Jourdan

Being on holiday means my sleep patterns become lawless.

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If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

Do you work nights, have a young child, care for someone, have insomnia or are a party animal? Sorry that sounds really nosey but they are very lucid posts for the time posted - so probably not the last option bearing in mind some early hours posts we get!

I am not sure what this thread was really meant to achieve.
It strikes me as poorly timed and entirely designed to galvanise a certain section of the fanbase and sustain anti-Warne sentiment from self-appointed Warne sceptics.
We’re in the middle of a run where we have lost six in 12 and five in our last eight and we’ve dropped from 4th to 7th.
That sounds a really sensible time to give fair and genuine appraisals, doesn’t it?
Not in seven games’ time when the season is finished and we’ll know our fate, of course.
If it was May and we had finished 7th or 8th, take aim. But we still have seven games to go (potentially 10) and can still have a successful end to the season, why not let things play out?

Yes, but that’s like saying Brighton and Brentford shouldn’t be comfortable with being in the Premier League because their natural level in terms of club size and stature is probably lower Championship/high League 1. Yet they are in the Premier League, they are flourishing, and deservedly so.
If we ‘shouldn’t really be here’ and we are ‘better than that’, then surely we have to prove it and show it? It’s all hot air if we finish 8th. Perhaps that’s the problem - the reality of where we are and how good we are in football terms doesn’t line up with our long-held perception.
Yes, in size, stature and history, we are a Premier League club in the making. But if you strip all of that back and you are left with what’s on the pitch, it’s a League One squad looking right at home at this level. That’s what counts.
Yes, we have plenty of players with Championship experience, but I don’t think many (if any) of them have proven themselves week in, week out to be too good for this level.
So do we have anything to be arrogant about?

Yes, but that’s like saying Brighton and Brentford shouldn’t be comfortable with being in the Premier League because their natural level in terms of club size and stature is probably lower Championship/high League 1. Yet they are in the Premier League, they are flourishing, and deservedly so.
If we ‘shouldn’t really be here’ and we are ‘better than that’, then surely we have to prove it and show it? It’s all hot air if we finish 8th. Perhaps that’s the problem - the reality of where we are and how good we are in football terms doesn’t line up with our long-held perception.
Yes, in size, stature and history, we are a Premier League club in the making. But if you strip all of that back and you are left with what’s on the pitch, it’s a League One squad looking right at home at this level. That’s what counts.
Yes, we have plenty of players with Championship experience, but I don’t think many (if any) of them have proven themselves week in, week out to be too good for this level.
So do we have anything to be arrogant about?

Your suggestion is that we have a quality squad being mismanaged, but are you really sure about that? Are you perhaps overrating the quality of our players?
I don’t think we have an outstanding team for the division, personally. I think we have a good team that can produce outstanding moments. That has been evident from day one.
We have won 4 out of 9 under Rosenior and 14 out of 30 under Warne. That suggests it’s a good, competitive team but very much in the top 6 to top 10 bracket. When I look at the make up of the squad, I don’t sense that it’s a top 2 squad performing at a top 10 level.
How many of our players have actually consistently performed at a level where you would say ‘X is too good for this league’? Disappointingly the only player who looks a different class is McGoldrick, to be perfectly honest.
Looking at the overall squad, it feels like a League One squad, it does not feel like a Championship squad playing below its level. We’ve won less than half of our games, after all. We talk about this squad’s quality, but are they actually just living off their reputations and relative big name status for this division?
Across the season, two of our other best and most consistent players have been Wildsmith and Mendez Laing. Remember these two weren’t wanted by Sheffield Wednesday because they wanted to push on and get back into the Championship. Quite telling now, isn’t it?

Yes, but that’s like saying Brighton and Brentford shouldn’t be comfortable with being in the Premier League because their natural level in terms of club size and stature is probably lower Championship/high League 1. Yet they are in the Premier League, they are flourishing, and deservedly so.
If we ‘shouldn’t really be here’ and we are ‘better than that’, then surely we have to prove it and show it? It’s all hot air if we finish 8th. Perhaps that’s the problem - the reality of where we are and how good we are in football terms doesn’t line up with our long-held perception.
Yes, in size, stature and history, we are a Premier League club in the making. But if you strip all of that back and you are left with what’s on the pitch, it’s a League One squad looking right at home at this level. That’s what counts.
Yes, we have plenty of players with Championship experience, but I don’t think many (if any) of them have proven themselves week in, week out to be too good for this level.
So do we have anything to be arrogant about?

If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

I reckon they’ll lose to Southampton, which will see Southampton leapfrog them. By then they’ll both be down and there’ll be nothing but pride at stake, and they’ll lose at home. And go down in last place, again. Bookmark this post, it’s a guarantee. 

If we don’t finish in the play-offs, we just go again next year.
Let go of the entitlement you are obviously carrying and show the league some respect. Promotion has to be earned, not given.
You make it sound like every club of our size and stature dominates the division and goes up at the first time of asking and there are countless examples of actually quite the opposite.
We were in the top six from November to April and we are only out of it on goal difference. We have been competing at the top end of the division, but we are not the only good side in the division and it is no disgrace to be where we are.
Ask the likes of Darren Moore, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Michael Duff and Ian Evatt to compete under our restrictions and the response you’d get wouldn’t be a kind one.
Just because we have the best stadium, the best training facilities and the biggest crowds doesn’t mean we are in the best position to succeed.
We are competing against sides who yo-yo between the Championship (Barnsley and Peterborough) and sides who have spent several years coming together (Bolton, Plymouth, Wednesday and Ipswich).
We have no divine right to success in this league.

He's a goner, this poll is just the start.
We'll slip away from this point onwards, and the atmosphere at Pride Park will turn toxic by seasons end, leaving his position untenable. 
Luckily, Nigel is out of contract come the summer, and will return to lead us back into the Championship within the next 10 years.

I am not sure what this thread was really meant to achieve.
It strikes me as poorly timed and entirely designed to galvanise a certain section of the fanbase and sustain anti-Warne sentiment from self-appointed Warne sceptics.
We’re in the middle of a run where we have lost six in 12 and five in our last eight and we’ve dropped from 4th to 7th.
That sounds a really sensible time to give fair and genuine appraisals, doesn’t it?
Not in seven games’ time when the season is finished and we’ll know our fate, of course.
If it was May and we had finished 7th or 8th, take aim. But we still have seven games to go (potentially 10) and can still have a successful end to the season, why not let things play out?

There’s no need for diplomacy, say what you really think 😂

Leicester vs Bournemouth at the weekend. Lose at Villa and they're guaranteed to be in the relegation zone, with a run of top half sides coming up. I'm getting quite hopeful.