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[Espionage]

Putting this "six losses in seven" spell in perspective a little bit cheered me up a bit. Not saying what you read will cheer you up (some people are beyond cheering up), but I thought it was a good piece of journalism. The following is taken from the latest Paul Tomkins article found here

The Fulham fixture was the penultimate match in a run of 11 games with no fewer than eight away, and only three at home. Only two of the past seven games have been at Anfield.
 
So it was a horrible sequence, and far from indicative of the roughly 50-50 split you expect. It also included games against Chelsea, Man United and Arsenal, plus Fiorentina and Lyon in the Champions League. None was against a team lower than mid-table.

Its easy to forget in the current media circus surrounding the club that our last seven games have been tough. Home games of Lyon and Man united are no gimme games, our away games were not easy either. Chelsea at the bridge and Arsenal home are some of the toughest places in Europe. Sunderland and Fulham are mid table teams with strong home records, both games saw us lose with a bit of bad luck.

It cheered me up, how about you?

(disclaimer: this doesnt mean that I am happy, just happier than I was before I read it.)

[bigmick]

Tompkins is right. Losing six out of seven was a pretty good effort really, excellent infact and we should be very happy with it.

[Dazzer]

I am happy at this rate we gonna far out do what we set to do o wait a min did we wanna finish 16th ?   

[Espionage]

Tompkins is right. Losing six out of seven was a pretty good effort really, excellent infact and we should be very happy with it.

Genius, you saw straight through what he was saying.

Remember, cheering up doesnt have to mean you go from 'anti' to 'pro', which seems to be just about the only thing that is important on here. Take it for what it is, a fact about the difficulty of our recent games that you may or may not have noticed. Maybe it did cheer you up, but you cant let the newkit community know that it did.

PM me if you want, it can be our little secret 

[made in UK]

Tompkins is right. Losing six out of seven was a pretty good effort really, excellent infact and we should be very happy with it.

[Espionage]

I am happy at this rate we gonna far out do what we set to do o wait a min did we wanna finish 16th ?   

Iono wat da point yez is tryin ta makke but cannt realy nuderstand it so btw wehn me n Rafa winz da premiar>leage u gona kiss our arsse's''?

[Espionage]

Big Mick pmed me to say it did cheer him up.

Dazzer pmed me and said "wowz I can nunderstand wat you iz sayin in da last  post cos wes spaekin da same langauge but why u use pnucutation for muchh coooler wihtout"

[bigmick]

Big Mick pmed me to say it did cheer him up.

Dazzer pmed me and said "wowz I can nunderstand wat you iz sayin in da last  post cos wes spaekin da same langauge but why u use pnucutation for muchh coooler wihtout"

fair play mate, now THAT cheered me up  .

[Owzat]

Funnily enough we've played eight away in eleven before, it happens.

2005/06

bitters (a) W
WBA (h) W
Bolton (a) D
Luton (a) W
spudz (h) W
mancs (a) L
Portsmouth (a) W
Birmingham (h) D
Chelsea (a) L
Charlton (a) L
Wigan (a) W

P11 W6 D2 L3

Last season we played a run of five away in eight, we went unbeaten. Extend that run to 17 games and we played ELEVEN away in 17 - P17 W7 D8 L2. The tail end of that run was where we lost the league, one win in seven but we didn't lose six in seven...............................

Sure it wasn't an easy run, but some of those six defeats were poor. There's no rule to say you have to lose even a tricky away tie, draws may have derailed our title challenge last year but they are a better alternative than playing just win or lose. Who would have said, most with any kind of foresight knew there was a run with a fair few away fixtures as it wasn't a secret, we'd lose home to Lyon, away to Sunderland and away to Fulham? Lyon we were in front, Sunderland we couldn't score in 85+ mins of football and Fulham we bossed possession and did FA with it, the red cards simply made a comeback more unlikely than it was already. You'd expect to be unbeaten in those games, I'm afraid the "quite a hard stretch of games" line won't wash and is more something I'd expect bitters to blame a bad run on - that and a lack of money...............................

But then we all know the mancs and Chelsea NEVER play away from home. Some t1t texted into ITV saying the mancs always get home ties in the cups, just after they beat Barnsley at OAKWELL

[Espionage]

It does happen, but it doesnt happen very often, or especially not with the degree of difficulty of our recent results.

Lets call it how it is then, the three losses in cup games mean that we are out of one cup (to good opposition mind you) and still with a fighting chance of getting through to the next stage with the other. Bad, but not the end of the world.

The league is a bit tougher to stomach as three losses in four is not title winning form. The loss to Sunderland was bad, the Fulham game we were robbed. The Chelsea game wasnt too bad. But on the other hand, three points combined from Chelsea away and Man United at home is not disastrous.

Dont get me wrong, its bad, but its not that bad.

Edit: Just got a pm from Owzat saying that it cheered him up too. I am glad everyone in this thread is so cheery.

[kazza]

Well it looks like no Torres or Gerrard for a couple of months, which will only cheer some up further.

[account deleted by request]

This thread has really cheered me up (pm on its way)

It almost makes the fact we are out of one cup, as good as out of the Title race and clinging on to another cup by our fingernails almost immaterial.  Maybe if we are lucky we can lose 6 out of our next seven games too, by which time I am sure we will all be laughing so uncontrollably that they may have to put us in those nice padded cells so that we don't hurt ourselves with our laughter. 

Seriously - we beat the mancs , and if I had to pick one game so far this season to win it would have been that one. So the season hasn't been a complete disaster so far.......but almost.   

Don't worry be happy

[Dazzer]

I am happy at this rate we gonna far out do what we set to do o wait a min did we wanna finish 16th ?   

Iono wat da point yez is tryin ta makke but cannt realy nuderstand it so btw wehn me n Rafa winz da premiar>leage u gona kiss our arsse's''?

Come on lad don't be a bell end all your life.

Its was 5.30 in morning and I had hang over cut me some slack.

[red37]

I am happy at this rate we gonna far out do what we set to do o wait a min did we wanna finish 16th ?   

Iono wat da point yez is tryin ta makke but cannt realy nuderstand it so btw wehn me n Rafa winz da premiar>leage u gona kiss our arsse's''?

Come on lad don't be a bell end all your life.

Its was 5.30 in morning and I had hang over cut me some slack.

Why, where do you live?


As for this season...so far its a nightmare - trust me. 

[Espionage]

I am happy at this rate we gonna far out do what we set to do o wait a min did we wanna finish 16th ?   

Iono wat da point yez is tryin ta makke but cannt realy nuderstand it so btw wehn me n Rafa winz da premiar>leage u gona kiss our arsse's''?

Come on lad don't be a bell end all your life.

Its was 5.30 in morning and I had hang over cut me some slack.

You average 10 posts a day on this forum and all you do is dance around talking shit. What you say is generally wrong, and you dont argue it logically or coherently.

My advice is take a look next to "Add Reply" you will see the "Preview Post" button. If you use this button before posting, you can check to make sure that your post makes sense.

My next piece of advice is read your posts out aloud. I am sure that if you did, you would have realised that you needed to put an "a" before hangover. Also if you were reading it out aloud, you would have paused after you read 'hangover'. Therefore you should put some kind of punctuation after hangover so as to make it clear that you are not talking about a "hang over cut" (which I assume is a some sort of gash with a flap of skin hanging over it).