The league will be wide open this season

[brownie4583]

This league will be wide open this season,I don't think there are any outstanding sides and if we can get it right we have a great chance to finish in the top 2 this season.
There are a few who could possibly challenge,Wigan,Millwall,Dingles,Chessy but this is our chance to take the bull by the horns and clinch promotion all being well.

 

[Gavlar]

This league will be wide open this season,I don't think there are any outstanding sides and if we can get it right we have a great chance to finish in the top 2 this season.
There are a few who could possibly challenge,Wigan,Millwall,Dingles,Chessy but this is our chance to take the bull by the horns and clinch promotion all being well.

I hope you're right, but I cant help but thinking, "we've been saying this for 5 yrs".......

 

[1danewhitehouse]

I expect Coventry to be contenders along with Wigan. Adam Armstrong looks like a real coup for them. As does Jaaskalinen for Wigan. Hopefully, we will recover and be right up there with them.

 

[Maidenhead]

I expect Coventry to be contenders along with Wigan. Adam Armstrong looks like a real coup for them. As does Jaaskalinen for Wigan. Hopefully, we will recover and be right up there with them.

Recover?

We've lost one game. OK it was a bad one but it was one game.

I will bet anyone any money that every team in the league will have to "recover" from a disastrous one game run at some stage in the season.


FFS get a grip Blades.

UTB

 

[Kenilworth]

I expect Coventry to be contenders along with Wigan. Adam Armstrong looks like a real coup for them. As does Jaaskalinen for Wigan. Hopefully, we will recover and be right up there with them.

I could see that too.

Coventry were shite all last season but with a few well thought out additions, Mowbray gets a solid base to his teams first, they could muster a challenge - whether the squad is large enough to sustain that challenge remains to be seen.
Wigan - not so sure - they are throwing some dink at the issue but they have a real rookie at the helm who has little experience of division 3 and may see the world in a similar light to Weir
Millwall should be solid and be there or thereabouts
Swindon still have one of the best footballing minds in the division at the helm and if he invests the money he got for the players that moved on, well, they could be in the mix again for sure.
Dale need to keep Henderson to keep top half
Chessie will be lucky to cling on with the personnel they have lost but I expect them to have more fight that their opposition this Saturday
Most of these clubs are keeping things relatively tight and lean - they have to in order to survive

By contrast our over bloated, over stocked collection of vertically and glandular challenged crocks and hamsters could just wilt under the pressure of playing for such a mighty football club, bless.

 

[Worksop_Blade]

There's been game played, no one can say what the league will be like.

Let's wait and see and not panic.

 

[Gavlar]

Recover?

We've lost one game. OK it was a bad one but it was one game.

I will bet anyone any money that every team in the league will have to "recover" from a disastrous one game run at some stage in the season.


FFS get a grip Blades.

UTB

Every team will lose a match for sure. It was indeed just 1 game. But I cant help but think, did Bristol C get stuffed 4-0 at all last yr? Or Wolves the year before? Or Bournemouth, Yeovil when they went up etc, etc? I'm happy to be wrong on this, but being beaten this easily is very worrying for me. The best way out of this for me is to acknowledge how far away we are from where we need to be (top 2 side) and address it asap, rather than playing down how bad we are and hoping things improve. In short, if we change nothing, nothing will change.

 

[Deleted member 875]

This league will be wide open this season,I don't think there are any outstanding sides and if we can get it right we have a great chance to finish in the top 2 this season.
There are a few who could possibly challenge,Wigan,Millwall,Dingles,Chessy but this is our chance to take the bull by the horns and clinch promotion all being well.

Drinking before lunchtime is seldom a good idea

 

[Maidenhead]

Every team will lose a match for sure. It was indeed just 1 game. But I cant help but think, did Bristol C get stuffed 4-0 at all last yr? Or Wolves the year before? Or Bournemouth, Yeovil when they went up etc, etc? I'm happy to be wrong on this, but being beaten this easily is very worrying for me. The best way out of this for me is to acknowledge how far away we are from where we need to be (top 2 side) and address it asap, rather than playing down how bad we are and hoping things improve. In short, if we change nothing, nothing will change.

For my sins I also watch Leeds Rhinos.

I can remember them losing 70-0 at home to St Helens and being apoplectic when the coach, Tony Smith, shrugged his shoulders and said it was "just a bad day at the office"

Guess what, Rhino's went on to win Super League.

If we are still bottom after 5 games I may start worrying but for now I'm chilled

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Every team will lose a match for sure. It was indeed just 1 game. But I cant help but think, did Bristol C get stuffed 4-0 at all last yr? Or Wolves the year before? Or Bournemouth, Yeovil when they went up etc, etc? I'm happy to be wrong on this, but being beaten this easily is very worrying for me. The best way out of this for me is to acknowledge how far away we are from where we need to be (top 2 side) and address it asap, rather than playing down how bad we are and hoping things improve. In short, if we change nothing, nothing will change.

The big defeat needn't be a disaster long-term. Man United famously lost 6-3 at Southampton (just days after losing 5-0 to Newcastle) in 96/97 & they still ended up winning the premier league that season.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-hat-trick-as-United-humbled-at-The-Dell.html

 

[Gavlar]

The big defeat needn't be a disaster long-term. Man United famously lost 6-3 at Southampton (just days after losing 5-0 to Newcastle) in 96/97 & they still ended up winning the premier league that season.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/10388255/Flashback-Southampton-6-Manchester-United-3-Egil-Ostenstad-scores-hat-trick-as-United-humbled-at-The-Dell.html

Yep I remember that. They had a superb squad tho compared to the rest of the league, which i'm not sure we have.