Danh1 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Win and a good performance would be nice and inject some confidence for next week. Apparently Woke Martin is the pundit on MNF. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack j Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 26 minutes ago, Danh1 said: Win and a good performance would be nice and inject some confidence for next week. Apparently Woke Martin is the pundit on MNF. Who? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 10 minutes ago, jack j said: Who? Russell Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Edgar Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Zero confidence for this one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDog Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Lots of confidence for me, based on nothing. Glass is always half full, even when it isn't possibly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 So we get "Leave it all on the pitch" Paqueta tomorrow. Awesome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewel Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Paqueta has been trying to prove a point to us ever since we refused to sign him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menace Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 5 hours ago, David Edgar said: Zero confidence for this one. No way - really? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1pe Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, Jewel said: Paqueta has been trying to prove a point to us ever since we refused to sign him. I thought his hearing was happening? Is he still playing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Feels like the whole club and fans need a result after that debacle last weekend and going into the cup final. It also feels like CL qualification is starting to disappear over the horizon if we don’t win matches like this. We have “winnable” remaining fixtures but our form doesn’t exactly suggest we’ll go on a run. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewel Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Lose tonight and the season could fizzle out dramatically. We'll lose the cup final without laying a glove on Liverpool and then fade away into 10th or 11th in the league table, thus missing out on Europe, which will have grave consequences for us in the short-term at least. This is why tonight's game is so important. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewel Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 We desperately need to get some positivity and momentum back into our performances and results, starting tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 If we lose tonight we'll be one point off a European place (three off CL) with 30 points to play for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT24 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 We win this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 3 minutes ago, Yorkie said: If we lose tonight we'll be one point off a European place (three off CL) with 30 points to play for. Do you think we've got the mentality to do anything about it? We need another run, need to pick up momentum asap. Lose this, then the cup final and some of these will just coast until the end of the season. As it happens I'm quite positive about tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 4 minutes ago, Yorkie said: If we lose tonight we'll be one point off a European place (three off CL) with 30 points to play for. Howe seems to be able to manage a bit of a reset/harden minds and efforts for one last push which is why I think we still might have a chance of a run after the cup final. As you say there’s still plenty of points to fight for but we do need ti start showing some form and consistency again. A win tonight would be massive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 2 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said: Do you think we've got the mentality to do anything about it? We need another run, need to pick up momentum asap. Lose this, then the cup final and some of these will just coast until the end of the season. As it happens I'm quite positive about tonight. I don’t think Howe would let us coast in that situation though admittedly it would take massive rallying and man management from Howe. I don’t think the importance of European qualification is lost on the players to be fair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 8 minutes ago, ExiledGeordie said: I don’t think Howe would let us coast in that situation though admittedly it would take massive rallying and man management from Howe. I don’t think the importance of European qualification is lost on the players to be fair. I don’t see why the players would want to coast. Do they want CL or not? If they do, there are loads of points left to get and they need to go out and win them. Makes no sense they would suddenly switch off and stop caring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 6 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: I don’t see why the players would want to coast. Do they want CL or not? If they do, there are loads of points left to get and they need to go out and win them. Makes no sense they would suddenly switch off and stop caring. Have you seen us over the last few weeks, we've been woeful outside of a 10 minute spell against Forest, nearly threw that game away too. I guess the saving grace is that we're playing Brentford, Leicester, Man Utd and Palace as opposed to Brighton, Liverpool and Man City. The game tonight is massive for the rest of the season imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikse Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) I only see 3 games left that are easier than this one. Possibly 4. 4 wins isn't going to give us top 5, so this is a must win to me. Here's their last 5 home games: 2-0 win vs Leicester 0-1 loss vs Brentford 0-2 loss vs Palace 3-2 win vs Fulham 0-5 loss vs Liverpool Being happy with a draw means having a pretty low standard imo. Edited March 10 by Erikse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Just now, Dr.Spaceman said: Have you seen us over the last few weeks, we've been woeful outside of a 10 minute spell against Forest, nearly threw that game away too. I guess the saving grace is that we're playing Brentford, Leicester, Man Utd and Palace as opposed to Brighton, Liverpool and Man City. The game tonight is massive for the rest of the season imo. Yeah, I don’t know exactly what our issue is but I don’t think the players have just decided to down tools. And I don’t think they will if we lose the cup final either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Aye for me, tonight is just about as shifting the momentum pre-cup final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I think we can get about 20 more points this season, not sure if that’s enough or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikse Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) 2 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: I think we can get about 20 more points this season, not sure if that’s enough or not. 20 should be enough for top 5, but if we don't win games like this one, I struggle to see us getting that many points. Edit: actually I realise it would be 64 points, which might not be enough. Edited March 10 by Erikse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattypnufc Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Into these bubble shagging bastards! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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