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Our terrible December and January has cost us our PL status. Barring a handful of unexpected good results we were utterly rancid in that period. A mixture of the final days of Bilic and Allardyce taking too long to have the desired impact.
We’ve improved since but it’s all too late.
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I'm not beating myself up over having a slither of luck at last. Brighton were the lucky ones, awarded 2 penalties one of which was arguable and the other definitely shouldn't have been given. Of their other 2 chances, one was our keeper palming the ball out to their man and the other a free kick, rightfully disallowed. The fact they weren't good enough to win after having those chances is hardly BFS's fault. Like him or not, he is our manager so get behind the team.
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So we win a game and people moan. Only on this dump, or a s single or seal.
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03-01-2021, 11:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2021, 11:33 PM by HawkingsHalfpint.)
Crikey. This dump.
For every ‘reach arounder’, there’s some wanker-fan secretly wanting him to fail. Yet the vast majority of us fall firmly into the middle somewhere, despite the frankly boring rhetoric at either extreme.
It took forever to get going, it’s odds-on too little too late, and the majority of damage was done last close-season. However, the improvement signs - too slow as they are - are clearly there.
As to whether he’s here or not (or deserves to be) next season, it’s still too early to say; and as pointless a debate at present as the irrelevance of debating Bilic every week; months after he’s gone.
It’s still only 2 wins so far, and whilst one of them wasn’t quite as jammy as the Sheff Utd one, it wasn’t far behind. The job is still there to earn, but we need a few more notches in the second-to-left column before I’ll be toasting his reign next season. Meanwhile, he’ll get credit and criticism where due from here. Just wish he was at good at point-scoring as some on here.