Another who has improved away from Vicarage Road. This is becoming a running theme. I wonder why this is the case ? Any answers Gino ?
Probably seeing the yellow and black caused him to black out a few times. He's had a half decent season with Stoke. One of their best players. Although their squad has hardly sparkled so not the best recommendation. I do wonder though if we could have had more out of him. We don't manage the young players we do have well. Changing patterns, tactics, shoving players about position to position. It must affect them and their confidence.
Goodbye Pedro. Farewell Sweet Prince Twinkletoes. May Brighton move you forward in your career and push your potential. Goodbye Sarr. Farewell Mr Sulky. Whoever takes you on has a player there. Just one that needs a lot of TLC. Goodbye Davis. Goodbye Kamara. Grinning don't mean winning you inept muppet. Enjoy Udinese or wherever they move you to next. Goodbye Cleverley. Enjoy retirement.
Well here we are. It’s been building up all season and now it’s all come down to this, one final game. Just as we knew it would when the fixture list was first published. It just had to. Hold on tight. 1-1. Will it be enough ? Only time will tell.
Today we’re top (of the bottom half). By 5pm next Monday we could be bottom (of the top half). Has one game ever promised such a rollercoaster of emotions and sliding doors moments?
Promotion from the top half would be one hell of an achievement but it would be sad (but understandable for a club of our size) to be in immedidiate relegation trouble in the top half.
I've heard a whisper that if we make it into the top half next Monday the powers that be intend to call a halt to the season there and then. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind us!
Hang on, you people were desperate to be in the championship again as it's such a fun and unpredictable league right? Yet here you are moaning and saying you can't wait for the season to end? Make your tiny minds up.
The best jokes are the ones told 74 times, in the exact same format, to the amusement of very few people, if any. Like the forum's version of Big Bang Theory repeats on E4. 5 stars.
Nope, I didn't want to be back here. Would have taken 17th in the PL every day of the week over this.
POTS for a mid table Championship side. It was not what we needed when he was here. Who else has improved since they left us?
Aside from 1 game, I'd say the Prem was funner than this, we at least put in the odd decent performance, this time you can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of times we've genuinely played well, and we've still got a few batterings!
I think time has softened the pain of the last prem season . The wins were more memorable but there were 6 of them, about one every month and a half, shining like isolated beacons of forlorn hope in a morass of 27 defeats, Ranieri and Hodgson.
Dawson I don't think actually got any better. Richarlison improved I agree but also improved while with us Berghuis is certainly one that we mucked up. Even in the fleeting glances we saw of him at the end of a season I thought he looked decent. Success is just a complete mystery. Excellent at Granada, dreadful for us and then decent in Italy. I would say there are not many that have progressed after leaving though
Last year we had hope. Now all hope has gone. We're back to being a shyt team in a shyt league. Back to the 90s.
Not sure we had much hope . Hope of what - getting back to the prem to be schooled again ? We are going to get back to just being a champ side, will be a painful transition but at least looks like we might be going through the transition process pretty quickly.
Being in the premier league means there is always hope as you can attract good players, if your owners are competent. Being in the championship means there is no hope as no one wants to join a minnow in a shyt league. But that's more fun apparently.
What would have been fun was not being a minnow, but doing a Burnley. The lack of fun is down to the shittiness of our team, not the league.
I agree, but we failed to do a Burnley first time we got relegated, and we had a somewhat ace team that time. So to do it this time round was always a massive long shot. Thinking relegation will fix problems or result in more pleasure is always massively unlikely. Bournemouth would not swap their season for Sheffield utds (or Burnley's), I bet.
