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Commander

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Apr 28, 2004
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We're 9th (ninth) in the Championship, 4 points off the play-offs with a game in hand, with the best stadium in the division and near 30,000 crowds. There is no rot, despite you desperately wanting there to be.
 










Feb 14, 2010
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Buying a bloke who runs around alot from Peterborough instead of keeping Murray. Agreed. The biggest mistake in recent years.
 






martyn20

Unwell but still smiling
Aug 4, 2012
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Burgess Hill
We're 9th (ninth) in the Championship, 4 points off the play-offs with a game in hand, with the best stadium in the division and near 30,000 crowds. There is no rot, despite you desperately wanting there to be.

The fact we are still in sight of the play-offs is more about those teams around us than our play. Clearly things are not going well on the pitch at the moment, surely you can see that?
 


BensGrandad

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Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
That was a major point but time enough to have got over that. I think the crucial time this season is Croft getting injured and we brought in Lita and Obika neither of whom could fill the void. Should have gone for a like for like, can I suggest possibly Jamie O Hara of Wolves on loan with us paying some of his wages.
 






Commander

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The fact we are still in sight of the play-offs is more about those teams around us than our play. Clearly things are not going well on the pitch at the moment, surely you can see that?

That's nonsense, that's exactly what people keep saying last year and we ended up finishing 4th. It's what happens in the Championship.

We've lost three games in a row, so what? Before that we'd won 5 in 7 or something. I didn't hear people saying something was deeply wrong with the club then. Football teams do not win every single game, and every term goes through bad patches. It happens. We'll get through this one and then guess what, we'll have another one at some point, and all the bedwetters with nothing else going on in their lives will start crying and demanding we sack the manager again. It's pathetic, it really is.
 


martyn20

Unwell but still smiling
Aug 4, 2012
3,080
Burgess Hill
That's nonsense, that's exactly what people keep saying last year and we ended up finishing 4th. It's what happens in the Championship.

We've lost three games in a row, so what? Before that we'd won 5 in 7 or something. I didn't hear people saying something was deeply wrong with the club then. Football teams do not win every single game, and every term goes through bad patches. It happens. We'll get through this one and then guess what, we'll have another one at some point, and all the bedwetters with nothing else going on in their lives will start crying and demanding we sack the manager again. It's pathetic, it really is.

So you have total faith in OG and the team, nothing is wrong and nothing needs to change? How many goals have we scored this year, nowhere near enough is the answer, is that a season long bad patch?
 










Feb 14, 2010
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We're 9th (ninth) in the Championship, 4 points off the play-offs with a game in hand, with the best stadium in the division and near 30,000 crowds. There is no rot, despite you desperately wanting there to be.


The players are bottling it and deserve all the stick they get. hen you pay to 30,000 gates in the second division then you should expect that expectations should be high, and after the disgraceful performance against palace in the play offs last year then they have zero goodwill with the fans. We expect, they either deliver or they will and should get stick
 






Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,906
Living In a Box
The problem now is total lack of confidence and a complete fear factor in the players, not sure how we get over this but any type of win would help.
 


Commander

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Apr 28, 2004
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London
So you have total faith in OG and the team, nothing is wrong and nothing needs to change? How many goals have we scored this year, nowhere near enough is the answer, is that a season long bad patch?

I have total faith that the time to change things is not 8 months in to a 5 year project when the targets set for this season are still very much in sight. How can you call it a season long bad patch when we are where we are in the table? It's absolute rubbish.

The time to judge Oscar is at the end of next season, and not before. As long as there is no danger of relegation, which there won't be, he should be given the time to develop and build his team and his culture. These things take time. Bloom took the decision to take on a guy with no experience of this division, so it would be completely and utterly wrong to get rid of him after such a short time, especially when he is well within reach of the targets he was set, even after a ridiculously unlucky injury crisis.

It's sad that football has come to the point where a manager is in fear of his job because he lost three games in a row, after being one of the form teams in the division before them. It shows the intelligence of your average football fan really.
 



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