Underachievers

[Tommo72]

Interesting article with Cov rated as the most under achieving club in the football league...

Sky Sports Ultimate League 2017/18: Overachieving and underachieving clubs revealed

 

[The Great Eastern]

Interesting article with Cov rated as the most under achieving club in the football league...

Sky Sports Ultimate League 2017/18: Overachieving and underachieving clubs revealed

Send this to Tim Fisher & Joy

 

[stevefloyd]

Send this to Tim Fisher & Joy

They wrote it

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Produced by people with too much time on their hands and space to fill

 

[oucho]

When you consider the size of the city, the size of the stadium, the 42k we took the Wembley, the years in the top flight, the big name players we had, founder members of the PL etc, then yes I do think we've underachieved historically and are playing far below our level. I know some fans dislike the "entitlement" that comes across in such statements but if we got relegated to National League South and moaned were were too low down, you'd still have people using the "we've no divine right to be in any league" line.

 

[theferret]

When you consider the size of the city, the size of the stadium, the 42k we took the Wembley, the years in the top flight, the big name players we had, founder members of the PL etc, then yes I do think we've underachieved historically and are playing far below our level. I know some fans dislike the "entitlement" that comes across in such statements but if we got relegated to National League South and moaned were were too low down, you'd still have people using the "we've no divine right to be in any league" line.

Agree. It's perfectly right to say that we are where we deserve to be (right now), but equally it's legitimate to say we should expect better given the history etc. No contradiction in that.

 

[Gazolba]

Someone has to be bottom, so why not us? At least the only direction is up.

 

[Grendel]

The size of stadium argument is completely irrelevant

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

So all the other points are completely relevant?

 

[Grendel]

So all the other points are completely relevant?

Not really no

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

So why just mention the ground

 

[fatso]

Too many fans are happy to put up with shit, theres zero expectation for the players to live up to, so its no supprise that shit is what we see.
We are too much of a comfortable club for players to come to and just pick up a wage.

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

Hardly surprising as we spent over half of those 50 years in the top 20 and the highest we could've finished this season was 69th

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

The size of stadium argument is completely irrelevant

The size of the stadium is an indicatiion of the depth to which the club has subsequently fallen. Highfield road was a lesser stadium but had we stayed there we might still be in the championship. The ricoh stadium , in our case, is relevant.

 

[Grendel]

So why just mention the ground

It was first on the list and the biggest irrelevance

 

[Grendel]

The size of the stadium is an indicatiion of the depth to which the club has subsequently fallen. Highfield road was a lesser stadium but had we stayed there we might still be in the championship. The ricoh stadium , in our case, is relevant.

It has no factor in achievement or otherwise