Saint_Tony Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 Gutted to lose tonight, but after a nice run of early fixtures with a relatively injury squad, has our luck run out now? If Toby, Cork and Morgan are out for any period of time, we will become seriously exposed. Really worried looking at the next 7/8 games. Can't help thinking it might have been better to lose some games earlier on. Our phenomenal start has perhaps raised expectations to an unrealistic level.
Batman Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 no luck really. its the rough and tumble of the top end of the premier league when you look how many injuries arsenal, united etc get...then we do not do so badly
Saint_clark Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 no luck really. its the rough and tumble of the top end of the premier league when you look how many injuries arsenal, united etc get...then we do not do so badly To be fair we had midfielder number one injured for this game, his replacement injured in the first half and then HIS replacement injured in the second half as well. That's damn unlucky in anyones book.
CB Fry Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 Gutted to lose tonight, but after a nice run of early fixtures with a relatively injury squad, has our luck run out now? If Toby, Cork and Morgan are out for any period of time, we will become seriously exposed. Really worried looking at the next 7/8 games. Can't help thinking it might have been better to lose some games earlier on. Our phenomenal start has perhaps raised expectations to an unrealistic level. If your expectations were raised to an unrealistic level, then that is nobody's fault but yours. What good "losing some games early on" would have done god only knows.
david in sweden Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 Nah !...sh*t happens, what is happening is that we are paying the price for having a good squad, but no quality back-ups. This is typical of why we need extra bodies. Steven Davis is (thankfully) back, but we are without JWP, Schneiderlin, Cork and Alderweireld, and both Long and Tadic picked up nasty knocks (which a decent ref. would have booked the Arsenal player for). It's just to battle our way out, until we get better.
teamsaint Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 If your expectations were raised to an unrealistic level, then that is nobody's fault but yours. What good "losing some games early on" would have done god only knows. well quite. I'll know that losing some games early on is a good tactic when I see Chelsea trying it out.
S-Clarke Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 If your expectations were raised to an unrealistic level, then that is nobody's fault but yours. What good "losing some games early on" would have done god only knows. You'll get used to Tony, he comes over as a bit of a silly billy to be honest.
DuncanRG Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 Can't help thinking it might have been better to lose some games earlier on. I'm making do with the wins, personally
jampot Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 If we continue to play like we did tonight throughout the rest of the season we will finish top 7
Saint_Tony Posted 3 December, 2014 Author Posted 3 December, 2014 There was a lot of talk on here about us making the top 4 recently, people were starting to believe. I'm a realist, I can accept we aren't yet anywhere near that level. All I mean regarding losing a few is that perhaps a lot of our fans would have stayed a bit more grounded.
Wiggles31 Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 No. We could get a last minute pen against Utd.
cellone Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 Any fan who thinks they are truly grounded should fk off and watch F1
Batman Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 There was a lot of talk on here about us making the top 4 recently, people were starting to believe. I'm a realist, I can accept we aren't yet anywhere near that level. All I mean regarding losing a few is that perhaps a lot of our fans would have stayed a bit more grounded. The club got blasted for champions league talk in the summer when players left Yet the club/players are talking champions league again.
Dellman Posted 3 December, 2014 Posted 3 December, 2014 Use up our luck? Well we didn't use any tonight, must be due some soon
GarrettIvo Posted 4 December, 2014 Posted 4 December, 2014 We weren't relying on luck for the first 13 games. We played our arses off and got everything we deserved, despite dealing with injuries even then. Now it's just harder, so we will work harder. Hopefully. Luck has bugger all to do with it.
CB Fry Posted 4 December, 2014 Posted 4 December, 2014 There was a lot of talk on here about us making the top 4 recently, people were starting to believe. I'm a realist, I can accept we aren't yet anywhere near that level. All I mean regarding losing a few is that perhaps a lot of our fans would have stayed a bit more grounded. So not your expectations but some other people's expectations that you've decided they had. Not you, you're clever, just them others. And you're one of those "realists" who thinks our season would be better if we had lost a few more matches. So what is the "realist's" view? 6 less points than now? 9? 12? What would be the ideal? Do let us know.
CB Fry Posted 4 December, 2014 Posted 4 December, 2014 The club got blasted for champions league talk in the summer when players left Yet the club/players are talking champions league again. I like it when you wheel out this one from your "everyone's a hypocrite" arsenal. Doesn't make any sense whatsoever, but I like that you still try and use it.
whelk Posted 4 December, 2014 Posted 4 December, 2014 The 3 games I wished we lost were Sunderland and Stoke at home and Hull away. Oh and would have been good if Millwall beat us so I wouldn't have unrealistic expectations of a cup final and could have just shrugged at yesterday's defeat.
Saint_Tony Posted 4 December, 2014 Author Posted 4 December, 2014 So not your expectations but some other people's expectations that you've decided they had. Not you, you're clever, just them others. And you're one of those "realists" who thinks our season would be better if we had lost a few more matches. So what is the "realist's" view? 6 less points than now? 9? 12? What would be the ideal? Do let us know. Chill. It's not healthy to be getting so worked up this early. I was simply referring to a thread on whether we could finish top 4. From what I recall a lot of replies showed there was a belief we could. Posters like myself were bring labelled negative for suggesting that we weren't going to keep winning every week.Personally, in terms of our progression and chances of finishing there I felt the Man City game was our biggest in years, sadly it proved that we can't mix it with the elite yet. Our points total will level out by the turn of the year.I'd expect a similar finish to last season now, especially as these injuries have come at the wrong time.
sadoldgit Posted 4 December, 2014 Posted 4 December, 2014 I see that CB Fry is up to his old tricks again, the charmer.
Unbelievable Jeff Posted 4 December, 2014 Posted 4 December, 2014 Yes, although considering luck doesn't exist and is therefore not quantifiable, it doesn't overly bother me.
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