Just struck me that as long as we keep the momentum going against Sunderland, who looked dire last night, the Bolton-Blackburn result has positives whatever happens - Bolton win takes the wind out of Blackburn's sails and drags them back into the fight, Blackburn win puts could cut the bottom 3 a bit adrift, a draw not much use to either. But it's still all in our own hands, last nights result puts real pressure on the rest of the mini league, us and Blackburn are way ahead on goal difference, let's bring it on!
I think that ideally we and Blackburn win opening up a decent gap, but that does almost take Blackburn out of the equation. You really can argue that match either way.
Yes it is SB; let's just take it one cup final at a time and keep our focus there and not down the road.
But Bolton have a game in hand, if they win that, and then match us rest of the season point for point we are still f*kked, unless Blackburn get dragged back into it.
Great win or not but our defence has to get much ,much tighter against Sunderland if we even dream about win there. Liverpool defence were pants so dont be fooled by yesterday because Sunderland is still big favourite on saturday. Hope that yesterday match would boost our playing and we would make another suprise.
Dave Thomas still thinks that the gap can be breached to the middle earth and then anything is possible even 8th but he has chained up again
Sunderland will be well organised like any Of O'Neils teams, while the Liverpool was a fanstastic win the performance could come a long way but a lot of the that will come with confidence. While my heart says we can kick on, realistically it's no longer completely in In our own hands....... and we will be reliant of 3 teams still performing badly or worse than us but we are giving ourselves a chance.
Wrote the OP without thinking, it's crap, but the sentiment is I'm still focussed on what we do rather than the others (though given that they all seem to be playing each other, it becomes too complicated for my brain to indulge in results guessing). I sense Dave Thomas is making a mighty effort to free himself from his shackles. Last nights result seems to have saved us from an orgy of manic forum preaching from Frank, that's a relief.....
Don't be so harsh on yourself, that is what we are here for! Your basic premise is spot on, our future is in our own hands. I'd agree that guessing the results is virtually impossible, last night being a case in point. that doesn't mean that we can't have a go.
SB - Until its mathematically impossible of course its still in our own hands. Bolton won't win every remaining game will they? We just need to focus on ourselves and up the performance levels as we did second half last night
Not over even if we had of lost last night ... same as it still looks doubtful on paper ... "Coming my dark Lord"
I hope not! But I do have a feeling that all the 5 teams at the bottom, including us, but except perhaps Wolves, are going to pick up more points than before this season. We all have everything to play for, many of our opponents will not always, they maybe tired from too many games like Sunderland against Blackburn, or saving players for, for them, bigger games.
Oslo You'll get great odds on a Bolton 10 match winning streak. We need to ignore our relegation rivals and do the business ourselves one game at a time
This. Let's not think for one second that Sunderland will be a push over. A point will be a good result.
The muamba incident may not have such a positive effect on Bolton. Their players will be rattled, fixtures are piling up, FA cup distraction and they've lost a decent player for the season. Listen to coyle, he's pulling out the excuses already. I do believe that was a defining moment but for which team, only time will tell.
Our run in is just too tough. Look at Bolton and Blackburns. We have to go to Man Utd, Man City and Chelski all away as well as Spurs and Arsenal at home. Its really tough and I still fear we have left ourselves with too much to do Great result yesterday though and if we beat Sunderland I may start to really believe again. Usually a point up there would be a great result but with our run in we really need to target 4 more wins and Sunderland has to be one of them. Stoke, WBA and Swansea the other three, still a really big ask.
They are knackered though. For once, the pundits have even said that we're lucky with the timing (as opposed to the timing of playing them before with new manager syndrome). They've also got QF replay next week. Basically, it all means that our effort is possibly more important than ability and we need to come out the traps flying and go for it relentlessly.
