imo we really can't afford to lose this one cos the gaps beginning to open up with the teams we need to be catching up with to reach safety
with over 40% of the season gone we really are in deep doo doo
and i do think it's time to panic
all we can do is sing our hearts out for our team and say our prayers !!
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So it is a must win but no more than the last two home games (in which we shipped eight goals) .
It is almost certainly a must win for Parky. If we lose on Sat, we will surely start interviewing Boothroyd, Davies et al on Monday morning.
Lose and there is a gap between us and the next 3 teams & seeing as we have won only once in the last 12 games I can't really see us winning 2 or 3 on the bounce to get us towards mid-table.
until we get in a complely new ma it is same old same old.
Look at Spurs. 2 months ago they were rooted to the foot of the table. In comes Harry & they lose only once in their next 6 or 7 - even coming from behind at Arsenal & liverpool, to get a draw & a win respectively.
Three points v Soton will help. But I repeat : it's a sign of how far we have fallen that even that will not lift us out of the relegation zone and still leave us in 22nd position.
Tonight my thinking has changed - another nil point and a further minus 1 for the goal diff. There's still a massive part of the season to go, but lose on Saturday and start playing catch-up in a relegation battle let alone a play-off chase, f*ck that......
Obviously I'm enjoying your demise but there is a heck of a long way to go, Palace have shown that anything can happen twice the last 2 times we've really struggled early on.
Big big game though on Saturday, Southampton are a very young but talented team and you never know, a win might start a 15 match unbeaten run like we did under Warnock last season!
Also i might be in the minority but our two latest signings strike me as being the worst we have made this season. Waggy-we needed an experienced goalscorer not a young lad that is learning his game and needs the boost a good side would give him.
Gillespie-past it and without the energy you need in a dog fight.
God I hope everyone has hidden all the sharpe objects
It is quite possible in this league- the Championship is almost taking on the appearance of the SPL- in November, you can be verging on relegation and by May you can squeeze a play-off spot.
Here's hoping, but we're such an undiluted mess that I think this would be a tall order in the curren campaign even in this league.
I agree that changes will have to come to pull us out of danger, however as our Palace friend points out, there is a long way to go, for good or for ill.
I thought Gillespie was excellent. He may have been a bit too good on occasions - the other players not being on the far post for crosses etc.
I think he could prove very usefull for us.
What has it come to when even Palace fans are telling us to keep our chins up ?
I suspect that 15 match unbeaten run is even less likely than the never-in-a-million-years prospect of us learning to love Palace. But thanks for the encouragement, anyway!
Based on what we have seen this season, name three teams worse than us and who must be having more sleepless nights due to relegation fears than we are...
I hate to say this and sound so disloyal, but I'm not sure I have seen one yet, let alone three.
Still hope springs eternal and all that...
What has it come to when even Palace fans are telling us to keep our chins up ?
I suspect that 15 match unbeaten run is even less likely than the never-in-a-million-years prospect of us learning to love Palace. But thanks for the encouragement, anyway![/quote]
I'm not even saying it in a patronising sense, it's just the way the Championship operates as we were hopeless this time last year. Not sure even why I'm saying it but if you were to drop this season, unless Millwall gain promotion next season will be 'effing boring.
We'll never "learn to love " eachother but relegation, along with the end of your parachute payments would seriously harm your long-term future and I wouldn't want to see that happen to any club, except Millwall possibly.
And, as Kenny Jacket rightly pointed out, the key to success is learning how to keep a clean sheet. If PP can deliver on this (and good luck to the guy) then maybe their is hope around the corner. If not, the pressure on the forwards mounts as they see every attack at the other end result in a goal. Let's face it, teams haven't really had to do much to slice us open have they?
Must win on Saturday? I think it is still too early to say that (think Hull). I think Saturday we need a CLEAN SHEET. We NEED organisation, a sense that the team is a unit, that they know what each other are doing. And, that they do individually what they are supposed to be doing.
A win on Saturday would make one hell of a lot of difference though it is not imperative (yet).
The problem is that if we should lose and a couple of other results (Norwich/Watford) go against us at the weekend, we could then be in a position where even if we won our next two games in a row ( something not acheived in a year ), we would still be rooted in the bottom three.
Yes, the precedents of Palace and Hull can give us hope. But once you find yourself half a dozen points adrfit from safety, it becomes very hard indeed to play catch-up.
See how worried I am? It's two in the morning and I'm still up and fretting about it !
On the brightside, whatever happens, we are still charlton, not palarse scum
Does anyone else share my view that if we lose on Sat, the board will start interviewing for the manager's job on Monday morning?
In effect, for the second Sat running we will have a manageral future hanging on the result...
I'd be surprised if they hadn't already started sounding out some options.
Yes, it's a must NOT lose game!
The points difference is indeed very worrying, and looks far more ominous after the QPR game, as has been pointed out elsewhere on the board. Our last back to back clean sheets came against Donnie and Forest, in mid September, and then we went on to lose the following game against Wednesday, so it is not a given that it would get us back on track.
However, most people (pundits) say how important it is to build on a solid foundation, and I guess that was more my point. Our defence scares me anytime we are attacked, and surely getting that right must be the priority to have any hope of securing our status in this division come May.
I have no doubt that other teams will hit drops in form, I just hope that we have more stability come xmas, and with that we will have more points on the board. Then we can spend the rest of the season building.
I'm trying to remain optimistic, in spite of the fact that I'm fearing the worst....
I do wonder what the impact would be if we were searching for a new manager come Monday morning. I guess that would depend entirely on who came in, but PP does know the players, which will either turn out to be a positive or negative thing. Although Malky M at Watford didn't get the job, he was part of the Boothroyd team at Watford and he did get a positive response from the players.