[Albion] I'm happy, are you?

[Conkers]

But more consistent than 12 other teams! we can't have been that inconsistent overall to finish 8th, and when you have an injury list like ours through most of the season with key players in and out and in and out again, FH did brilliantly well to ensure we weren't far more inconsistent

I appreciate what you are saying but if you don’t think we haven’t been inconsistent you probably haven’t been watching us

 

[Conkers]

I appreciate what you are saying but if you don’t think we haven’t been inconsistent you probably haven’t been watching us

Too many negatives in there you get my drift

 

[Bozza]

I appreciate what you are saying but if you don’t think we haven’t been inconsistent you probably haven’t been watching us

Out of interest which Premier League sides have been consistent this season?

(And I mean consistently good. The dogshit three. who have been consistently dogshit don't count)

 

[birthofanorange]

Definitely didn’t. Not playing Mitoma from the start was plain silly. Playing no striker and playing something new was also obviously wrong first half. Once we got more attacking power we won as we should have. Just because we won 4-1 doesn’t mean the manager got it right does it - maybe it would have been 8-1 if he’d done some things different.

Spurs fans, too....but apt.

 

[BN41Albion]

I appreciate what you are saying but if you don’t think we haven’t been inconsistent you probably haven’t been watching us

Yeah fair point, but I stick by my point that I don't think we would've been as inconsistent at times if it weren't so hit by injuries throughout the entire bloody season - in key positions, too. And it's also true to say we've been the 8th most consistent, or least inconsistent, team in the country this season, which ain't bad going

 

[pigmanovich]

1. Mitoma wasn't fit enough to start.

2. WE HAD NO AVAILABLE STRIKERS TODAY.

Please, injuries are a fiction, it’s always Fabian’s fault if we don’t field our best XI!

 

[London Irish]

Yes. Happy. New manager and £193m on 9 signings (3 went out on loan) smacked of consolidation season, so to achieve over 60 points with 5th most GS and the team with most scorers is impressive.

There always has to be a ‘but’ and mine is the ‘4 point’ but. Never mind 2/6 wins against bottom 3, it is THOSE games at Leicester and home to Wolves that have cost us, plus the 7-0, which was a FH aberration. Had that been 4-0 (still a thrashing) and we hadn’t thrown away 4 points, would finish above Forest. Every team will have its ‘if onlys’ of course, but end of the day we could have done 7th.

Yes It’s only a consolidation season if we protect the squad in the summer. What if our big players or at least some of them leave? Then another consolidation season?

The target was Europe this season, countless voices at the club said so. Falling just short doesn’t make it a failure of a season in that usual schizophrenic way things are described on here too often, but we are entitled to feel some measure (small, big - up to personal preference) of disappointment that the target was not met

 

[Triggaaar]

Still waiting for the poll

 

[birthofanorange]

Still waiting for the poll

I'll leave that to the money-spinner.

 

[Triggaaar]

Next season could be epic.

It could be season defining

 

[boik]

Decent overall . Think we should of done better and Hurzeler has cost us a bit but onwards and upwards and hope with losing players we can still compete top half

SHOULD? Based upon what exactly? New manager, new players, shedload of injuries and we SHOULD have done better. MIGHT have done better, possibly.

 

[Conkers]

Out of interest which Premier League sides have been consistent this season?

(And I mean consistently good. The dogshit three. who have been consistently dogshit don't count)

Liverpool, Arsenal, Forest, Brentford are at least 4 I would say have been consistent this season.
Not the best 4 but you feel they go into games and win the games they are likely to and lose the ones you expect them to (obviously less so for Liverpool and Arsenal).

I’m sure someone will pull out some stat to p*** all over that but just my gut feeling seeing the results come in each week

 

[boik]

No, simply because of the home performances against Ipswich and Southampton. Win those and we'd be in Europe.

Piss poor.

Ever since Thunderbolt told us you were a wind-up merchant you've been revelling in it. Hope it makes you happy.

 

[Shaktarman]

If you don’t

Spurs fans, too....but apt.

i said I was happy with 8th and it is brilliant but I don’t rate the manager. Jesus talk about twisting something.

 

[Shaktarman]

1. Mitoma wasn't fit enough to start.

2. WE HAD NO AVAILABLE STRIKERS TODAY.

1) Nobody knows that for sure and he seemed ok

2) I’M TALKING THE STRIKER POSITION ON THE PITCH NOT A PLAYER WHOS NATURAL POSITION IS A STRIKER.

 

[birthofanorange]

If you don’t

i said I was happy with 8th and it is brilliant but I don’t rate the manager. Jesus talk about twisting something.

It was the 4 - 1 win against the potential 8 -1 win that threw me.

 

[Ratso2005]

Do you think that, with the present squad ,we are anywhere near good enought to make any sort of impression in Europe though ?

SPURS literally just won the Europa League. Yes.

 

[boik]

Definitely didn’t. Not playing Mitoma from the start was plain silly. Playing no striker and playing something new was also obviously wrong first half. Once we got more attacking power we won as we should have. Just because we won 4-1 doesn’t mean the manager got it right does it - maybe it would have been 8-1 if he’d done some things different.

I'm guessing with a name like Shaktarman that you're a de Zerbi fan, so that probably explains a lot.

 

[Shaktarman]

It was the 4 - 1 win against the potential 8 -1 win that threw me.

Was a hypothetical as I just feel playing without a striker looked completely toothless with who we had on the pitch.

 

[Shaktarman]

I'm guessing with a name like Shaktarman that you're a de Zerbi fan, so that probably explains a lot.

Yep - I loved him until he downed tools and sulked. Also loved Adams and Poyet which I guess explains a lot too. I will always back the manager and the only time I’ve wanted one out was McGhee at the end and Hyypia. I don’t rate this guy or connect with him - deal with a different opinion to yours please.