Listening to 5Live earlier tonight they were talking to a Plymouth player and he was going on about 7 cup finals left and the biggest prize, promised land, best league in the world etc. He really meant it.
I just wonder if we suffer from having too many players who have experienced the Prem and just don't have the extra bit of hunger to get there.
Now I am not saying any of our players don't want to go up, unlike some of our fans-like me- but to a lot of Plymouth, Stoke and Bristol City players maybe not having played there before gives them an extra edge.
This could be true for the clubs as a whole, the fans, Directors and staff. Maybe the lure of their first Prem season will help them through the business end of the season.
You may think I am talking rubbish but when you hear people talking so passionately. and wanting something so much, you begin to wonder.
Just let me reitterate I am NOT accusing any of our players of not being up for it, hungry etc.
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Preston, Scunthorpe, Sheffield Weds had something to play for at one end of the table, whilst Bristol City, Burnley and Ipswich had something to play for at the other end.
They all wanted it more.....end of
We can't even seem to get just a little from above average players :-(
Did you attend any of those games to know how much they wanted it?
I don't believe that we can be unlucky every time we lose.
If we were up for it the only answer can be that we were not good enough to beat these sides.
You are only as good as your last result and the results since Christmas has been shocking.
Old boring subject but it has co-incided with selling Reid. Good deal off the pitch bad one on it and im sorry but with 4 loan deals still available to Pardew when Reid went, not using one of them to bring in acentral midfielder has contributed to our downfall.
Ambrose has scored 9 as has ZZ. Reid when he left was on 7 and would have scored maybe 12 to 15 during the season. We have missed those goals especially with the strikers not scoring.
Who would you have got in then Mr Reams?
This is what I've been doing wrong, thanks for clearing it up for me ;-)
We have got that many employees who can operate on the wing, Airbus are thinking of building a new factory next door to the Valley!!
One midfielder I have had an eye on all season though is Kieth Andrews at MK Dons, a taller version of Kinsella.
and when we were 5th the performaces had been abysmal but the 'we're still 5th' excuse come out well the bad performances and non results continued and we're now 10th............6 points and 7goals behind 5th but only 2 points and 5 goals behind 6th( with 2 teams above with a game in hand tho)