Please don't get over excited

[shorehamview]

I'd quite like to get over-excited for a bit please, given that the opportunities have been few and far between in the previous twelve months.

I'd like to eat a bag of Skittles and some fizzy jelly snakes, ripped to the tits on e-numbers, and fantasise about play-offs and trips to London without some gloomy bugger bringing me down to earth with all the joi-de-vivre of a serial balloon popper at a kids party.

I know that there is every chance of us putting in a turgid performance the next time I see us play, but I don't need telling that we will be crap again soon. I'd like my weekend to finish off on a high note unsullied by the looming black cloud of the forum pessimists.

Not much chance of that though, is there? My glass is half-full, theirs is a plastic night club glass trampled underfoot, shattered and with not even a trace of shit £4-a-pint Foster's left, as they contemplate another taxi ride home alone to a lonely dark bedsit that smells faintly of mouse wee.

 

[Micalijo]

By the way, Micalijo, how did your favourite football-playing side (Barnsley) led by their brilliant young manager get on yesterday?

Yep - looks like the bubble has burst!!

Don't worry, I'll find another one.

 

[marshy]

I didn't go, as I was working, but pleased at a win and disgruntled that I missed us playing decent for once.

I think though, and it's a sentiment I agree with, that the underlying feeling to this thread is - great, we've played well and picked the right team, but lets now see if Blackwell has the balls to carry it on against Forest and the likes. I'm not sure he will. Give me more than 1.5 decent performances and selections on the bounce and I may give the team/management a bit more credit.

 

[Bladesway]

Normal service will be resumed at Forest. Kallio and Geary frighten me and Nosworthy will cost us at least one goal.

We have to get results in a few of the away games against the sides above us and it aint happening. I still don't see a unity and a collective desire to avoid defeat in the big games. Plenty of huff and puff but no conviction

Bristol were as bad as we have been. They were horrendous.

Yes it was an enjoyable 90 minutes but that is all. Credit where it is due on that basis to Blackwell for picking his best players but should we really applaud him for that?

Its all there, you want to say well done. You almost do say well done but then you go and ruin it all by saying that you will be right again next week. Live for the now, just for a minute. Not only did we win (which we have more often than not) we played well. By rights you should just shut your trap and hide for a week like all the others do.

Finally, your fatalistic strategy is a good one, because one day somewhere, somehow you will be right. Blackwell will get sacked and you can sit in your chair and tell everone how right you were. No one will actually thank you for it and the only person that will be happy is you. Bonus!

 

[raul]

Lager? LAGER? Real ale in the Rutland, my friend!

I detect Five Rivers misuse...

 

[William Large]

I couldn't make the game yesterday due to work, however it sounds as though credit deserved for a god performance. I am as much to blame as the rest for moaning when we are shite but for gods sake lets try and be positive for a change. We won and played well but still it isn't good enough. Forest aren't that spectacular. We can still go there and do a job but for fucks sake lets not start slagging the team off for a game that hasn't even taken place yet!

 

[super_pig]

well no quinn and we win. who'd have thunk it.. williamson is the key.. what on earth has he been doing on the wing? the next game is the key.. we've had a few false dawns lately.. i don't trust blackwell to name an unchanged side.. if he puts quinn back in there'll be grumblings i'll tell thee

 

[Linz]

It just means that the stock response to the mass-suicide advocating when we lose is now going to be "don't get too excited".

 

[Big Mart]

I wouldn't call it "mass suicide" postings, more like "please change things", which he finally did yesterday and it worked.

I think there's just as much hysteria from the giddy boys and girls following a win as there is a defeat so fair play to this thread, which was started with a pretty balanced view but was sadly leapt on by all and sundry who just saw words of criticism

:gallop:

 

[judge]

is that the term for someone who is pleased that their team won then " giddy boys and girls" ?

 

[Micalijo]

Its all there, you want to say well done. You almost do say well done but then you go and ruin it all by saying that you will be right again next week. Live for the now, just for a minute. Not only did we win (which we have more often than not) we played well. By rights you should just shut your trap and hide for a week like all the others do.

Finally, your fatalistic strategy is a good one, because one day somewhere, somehow you will be right. Blackwell will get sacked and you can sit in your chair and tell everone how right you were. No one will actually thank you for it and the only person that will be happy is you. Bonus!

That's right Bladesway. I'm the only person in the world who thinks Blackwell is a joke. Do you really think that?

I'll repeat again, I enjoyed the game. Even Monty did OK, still headless chicken stuff but he contributed greatly. I hope it is repeated.

I think we'll lose at Forest - is that really a shocking statement? It's a prediction on a forum - so what if I say it the evening of a routine home win against a pile of shite from Bristol.

 

[Houso]

I for one would like to say thanks to Mic and express my gratitude that we have someone rational and realistic who is an excitement barometer for us all.

 

[SwissBlade]

I think Micalijo's initial message was correct. Yes we should enjoy the result AND performance but so many on here that want Blackie out have gone unusually quiet, admittedly some have come out and said well done. So is Micalijo wrong to put things back in perspective? I don't agree entirely with his stance, but he shouldn't be criticised for the comments.

The last two weeks on here has woken many of us up to the problems on and off the field at our club.

So what did yesterday change? Well we got a performance, but it was just the one. Just like we shouldn't panic when we lose a couple and have a bad run, we also shouldn't get excited when we turn a team over in style.

We got a central midfield partnership and two wingers, but will the midfield be the same on Tuesday? Probably not because of fitness and injury issues.

But the club hasn't suddenly turned things around off the field.

Enjoy the result, it certainly made my weekend, but we need to see what Blades team turns up on Tuesday. Will it be the free flowing attacking team that earned lots of praise yesterday or will it be the dull and disjointed team that has turned up most weeks of this season

 

[Micalijo]

Houso - I know that's meant to be humourous and will get zillions of plaudits but what you get at wasn't the intention of my post at all.

I aint some loony who thinks I can tell people how to behave and I'd like to think my posts reflect that. I've got my views obviously but it aint all one sided stuff. I was full of praise after the Barnsley and Newcastle games. The spirit in the camp has remained good and Blackwell has to be praised for that.

It's pretty pathetic in my opinion that some of the abuse I've got is so venemous when all you happy people were meant to be out on a weekend long bender celebration all because a side with a huge wage bill and huge support beat a truly awful side lacking any skills required to be competitive in a football game. I genuinely cannot believe the posts about me ruining people's buzz etc etc after a win.

 

[Bergen Blade]

Generally appreciate your comments Micalijo, and don't think the abusive comments were necessary. I think yesterday's win was a very good one, which should be applauded. But it is a relevant and valid concern that it was an out of character team selection by Blackwell, and let's also remember that our squad is still so poorly balanced that a couple of injuries will prevent us from keeping a similar style to yesterday's.

 

[Linz]

I think you have to bear in mind the kind of reaction someone calling for calm after a 2-0 loss would get and has gotten over the past couple of weeks.

It does explain a lot...

 

[Big Mart]

is that the term for someone who is pleased that their team won then " giddy boys and girls" ?

You tell me, you're the one who always wee dribbles when we manage to win one :fishy:

:gallop:

 

[Micalijo]

I think you have to bear in mind the kind of reaction someone calling for calm after a 2-0 loss would get and has gotten over the past couple of weeks.

It does explain a lot...

Nothing like the same Linz. Have you read Hippy's post?

 

[Maidenhead]

I detect Five Rivers misuse...

Nice pint that five rivers, had a few myself before the game

 

[JohnDenver]

I think we'll lose at Forest - is that really a shocking statement?

Not shocking from you, no.

Last night I met up with some Forest mates who'd been to their match at Donny and were changing trains in Sheff.

They tell me that they've been very poor recently and do not expect to win on Tuesday based on current form. They just hope to.

In my mind we're outsiders, but our team shows signs of gelling after yet another upheaval so I'm hopeful for Tuesday. If we keep this XI together I truly think the playoffs are realistic. If we can't, they're not. C'est la vie.

 

[davidpinder]

Its only taken 31 league games to get a performance for 90 mins well done KB, Lets see if he has the bollocks to name an unchanged team on Tuesday. I doubt it personally he will use injuries as an excuse.

Don't take this as a negative post only though, i was happy yesterday for the first time in a while v good performance against a v poor side but you still have to go out and beat poor sides and we have been critical in the past by sinking to there level, yesterday we didn't.

 

[DuncDisorderly]

You never get excited with anything to do with United - no idea why you bother at times. Sounds like a deal though.

I take it that was for me? Sure I get excited, just like I get disappointed, but I recommend not getting too far towards either extreme. Its not good for the brain or the soul...

 

[judge]

micalijo is further evidence of the need to ban beards ,they are responsible for all the worlds ills

for example some of the worlds most sadistic and evil people were mind controlled by their beards including osama bin laden ,genghis khan peter sutcliffe and noel edmonds

i say ban beards now and banish evil

 

[beightonblade]

ta for the 3 points !

now fook cheap as chips off.

 

[raul]

Ramon Ruiz Iglesias-Vasquez, inventor of the Mexican Wave, also had a beard.

 

[silverfox]

Ramon Ruiz Iglesias-Vasquez, inventor of the Mexican Wave, also had a beard.

I had a shave this afternoon.

Just be sure like!

 

[raul]

Ramon! How could you? You bring shame on your family. I no longer have a brother.

 

[judge]

Ramon Ruiz Iglesias-Vasquez, inventor of the Mexican Wave, also had a beard.

proof if proof were needed

 

[Micalijo]

micalijo is further evidence of the need to ban beards ,they are responsible for all the worlds ills

for example some of the worlds most sadistic and evil people were mind controlled by their beards including osama bin laden ,genghis khan peter sutcliffe and noel edmonds

i say ban beards now and banish evil

Don't you tell me what to do with my facial hair you patronising, arrogant oaf.

 

[boo radley]

Normal service will be resumed at Forest. Kallio and Geary frighten me and Nosworthy will cost us at least one goal.

We have to get results in a few of the away games against the sides above us and it aint happening. I still don't see a unity and a collective desire to avoid defeat in the big games. Plenty of huff and puff but no conviction

Bristol were as bad as we have been. They were horrendous.

Yes it was an enjoyable 90 minutes but that is all. Credit where it is due on that basis to Blackwell for picking his best players but should we really applaud him for that?

Stuff ya. I'm going to get over excited and what you gonna do about it Hu.
We will beat forest on tuesday so if normal service is losing then either ME OR THEE shall have the 'I told you so' rights.
your comments about BIG GAMES, nothings changed since you last mentioned it so you cannot judge thebig game theory - pointless statement there.
I seem to remember you wanting Harper in your midfield?