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We've got more than two thirds of the season remaining! We've played well in fits and starts this season and poorly in fits and starts yet we're only 2 points behind a play-off place, 7 points off top place and we've got another 96 points to play for! From the way some were speaking on here, you would think that we were doomed with absolutely no chance of promotion this season. Utter nonsense, of course. I think the squad we have this season quite capable of putting together a really good run of form (more capable that the one we had last year which managed it). Just waiting for it to begin now. Hopefully, I'm right. 
Hopefully you are. Hopefully the bookies are. Hopefully I'll win the lottery and the premium bonds in the same week. |
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Hopefully you are. Hopefully the bookies are. Hopefully I'll win the lottery and the premium bonds in the same week.
My views come from what I have seen of the quality of our squad this season. We've got better players than last season so we should perform better. Nothing guaranteed, of course, but I'm still feeling relatively confident we can challenge for promotion once again. The bookies think we'll be up there simply because that is where the bets have been laid, many of them by people who haven't ever seen us play. Lottery and Premium Bonds are simple chance so just aren't relevant to this discussion. |
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This isn't aimed at you because to be honest I've no real idea where you stand on the issue but earlier in the season despite scoring goals for fun there were a group of posters on here who obsessed about the lack of a "clean sheet". There were even whole threads dedicated to the subject. Now it looks like Hurst is looking more critically at the way the team is set up defensively people are still not happy. I'd prefer to see 4-1 wins at home rather than scrambled 1-0s or draws because I see that home fans deserve to see their team attacking but I can also see the virtue in playing it tight and being very difficult to beat. It isn't and never has been a "one fits all" way to achieve the desired aim of promotion and I will never understand why some cannot see that.
I've got the mentality of " you score 2, we'll score 3 I'd rather go for the jugular from the off and try and get the game put to bed, but that's just me..... |
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I've got the mentality of " you score 2, we'll score 3
I'd rather go for the jugular from the off and try and get the game put to bed, but that's just me.....
We are as one old chap! But then I wouldn't moan when we conceded a goal when we were 4-0 up! EDIT:- That doesn't mean I think you would! |
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My views come from what I have seen of the quality of our squad this season. We've got better players than last season so we should perform better. Nothing guaranteed, of course, but I'm still feeling relatively confident we can challenge for promotion once again.
The bookies think we'll be up there simply because that is where the bets have been laid, many of them by people who haven't ever seen us play.
Lottery and Premium Bonds are simple chance so just aren't relevant to this discussion.
You must have left your sense of humour at BP last time out!  Of course the squad is better, it just the results that aren't. |
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We are as one old chap! But then I wouldn't moan when we conceded a goal when we were 4-0 up! EDIT:- That doesn't mean I think you would!
Twice in 24 hours we agree - hope we are still agreeing in 26 hours. |
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Hurst is the man to take us up. my opinion will never change on this
Jimmy savile is great with kids, my opinion wil never....... Oh intercourse!!! |
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Well I'd call it a complete lack of self-restraint.
When did I say I have any self restraint  |
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We could have put East there and played Tait at full back.
Fans have moaned so much in the past about PH putting " square pegs in round holes " and here you are advocating just that ! East may have made some appearances in mid-field at a previous club but that doesn't mean he is either competent or comfortable in that position. IMO we would be better off getting another centre mid but PH doesn't see things that way and he is both the manager and more of a manager than I will ever be. |
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Fans have moaned so much in the past about PH putting " square pegs in round holes " and here you are advocating just that ! East may have made some appearances in mid-field at a previous club but that doesn't mean he is either competent or comfortable in that position. IMO we would be better off getting another centre mid but PH doesn't see things that way and he is both the manager and more of a manager than I will ever be.
So if Disley or Clay gets injured during the course of tomorrow's game and under the assumption that Brown is not yet fit, who would you replace them with? |
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