After a week of diverting attention away from his team & piling as much pressure on a oblivious Nigel Adkins, Fat Sam has come out & declared his team will win the Play offs. "We have to lick our wounds and get ready for the vital games ahead of us," said Allardyce, whose side face Cardiff City in the play-off semi-final. "We still have three games to win, and we will do it." Big words Sam, but better managers have failed in the dreaded Championship Play offs. Let the games begin!
West Ham have the best squad. Brum have the best manager. Blackpool play the best football. So I predict Cardiff, who have recovered from their Carling Cup hangover at just the right time, will enter the play-offs with the momentum and tenacity to see them through.
If you look in the bottom right hand corner of your screen just above the date and timeyou will see a facilty where you can enlarge your text via the zoom level. I set mine at 200% and can then read most things. However there is someone who will remain nameless who always resets it to 100 just to cause me problems.
I don't like the bloke but if he managed me, him announcing that to the press would spur me on ten fold.
Ithink Sam may have had his best years when he initially did well at Bolton years ago it seemed to suit him there but ever since he has been a square peg in a round hole and these days seems to rely on the power of the cheque book and bluster he wont be long in London thats for sure
To put it in perspective...West Ham have competed this year and only just failed to get auto. I know they might have hoped for auto, but this can hardly be said to have been a terrible season.
Agreed. Although they should have won promotion on paper, with the squad of players they have, there were two teams better then them this year. Whereas 86 points would normally be enough for a top 2 place. I'm not sure who I'm backing to win the play offs yet, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if West Ham come up with us.
I heard that as well Fran, funny that everyone associates 3rd place with a ultimate meltdown. Can hope, hey!
He spent more time spouting off to the media about Saints rather than his own team. Big own goal there! Nigel Adkins doesn't do mind games!
Prior to our game yesterday there was an article on the BBC website that had Nolan trying to pile the pressure on us. In the article he said that he hoped that when the Saints players put their shirts on, they weighed very heavy on them. I now hope that his shirt weighs a ton when he plays in the play-off's!
Will Big Sam will be out of a job if they don't go up? Doesn't deserve to be sacked imo, but I'm not sure Gold and Sullivan look the patient types.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/17/blackburn-sam-allardyce-inter-real I think he thinks he's better than he is
