by ferrarilover » 09 Apr 2013, 22:32
Fonda wrote:
And of course you'd be right. My point is, you can be pretty certain everyone else has suffered pretty much the same 'near misses' that we have.
Yup, near misses I can cope with, hitting the post etc is a case of making your own luck, but things like having your best loanee recalled (no one else has had this, Barnet have had some no mark recalled and that's it). Having the manager go sick at the worst possible moment (happened once in the history of the Football League and that was at Liverpool, a club where it hardly mattered) and now, it seems, losing both goalkeepers (find me another club in L2 with both first team keepers crocked).
The margins between success and failure are so narrow this season that it is luck and not skill which will be the deciding factor. Not once this year have we come away from a game having been dominated and battered having won. We have, however, come away from a few on the receiving end of that situation. If we were sitting here now with wins against Gillingham away and Port Vale at home (just those two, no more) which is what we would have had but for a chunk of bad luck in each, we'd be virtually assured of survival. On moments like these, situations like this occur. Who knows, had Dinger gone sick a fortnight later, he may well have left behind him a side with three loanees in it, loanees who would have scored two dozen goals between them and seen us promoted by now. Same story a fortnight earlier. We weren't pretty before he left, but the table tells you that we were a damn sight more effective than to be languishing where we are at present. To suggest that none of where we are is down to bad luck is to suggest that the departure of Martin Ling had absolutely no effect on the side what so ever, and that, to me, sounds like the chatter of a crazy person.
Matt.
[quote="Fonda"]
And of course you'd be right. My point is, you can be pretty certain everyone else has suffered pretty much the same 'near misses' that we have.[/quote]
Yup, near misses I can cope with, hitting the post etc is a case of making your own luck, but things like having your best loanee recalled (no one else has had this, Barnet have had some no mark recalled and that's it). Having the manager go sick at the worst possible moment (happened once in the history of the Football League and that was at Liverpool, a club where it hardly mattered) and now, it seems, losing both goalkeepers (find me another club in L2 with both first team keepers crocked).
The margins between success and failure are so narrow this season that it is luck and not skill which will be the deciding factor. Not once this year have we come away from a game having been dominated and battered having won. We have, however, come away from a few on the receiving end of that situation. If we were sitting here now with wins against Gillingham away and Port Vale at home (just those two, no more) which is what we would have had but for a chunk of bad luck in each, we'd be virtually assured of survival. On moments like these, situations like this occur. Who knows, had Dinger gone sick a fortnight later, he may well have left behind him a side with three loanees in it, loanees who would have scored two dozen goals between them and seen us promoted by now. Same story a fortnight earlier. We weren't pretty before he left, but the table tells you that we were a damn sight more effective than to be languishing where we are at present. To suggest that none of where we are is down to bad luck is to suggest that the departure of Martin Ling had absolutely no effect on the side what so ever, and that, to me, sounds like the chatter of a crazy person.
Matt.
