The game against Bolton was never alone going to decide our fate for this season. If we had won we could have lost the 4 festives games coming up and be in much worse position than we are now. We could have drawn (which we did) or lost then gone on to win the 4 festives games and we would be in a much better than we are now. If we get relegated, we get relegated. But if we do get relegated it won't be because of not getting a good enough result in the home match against Bolton. It will be because we have not got enough good enough results over the remaining (as it stood before the Bolton game) 27 games and of course over all 46 games across our regular league season. A win against Bolton would have put us in a slightly more comfortable position and kept us out the relegation zone. But it is where you are after game 46 not game 20. As I said if we are in the releagtion zone after game 46, we are in the releagtion zone after game 46 and we go down. There is nothing as fans we can do about where finish in the table. Yes it was against a team bottom of the table. Yes we blew a lead we shouldn't have. No we weren't at at our very best on the night. And yes I am worried just as much as every fan about relegation. BUT this Bolton game was NOT the be all and end all of the season.
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Its a joke that people are saying we're down already and that we should prepare for League One!!
Pratley .. Heskey .. Danns .. Amos .. Moxey .. Spearing .. Feeney .. Davies .. Wheater all have strong Premier League experience, they're where they are because of lack of form, not lack of talent
I don't think anybody truly thinks that we don't have any good players. Indeed I think we have some very talented individuals, but do they make a good consistent TEAM for this league lead by a suitable manager? So far the evidence suggests not.
No chance of them saying anything to jeopardise that.
Compared to Bolton last night, ......2-0 down and no wages at all.
Face facts guys, we are screwed. We only have one guy that can score, and we can't defend, almost half the season is gone and we have 25 games to get 32 points - so 8 or 9 wins needed.
We can't beat Bolton/MKD/Rotherham/Leeds/Preston/Fulham/Hudds or Forest. (5 points from 8 teams in the bottom half)
Beating Hull, Brum and QPR doesn't improve our overall position against the teams around us - as they will get unexpected wins as well.
We have a club where the squad is small, and hit with long term injuries, then a striker is loaned out to another Championship team.
We give a defender a FOUR YEAR CONTRACT and then say he can leave 6 months later.
Our CB gets a red, and then does the same thing a few games later.
So many things need correcting in such a short time - including no permanent manager.
You do the maths.
Set a relegation level budget, get rid of your best players, siting that they are not good enough, giving them away for free in some cases and replacing them with an absolute load of tripe.
You would almost think that he wants to relegate us, so he can play the whole academy team and save even more in wages.
That could easily change and I still believe we can drag ourselves above that line by the time game 46 has been played but my question mark is even if we do stay up this season after two seasons of doing the exact same thing that has risked an unnecessary relegation will they finally learn and make changes to make sure this does not happen again?
I seriously doubt it, as they appear to not even realise the mistakes they are making.