Time to think

[alfinyalcabo]

That's the championship for you.. Each team is more than capable of beating each other..For instance if you had won last night you would have been in 5th instead of 14th.. It's a great league to play in,probably the most competitive in the world .. It might not have the rewards of the Premier league ,but it's much fairer and far better to watch than the premier..

[champs95]

That's the championship for you.. Each team is more than capable of beating each other..For instance if you had won last night you would have been in 5th instead of 14th.. It's a great league to play in,probably the most competitive in the world .. It might not have the rewards of the Premier league ,but it's much fairer and far better to watch than the premier..

Well said, that's the voice of a normal rational football fan. For every one normal fan, the next one is delusional and expects way too much. Only an idiot expected us to come up and never lose, and act like a petulant child when we do. I think its better for them that we lose, as they appear to revel in it. Nothing to really discuss when we win.
You don't hear 'we are fantastic' when we win.
That would be mental.
But if we lose we should be hanging our heads in shame?
Talk of horror shows.


Imagine if we where struggling?

[alfinyalcabo]

Well said, that's the voice of a normal rational football fan. For every one normal fan, the next one is delusional and expects way too much. Only an idiot expected us to come up and never lose, and act like a petulant child when we do. I think its better for them that we lose, as they appear to revel in it. Nothing to really discuss when we win.
You don't hear 'we are fantastic' when we win.
That would be mental.
But if we lose we should be hanging our heads in shame?
Talk of horror shows.


Imagine if we where struggling?

TBF to Robin Rover,I know where he is coming from though.. He wears his heart on his chest and says it how he sees it.. Wish I was on his postal delivery round today,I'd have him up on the wall with plenty of stick ..lol

[champs95]

TBF to Robin Rover,I know where he is coming from though.. He wears his heart on his chest and says it how he sees it.. Wish I was on his postal delivery round today,I'd have him up on the wall with plenty of stick ..lol

I got home last night about 11:30 pm. It was a long day, I had to be up at the crack of dawn today and be back in work with a smile on my face. I was shattered when I got in last night, and defalted after a tough night. I spent lots of money I don't really have to support the lads.
Last night things went against us. It happens, its football.
You man up, and move on. Like the manager has to, like the players have to.
If you are happy to join in the good times, you also have to endure the tough times.

I do actually see that everyone has an opinion. That doesn't make huge overreactions on the odd (and I mean odd) occasion we lose okay. I just feel its unhelpful.

A young side, new to the division, still learning, needs time and patience. We are improving all the time, each game. A defeat every 5 or so games may well happen. If you leanr and improve off the back of it, then you are going the right direction.

We had a run of games Robin,
Villa, Derby, Stoke, Forest and Sheff Utd where you stated we would struggle to get any points.
We lost one match out of all that lot.

Not exactly time to panic and overreact is all I'm trying to say.

[Despair]

I’m not gona add anything to that, as all should know my feelings on this ‘topic’.

[champs95]

Look, I can sit and spell out every negative from last night. What will that actually accomplish?
If we where sat bottom of the league without a win, like say Ipswich then I could try and understand.
We aren't.

We rely heavily on Dack. if like in a game last night he doesn't perform, we are in trouble. That's a concern. And last night showed that up. I don't agree with this freezing out of Travis. He could play RB.
I worried on Sat about this game, as Nymabe went off, and it looked quite bad. I know TM, I know he will play Bennett in that position. So this means we lose our best midfielder. Or Reed has to play there. Travis is the answer to that problem.

During this run, in over a year (how quickly has THAT been forgotten after one 90 min performance) I have seen every single home game, live. Sheff Utd where the best side I have seen at Ewood during that time.
They looked comfortably better than us.
While I want to say we where poor, I have seen more than enough football in my time, to know sometimes you are poor due to how good the oppo have been.
Sheff Utd are a whole 12 months ahead of us. And you could tell. They came up last season, and we will do what they did last season. Finish top half and have a good strong season, to bed into this league.
Shock horror, like them last season, we will lose a few along the way. The thing NOT to do, is start freaking out after the odd defeat. Because they WILL happen.
To just expect us never to lose is ....well ....do I really have to say?
As I pointed out above, you have to man up, take it on the chin and move on.

Posters like Saxo and his mates on BRFC's will simply wait and keep their knives sharpened and will revel in anything that isn't 3 points every single week. When things go well, they will invent things to be critical of.
When one result like this happens, you watch them and how they react.