All sports fans suffer from cognitive dissonance, what they want to believe colliding with reality. And we distort reality.
To have some chance of escaping (and Torquay's plunge out of the league started by going down on 51) we need 49 points by the end of the season. Eleven games left. Six wins sounds possible if you say it quickly. But 18 points over 11 games; if you went like that for the whole season you would get 75 points and a play-off place ( a pretty big transformation from relegation certs ). Compare that with a team already on 36 points. 13 more points needed means they only have to perform at the level which over the season would have them finish just above the bottom four ( only a slight improvement on their season so far ).
I'm sorry, but when you are physically as far away from the Blues as me sometimes you can see the wood for the trees. We managed 4 shots in the game, we were outplayed, we selected SEB in front of Ched and kept him on until the last 10. We had two loan failing keepers and three left backs if you count the unwilling right-footed loanee. And our opposition was the only one of our rivals who have relied on the same policy as us, grabbing inexperienced young men about to be expelled from their various academy wombs, and who, as a bonus, have weighed themselves down with Tim Sherwood. Still they had 21 efforts on goal was it?
It's a choice between Bob Hope and no hope.
To have some chance of escaping (and Torquay's plunge out of the league started by going down on 51) we need 49 points by the end of the season. Eleven games left. Six wins sounds possible if you say it quickly. But 18 points over 11 games; if you went like that for the whole season you would get 75 points and a play-off place ( a pretty big transformation from relegation certs ). Compare that with a team already on 36 points. 13 more points needed means they only have to perform at the level which over the season would have them finish just above the bottom four ( only a slight improvement on their season so far ).
I'm sorry, but when you are physically as far away from the Blues as me sometimes you can see the wood for the trees. We managed 4 shots in the game, we were outplayed, we selected SEB in front of Ched and kept him on until the last 10. We had two loan failing keepers and three left backs if you count the unwilling right-footed loanee. And our opposition was the only one of our rivals who have relied on the same policy as us, grabbing inexperienced young men about to be expelled from their various academy wombs, and who, as a bonus, have weighed themselves down with Tim Sherwood. Still they had 21 efforts on goal was it?
It's a choice between Bob Hope and no hope.