After another not very inspiring performance! When you look at the table do you see 10th place and only 5 points off playoffs or 10th place and only 6 points off a relegation place ? Are we going to keep sliding downwards or is it going to click and we start climbing the table?
I see a team that took 10 points from the first 5 games and then took 6 points from the next 7 games. That current form spells relegation, especially considering we have yet to play many of the favourites to go up as yet. Brighton, Boro, Derby and Reading all to come in the next few weeks. If we don't start improving PDQ it will be a relegation battle and we don't seem to have much 'battle' about us at present...
Mid table ish feels about right. Form is going to be up and down but if the dressing room issues do start to get out of hand it will be tough to really be in the play off mix.
On the basis of last night I didn't think much of Wednesday and they are now six games unbeaten. It tells me it is easily possible to string a few results together. I would say if we sort the defence out top eight is achievable.
I thought the defence did look better on Tuesday. I was saying to my friend, as soon as we sort out the defence we will stop scoring goals. We can never have both!! But.... Warnock was the last person to get us running on both levels and he's back!!
It must be difficult for you guys that go week in and week out to watch poor football so living abroad makes it a lot easier to swallow as I have zero expectation this season and have not really bothered following many games because I have far too much to going on in my personal life. I predicted we would finish 15th and I would be happy with that, although I did expect a little more after we kept Austin, Phillips & Fer. I think our current position is just about right and I hope we stay in a boring mid-table all season and give Ramsey a full season to learn his trade because the last thing we need now is another promotion followed by an awful depressing season and yet another relegation and IMO that would happen. If you look at the teams that have done well after promotion in recent times there is a common factor in that they have all had a fairly talented team that know each other and have not had to invest billions on new players e.g. Swansea, Southampton, Leicester, Norwich (to an extent), Palace and WBA after a bit of yoyoing. IMO we need this stabilisation period to build over the next 2/3 seasons in the Championship so that in the future we can mount a proper challenge for promotion with a real chance of staying up.
