Given the largely negative response on here to what I thought in the circumstances (key players out, new management team in place for 5 days, playing one of the leagues form teams away) was a decent performance yesterday, I am dreading what I might be reading next weekend.
The Wigan game is, obviously MASSIVE, but more for morale reasons than anything else. We will not be automatically relegated if we lose. Much to our frustration, we probably won't have the 6 world class new players we all want (may need to revise expectations there too....) in the team by 21st January. Sparky will still be educating the team into how he wants them to play ( if the evidence of defensive/ set piece improvement from yesterday is anything to go by, he is doing an outstanding job already. By the second half I was no longer hiding behind the sofa for every Toon corner).
If we do lose I won't expect any restraint on here, and that's fair enough, but wanted to get my shout in early for balance. Don't get me wrong, I expect us to win. In fact I demand that we win as it is my birthday (fifty ****ing one). Can't go to the game as next Saturday is my only day in the UK out of the next 10 starting Wednesday, and the wife has 'organised something'. So add my voice in spirit to the cauldron that we need 100% behind the team (no matter what happens against MK Dons) 100% of the game.
You R'ssssss!!!!!
Ps there is no Wigan Pier, and there never has been, just an old music hall joke.....
The Wigan game is, obviously MASSIVE, but more for morale reasons than anything else. We will not be automatically relegated if we lose. Much to our frustration, we probably won't have the 6 world class new players we all want (may need to revise expectations there too....) in the team by 21st January. Sparky will still be educating the team into how he wants them to play ( if the evidence of defensive/ set piece improvement from yesterday is anything to go by, he is doing an outstanding job already. By the second half I was no longer hiding behind the sofa for every Toon corner).
If we do lose I won't expect any restraint on here, and that's fair enough, but wanted to get my shout in early for balance. Don't get me wrong, I expect us to win. In fact I demand that we win as it is my birthday (fifty ****ing one). Can't go to the game as next Saturday is my only day in the UK out of the next 10 starting Wednesday, and the wife has 'organised something'. So add my voice in spirit to the cauldron that we need 100% behind the team (no matter what happens against MK Dons) 100% of the game.
You R'ssssss!!!!!
Ps there is no Wigan Pier, and there never has been, just an old music hall joke.....
