| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit 10:45 - Mar 17 with 5678 views | Matt_Netherlands |
Walking through town to PR on Saturday I realised it was the first time in two and a bit years that I wasn’t excited to be watching the game. That sounds ridiculous because we’re in the premier league ffs and have been desperate to be here for quite literally decades. But part of me, just wants the season over and done with so we can look forward to some wins and seeing our young squad develop more and grow next season.
It’s a strange (and rubbish) feeling, but then football is a strange old game.
I’ll probably get a shed of downvotes for saying I feel apathetic, but I know I’m not the only one. And no I didnt leave at HT on Saturday like a good number of others did! Still, I’d much rather feel apathetic in the premier league than in mid table league one!!
Onwards and upwards.
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:50 - Mar 17 with 3884 views | Linners |
It's been a really strange period hasn't it? Before McKenna, everything was so meh that it was hard to raise any sort of enthusiasm. Then we had two and a half years of every game being a cup final but since Xmas that has waned considerably.
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:51 - Mar 17 with 3867 views | baxterbasics |
To be honest as a fanbase I think we've all done well keeping this much enthusiasm given how 2025 has gone. Inevitable now some start feeling a little 'meh' about this season. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:51 - Mar 17 with 3868 views | Reuser_is_God |
I felt the same, I was still sat on the sofa at 2pm Saturday whereas usually I’d have bounced into town & be several beers in by then.
Roll on August & Preston at home. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:52 - Mar 17 with 3845 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Yeah, its natural, nothing left to play for but pride.
The season is over really, kind of a bunch of friendlies left.
We do need to get some results to lift spirits and take us into next season in a more positive mood. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:52 - Mar 17 with 3843 views | Rozz |
Won 1, drawn 4, lost 10 at home. I haven't seen us win a game yet home or away.
I don't think anyone's going to bemoan anyone for feeling a little flat.
Turns out the real prize (for us fans anyway) was the journey. |  | | |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:52 - Mar 17 with 3842 views | trncbluearmy |
For balance very impressed with the Northstand who nearly to a man, stayed behind to applaud the team and manager.
This is the difficult part of the journey, we are going down, that's obvious but there's still plenty to come. |  | | |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:52 - Mar 17 with 3845 views | homer_123 |
You have to take the rough with the smooth.
Without the lows, you can't appreciate the highs. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:56 - Mar 17 with 3743 views | algy |
One win in 15 with 10 opponents helping themselves to the points with varying degrees of ease, apathy is to be expected. Portman Road is a great day out for away fans this season. |  |
| I was there when McKenna's ITFC won in the Premier League at Home. Fewest home wins and equal most home defeats in a season in ITFC history. |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:57 - Mar 17 with 3733 views | bsw72 |
The Utd defeat combined with recent Wolves results have pretty much extinguished the hopes of survival, it's the hope that kills and when the hope has gone, what else do we have as fans.
I wonder whether the closer we get to confirmed relegation, will the nerves and anxiety which seems to have crippled the team recently go away, and we will see some more positive performances . . . |  | | |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:57 - Mar 17 with 3728 views | Swansea_Blue |
“it was the first time in two and a bit years that I wasn’t excited to be watching the game”.
My family are all Swansea fans and we see them quite a bit. I have that feeling every time!
I’m always well up to see us, irrespective of form or league, but that’s because it’s becoming a rare treat. I’m the loon you may occasionally see at away games who grins constantly even when we lose. I can imagine seeing us lose every week gets a bit wearing though. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:00 - Mar 17 with 3677 views | Kieran_Knows |
I think the frustration for me is that I just thought we'd have made more of a fist of it. I thought having McKenna would give us that extra 20% (not a criticism of him by the way as I bloody love the bloke), but clearly the gap - including the shed load we have spent - has still been too much for us.
I don't think for one minute McKenna would've looked at it like this, but you can clearly see why he was on the verge of joining Brighton. A fully established Prem Club with an embarrassment of riches at his disposal, or the slog of a season like the one we're having.
I really hope he sticks around this summer, nothing more I want to see him go again with the majority of this group and give ourselves a chance of promotion again and being on a better footing to attack the Prem should we get promoted again.
The thought of Hull at home after the season at this level doesn't quite fill me with as much delight as it does some people, but as I say, hopefully another year in the Championship, getting the infrastructure better behind the scenes (new training ground, foreign scouting) will give us a better crack at the Prem next time.
COYB's! |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:01 - Mar 17 with 3653 views | algy |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:52 - Mar 17 by trncbluearmy |
For balance very impressed with the Northstand who nearly to a man, stayed behind to applaud the team and manager.
This is the difficult part of the journey, we are going down, that's obvious but there's still plenty to come. |
I was in the upper north as usual. In a capacity crowd have never seen so many empty seats there while still in normal time. And looking to the other end the SAR was like sheep on a hillside. [Post edited 17 Mar 11:08]
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| I was there when McKenna's ITFC won in the Premier League at Home. Fewest home wins and equal most home defeats in a season in ITFC history. |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:04 - Mar 17 with 3562 views | algy |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 10:52 - Mar 17 by homer_123 |
You have to take the rough with the smooth.
Without the lows, you can't appreciate the highs. |
I've seen plenty of lows and highs over the years you win some, you draw some, you lose some, but never a win one, lose ten out of fifteen before. | |
| I was there when McKenna's ITFC won in the Premier League at Home. Fewest home wins and equal most home defeats in a season in ITFC history. |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:05 - Mar 17 with 3535 views | VanDusen |
Sadly I hate to say it but I've felt pretty apathetic since the opening day - moreso now obviously. There is nothing exciting about a stitch up league that has no competition. As an example we have been effectively down, for the pundits at least, since the Southampton game. Yet the other week the bottom three in the Championship were more points off safety than we were off Wolves and no-one was talking like that. A couple of games later and Derby are right back in it, whilst Plymouth and Luton both won too to get themselves closer. That is what a league should be like with ebbs and flows and no foregone conclusion results. Not this boring rig where the best we can expect anyway would be 8th-10th on a good season. | | | |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:10 - Mar 17 with 3451 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:00 - Mar 17 by Kieran_Knows |
I think the frustration for me is that I just thought we'd have made more of a fist of it. I thought having McKenna would give us that extra 20% (not a criticism of him by the way as I bloody love the bloke), but clearly the gap - including the shed load we have spent - has still been too much for us.
I don't think for one minute McKenna would've looked at it like this, but you can clearly see why he was on the verge of joining Brighton. A fully established Prem Club with an embarrassment of riches at his disposal, or the slog of a season like the one we're having.
I really hope he sticks around this summer, nothing more I want to see him go again with the majority of this group and give ourselves a chance of promotion again and being on a better footing to attack the Prem should we get promoted again.
The thought of Hull at home after the season at this level doesn't quite fill me with as much delight as it does some people, but as I say, hopefully another year in the Championship, getting the infrastructure better behind the scenes (new training ground, foreign scouting) will give us a better crack at the Prem next time.
COYB's! |
The Championship is great fun, and a trip to a match with Hull that we would probably win sounds good to me.
I dont think KM has failed, but I think we all hoped he might over achieve. And by over achieve, I just mean still being in the fight for survival on the last day of the season. | |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:11 - Mar 17 with 3430 views | Radlett_blue |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:00 - Mar 17 by Kieran_Knows |
I think the frustration for me is that I just thought we'd have made more of a fist of it. I thought having McKenna would give us that extra 20% (not a criticism of him by the way as I bloody love the bloke), but clearly the gap - including the shed load we have spent - has still been too much for us.
I don't think for one minute McKenna would've looked at it like this, but you can clearly see why he was on the verge of joining Brighton. A fully established Prem Club with an embarrassment of riches at his disposal, or the slog of a season like the one we're having.
I really hope he sticks around this summer, nothing more I want to see him go again with the majority of this group and give ourselves a chance of promotion again and being on a better footing to attack the Prem should we get promoted again.
The thought of Hull at home after the season at this level doesn't quite fill me with as much delight as it does some people, but as I say, hopefully another year in the Championship, getting the infrastructure better behind the scenes (new training ground, foreign scouting) will give us a better crack at the Prem next time.
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Indeed, I think McKenna was aware of the big gap between a good Championship squad & one that could compete in the PL. Leicester & Southampton have done no better than us. This season will definitely look like a blot on McKenna's previously impeccable CV. Will he want to show he can bounce back with Town (won't be as good an achievement as taking us up in 2023-24) or might he be tempted if a middling PL club wanted him? Fewer clubs will now be interested in him than a year ago. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:19 - Mar 17 with 3379 views | Steve_M |
For all the mitigating circumstances, and the overall progress of the club over the past three years, it's absolutely miserable being just a bit short game after game. And the ones we're not a bit short, we're a long way off it.
The odd win, even a run of draws would do wonders for the collective mood even if doing nothing to change the finishing position. That's the real difference between the Autumn and now. We've still not even made up the two points we were unfortunate to drop at Fulham and confidence has visibly dropped by the match, |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:23 - Mar 17 with 3293 views | Radlett_blue |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:19 - Mar 17 by Steve_M |
For all the mitigating circumstances, and the overall progress of the club over the past three years, it's absolutely miserable being just a bit short game after game. And the ones we're not a bit short, we're a long way off it.
The odd win, even a run of draws would do wonders for the collective mood even if doing nothing to change the finishing position. That's the real difference between the Autumn and now. We've still not even made up the two points we were unfortunate to drop at Fulham and confidence has visibly dropped by the match, |
The Fulham game didn't feel pivotal at the time as it was a good performance & we probably should have won. The problem was that it was followed by 4 really poor defeats, 3 of which were at home. The Southampton result convinced me that we were doomed. | |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:24 - Mar 17 with 3290 views | Rozz |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:04 - Mar 17 by algy |
I've seen plenty of lows and highs over the years you win some, you draw some, you lose some, but never a win one, lose ten out of fifteen before. |
I'm bored, so I had a look.
20th October 2018 - 1st Jan 2019 our run was W1 / D3 / L10.
We kicked the season off with 1 win in 21 games.
Then I stumbled on this beauty from just less than 4 years ago:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21280878.31-miserable-stats-sum-largely-miserable-ip
Some useful context which has made me feel much better 
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:33 - Mar 17 with 3160 views | algy |
We "only" lost 9 home games in the whole 18-19 season so not sure where you got your stats from. | |
| I was there when McKenna's ITFC won in the Premier League at Home. Fewest home wins and equal most home defeats in a season in ITFC history. |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:37 - Mar 17 with 3128 views | carlisleaway |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:19 - Mar 17 by Steve_M |
For all the mitigating circumstances, and the overall progress of the club over the past three years, it's absolutely miserable being just a bit short game after game. And the ones we're not a bit short, we're a long way off it.
The odd win, even a run of draws would do wonders for the collective mood even if doing nothing to change the finishing position. That's the real difference between the Autumn and now. We've still not even made up the two points we were unfortunate to drop at Fulham and confidence has visibly dropped by the match, |
Can understand all the apathy after watching the ups and downs of our club for the past 60 plus years. But what I cannot understand is the poor signings we have made over the past 9 months. Who is responsible, is is McKenna or the so called coaches we have bought in ( perhaps Ashton has had a say ) Also the team does not play as a unit as in the past 2 years, is this down to certain players on overpriced wages. We will be back but not in the top 2 as many people keep on saying.
Someone has to be responsible for paying overpriced fees on certain players…..why can’t we look at Forest, Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton. They seem to find decent players for 10-15 million but we are shelling out 20 million for championship players. |  | | |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:43 - Mar 17 with 3045 views | pointofblue |
The apathy for me kicked in when the first goal went in on Saturday. I wonder if the same happened with the players, and that's why we then had that ten minute nightmare. | |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:45 - Mar 17 with 3022 views | ArnieM |
As 8 keep saying the PL really ain't all that. It's not fir us fans. It's the gravy train fir the players, managers, and owners of the clubs. All the fans do is stump up hard earned cash fir plastic games, cheating players. Officials / VAR skewed towards the big established clubs. Even the pundits on MOTD/ Sky can't be arsed to mention our name when " discussing the gane" we've just played in. It's frankly, soul destroying. Games are not even on regular Saturdays but moved at will to suite sky customers. Feck the lot if em.
Welcome back to the Championship. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:45 - Mar 17 with 3026 views | Illinoisblue |
Our continued inability to lay a glove on most teams since Xmas has been painful to watch. It’s a slow lingering death so apathy and feeling numb is to be expected. It wasn’t meant to be like this. |  |
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| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:47 - Mar 17 with 2985 views | Rozz |
| Apathy creeping in and I don’t like it one bit on 11:33 - Mar 17 by algy |
We "only" lost 9 home games in the whole 18-19 season so not sure where you got your stats from. |
That's home and away, sorry | | | |
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