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How are Watford not odds on?
Bookies are still in denial about our position and think we’re in some sort of false position. The fact that we’ve won four away on the spin will make them even more wary.
There are people in wigan who have run chippy’s for years. And years. And still do. And haven’t failed, without rich grandads.
But how many have run a fish and chip restaurant (not chippy) based out of the way of any passing trade, residential area, shopping complex or in fact anything?[/quote]
There is no bank or financial institute in the land that would have loaned money to a project to a business plan like that. Donald Trump, Richard Branson and Lord Sugar teamed together couldn’t have made it work.
Damn, I attached an image that didn’t upload :( The paper’s dated 12th March but the Watford game’s advertised as being played 7th March :huh:
I have to be pedantic and point out that Bradford City won the FA Cup in 1911 and Barnsley in 1912.Sod off ;)
Looks like everybody is dumbstruck by what we have become! Less than 2 years ago we were holding aloft the FA Cup and still in the Premier League, albeit only just, something that many couldn’t have even dreamt of and now we are on the brink of football oblivion, because let’s face it no one gives a flying fuck about anything lower than The Championship, apart from respective lower league club’s fans that is! Some would argue that no one gives a flier about anything lower than the Premiership but at least while you are in the Championship you still have that incentive to hopefully one day be involved with all the big names in football! Like it or not ( And I particularly didn’t ) but the Prem is what brings in the punters, it is what gets people talking and it also has that other little incentive, shit loads of money for your club!
All the so called ‘Johnny Come Latelys’ have gone now bar a few hangers on but they too will be gone if we drop to League One and we shall be left with the hardcore, the old skool who will already be salivating at the prospect of visiting loads of shite grounds to evoke memories of bygone days, well the Prem and FA Cup are now bygone days, days that I feel will never be upon us again, well not in my lifetime! It’s been fun but now it’s the turn of the low times, enjoy!There’s a very good chance that we’ll never get back. Does it really matter in the grand scheme? There are some who’d say we had no right to ever get there in the first place. It was nothing short of a miracle and I maintain that it is up there with the very best football stories ever. We did EIGHT consecutive seasons in the PL. EIGHT. And we bowed out by winning the FA Cup to put the cherry on the icing on the cake. Clubs like Barnsley, Bradford and Swindon did one season and have never won nowt. Yo-yo clubs like West Ham, Birmingham and Boro; perennial underachievers. Put our achievements in that kind of context and we should have nothing to bemoan ever.
Our rise was of its time and I think there’s a certain inevitability about our decline. The manner of it isn’t very pretty, granted, but there’s a bottom to every barrel. If we do go down then we go down. No one person is responsible, it’s a whole host of events that have got us here. There’ll still be thousands turning up to watch next season and enjoying it, moaning about it and doing the manager’s job from the stands and from behind computer keyboards regardless. Que sera.
Bournemouth are a very decent side and were slick in their passing and had a great deal of zip about them and played that way on a poor pitch to boot. It was a poor refereeing decision for the first goal but there wasn’t much of an appeal from our players and that’s maybe a sign of lack of cohesion and confidence. Had we gone in at half time one down (or level even), who knows what might have happened.
No great quality on show for us but there was certainly more heart than we’ve seen recently. Kvist, in particular, bust a gut today and played with bags of enthusiasm. The crowd did too especially for the ten minutes after our goal where we thought something might happen until they slowed the game enough to pour cold water on a revival.
Hard to see us turning any sharp corners in the very near future but today was a small step forward rather than backward imo.
I’m staggered that McManaman went for a fee, I would assume, in the multi millions. He had lots of moments in games for us, notably in the FA Cup winning season, but very rarely good full games. A top level player will show his quality and value early on. This lad was sent out on loan from a thin on quality, perennial relegation fighting squad because he wasn’t good enough. If he had been, he would have been playing. He played lead role in a fairy tale, that’s his claim to fame. His departure is our gain, IMO, and especially banking a substantial seven figure sum for him.
England potential? Now you are having a laugh. Aren’t you?
You must of been living in a cave when this was doing the rounds.
So Roy Hodgson saw a few re-runs of the FA Cup Final too? I think his remote consideration for selection would have been more about the dearth of English talent rather than Callum McManaman’s talent.[/quote]
I’m not trying to argue it. Most things football are subjective and open to opinion. Even the incumbent England manager’s views are subjective. Like I said, England potential? You’re having a laugh. His sale price was pitched based on a MOM in the cup final and a few other half decent performances. I can’t believe someone as streetwise as Pulis would fall for it.
I’m staggered that McManaman went for a fee, I would assume, in the multi millions. He had lots of moments in games for us, notably in the FA Cup winning season, but very rarely good full games. A top level player will show his quality and value early on. This lad was sent out on loan from a thin on quality, perennial relegation fighting squad because he wasn’t good enough. If he had been, he would have been playing. He played lead role in a fairy tale, that’s his claim to fame. His departure is our gain, IMO, and especially banking a substantial seven figure sum for him.England potential? Now you are having a laugh. Aren’t you?
You must of been living in a cave when this was doing the rounds.
So Roy Hodgson saw a few re-runs of the FA Cup Final too? I think his remote consideration for selection would have been more about the dearth of English talent rather than Callum McManaman’s talent.
Good point Fill. I thought Callum was potentially an England player so yip I would put my hands up and admit yip there are some sour grapes and also a bit of trying to work out and make sense of this mad season but also I can not help but think some of the players that have left may have wanted away last summer and this in turn as lead to disharmony in the dressing room.I’m staggered that McManaman went for a fee, I would assume, in the multi millions. He had lots of moments in games for us, notably in the FA Cup winning season, but very rarely good full games. A top level player will show his quality and value early on. This lad was sent out on loan from a thin on quality, perennial relegation fighting squad because he wasn’t good enough. If he had been, he would have been playing. He played lead role in a fairy tale, that’s his claim to fame. His departure is our gain, IMO, and especially banking a substantial seven figure sum for him.
England potential? Now you are having a laugh. Aren’t you?
Lets hope the lads who can’t get a game at our relegation rivals do the job for us.With that notion in mind, it’s no great loss letting players go that got us to second bottom and eight points adrift at the end of January
Yeah, my Sky box has had a bit of hammer in that department since that day. Very hard to make some sense of it with all that’s going on now.
5-4 Now for the drop! My 9-2 is looking like it could be the betting coup of the century! :)
9-2? Betting coup? Hardly[/quote]
I thought it was a cracking price considering how shit we have been for months on end! :)[/quote]
Doesn’t come across well. I like a bet and I know there’s no sentimentality in betting. That’s why I only back FOR us and, like yesterday, when the opposition are at an attractive price (Huddersfield 9/4), I can’t bring myself to back against us because I’d feel pretty shit picking up my winnings if (when) we lose. I hope your winnings are of some comfort as you’re browsing next season’s League 1 fixtures.
