Ok. I'm sitting here and I'm trying to find anything positive to think about us* right now. Not trying to identify the thing that'll save us or anything, but just something that will allow me to go grab a bit of lunch without spending the entirety of the next hour or two in a state of 100% rage/frustration/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. It's a tough ol' slog. Right now, here's all I've got: Richarlison cares. He's not had a great time in his going on four years at Spurs. No one will say they didn't expect much more of him when he came in back in the summer of '22. But he always puts the effort it. I realize that's a bit like praising a man for not robbing a bank - every professional should care - but it's so dark right now that even small lights shine like a beacon. Anyway, I'm growing rather fond of Richie, if only for that. ... and that's all I've got. If anyone's got anything to add, by all means, feel free. But remember, keep it positive! There are 3711 other forum threads for the other stuff. *"about us". West Ham and Forest losing doesn't count.
We'll have the biggest and most beautiful stadium in the Championship and in League 1. And the best training facility. Daniel Levy left us with this great legacy, we should be grateful as he told us in his last interview.
That's the spirit! edit: whoops! I misread that. I thought you were saying we will have the best stadium. The best team? I"m not really seeing the evidence in support. Still ... it's a subjective claim, that, so fair effort.
We'll finally get to see the generational talents we have signed (Tel, Odobert, Gray, Bergvall, Yang, Takai) shine in the Championship, once the senior players are sold.
Admittedly, a bit of a mixed bag, this one ... but we're in the Champions League round of 16. In some sense that has to be positive.
We will get a big parachute payment when we get relegated. And we could appear in an episode of Welcome to Wrexham.
You criticize me (unfairly) for being negative, claiming I caused people to leave the thread, so now when I try to be positive, I get stick as well. Geez.
We'll get to watch our club 8 more times in the league. If we lose to a Championship club in the cups, it won't be an embarrassing loss to lower level opposition. This is the best thread Pook has posted in a long time!
Now, now. It was an articulated suspicion, not an assertion. And given the state of things, if 'glass-half-full' positives weren't allowed, I'm not sure if such a thread could get any traction at all. So fair enough. But spinning the silver linings of relegation into current positives does, you can surely see, require a bit of Rumpelstiltskinsian finesse.
There we go. I like that one. I was at the Lane for the first of those games - a 2-3 loss to Charlton. And boy, when we went down 3-nil, the atmosphere was baaaad. But we showed a bit of fight in the second half (since even parallels are working as positives at the moment) which proved to be the shoots of better things to come. So two initial losses are not determinant. Granted, Igor Tudor will likely never be a Martin Jol ... but hell, just the thought of Martin Jol has me in a better mood. And in a vaguely related point, I'm going to give Jacques Santini a belated show of appreciation for stepping down when he realized his position was untenable, rather than hanging on for the sack. If Frank had done so (and that's not a criticism of him, he surely wasn't so obligated) once he realized, we'd probably (though not certainly) be in a much better spot right now. The money's just so huge in Prem management these days, it's almost impossible to do that anymore. Wow. This thread is tough sledding.
I'm trying to think of any positives but can't. Maybe its that we have some good players that should be back soon and can save us from relegation.
We'll get back Romero, Kulusevski, Bentancour. We'll have them for our last 5 games which are Wolves, Aston Villa, Leeds, Chelsea, Everton.
I'm working late so am not able to attend the game this evening. Absolutely winning at life with that one.