New Head Coach

Finished six points off and 19th in the form table.

 

We went through an undeniably rancid spell of form. No denying that but it would have taken Dodd getting 2 or 3 points from his 13 games instead of the 9 he did manage.

2/3 points from 13 games extrapolated over a season would, I assume absolutely smash the record for lowest points total in the championship.

We were bad. We were nor historically bad. And we had been very decent up until about half way through the season.

The relegation talk always seemed ridiculous.

 

I certainly hope so. Momentum is key in this league and they've finally got the boulder moving again ever so slowly.

 

The form table means absolutely nothing given it doesn't take into account we were high up the table deep into the season.

We never looked like all the teams below us would catch us. It would have taken several more games for that to happen and there is simply no situation where the football league adds several games to the season.

 

Some of our 'supporters' were absolutely salivating about it when it was actually nonsense ...

... probably the same clowns who've been claiming we were 'flirting with Dodds as manager'.

'Realists' who believe in fantasies but only ever convince themselves

 

Yeah no where near close to relegation, would have been a different story without the first half of the season! But as the saying goes if me auntie had balls she would be....hang on a second these days she would still be me auntie or whatever she wanted to be.

 

The numbers are the numbers. We weren't safe until very, very late in the season. It's even worse when you consider where we were at one point.

 

If there'd been a chance of relegation I think the club would've persevered with Beale ...

... as there was no chance they sacked him and just started planning for this one.

 

What was our lowest position in the season? We did not flirt with relegation. No matter how you cut it. It never looked likely at all.

And I'm very realistic about how shocking we were under Dodds. It would have taken historically bad form to see us relegated, we were not close to that.

 

When does the measuring begin ???
There was a series of good decisions before the bad decisions do they not count or is that outside of your time frame of decisions

 

Agreed, although I doubt they expected the form to plummet as it did!

I can't wait to see what this season brings!

 

Don't confuse him with facts mate, he'll start spouting business jargon and explaining where the club are going wrong ...

... he can keep up the negativity longer than Julian Assange can stay home watching CNN

 

Six points is four results going the other way. Two of ours and two for one of the teams on 50 points.

All fixed now though, because the new strip is nice. We're definitely getting promoted. Billy The Fish logic on show again.

 

Well if the football league start retrospectively changing results and points on the board, we should probably worry about that.

 

I think this is something to do with different personality types, the two obvious ones that show themselves on forums like this is the positive/negative outlook under suspenseful circumstances. Some people just crumble and devolve into loathing at the first sight of adversity, others sort of puff their chests out and act a bit bullish about it.

I prefer the latter out of those two and most people are probably somewhere in between but we seem to have our fair share of moaning wimps.

 

You really have an odd way of showing your support for your team! I get that you will probably voice it as realism but tbh it is more like nihilism and a rejection of what you claim to support.

 

I just don't take my pants off immediately for the girl who's kicked me in the balls before based on her saying she won't do it again.

Give me the right signals and the pants will be off like lightning like they've got Velcro down the side.

 

The worst are those who puff their chests out, act bullishly and try to impose their negativity on everyone else.

It's not a case of feeling sorry about the situation ...

... they absolutely relish it and try every means possible to put a negative slant on everything.

As I've said, if they're so unhappy about Sunderland they just really stop.

 

As a mentality I'm team bullish over team victim any day of the week.

 

This thread is confusing me now. You must all be responding to someone I have on ignore. Seems like I did the right thing. Looking forward to the new season and I bet the lads are too.