Have we been relegated...

[wakefieldstokie]

First time I've looked at the board for two weeks and in that time the mood has changed here big time. Why so negative?

[daverichards]

we were relegated yesterday, has nobody told you ....

as del amtri sang, "Always the last to know"

[Northy]

yes, unless we change our ways
Hows that market hall coming along? I was there the other saturday morning when that car park went down onto the old dual carriegeway, didn't half make us jump in Wakefield house.

[lordb]

fucking HATE Del Amitri

great now I have that wank song in my head,cheers Ilford

[lordeffinghamhunt]

Lack of goals, lack of ideas, lack of entertainment in the last three games. A loss against a very poor Tottenham side and we are as good as down my friend

[AlJolson]

you mean we could 'kiss this thing goodbye?'

[stokelad84]

If Hull and West Brom were in the same position then there wouldnt be any great fuss. But with them having better results so far has convinced everybody that Brown and Mowbray are tactical genius' whereas Pulis is a dinosaur

[Beardy200]

To be fair i think we've actually started OK. We've had some very tough fixtures to start with and nobody has made us look like mugs. That being said we have been far too negative and sit way too deep when we dont have the ball and that just invites pressure. Overall i think we've defended OK but we're asking them to do too much by not pushing out and creating some pressure of our own. Teams can pile forward because they know if they lose the ball we only ever have 1 left up front at the most.

The biggest problem, and why i think people are so negative, is because our so-called competitors (Hull, WBA, Bolton, Sunderland, Wigan) have all started pretty well so we are playing catch-up already. Surely nobody can expect Spurs & Newcastles poor form to continue all season and therefore i'm a lot less hopeful now. I was hoping 32-35 pts may have a chance to keep us up but with some of the results so far you have to think the old fashioned 40pts will be needed at least and unless we turn over most of our direct rivals i can't see us getting that many.

I've not given up just yet though so try and keep the faith a bit longer boys ... at least until we've fucked up some winnable home fixtures ;-)

[lordeffinghamhunt]

We have started ok? 1 win and 1 draw. One can not wait until we hit a bad patch.

[premierpotter08]

Oct 6, 2008 12:21:13 GMT wakefieldstokie said:

First time I've looked at the board for two weeks and in that time the mood has changed here big time. Why so negative?

Is that you on your avatar? you should of gone to specsavers mate. We're appauling ATM and dont look like attacking, never mind scoring. Yes we will be relegated if things dont change.

[Beardy200]

Oct 6, 2008 12:39:10 GMT lordeffinghamhunt said:

We hate started ok? 1 win and 1 draw. One can not wait until we hit a bad patch.

I know what you mean fella but if you'd predicted some scores and results before the season started i'd be surprised if many Stokies would be able to predict many more than 6 pts at this stage

If you look at the next couple of months we have a lot more games we can hope to get points from. This will be our chance to stay in the thick of things though and if we dont take a few chances we'll be fooked by Xmas.

18 Tottenham (H) - hopefully
25 Man City (A) - will be tough
28 Sunderland (H) - need something
November
1 Arsenal (H) - i'm not hopeful
8 Wigan (A) - big game
15 Man Utd (A) - no chance
22 West Brom (H) - must win
29 Hull (H) - must win
December
6 Newcastle (A) - need something
13 Fulham (H) - must win
20 Blackburn (A) - must win

Like i said the reason it seems so bad at the moment is Hull and the Baggies good starts but to be fair they have had easier fixtures.