Quote Originally Posted by Tichi1 View Post
Looking at our remaining fixtures ,,,, on paper we should still be ok, personally I doubt we will "romp" any of these games though.

Blackburn, Swansea and Derby away - all three looking to get into the play offs
Fulham - obviously looking to overtake us - Luton, Stoke, Barnsley and Charlton all at home - all looking to avoid relegation,

To be honest I think I prefer our chances at the away fixtures as at least they should be trying to beat us - the home games will be against teams parking the bus, and without Pablo's guile, and with Bumfluff our bloody main man its quite easy to see us drawing a couple of those!

team to watch - Brentford, If they beat West Brom next week they will be on a roll, meaning we just have to beat Fulham - but after todays performance - not over optemistic.

The only players that did pretty well for me today where Ayling, Dallas, White, Klich and Philips [Apart from his cock up that cost us the first goal] the rest looked out of sorts, Particularly Costa, and Bamford

Have to say it - certsinly wont be a romp, I'm just hoping the 7 point lead with 8 fixtures to go + Apart from Brentford none of our challengers looked too hot either yesterday, and I suppose we always knew that Cardiff are a bogey team - add Harris as their manager and it was a defeat isn't such a big surprise or issue, and we should/could easily have got a point today,
Soon as i saw the fixture list it made me feel sick.

Today again we saw that we have a bunch of good lads who are in thrall to their master technician boss's strategy. They play the metronome game and don't have a plan B, as many of us have always said, partly because there's not one leader amongst them (apart from Pablo) - they are clearly really nice people, but it feels to me like Marcello likes yes men far too much, and maybe that's been his downfall over all these years. A snarling, angry, experienced CM today would've made sure the huge confidence dip after the first goal didn't happen. I guess Forshaw was signed for that, but haven't seen that side of him much, and he's barely played anyway. Our crowd home and away also plays a part for our players, i think, more than perhaps a lot of teams - we don't seem to be able to summon up passion and resilience when the chips are down - heads go down and whilst we kept trying, there was no real intensity from us throughout.

I think it could go either way now - play-offs a real possibility unless we get ourselves up for Fulham. A draw in that game and the WBA/Brentford game would mean going in to the Luton game 7 points clear still - wouldn't be a bad position to be in after today.