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David Stockdale: "We're not in a relegation fight"



spanish flair

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Jan 30, 2014
2,349
Brighton
He may be saying that. He may very well be saying that.

But he has said it in a way that suggests arrogance and complacency.

Confidence in his team mates is all well and good, but to suggest that we will pull clear if we play like we did against Millwall - well, that's a little bit stupid, isn't it? He must know that a massive improvement is needed, and if he thinks that we haven't noticed this too, well, he is deluded and thick.

It's a tad annoying to see what is happening, but to hear everyone in the club suggesting that all is well, and nothing needs to change.

This is the part that I find unbelievably worrying and frightening. And this attitude will lose the guys at the top any respect or credibility they currently have.
 






peterward

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Nov 11, 2009
11,383
No. The usual "we're in a bad place but we think we have what it takes to get out of it" type stuff. Denial of being in a relegation scrap and referring to this run as a "bad spell" is stretching it all a bit.

And after the soothing waters of your "calm down Tuesday" thread, its full on back to the blood boiling battlefronts of Saturday.


OUT
 








kevtherev

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Feb 28, 2008
10,453
Tunbridge Wells
That's exactly the attitude that is the reason we are in the shite...It seems everyone at the club is deluded, from the chairman,manager,right through to the players...club is dreaming, but it's our nightmare and we are heading straight for relegation.
 


Northstander

Well-known member
Oct 13, 2003
14,028
FAO of Brighton and Hove Abion

Definition of promotion and relegation courtesy of Wiki:


In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between two divisions based on their performance for the completed season. The best-ranked teams in the lower division are promoted to the division above, and the worst-ranked teams in the higher division are relegated to the division below.

In some leagues, play-offs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings. This process can continue through several levels, with teams being exchanged between levels 1 and 2, levels 2 and 3, levels 3 and 4, and so on.

During the season, teams that are high enough in the table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the promotion zone, and those at the bottom are in the relegation zone (or, colloquially, the drop zone).

:thumbsup:
 


perseus

Broad Blue & White stripe
Jul 5, 2003
23,458
Sūþseaxna
Fulham weren't in a relegation fight last season. A relegation non-fight.
 






Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,993
Living In a Box
One of our previous players quoted "procrastination is the thief of time" so perhaps wind the clock forward to the inevitable outcome given current attitudes and thought processes.
 










Seasider78

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Nov 14, 2004
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somerset

New member
Jul 14, 2003
6,600
Yatton, North Somerset
Today's complete-and-utter-bollocks quote from the Amex comes from David Stockdale...

1. “We’re not in a relegation fight." - yes, yes we are.

2. "I firmly believe that. If we keep playing and getting in the positions we did on Friday, with the talent we’ve got we’ll come through it." - we were utter toilet on Friday. More of the same is an express journey to relegation central.

3. “Everyone goes through bad spells and hopefully our good spell will come from now till the end of the season." - a bad spell? A bad spell? Really?
"Utter toilet" .... <chuckle>.... just about as colourful and accurate a description as any I have seen so far this season.
 


Silent Bob

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Dec 6, 2004
22,172
Stockdale showing the kind of judgement and decision making that has firmly established him as our third best keeper.
 


jay d

jay d n coke
Nov 16, 2014
833
brighton
Whats the odds that every other team who are in a relegation fight , past and present, have players come out and say exactly the same sort of thing.
he's hardly going to come out and say, sorry guys me and the rest of the team feel that we could be destined to lge 1. Unfortunately we are really strugling at the moment and we just don't think that the way we are playing we can stay up. Is he ?
 






Silent Bob

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Dec 6, 2004
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Whats the odds that every other team who are in a relegation fight , past and present, have players come out and say exactly the same sort of thing.
he's hardly going to come out and say, sorry guys me and the rest of the team feel that we could be destined to lge 1. Unfortunately we are really strugling at the moment and we just don't think that the way we are playing we can stay up. Is he ?
You'd think he couldn't come out and say that, but given what he has come out and said you never know. What a shame that those are literally the only two possible things to say in this situation.
 


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