Recent content by Kalimantan Gull

Happy St George's Day to all you Englanders, hope you celebrate as fervently as the Cornish did on March 5th for St Piran's Day :)

Its different, I'll give it that

Marvellous

Alright. We started this when you said we had taken a step backwards this season. Although our team isn't as good this season, clearly, and frustratingly, i believe that our fundamentals are stronger, and hence that we have not taken a step backwards. All teams at any point in time have a...

Because when you're deemed to have failed at a big club your star fades precipitously. Whilst when your on the way up, teams don't want to miss out in case you're the messiah, so tend to promote too early. It's one of the better arguments for getting Potter back, we wouldn't be looking over...

Yes, we would. I think Bart has a long way to go, but the potential to be better than Steele is clear. I think playing Steele so much has been very clever, it showed us the alternative. Because you're right, if Bart played every week and made some of these mistakes every game he'd be getting...

Arsenal, they play really good football and I'm surprised more isn't made of their style of play, considering how much the media fawned over RDZs style at Brighton and its very similar. Certainly would be happy for Trossard to win it, a bigger servant for brighton than Mac was, however much...

Well obviously i disagree. I think if you went back 2 years and sold Mac Allister that summer and then had March, Mitoma and all the rest injured for that season we not only wouldn't have finished 6th but also wouldn't have been sitting 10th with six games to go. If you want to argue the...

Jeez how did that Watkins shot not go in? That was astonishing

You're just focusing on short term ceiling, but perhaps we should consider the floor? Every individual season is at the whim and mercy of injuries, form and luck, but there is a long term trend which is more important. Differences in finishing positions are just noise around a mean. I think...

Three seasons ago 13th was the best ever finish in our history. Don't let two exceptional seasons make us think that finishing 13th is bad.... If that can be our floor we should be delighted

If that's the way you choose to look at it we're taking a step backwards regardless, whether we're 8th, 9th, 10th or whatever. Personally i don't think this season is a step backwards at all. When you climb a mountain some bits are easy, some bits are hard, but as long as you keep pushing on...

Top captaining by John Simpson, well done that man

It's unfair on RDZ, and indeed also on Potter. They're just following the same path - arrive abd change to a more exciting style, get g some great early results but start conceding a lot on the break, and after a while find the rest of the league have worked you out. It takes time to adapt to...

There isn't a lot of difference between 9th and 12th, so hard to care too much. Nevertheless, West Ham losing keeps alive a dream of europe if we miraculously manage to win our last five on the spin.