& Patience. It seems like we have not had the start we have been fantasising about all summer. Instead, following a good, battling performance away at Coventry, we have lost two home games on the bounce. On Saturday, I felt pretty gutted. So surely I feel worse tonight? Actually I don't. I am disappointed to loose another home game but instead of feeling distraught I actually feel optimistic. Here are some reasons. Waghorn and Dyer's first touches looked terrible tonight. I haven't particularly noticed this previous seasons. Therefore, I think they looked poor up against the rest of our players who obviously have much more quality. Nugent scored. He has looked due a goal and could easily have had 3 in 3 games by now. Now he is off the mark, surely he will only score more. We looked pretty fluid attacking. After the lacklustre display on Saturday we played, at times, with much more attacking intent and looked like scoring goals. Time is a great healer. The more game-time our hastily assembled group of players have together, the more they will understand each other's games and they will pre-empt what each other are going to do more often. The transfer window is going to close in two weeks. After that, we will either have a new striker or two, or, we can all stop stressing about new strikers and just get on with watching what we have. Other fans are winding us up and the media are having fun too. Well...wouldn't we if the boot was on the other foot? Let them get their jibes in while they can. It will turn around, we may well win at Reading, we may well win at Bristol. Our next game is away. Last season we were great at home after our bad start. This season, it seems like our players walk out onto the pitch burdened however. We can't play to our best with so much tension so it might be good to have an away game which we won't be expected to win. Basically...no-one has every been promoted or relegated in August. Things can only get better and...does anyone really think we will be in the bottom half by April? No we won't will we. So all this stressing is just pointless. We might as well just relax and see how things pan out. So don't worry...about a thing...because every little thing...is going to be allright!
Are you having a big spliff? ------------------------------------ I think it sounds like I have but actually no. I just made the conscious decision that instead of stressing about the result I was going to take it on the chin and move on. It is of course disappointing but can you actually see Leicester not doing well this year? I can't. Also, what is the point of stressing about something you can do nothing about? The same goes for the Tories. They are currently ripping the social heart out of the country while turning it into a police state. Most people are cheering them from the rafters. Can I do anything about it? No. So what is the point in getting upset about it. Much as I might wish it, I am not Che Guererra. So...the Tories will eventually disappear into the 18th Century where they belong, and Sven will sort it out, it will click...and every little thing will be alright!
Here here Stour! A bit of common sense is needed really. Every team will be coming to the KP to cause an upset, as the media portray us ‘we are the team to beat’ this year: everyone will want a pop. All I can say is if the gelling starts to happen and we play football to the ability of our players then our victory will taste so much sweeter against the hate and determination to cause an upset! Bring it on!
I think the turning point could've been after Maynard missed that penalty. The crowd roared and the players responded but it was too close to half time for any real progress to be made. But...don't panic!
Posted this paragraph on another article and I think it resonates with your article: "Definately not time to consider sacking the manager because he has built a strong squad that I think needs more time to gel together and if we can be there or there abouts and in touching distance of the top two come the turn of the year, I think we have the squad to be able to push on in the 2nd half of the season once they have gelled properly and the depth to counter some of the fatigue that some other teams might be feeling. Shouldn't panic yet, it's still early and we are more than capable of recovering. As long as we learn and improve from these two defeats, I think we can still push for auto's." The only thing I would disagree with is our attacking play. We probably were on about the same level as Reading I thought and it was still too slow and we didn't have enough tempo in the play to break down a well-drilled Bristol City side. I agreed with the intent as King actually looked like breaking beyond Nugent but didn't do it often enough and we were lacking the spark that Wellens usually provides. He definately wasn't on song and I think that affected our rhythm and that is worrying.
