11 points off automatic spot

[pollster]

Same as last seasons finish then.
100, 100
90 with worst goal difference
Statistics

With what appears to be a far higher budget?

 

[Brian Deane]

Play offs loooooool!
Uncle Susan says if we finish in the top 6 she'll blow you all off.
Also, if we finish anywhere below that he'll also blow you off.
Win win!

Make your mind up knowsnowt is it a he or a she ?
Sportbilly /Detroit Blade needs to know

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Make your mind up knowsnowt is it a he or a she ?
Sportbilly /Detroit Blade needs to know

I'm just happy my arse is safe for now.

I said I would let any forum member stick it up my arse if we get relegated.

 

[finlaytheblade]

Agree…I’m a massive Wilder fan….think his man management creating a team spirit and the way he galvanizes the fanbase is fantastic/ the best.
However you do sometimes wonder about his tactics and in game substitutions.

Always find it weird how all the players look comfortable in possession and we have long spells controlling the game.
Then when we’re leading a game….its as though on 60 minutes….Wilder makes defensive substitutions and then for the last 30 minutes we go into “park the bus”
mode and it’s weird how all of a sudden we look so uncomfortable in possession, instead every player just wants to boot it clear back to the opposition, as tho it’s an instruction from Wilder. We deliberately seem to invite pressure WHY? Surely Wilder can see this and needs to work on how we can regain control of a game.

However we have to put some perspective on it. Tactically and regards substitutions Wilder is far better than Seles.
In fact Seles in-game substitution and tactics were so bad lacking logic you could only conclude he wanted to be sacked for the pay-off.

Agreed i thought he was only in for he money.when he said he doasnt feel pressure thats not a normal reaction to the question.
He got the Southampton (tempory)
job and did nothing although he couldnt be blamed for there relegation .Must have thought this is easy money and no doubt this is how it looks.
His latest job will probably decide his future ! failure and coaching is probably his best bet if he stays in the game.
When he got the job he looked like a man who had been to college and got some nous about him.

 

[ancientblade]

i think we will finish halfway comfortably its a big ask to get in the play offs after our disastarous start although not impossible apart from coventry this is a poor league this season youve only got to look where millwall are

 

[Servigliano]

I believe the sacking of Wilder and his return were all part of a carefully formulated plan in order to manage expectations and thus lower the pressure of expectation on Wilder and SUFC.
Following the much prophesied play off final defeat our supreme owners calculated that a dreadful start - with a new manger - would take care of future expectations.
The first part of the plan worked - maybe even better than they calculated, and now we can see the second part of the plan coming to fruition. This will involve a steady - but unspectacular - rise up the table, ensuring that we just, but only just, scrape into the final play off place.
Achieved in this manner 6th would ensure that expectations don't rise too much.
Then, as complete underdogs we easily win the semis and final, thus ensuring our permanent and rightful Premier League status.
Bravo our owners. Pure Genius and God Bless America.

 

[bakeblade]

Genuine question, why do people keep saying its an awful league? I havent seen many other games but it seems like its inconsistent rather than awful? Surely its a good league when anyone can beat anyone?

good news for us is we can at least have these conversatiins!

Last season there were 2 standout teams, Leeds and Burnley. We ground our wins but were overall average.
This season only Coventry look standout
Apart from that the league is more or less the same as last season.