Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Hang on...you two can adopt the unfamiliar role of ‘happy clappers’ as much as you like if it makes you feel better.
I’m not being unduly negative, stubborn or gloomy, although I am perhaps guilty of realism.
I still hope, just as you do Swale, that we won’t get any sort of points deduction and I remain optimistic that we won’t.

Having said that...the scenario was always going to be that the 2019/20 season was going to be a season of rebuilding under a new manager unfamiliar with the demands of the Championship.
Should (that means ‘IF’) next season is to be derailed from the off by a significant points deduction I’ll be disappointed. I’d anticipated good things with Cocu being able to assemble a team that he believes is fit to challenge in the Championship and IF we face a hefty points deduction then those plans seem likely to be on hold for another season.

That is all I’m saying - not ‘worrying’ about. I save that for more serious matters.
Seems to me like realism, but then this time last year had anyone predicted Keoghgate, Rooney being our captain, or football having to be played behind closed doors they’d have been declared insane...so who knows what will happen?
I'm far from a "happy clapper", but have got to that stage in life when if one can't do anything about something then its not worth worrying about - so Covid-19, Derby County and Brexit all fit that bill!

As for Cocu, well we shall see, not worth being to optimistic, this is derby County we are talking about and there have been too many false dawns to have much hope that it will be anything other than a "season of transition" AGAIN! Starting 12 pts down might just mean we can all relax and not have hopes on anything but championship survival!

I'll wait until mid November and see how we are