Funny Blue, I must have missed the post in which you said how bad the league was when we beat Luton.
It must be a coincidence that Luton came off the disappointment of a Cup defeat at Newcastle into which their players had poured their hopes and Notts County had just been thrashed on TV in what must be the poorest cup showing by a league 2 club in the last fifteen years ............ ??????
Nobody assumes the Premiership is crap if Swansea beat Liverpool or a West Brom, Watford or Palace trip up Chelsea or Man City.
We ARE in a comparatively poor league, but only if you look at it from above. Look at it from the point of view of a Lichfield City in the Midland League and you probably see 24 decent teams with not all that much to choose between them.
Early in the season when we lost to Notts County I thought we were losing to a potential bottom six team, because they had so many old players on their way down. Equally I thought Forest Green, with their financial clout, would very quickly appreciate they needed to cover a couple of weaknesses and together with the players they already had, would head for the top six. If the league table didn't exist and I could forget everything that has happened between August and February I doubt I'd be able to see all that much between them now.
We ARE a bad team, but in our context that only means we have players individually verging on and slightly above and below the moderate, who between them don't possess all the attributes needed to make a threatening team. They can play a bit, but pace and power are absent as is a player of any great ability at our level - like 35-goal a season man, a real passer of a ball, a reader of the game, a very clever dribbler, a dynamite shot - a player the opposition fears. So we haven't anything to disguise our weaknesses, we can't quite get our game together, decide on our best system so we are mostly just off the pace, perfectly designed to lose 2-1 / 1-0 most weeks. And then injuries hit, and refs intervene with dodgy decisions .............. But that does only mean that if Luton are off and we are on - we can win - so obviously if we hit our form we can win against anybody in the division, despite our inherent weaknesses.
Must say I think Dancing is harsh on Stevenage. They visited us on a dreadful run, saw in us a chance to stop us playing and very possibly capitalise when we made an error. It worked, but that was down to our inability wasn't it? They are very much a home-made side created by youth development and non-league recruitment. AND they were good enough to absolutely thrash us at their place weren't they? We didn't get neanderthaled so much as outclassed that day ........
22nd has been my aim all season, since I saw GC recruiting. Glad you are coming round Pooch. I still don't think we can make it. I'm currently underwhelmed by Jack's recruitment, but perhaps Dodds and Hines might fire us going forward and perhaps we've plugged few holes in that sieve of a defence, and there's a chance Cambridge might be mourning Shaun Derry? And maybe Sean Dyche will loan us Burnley's Sports Psychologist?
It must be a coincidence that Luton came off the disappointment of a Cup defeat at Newcastle into which their players had poured their hopes and Notts County had just been thrashed on TV in what must be the poorest cup showing by a league 2 club in the last fifteen years ............ ??????
Nobody assumes the Premiership is crap if Swansea beat Liverpool or a West Brom, Watford or Palace trip up Chelsea or Man City.
We ARE in a comparatively poor league, but only if you look at it from above. Look at it from the point of view of a Lichfield City in the Midland League and you probably see 24 decent teams with not all that much to choose between them.
Early in the season when we lost to Notts County I thought we were losing to a potential bottom six team, because they had so many old players on their way down. Equally I thought Forest Green, with their financial clout, would very quickly appreciate they needed to cover a couple of weaknesses and together with the players they already had, would head for the top six. If the league table didn't exist and I could forget everything that has happened between August and February I doubt I'd be able to see all that much between them now.
We ARE a bad team, but in our context that only means we have players individually verging on and slightly above and below the moderate, who between them don't possess all the attributes needed to make a threatening team. They can play a bit, but pace and power are absent as is a player of any great ability at our level - like 35-goal a season man, a real passer of a ball, a reader of the game, a very clever dribbler, a dynamite shot - a player the opposition fears. So we haven't anything to disguise our weaknesses, we can't quite get our game together, decide on our best system so we are mostly just off the pace, perfectly designed to lose 2-1 / 1-0 most weeks. And then injuries hit, and refs intervene with dodgy decisions .............. But that does only mean that if Luton are off and we are on - we can win - so obviously if we hit our form we can win against anybody in the division, despite our inherent weaknesses.
Must say I think Dancing is harsh on Stevenage. They visited us on a dreadful run, saw in us a chance to stop us playing and very possibly capitalise when we made an error. It worked, but that was down to our inability wasn't it? They are very much a home-made side created by youth development and non-league recruitment. AND they were good enough to absolutely thrash us at their place weren't they? We didn't get neanderthaled so much as outclassed that day ........
22nd has been my aim all season, since I saw GC recruiting. Glad you are coming round Pooch. I still don't think we can make it. I'm currently underwhelmed by Jack's recruitment, but perhaps Dodds and Hines might fire us going forward and perhaps we've plugged few holes in that sieve of a defence, and there's a chance Cambridge might be mourning Shaun Derry? And maybe Sean Dyche will loan us Burnley's Sports Psychologist?