Otis
Well-Known Member
I've just got my calculator out and am all but certain that you can't get a thousand points in one season.
Could I have a 2nd opinion from someone else doing the maths though just to be sure I haven't got it wrong?
Getting off my laptop for a bit. Need to. Some still insinuating still the fault of AT although we were the bookies favourites to go down as the season started. No cover for positions. Young players put into the team, opposite of Pompey. Need to calm down. Would we need to win this division by 1000 points before some might admit AT has at least done OK with what he had this season?
Getting off my laptop for a bit. Need to. Some still insinuating still the fault of AT although we were the bookies favourites to go down as the season started. No cover for positions. Young players put into the team, opposite of Pompey. Need to calm down. Would we need to win this division by 1000 points before some might admit AT has at least done OK with what he had this season?
Well to someone who doesn't rate him, sure. But like Clive just said, you can't blame him when we are doing badly, only to turn around when we are doing well and say it's despite him.
I think the recent success just emphasises what I thought before: we have a ridiculously threadbare squad and haven't replaced quality. The manager has had sod all in the way of fully fit options, and certainly in terms of competition for places we are the weakest in the division, exacerbated by injuries-which of course are inevitable. The only way the manager was allowed to reinforce his squad was to get rid of other players-and not at any stage increase the numbers! There isn't a manager in our division who has been so impotent in the transfer market: a crime given the man's talent as a scout, as we are seeing in the two players he chose to come in (even if one of them is the best non-scoring striker in The Championship to compliment the 2nd best non-scoring striker in The Championship)
Now we finally have a few options, and the raw kids have a bit more experience, not to mention the return to fitness of our two best full-backs and the re-instatement of last seasons back 4, we are doing OK. But we have been sadly lacking up until recently-the team virtually picked itself. That makes a managers job almost impossible, especially when you are forced to play kids when their form and morale has dropped. I'd still say we have the weakest attack in the division, both in terms of quality and statistically in terms of goals scored.
Absolutely spot on, although for some reason some can't understand this. Maybe if we had played shite for 90 mins each game then it would have been noticed more how crap our squad is. Still negative comments after 6 games unbeaten and the hardest run of games all season this month. Some even said we would be lucky to get any points this month.
I am now starting to hope we get rid of AT at the end of the season. Let him go to a club that will give him at least a bit of backing and see what he can do. He seems to be on a loser with us. We do not deserve him.
statistically in terms of goals scored.
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We don't, Brsitol and Donny have both scored less than us this season but point still taken.
Ahh ok sorry, thought you meant as a squad. As a squad we have scored more than Bristol and Donny and only 1 less than todays opponents Hull.I meant by strikers. Platt + Cody + Alex = 7? I could work it out goals-per-game but it would be embarrassing! Alex has replaced Lukas in that he perhaps suits us better, but he sure hasn't replaced his goals.
how is it a wind up????????????????? if the players are doing well now they could do well at the start of the season too
oh ok so its NOTHING to do with thorn either?
hes not imapcted us at all is what your saying, just time passing has put us on natural course
humm id give thorn more praise than that,some fans :facepalm:
Andy Thorn absolute hero, regardless of the final outcome the guy is doing a great job, knows a good player and is a relative part of the furniture at the coach if you consider the turnaround of staff.
THORN IN - the new Jimmy Hill???
urmmmm how have i done that exactly??????????
your the one who just said its just playing experience that makes the difference,ive actually praised thorn
hummmmmmmmm
look through my posts and you will see i am balanced mate
Given the summer departures, I thought we'd go down this year so if we do escape - and that's looking feasible now - then Thorn has had a successful season overall as far as I'm concerned.
First side to be bottom @ Christmas and survive!!!!!
We can do this....
Everybody keeps sayin "but its Coventry. We will choke"
Ya feckin right were Coventry, but. Ya wrong, we gonna fight this til the end. See it thru, stay up and survive.... Why???
Cos were Coventry. That's why!!!!
Cheer up it doesn't matter how we do it or with who does it for us, as long as we survive...
Pusb
So we have taken so much verbal shite for months, then are expected to forget about it when what we say could happen does we forget about it. All I want is for those that say we should be much higher than we are to realise we were not as good as they thought in their sky blue tinted glasses. To me we have been punching above our weight the last month.
Only my opinion. I could be wrong, but I stand by what I have said all season.
PM the people in question,dont derail every single thread your childish crap
Have sent you a PM. We can meet up if you like.
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