Quote Originally Posted by AucklandRover View Post
One problem with your general statements here, though, Champs - you didn't apply that sort of balance in your posts about Burnley. You said they were doomed, dead and buried.
I drew your attention at the time to what Dyche said - that sometimes a team has to bottom out, get a bit of luck and then start to emerge from the depths. That might well be what has happened.
The same with Ipswich. Apparently, they were battered yesterday, but won 3-2. That might change their season.
With us, you have been saying we could be top, except for a few moments of bad luck. But don't you think most of the teams in the top half will have had similar moments that will have cost them points? You can't be too one-eyed. Millwall were all over us for 20 minutes and could have been three-up.
In some posts, you are describing realistic assessments as "negativity", and you seem to be pulling people up for perfectly fair comments about individual or collective failings in the team.
I don't think a prediction of fourteenth is, in some way, putting the team down at all. As Alf said, this is an excellent Division to be in because it's so up-and-down, with lots of open games: Preston v. Wigan? 4-0? Seriously?
I haven't had a chance to watch a replay of the Bolton game yet, but it seems to have been a "win ugly" affair. That will do me occasionally - alongside unlucky draws, playing good football.
I'm still going for W-14; D-18; L-14. That will keep me quite happy and I don't think it's negativity.
Two things.

The comment in the first place was tongue in cheek.

And....

They drew at home with Hudds Town. A woefully poor side. For anyone getting excited and believing they are any good because they beat Cardiff (another woefully poor side) that performance was quite poor. By all accounts it was yesterday. I think they played ok in one game vrs Bournemouth. Every other game they have lost, apart from an opening day nil nil draw. I'll stick with what I see myself. A very poor side.

If they managed to stay up, it's a reflection of how more the standard is below mid table. They are no better than us.

And you won't hear from Alf after such a crap game and poor result.