Ancient Moaner wrote:PT wrote:DonningtonSaddler wrote:Some of my predictions for the coming season based on yesterdays friendlies:
Watford will be nailed on bottom 3 after losing against Wimbledon. Wimbledon crowned champions with 5 games to spare.
Hull going into free-fall after losing to Oxford. League 1 certainties.
Gillingham are a dead team walking. Could only manage a draw against Dover. Relegated by Christmas
Bristol Rovers are gonners already. Could only muster a 1 - 1 draw against Gloucester
Looks like Shrewsbury are going to swap places with Villa in the Championship after the Sloppies magnificent 2-1 win at home yesterday
Port Fale going down to the fifth tier after scraping a draw with lowly Buxton
Barnsley heading back to league One after a shocking 2-1 loss against Grimsby
You heard it here first.
Good work sir.
By itself, yesterday is a complete irrelevance. But if you tack it onto the awful last day where we were completely outclassed by a mid-table side which you then tack onto the game before where we were beaten at home by relegation fodder Vale, then tack that onto the no-show at bottom of the league Coventry then reflect on the fact that we've lost some of the better players from those games last season and you realise that yesterday wasn't some freakish result you get in meaningless kickabouts like those others you mention. It was in fact the rather predictable continuation of us being nowhere near good enough for the Third Division
I'm hoping for some kind of football miracle to kick-in come August.
El-Nombre will tell you that you are being overly dramatic, and that we will actually WIN the 3rd Division (no smiley faces he disapproves!)
Naww bless you, I must have hurt your feelings with the smiley faces comment. At least I didn't call you a nob or something.
I sincerely apologies for hurting your feelings.
I'll point out though that I don't think I have ever, at any point this preseason or in fact for many years predicted us to win the league. But hey, making S*** up to fit what you are saying is kind of your thing so there ya go.
Thinking we might get relegated next year is perfectly reasonable. Imagining we are standing on the edge of the abyss, which is what you predicted, is complete nonsense and yes, is being overly dramatic.