Danny Wilson apology thread

[SwissBlade]

Why does 2 points between the top 6 mean it is low quality? Could be that the top 6 are of a similar high quality ?

The automatic slots won't accumulate as many points as last season. However, last season the top 3 all accumulated more than 90 points.

Recent and season form suggest that the league winner won't reach 90 points! Although the maximum we could get would be 99 points.

Doesn't make it lower quality, but with the way things stand, it shows that it's more competitive at the top end

 

[Northyorksblade]

Oh I am enjoying the moment - just as I did last year when we banged five past Bury and Notts Co - all for it to end in tears!
Savour the moment - wait till we're up before you start crowing!!

Good god, I'm not crowing! I know better from experience not to! But, I am enjoying the win.

 

[SwissBlade]

Oh I am enjoying the moment - just as I did last year when we banged five past Bury and Notts Co - all for it to end in tears!
Savour the moment - wait till we're up before you start crowing!!

Totally agree!

 

[davidpinder]

April 27th or before if or when we get promoted then apologies etc can/ will happen then and only then.

 

[bartman]

Check the league tables:
Premier Gap between 1 and 6 - 26 points Man Utd have dropped 26 points this season
Championship Gap between 1-6 - 15 points Cardiff City have dropped 29 points this season
Div One Gap between 1-6 - 2 points Blades have dropped 39 points this season
Div 2 Gap between 1-6 - 13 points Gillingham have dropped 34 points this season

Whichever way you look at it we have dropped more points than any other league leader, the gap is smaller between 1-6 than any other league and there is no outstanding team to take advantage.
Yeovil have been on a nine match winning run and are still behind us, Bournmouth have lost three games in 18 and are still behind us - It's a poor league!

. I have said previously that this may be a poor league(indeed,it is a 3rd tier league so by definition it isn't that good)...but your argument about points is not proof it is a poor league .You are trying to move the goalposts of your argument..
By your logic,you can argue that the premier league is poor because there is only 1 dominant team. My your definition the Scottish Premier league is of good quality as Celtic and miles ahead....as Rangers are in the 3rd.

Our league(at the top) appears to be one teams of similar quality(although we will find out more by the end of the season). The point you are missing is that the number of points dropped by a team,or the points between teams is not an indicator of how poor a league is. Again by your logic,Man City won the league with the last kick of the game last season so the premier league was poor,especially as no teams were anywhere neat the top two.

How can you say that Gillingham are in a good league when you have,probably,not seen any league 2 games this season ?

 

[bartman]

The automatic slots won't accumulate as many points as last season. However, last season the top 3 all accumulated more than 90 points.

Recent and season form suggest that the league winner won't reach 90 points! Although the maximum we could get would be 99 points.

Doesn't make it lower quality, but with the way things stand, it shows that it's more competitive at the top end

Totally agree Swiss . Stats can be seen in different ways. The top 3 had 90 points last season and this could that mean the other 21 teams were extremely poor ?

 

[SwissBlade]

Totally agree Swiss . Stats can be seen in different ways. The top 3 had 90 points last season and this could that mean the other 21 teams were extremely poor ?

Yeah there was a big gap between us and 4th.

Looking at the top of the Premier League Man U are running away with it, not because they are outstanding but because the others are slipping up.

In our division everyone seems to be beating everyone, Bournemouth and Yeovil have come from nowhere really. In September we beat Bournemouth 5-3 at home, fast forward a few months and its a top of the table clash!

From what I've seen the quality of football has been poor this season. But that's mainly from outside, the gap between the upper end and the bottom seems smaller this year. I would suggest it's a crapper league this year.

 

[Fiery Blade]

Whilst stats are not a total indicator what I was trying to allude to is that all the top ten clubs are capable of being beaten by say Hartlepool and that is usually and indicator of the standard when you have that phenomina - I would expect that in most years you have 2-4 teams vying for the automatic places and the next 6-7 vying for the play offs This year you have seven teams looking for the top two places!
Whilst the Blades have not lost that many we have drawn 12 games - far more than is typical of league leaders and most people on here do agree that performance levels this year have not been on par with last years efforts.
Admittedly we have lost some of our better players yet still head the league which again points to a lower level of quality

 

[Maidenhead]

Check the league tables:
Premier Gap between 1 and 6 - 26 points Man Utd have dropped 26 points this season
Championship Gap between 1-6 - 15 points Cardiff City have dropped 29 points this season
Div One Gap between 1-6 - 2 points Blades have dropped 39 points this season
Div 2 Gap between 1-6 - 13 points Gillingham have dropped 34 points this season

Whichever way you look at it we have dropped more points than any other league leader, the gap is smaller between 1-6 than any other league and there is no outstanding team to take advantage.
Yeovil have been on a nine match winning run and are still behind us, Bournmouth have lost three games in 18 and are still behind us - It's a poor league!

Surely all that goes to make it the best league?

Many more interesting outcomes and no foregone conclusions.

 

[Latters]

Surely all that goes to make it the best league?

Many more interesting outcomes and no foregone conclusions.

It might be the best if you only watched it on paper. Unfortunately a lot of the football on show has been far from entertaining from most, if not all, of the teams.

 

[Pinchy]

There's a lot of football to be played yet! The fact that it's tight at this particular snapshot in time does not mean it will be tight in April.

In fact, I say it won't be.

 

[Pragmatic Blade]

Does it matter whether the league is any good or not? NO! We have to play the teams in it and not any other league.

Let's be honest, there were 5 clubs much better than the rest last year, this year, everyone is better matched. The gap between league 1 and the Championship has probably widened, and that is purely down to money.

I agree that Wlson should be judged at the end of the season, but when we lose, there are many who come on here moaning and groaning demanding his head. In context, we are doing well, get behind the lads and make sure we unite together to help achieve promotion. At the moment he has answered those critics who wanted him out after 3 home defeats. Now, we are back in the box seat. UTB

 

[blade too long]

Having seen the championship this year Id say it was the poorest its been years, hull in second are awful, Palace were said to be dire yesterday without Zaha and Cardiff on top , when Ive seen them they look distinctly average.
Crowds are down alarmingly in the championship on previous seasons
this time last season we were 15 points behind top spot after 33 games. surely although we are 5 points down ourselves , no one is getting the breaks and pulling away, we had from feb onwards only 1 automatic spot to chase , this season theres twice as many

 

[Pragmatic Blade]

Having seen the championship this year Id say it was the poorest its been years, hull in second are awful, Palace were said to be dire yesterday without Zaha and Cardiff on top , when Ive seen them they look distinctly average.
Crowds are down alarmingly in the championship on previous seasons
this time last season we were 15 points behind top spot after 33 games. surely although we are 5 points down ourselves , no one is getting the breaks and pulling away, we had from feb onwards only 1 automatic spot to chase , this season theres twice as many

You only have to look at how mediocre the promoted sides have fared, bearing in mind both Wednesday and Charlton have bought new sides to know there is a big difference. Cardiff remind me of United when we were promoted under Warnock - loads of old men who have enough 'know how' to get out of the division.

 

[Princess Annes Dog]

I have said previously that this may be a poor league(indeed,it is a 3rd tier league so by definition it isn't that good)...but your argument about points is not proof it is a poor league .You are trying to move the goalposts of your argument..

There is no argument really Barty, this is Division 3, and my God this is a POOR league. Division 2 isn't much better, and the lower half of the Cheats league isn't much better than that. The argument's not about quality as the overall quality of football in England is pretty low. The argument's about winning your games and at the moment we're doing that so far from being (dare I say) clapper, I'm happy that we're doing well and happy that we're top of the league.

Fiery and Metal, I'm more inclined to agree with you two regarding the overall state of our once proud club but we're where we are on merit. We're in this shit division because since McCabe started his raping of the playing side of the club we've basically been shit. We're still a long way from being a decent side, and as bad as Division 2 is, we'll still get found out with this squad of players if we do go up, but that's a discussion for the future. For now just enjoy the fact that we're winning, the fact that we're top of the league and the fact that it makes a Saturday evening a damn sight better than one when we've shot ourselves in the foot.

I really do hope that the gloaters are being as tongue in cheek as the wind up merchants are when we lose, because if anyone seriously thinks we're a good side then try medication. We're doing what needs to be done and we're currently the best, but only the best out of a real shower of shite so savour the day and hopefully we'll do it this time because losing out when you've only got yourselves to blame is heartbreaking.

 

[judge]

oh boo hoo everyone below us is shit
GOOD

 

[Bergen Blade]

I agree that Wlson should be judged at the end of the season, but when we lose, there are many who come on here moaning and groaning demanding his head.

If the criticism was put forward without calling for his head all the time it would be easier to establish what posters actually disagreed on.

Did the "knockers" and the "clappers" disagree on the wisdom behind selecting Porter and Kitson up front together?

 

[Northyorksblade]

This clapper didn't