You do know prem sides go backwards in the 2nd season if they don't go up 1st season? Only WBA have done it in last 10 years. Statistically about a 3% chance More likely we'll do a wigan and go down. You just don't become a better team after losing someone like Austin
And to top it all tonight Rotherham had a good home win Setting ourselves up nicely for Saturday.......
Agreed. Many factors though, and we will need to get them all spot on during the summer recruitment to succeed. But building momentum in the final part of this season like under Warnock the season before promotion, can be the platform needed to get it right in the summer.
Wolves beating Fulham 3-2 seem to be doing fine without Afobe. please log in to view this image Benik Afobe: Bournemouth sign Wolves striker for about £10m Bournemouth have signed Wolves striker Benik Afobe for an undisclosed fee, thought to be about £10m. The 22-year-old has joined the Premier League club on a four-and-a-half-year deal after passing a medical on Sunday. Afobe arrived at Wolves from Arsenal a year ago and scored 23 goals in 48 games for the Championship side. He becomes the Cherries' second signing of the January transfer window after fellow forward Juan Iturbe signed on loan from Roma. "It's been a long time coming," Afobe told the club website. "I have come here and I'm not saying I'm the finished article or the best that I'll ever be, because I know that I've got a lot to work on. Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe said Afobe would "bring strength, power and hopefully goals", and Cherries chief executive Neill Blake said Afobe's "outstanding progress" has been "difficult to miss". Howe lost striker Callum Wilson and winger Max Gradel to long-term injuries early this season. Bournemouth's previous record signing was the £8m paid to Ipswich last summer for defender Tyrone Mings - another long-term injury victim. Wolves turned down offers from Norwich for Afobe in the summer, but the club "reluctantly" accepted a bid from the Cherries on Saturday. "Benik has regularly re-stated his desire to leave Wolves and to test himself in the top flight at the earliest opportunity," read a Wolves statement. "Faced with this difficult situation, and with circumstances now changed for Wolves, Wolves were left with little other option than to reluctantly accept the substantial bid." http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/35275889
And here it is, from micro blogging site Twitter: Could easily have won, didn't do quite enough. Some semblance of plan and improvement there. Polter's best game so far and MOTM IMO.
Same old, same old. I was busy tonight so wasn't at the game and have no idea how we truly played (apparently a bit better), but at 1-0 I just knew we wouldn't hold the lead. Almost expecting the equaliser. This team just isn't mentally strong enough.
Would you look at that. Steel myself to go and walk the dog in the cold rain when we are 1 up, come back 1:1. No minerals!
Wigan managed to blow a 3-0 lead this evening as Sheff Utd tied them 3-3. Likely the same would happen to us, not sure right now how we would ever accrue a 3-0 lead though. Burnley seems to be the dark horse in our division, calmly and quietly getting the 5-0 job done at MK Dons.
