It seems to me that most of us are expecting way to much from NCFC. Actually, expectations are rarely stated apart from people generally expect us to be further up the league than we are. Yes we should be challenging for the top but when you look at the top end of the league, I'm not sure I see better squads than we already have.
I think you would be hard pushed to find any fans in the Championship who are happy with their lot. I've been watching Stoke v Barnsley tonight. A bigger load of crap I've yet to see. The Stoke team were booed off at half time and at the end.
The fact is, the Championship is pants. From the top down. The current leaders, WBA have 63 points from 35 games. They've lost 8 games already. At best that's play off form. It's terrible stuff and the same goes for Birmingham, Derby, Sunderland and the rest of the top 8.
Why should we be any different to any other team which has briefly graced the top flight and gone down within a season or two? WBA, Birmingham, Sunderland, Leicester, Ipswich, Southampton, Wolves, Palace, Coventry, and of course Leeds at the bottom. With Norwich, that's half the league which has been in the Premiership over the last few years. All playing appalling inconsistent football.
We've had a bad couple of seasons. Next season, we are still capabe of winning. By the same token we could go down, given a bad run and a pile of injuries. It's the way it goes thesedays. Calling for the board to resign is not the answer. A new manager may help but don't get your hopes up. Fans want the board to spend some cash. But on what? Who are we going to get? The players I see at this level are all much of muchness. The better players all want to spend time in the Premiership and don't care whether they play or not, happy with the weekly packet and the trophy girlfriend.
Unfortunately things won't improve, people. Not unless the FA sort out the amount of cash available for the top teams to spend on their squads by imposing limits. The playing field needs to be levelled. At the moment, we along with most of the premiership, the rest of the Championship and the other division do not have a hope in hell of getting anywhere near any major trophy any time soon.
Get used to it guys. This is it. Delia or not. It won't improve. Some people are still in denial, either living in the days of the early 90s or wanting to spend as much as possible to do a Chelsea. Acceptance ... try it. Enjoy the games. Get passionate about your team. But realise that football includes the bad times as well as the good. Calling for changes in the rough times may have worked occaisionally in the past. Not now. Ask a Leeds fan.
I think you would be hard pushed to find any fans in the Championship who are happy with their lot. I've been watching Stoke v Barnsley tonight. A bigger load of crap I've yet to see. The Stoke team were booed off at half time and at the end.
The fact is, the Championship is pants. From the top down. The current leaders, WBA have 63 points from 35 games. They've lost 8 games already. At best that's play off form. It's terrible stuff and the same goes for Birmingham, Derby, Sunderland and the rest of the top 8.
Why should we be any different to any other team which has briefly graced the top flight and gone down within a season or two? WBA, Birmingham, Sunderland, Leicester, Ipswich, Southampton, Wolves, Palace, Coventry, and of course Leeds at the bottom. With Norwich, that's half the league which has been in the Premiership over the last few years. All playing appalling inconsistent football.
We've had a bad couple of seasons. Next season, we are still capabe of winning. By the same token we could go down, given a bad run and a pile of injuries. It's the way it goes thesedays. Calling for the board to resign is not the answer. A new manager may help but don't get your hopes up. Fans want the board to spend some cash. But on what? Who are we going to get? The players I see at this level are all much of muchness. The better players all want to spend time in the Premiership and don't care whether they play or not, happy with the weekly packet and the trophy girlfriend.
Unfortunately things won't improve, people. Not unless the FA sort out the amount of cash available for the top teams to spend on their squads by imposing limits. The playing field needs to be levelled. At the moment, we along with most of the premiership, the rest of the Championship and the other division do not have a hope in hell of getting anywhere near any major trophy any time soon.
Get used to it guys. This is it. Delia or not. It won't improve. Some people are still in denial, either living in the days of the early 90s or wanting to spend as much as possible to do a Chelsea. Acceptance ... try it. Enjoy the games. Get passionate about your team. But realise that football includes the bad times as well as the good. Calling for changes in the rough times may have worked occaisionally in the past. Not now. Ask a Leeds fan.
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