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We lost today. Looking at this forum you would hardly know how bad the performance was and how worrying the month of January might be.
Apathy!
We are still recovering from the shock of the performance against a poor hull team, except for 10 mins at the start of the second half, and the realisation that we have 3 days to prepare before facing a much improved villa side combined with yet another injury to a key player.
We've got injuries and etc. but it's hard to not feel apathetic when we've sold players for millions of pounds in the last 12 months yet we're watching players like Graham Burke at Deepdale.
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Due to circumstances I couldnt get on today but was able to watch online for most of the game, got to say we were poor again. We were just as poor against Millwall and got away with it, poor at Sheff Weds, lost, poor against Hull and lost.
I dont blame the manager one bit, the club is being run on the cheap and its now coming back to bite us in the arse.
Our injury list is horrible, gladly I know nothing of the the strength and fitness coach so Im criticising blindly, but is he/she up to scratch?
today I didnt care that I missed, TBH, I expected what we got, nothing.
I dont blame the manager one bit, the club is being run on the cheap and its now coming back to bite us in the arse.
Our injury list is horrible, gladly I know nothing of the the strength and fitness coach so Im criticising blindly, but is he/she up to scratch?
today I didnt care that I missed, TBH, I expected what we got, nothing.
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By the way, my original post was an observation and not a criticism. It’s a worrying sign that so few people are bothered or if not bothered then not surprised. Raef I agree with you 200%
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We're in the position already that we're just expecting a lower midtable finish. Too many injuries, no plans to spend a bunch of money, too poor a start to think we can make a playoff push.
Like there's no point getting angry about the performance when we already know the team is running on fumes, personnel-wise
Like there's no point getting angry about the performance when we already know the team is running on fumes, personnel-wise
Did anybody clock Nmecha's reaction to us scoring? That was complete apathy.
Two blokes sat behind me in the Town End moaned fkn relentlessly about every player, Nmecha and Johnson in particular came in for some right stick. Why the fuck do these people go on.
Anyhoo, poor today, but with an injury list like ours hardly surprising. Villa may well give us a right shooing. This could be a really bad run. The injuries couldn’t have come at a worse time.
Anyhoo, poor today, but with an injury list like ours hardly surprising. Villa may well give us a right shooing. This could be a really bad run. The injuries couldn’t have come at a worse time.
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HunterLionheart;n3414985 said:
Agree.
The season is as good as over as far as I'm concerned. Our dreadful start has eviscerated any chance of the playoffs and I'd imagine we'll limp to 50 points fairly comfortably, despite our injury ravaged squad, leaving the last 2 months of the season a formality. Given we were marooned in the relegation zone as late as November, the whole season aim shifted from progression on last season's great total to simply avoiding relegation.
Recruiting some quality in the form of experienced loans in January to plug the glaring deficiencies from front to back in our team could see us finish in the top rather than the bottom half if we're lucky.
you need to go back to the summer, evreybody waxes lyrical about Mr hemmings but he is strangling the club, we got a huge amount of money for hugill but never invested that money in squad strengthening and it clearly shows. You cannot Blame Burke the fault lies at the door of mr hemmings, he wants his money back and some and is determined to get it.
we could easily have improved on the 7th place finish with good solid investment nothing silly but he chose not to back his manager.
we have some really difficult matches coming up so it makes it even more annoying when pearson did what he did at Wednesday. We were poor in spells today but equally at times we were good and could have nicked something, Gally was so unlucky with his header.
mid table will be acceptable now.
we could easily have improved on the 7th place finish with good solid investment nothing silly but he chose not to back his manager.
we have some really difficult matches coming up so it makes it even more annoying when pearson did what he did at Wednesday. We were poor in spells today but equally at times we were good and could have nicked something, Gally was so unlucky with his header.
mid table will be acceptable now.
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Mer5eywhite;n3414954 said:
As Hunter said, it's been clear we've been running on fumes for a few games. I suppose there's usually one or two who like to throw their toys out of the pram - is that what you were expecting? Are you finding it worrying that no one's doing that? Actually, I find it refreshing.
I think it's not surprising to see us a bit dispirited, as we have been the last couple of matches. I think the players can be forgiven for that - they're human beings after all. But that's enough now. Time to regroup, draw breath, and use the big crowd and big name of Aston Villa to get the motivation back. If we find that our thin resources are unable to repel Villa, I definitely expect and want to see some real fight. Which, for me, means resting Lukas Nmecha
Doc Brown;n3414990 said:
I think you're being pretty optimistic. A bad run of results over Christmas and we could be right back in the relegation scrap. And the combination of injuries and lack of serious investment could easily keep us down there.
Oh for the joy of mid table mediocrity (this season).
[QUOQuo noticed that myself, polite applause, it was like he was watching a team he wasn't involved inTE=york white;n3414987]Did anybody clock Nmecha's reaction to us scoring? That was complete apathy.[/QUOTE]
Mer5eywhite;n3414878 said:
Mersey, im probably the biggest pessimist on this forum so i am very worried........... I think that we are serious contenders for relegation.
I can see us being relegated with Ipswich and Rotherham
trucker white;n3415001 said:
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Nmecha clearly doesnt want to be here - he has got the same attitude that Wellbeck had when he was here - he thinks that he is too good for the championship
Billy BIG Bollocks...............
Madferret;n3414989 said:
You are right, the injuries couldnt have come at a worse time and it doesnt help when your best player gets banned for 4 games.....
I think it will be nil pois over the christmas period ( 4 games )
Ando60;n3415083 said:
That you are worried Ando does not worry me in the slightest. 😉