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Big G

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Dec 14, 2005
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No way.

We will finish much further up the table.

I agree that the promotion hopes will die soon if we don't start scoring asap, but TB will buy us a striker or two that can score in January if needed to avoid any relegation nonsense.

Are the people nice in your planet mate?
Get real and out of that river in Egypt!
 






tigertim68

Well-known member
Sep 3, 2012
2,328
No way.

We will finish much further up the table.

I agree that the promotion hopes will die soon if we don't start scoring asap, but TB will buy us a striker or two that can score in January if needed to avoid any relegation nonsense.

You obviously did not watch today's game ,we are awful at the moment, or by the way good strikers don't grow on trees
 


Luke93

STAND OR FALL
Jun 23, 2013
5,030
Shoreham
Even those who have been saying we will turn it around because performances have been ok have got to now admit we are in a relegation battle?

No league goals from a striker and only one from a midfielder in nearly two months!

LuaLua, Tex, CMS and Holla all have league goals, so your last line is talking bollocks. I agree though, as it stands, we're in potential trouble of getting dragged down.
 


Tony Meolas Loan Spell

Slut Faced Whores
Jul 15, 2004
18,067
Vamanos Pest
Said it WEEKS ago "too good to go down" and we all know what happens...
 




Albion Dan

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Jul 8, 2003
11,125
Peckham
LuaLua, Tex, CMS and Holla all have league goals, so your last line is talking bollocks. I agree though, as it stands, we're in potential trouble of getting dragged down.
CMS and Tex last goals were almost two moths ago as stated in my post so not bollocks at all.
 


Finkangel

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Feb 9, 2013
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Even those who have been saying we will turn it around because performances have been ok have got to now admit we are in a relegation battle?

No league goals from a striker and only one from a midfielder in nearly two months!

Spot on. Never been this concerned about our ability. Part of me still wants to give sami a chance but its wearing thin. Most of these players can play better. We know that. Thats whats so frustrating. Apart from stockdale may as well feature in the opposing line up!. Will get caught out soon with a cheeky beckham style lob. Tosser.
 


Skylar

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Jul 29, 2014
799
Even those who have been saying we will turn it around because performances have been ok have got to now admit we are in a relegation battle?

No league goals from a striker and only one from a midfielder in nearly two months!

I said when Ulloa was going we'd not be in a relegation battle but relegated and nothing has changed my mind. People can thumb down or what ever that other thing is but I don't care. We have had it. I don't blame the manager, I blame bloom, burke and Barber.
 






Guinness Boy

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Jul 23, 2003
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Hyppia is sadly still a pupil. We can't afford to carry him any more, it's just who we'd get in instead that stops me reaching for the red button. We have made some appalling signings and decisions this summer and they are all coming home to roost.
 


portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
17,116
On the phone in, lots of people were talking about no width. I thought the opposite. We are always playing the ball out wide...but not forward. It's always sides to side, spreading the ball but only ever inching never striding forward. And even if we were to burst forward down the line who exactly are we crossing to? That's right, frodo and bilbo in the middle. For me we badly lack any sort of penetration in the middle of the park that would open up the wings to provide some more dangerous runs and crosses from the flanks. We can play the ball out the wings and back all day long without causing teams any trouble. The ball spends too much time out there at the moment, need to bring it inside and do some Richie carpenter or Jimmy case type damage in centre of the park. Could Paddy provide? Christ, let's hope so. Because we are looking terrible at the moment and most of all we are just woeful and painfully boring to watch.
 




Leighgull

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Dec 27, 2012
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Just got back to Southend after wasting my time and MORE money I don't have to watch us getting turned over by another of the teams that I cannot abide in this division...Sami ain't the answer whatever the question is.

On a side note why doesn't Tony with his billion pound fortune built on a company who SPECIALISES in betting on the outcome of football matches spend a bit of time asking his "team" of statisticians to pick the best manager and breakthrough players for his own fecking club rather than tipping millionaires who to back in spreads?

It makes me want to weep watching this shit week in and out.
 


Bold Seagull

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Mar 18, 2010
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As someone who is usually overwhelmingly positive, I am two games from pushing the panic button.

This has just made me push mine!

We are in a relegation scrap. Anyone not accepting that right now is deluded - that is where we are; an undeniable fact.
 


Commander

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Apr 28, 2004
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I said when Ulloa was going we'd not be in a relegation battle but relegated and nothing has changed my mind. People can thumb down or what ever that other thing is but I don't care. We have had it. I don't blame the manager, I blame bloom, burke and Barber.

With all due respect, that is probably the biggest load of nonsense I have read on this board for a long time. What do you think we should have done when faced with a player who wanted to leave to have a shot at the big time, and in return we were getting 5 times what we paid for him? You are basically saying that if it wasn't for Ulloa we would have been relegated last year. Really?
 






Commander

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Apr 28, 2004
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This has just made me push mine!

We are in a relegation scrap. Anyone not accepting that right now is deluded - that is where we are; an undeniable fact.

I don't think relegation scraps start until January. We are still only three wins off the play-offs. If we're in this position at Christmas then it's time to worry. I don't think we will be, but even if we aren't, I'm still not sure Sami is the answer. I'm happy to give the guy time, but there needs to be signs of progress, even if we aren't wining. And there were none today.
 




wellquickwoody

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Aug 10, 2007
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I think we need to give him a couple more games and then sadly pull the trigger. If we're gonna do it then we need to give the new guy the January transfer window.
Arse end of November, then ciao.
 




Bold Seagull

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Mar 18, 2010
29,808
Hove
I don't think relegation scraps start until January. We are still only three wins off the play-offs. If we're in this position at Christmas then it's time to worry. I don't think we will be, but even if we aren't, I'm still not sure Sami is the answer. I'm happy to give the guy time, but there needs to be signs of progress, even if we aren't wining. And there were none today.

I know what you mean, but I've never thought like that, I always take a season in batches of say 10 games and I'm thinking we're contesting wherever we are in that period. I think you have to have a mindset of where you are right then whether it's your 14th or 40th game.

Relegation battles start too late for those that go down. In my heart of hearts I don't think we'll be in a relegation scrap come April, but right now it's important we realise where we are, not just hoping it won't be the case in Jan.
 


Guinness Boy

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On the phone in, lots of people were talking about no width. I thought the opposite. We are always playing the ball out wide...but not forward. It's always sides to side, spreading the ball but only ever inching never striding forward. And even if we were to burst forward down the line who exactly are we crossing to? That's right, frodo and bilbo in the middle. For me we badly lack any sort of penetration in the middle of the park that would open up the wings to provide some more dangerous runs and crosses from the flanks. We can play the ball out the wings and back all day long without causing teams any trouble. The ball spends too much time out there at the moment, need to bring it inside and do some Richie carpenter or Jimmy case type damage in centre of the park. Could Paddy provide? Christ, let's hope so. Because we are looking terrible at the moment and most of all we are just woeful and painfully boring to watch.

The wrong players are wide at the wrong times and we can't find them with the right pass. Calde was in 20 yards of space on the right wing at times in the second half while we pushed it to the double teamed Lua Lua in the middle of the pitch or moved it wide to Bennett, making sure he was marked first so we could get nudged off the ball or have to play it back.
 


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