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At last. Some good news.
The call to play youth players is exhausting. Our youth players are shite, and barring the odd small PL team, and Madueke, they're all in the lower leagues when they leave us.
West Ham are one of the form teams on the league, and have been for 3 months. You can't be surprised they're taken points. They're well set up and fight for every ball. Once they turned us over, and the few results after it was clear they'd be okay. Said like 6 weeks ago it was between us, Forest and Palace, but Palace have ground out results, and Forest can get a result against anyone. We're done. Consigned myself to that quote some time ago
Because we're going down, and that has been painfully obvious for some weeks. It's probably time to make peace with it and accept.
That won't even be in our favour in a few games time. We're shipping 2/3 goals a game and scoring nothing.
We've got 4 points all year, I'd love to know what you're all smoking to just think we're going to be fine, based on nothing but thoughts and prayers.
Over the last 6 games they've now earned 9 points to our 1. They're now level on points with us when just three or four weeks ago the oh so smart and wise calm heads on here were explaining that it was impossible they could ever catch us.
No drink, drug, or anything else in my life, Pop. Just a clear eyed look at the facts. There will be a new manager in within days, there’s a 6 pointer coming up, and the there’s a long break. We get one more swing at righting the ship and it isn’t over until it’s over.
The fact is that we don't look anything capable of getting a result and you're basing this expectation on hopes and dreams, nothing like facts. We're by far and away the worst team in the league right now, not particularly close either.
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, but this form took hold more or less with Frank’s sacking. Poor as he was, we were better with him as permanent manager. His approximate 1.2 ppg pace would probably rescue us. Perhaps getting the right manger in will change things, given a few weeks.
That ppg tally from Frank is massively inflated because of how lucky we were getting results early in the season. That was an anomaly that was always going to end, there was no logic to it, it was a fluke and it ended. I said this in September. There was nothing positive you could say about anything he did and he's squarely why we're here. Frank was the worst full time manager we've had in my lifetime.
I know there are people like this, and I think it's a bigger social problem than the mismanagement of our club, that some people feel there is not enough good in their life to survive their football club's relegation. It's a sad state of affairs to be sure.
Have to borrow that "no one likes us, we don't care" chant perhaps. Rally around that banner as everyone wants to kick us when we're down.
