Can we still stay up

[Park Life 71]

We can still do it, Villa aren't playing well at the moment and Man U will slaughter Hull even if the kids play.

 

7th place?

 

[ImpossiblyDaft 1]

I don't think I can think of another example (at least where a club hasn't gone bust or something) where the beginning of the season can look so good (genuinely) and yet end up like this.

Leicester, last season: on the back of a takeover brimming with positive PR, revolving door of players and managers, health scare, general indifference and resignation to the shitness

 

OK, Allen was blatantly no Keegan, but its generally a rather similar pattern:

Draw vs villa and a flukey hull result it is, then...

[duo 0]

I can't shake the feeling that we're gone now.

It will be a miracle if we stay up.

[TicTacWoe 0]

I can't shake the feeling that we're gone now.

It will be a miracle if we stay up.

 

Hardly a miracle, we could plod to a dismal 0-0 draw with villa and still have a very good chance of staying up as hull will likely lose.

[TicTacWoe 0]

I doubt it. I think its goodnight vienna.

 

Because of our love and desire to succeed, we are blinded to how bad we are. The table does not lie and yes, we are worse than Hull, worse than sunderland etc.

 

There will be a lot of fans, particulary the ones who got involved after keegan, who will have trouble coming to terms with us being relegated and the mackems staying up. It will be unbearable.

 

Personally I think we just have to pray for some stability next year but im sure there will be some who again think we have a divine right to bounce straight back. We have become the laughing stock of football over recent years and I hope we are decent enough to go down with some dignity and quietly set about rebuilding for the future.

 

Ashley has a lot to answer for, but there are also a lot of players at Newcastle who should hang their fucking heads in shame.

 

The premier league is scattered with players who were "not good enough" for us, but are having a little smirk nowadays.

 

We will be back, but i fear it will be some time.

 

I think most of us realise how bad we are, but I would not say we are a worse team player for player (though I don't think that's what you're saying) than the likes of Hull. We have however, put in worse performances over the course of this season and if we do finish in the bottom three than we fully deserve to go down.

 

What annoys me is the amount of people who figured we were home and dry after the Boro game and even more so the amount who think that we're completely fucked now when all we need is a spineless goalless draw imo to keep us up, and we've managed to achieve quite a few spineless draws already this season.

Edited May 17, 2009 by TicTacWoe

[TicTacWoe 0]

I doubt it. I think its goodnight vienna.

 

Because of our love and desire to succeed, we are blinded to how bad we are. The table does not lie and yes, we are worse than Hull, worse than sunderland etc.

 

There will be a lot of fans, particulary the ones who got involved after keegan, who will have trouble coming to terms with us being relegated and the mackems staying up. It will be unbearable.

 

Personally I think we just have to pray for some stability next year but im sure there will be some who again think we have a divine right to bounce straight back. We have become the laughing stock of football over recent years and I hope we are decent enough to go down with some dignity and quietly set about rebuilding for the future.

 

Ashley has a lot to answer for, but there are also a lot of players at Newcastle who should hang their fucking heads in shame.

 

The premier league is scattered with players who were "not good enough" for us, but are having a little smirk nowadays.

 

We will be back, but i fear it will be some time.

 

I think most of us realise how bad we are, but I would not say we are a worse team player for player (though I don't think that's what you're saying) than the likes of Hull. We have however, put in worse performances over the course of this season and if we do finish in the bottom three than we fully deserve to go down.

 

What annoys me is the amount of people who figured we were home and dry after the Boro game and even more so the amount who think that we're completely fucked now when all we need is a spineless goalless draw imo to keep us up, and we've managed to achieve quite a few spineless draws already this season.

 

 

I wouldnt get too worked up or be too hard on anyone, this season has put us all through the mill and left us all emotionally shattered. Each time something went wrong you would think, it cant get any worse.....

 

One minute your up the next your down (no pun intended).

 

BTW I dont know if i agree about the worse player bit. We do have some players we thought were average that are doing okay else where and some extremely shit ones playing for us.

 

Taking off the rose tinted glasse, its hard to look past bassong as the only player who has excelled this year in our team. Enrique had come on well before injury and beye had done ok before injury, but the rest, can you really say they are better than other teams players?

 

Not based on this years performance no, but overall in different circumstances I think the squad is probably something like the 12th or 13th player for player, but there's no balance, they don't work well together, too many managerial changed etc etc. I think had Keegan stayed we'd have finished somewhere nearing mid table mediocrity which would do me fine atm.

 

What I'm saying is I could imagine the likes of Collocini, Jonas going back to Spain and doing fine, Martins scoring more regularly at a different club, Taylor being more reliable with a more settled defence and so on and so forth. I don't think they're all specifially shit players (however the following most definately are- Nolan, Smith, Cacapa, Geremi, RTaylor, Shola). Hull on the other hand have very few players who I would consider to ever be premier league quality, yet they could still stay up as they have more team spirit/fight and have been more settled.

Edited May 18, 2009 by TicTacWoe

[Park Life 71]

Rule NO.1 - Don't buy expensive old players who lean toward niggling injuries.

[Toonraider 0]

We'll probably only need a point and I have a feeling we'll do it. (though I may be feeling optimistic because Torquay won the play off final yesterday)