to expect better.
We can only hope our luck turns in the dreaded play offs. |
They have the right to expect better.
7 words that perfectly sum up the issue with a huge amount of fans this season.
Absolute joke of a statement 🙄 |  | | |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 08:49 - Mar 11 with 407 views | portmanking |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 08:47 - Mar 11 by waveneyblue |
They have the right to expect better.
7 words that perfectly sum up the issue with a huge amount of fans this season.
Absolute joke of a statement 🙄 |
While I agree with you in part, there's an element that I get from the OP. If we aspire to be a top club, established in the PL, we need high expectations, no? Why should we just shrug our shoulders at drawing with a depleted mid-table Stoke side? It's copium to adopt that defeatist mindset, IMO. | | | |
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 08:51 - Mar 11 with 397 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 06:40 - Mar 11 by Blue_Heath |
Exactly, aside from your last point, fans spend a fortune going to football and give up time with their families etc I think they have the right to expect better.
We can only hope our luck turns in the dreaded play offs. |
Its not that there is a right to expect better
But you most certainly would expect a better performance. There's no rights to it but you would naturally expect a better performance than the one put on. |  |
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| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 09:03 - Mar 11 with 329 views | bsw72 |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 08:49 - Mar 11 by portmanking |
While I agree with you in part, there's an element that I get from the OP. If we aspire to be a top club, established in the PL, we need high expectations, no? Why should we just shrug our shoulders at drawing with a depleted mid-table Stoke side? It's copium to adopt that defeatist mindset, IMO. |
You kind of say it yourself though aspiration is not expectation, and have different outcomes as such. | | | |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 09:05 - Mar 11 with 322 views | backwaywhen |
| Number of factors combining to make top two less likely… on 08:47 - Mar 11 by waveneyblue |
They have the right to expect better.
7 words that perfectly sum up the issue with a huge amount of fans this season.
Absolute joke of a statement 🙄 |
That’s a perfect reply .
Would have expected better , is the correct phrase , I also think a lot of these moaning clowns are not even Town fans . | | | |
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