Don't know about you, but absolutely sh***ing myself about Sunday.
While some teams in a relegation battle and already games behind would need extra games like a hole in the head, I feel we are currently the complete opposite. We simply have to keep this cup run level going as long as possible.
I'm extremely fearful that if we go out on Sunday, our season will completely disintegrate from that point. With the buzz and excitement out of the way, a backlog of fixtures will be a nightmare and the on-going issues of a mediocre squad that are mainly likely to be elsewhere next season will once again manifest itself.
We've waited a pissing long time for a semi final appearance, we need it desperately as fans, but I think at this exact point in time, we actually need it more importantly as players and as a club.
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although a replay would be good.
(Of course against Middlesbrough we'd have gone on to face West Ham in the Semis @ Villa Park as Wembley was still being built with the final @ Cardiff)
If we do lose, then Millwall the following Saturday will not only struggle to sell out but I fear we would get our pants pulled down yet again.
Still struggle to believe we are so close to Wembley, if we lost that chance now I have no idea how I will react.
What would people prefer though... Would they prefer to see it go to a replay (more fixture congestion) or would they prefer to see an outright winner on Sunday (even if that isnt us?)
If we lose on Sunday so be it. We go again in the league on Weds night. You have to trust what the owners are saying in as much as they are trying to bring reinforcements in. We still have time to do that and I expect to see at least another couple of players in before the end of the loan window.
We've had some luck with the other results around us and are in no way cut adrift.
I am usually the most pesimistic of the pesimists but for me Sunday is not the be all and end all, if we get to Wembley great if we don't whilst it will be disappointing the world won't stop spinning.
I saw enough in the QPR and Sheff Weds performances to suggest that we can get results against most teams in the division.
For what its worth I think we'll loose on Sunday and stay up. If I was offered that now, I'd gladly accept it.
a lily livered attitude is not going to help the players who will sense your weakness from your sitting/standing position.
XFM played "Into The Valley" at 09:12 hrs this morn. The 12 bit is significant as the score will be 1-2 (doubt we'll win 0-9).
If we lose we lose, but I don't intend to be a melt about it. I can't do much more than be there and sing non stop and hope that helps, if the team lose, us fans must win the stadium plaudits is my attitude. If Sheffield united score I intend to respond, and no way do I intend to get on the player's backs.
Chrissy Powell's Red and White Army are not quitters, and we will sing it loud!
The scorer for Charlton is no 10 MARVIN SORDELL.
Must have a lie down.
However I think the biggest difference between your fears and mine is that, like Clem, I think we have enough to get out of trouble and if we can get anything at Millwall I think we will catch them.
What gives me confidence is that towards the end of the season teams with nothing to play for become easier to beat. With us having two (or three) games a week towards the end of the season we are likely to meet more teams that have nothing to play for as we will play more teams in the last three weeks of the season. I hope we are out of trouble by then but I'd still be confident (ish) if we go into the last fortnight of the season three points behind the team forth from bottom if we have two games in hand on them.
I'm not letting myself get too excited about a Semi at Wembley as I don't think we'll get one, and this way if we lose I'll only be a little devastated where as if we win I will still be as happy as anyone else.
I fear that afterwards our season will go from bad to worse.
I'll be avoiding the game and turning on after full time to check the result (my normal ritual for big games that I can't be at).
Would have expected better of a moderator.
We've waited such a long time........................................works just as well.;-)
I am more and more nervous about Sunday though, given Sheff Utd's form, and our performance at Leicester. If we pull another Leicester performance out the bag, then I would be very angry.