Originally Posted by
AucklandRover
Champs - I do think you go overboard sometimes.
I saw two evenly-matched, average teams. Huddersfield had Grant. We didn't have Dack.
They scored the sort of spectacular goal that each team only gets three or four times a season.
Once again, we struggled when they switched to a style that was primarily designed to stop us playing.
There are about 18 "mid-table" teams in this Division. Four of them will get to the play-offs. I suspect that any one of them could finish third or 15th, and I have no idea which teams will be where.
Have you seen the other results again?! Preston, the team with the League's best home-record, losing to Reading. Boro winning at West Brom! The Barnsley result is not in the shock category at all, by comparison !
Every round brings half-a-dozen "surprises". I just don't know how you can draw overall conclusions from such a mish-mash.
I am actually interested to see what develops for us in the New Year. Chapman, Buckley, Davenport, Brereton, Gallagher and Samuel were all in today's squad. The face of the team is gradually changing. I think we may well see the introduction of more and more Academy products in the next 18 months.
I have no particular desire to get to the PL, anyway, although I would be excited if it happened. As it is, I genuinely do try to take football a game at a time.
I am disappointed that we lost today, but I certainly don't share Seventwo's belief that a change of manager will automatically turn things around.
The way the results are going, we might well beat Forest! What generalised "conclusions" will you draw from that?