19 league goals for bowen 14 last season and generally this season was harder, could he keep it up etc etc?
Poor lad **** himself..... I bet the lads take the piss At training on Monday, poor boy looked like a rabbit In headlights ha ha... ****ing good player mind....
Well, I predicted the score correct for once, and it sounds like a really good performance all round. Pugh looks to have been excellent as was the goal machine Bowen. Martin also seems to have had a good game, which is nice to see, as from what I heard and have seen he has had some unfair criticism at times. There were some strange results, West Brom getting hammered by TWS and Derby getting shafted by Villa. With Bristol City only getting a point, there is an outside hope of a playoff place still.
Every time you think the wheels have fallen off the the bus Nigle get the players off has them jack the bugger up and sticks a new set on! I predicted at the start of the season that after losing so much quality in the Summer we'd be relegated. I'm fairly sure now that I was wrong When the poll came out I also said we had no chance we'd get to the play offs. I still think it's a bridge to far but it'll be a damn site closer than I ever expected. I hope we do perform a miracle and get promoted not least because as I honestly think it's the quickest way to get rid of the Allams. Their asking price has no relation to our value but to their desire to get their "gift" back. In the PL that price may match the value. In the Championship they'll not find a buyer and they'll try and run the club on a shoe string while collection interest.
Strange how our best form happens to coincide when we have our best eleven fit and playing together. Defensively we are a team that is probably always going to be one or two injury’s away from getting thumped again but just as importantly,a team more than capable of upsetting the form book given a settled side. Allams out
To blow upon my own trumpets, I stated (many times) that we’d get around 50 points. I didn’t expect us to do this well. I think the seeming hopelessness exacted by the Allams made many of those with sense on this forum lose their rationality. Of course, it also fed the idiots on here no end – the types who’d be slagging off a player or the team if we lost a game whilst being top. I enjoy our 'success' but there has to be a carefully managed dichotomy between the sadness and grief at what’s happening to the club; versus celebrating a clever, resilient manager and team fighting above their weight and dragging themselves toward the light.
It's not true tho is it. Campbell didn't play, our best elevenincluded batty not so long back with Irvine further up. Then Stewart was in the best eleven but not now. Two weeks ago Irvine was a weak link in cm. Now he's in there In the best eleven. Pugh wasn't even here on our great run earlier on.
You can add darnborough to that too. Much maligned. He's brought in de Wijs and Burke, for little money as those are his parameters, those two have so much potential it's unreal.
I admire your optimism ST, but I fear a promotion would not hasten their exit, as others have alluded to, it could saddle us with them for longer, for 2 reasons; a) £££ greed. With the potential for millions £ more, followed by more parachute payments, greed would overtake all else. b) Ego. In their warped thinking, a successful promotion would validate their "business plan" and "football acumen" of running one of the best run clubs. The cycle would continue.
I was going to say same, Tigress. Promotion would mean they stay for at least another four years. The asking price would shoot up anyway, no matter how much they were owed at that point.
My opinion exactly Tigress. It would be just the same as last time, no investment just sit there and wait for relegation and trouser the parachute payments.
Defensively it’s true,and that,along with injuries effecting our paper thin squad has been our Achilles heel all season.
Thought Bowen might miss his pen, as they orchestrated 2 minutes of pushing and shoving and organised chaos so he had too long to think about it. Groundless fears. Henricksen again did his Johnny Continental 'curtain call' thing at the end and got a moderate response from the N stand. A voice behind me remarked to the effect that he hadn't shown such determination and fist clenching leadership during the game. Looks like this soppy wannabe continental victory curtain call may take route unfortunately...
