Final day: what we need to do

[PilgrimZ1R]

What we need to do is get warnock in for the week.

Why ? We need to win and not make ourselves hard to beat. We cannot rely on Norwich or anyone else it’s up to us.

 

[Graham Clark]

Sometimes you feel they footballing Gods are conspiring be against us. To get that elusive win we had to achieve something we hadn’t achieved in 185 years of playing Stoke and Millwall away and Hull at home (111 + 57 + 17) In the last two weeks something like 14 out of 16 results have gone against us. Hull have also §had our number in their last two games at Home Park.

I also remember Southend scoring against Sunderland with three minutes to go to send us down five years ago. It still haunts me to this day given the post-Blackpool collapse we experienced. This campaign feels like that campaign with the last minute goal v Coventry still sending shivers through me. Like many others I thought then I just hope …..

However, I also remember what happened in the 2011-2012 season when 13 results had to happen for us to be relegated at Rochdale. In the end only 11 of them happened as Barnet came to our rescue. So perhaps fate and Lady Luck will be on our side this Saturday as I continue to grasp at any straw I can find. I just hope and pray Stansfield doesn’t nail us again.

 

[PilgrimZ1R]

I read the title before reading the comments.

"SUPPORT NORWICH"

Its our only chance tbh.

We can’t rely on Norwich. My Norwich season ticket holder friend is not confident that they can beat Birmingham, they’re huffing and puffing.
I’m not confident at all this situation has got a ‘Stansfield’ feeling all over it !!!!!

 

[Balham Green]

Will conceding at Huddersfield have taken a mental toll on the Birmingham players - they also only managed a goalless draw at relegated Rotherham
Wagner will have his Norwich team fired up- they will have their own agenda going into the play offs

Why will they be fired up? Makes no sense. Already in the play offs.

 

[Balham Green]

If by some miracle we do stay up I think there's one person in particular we should thank. Mr Wayne Rooney. Who'd have thought it?

 

[Sherford Green]

Why will they be fired up? Makes no sense. Already in the play offs.

No they aren’t and any vaguely professional side wouldn’t think like that.

 

[Cobi Budge]

Norwich will approach the game in one of two ways, either they’ll rest key players and take their foot off the gas, or they’ll want to head into the play offs with momentum and they’ll play their strongest team.

 

[mutley marvel]

Norwich will want momentum as they will be fully aware of Southampton & WBA having wobbles at the wrong time
They may also want to be in control of who their opponent will be

 

[Balham Green]

No they aren’t and any vaguely professional side wouldn’t think like that.

Like Sunderland at Southend 2019 you mean?

 

[Argy1e]

Like Sunderland at Southend 2019 you mean?

Sunderland had mathematically secured a play-off spot already. Norwich haven't.

 

[mutley marvel]

Coventry play Ipswich- game in hand on Tuesday

Ipswich have not won in 4 - they may end up in the play offs

What is to say they end up playing Norwich in the play offs

Norwich will want to cement 5th place with a win

 

[rsp4]

We can’t rely on Norwich. My Norwich season ticket holder friend is not confident that they can beat Birmingham, they’re huffing and puffing.
I’m not confident at all this situation has got a ‘Stansfield’ feeling all over it !!!!!

Yea I can see that scenario as well mate. Stansfield scoring and sending us down🤦

 

[Spion Kopter]

We have to grab the bull by the horns, we have to grasp the nettle, we have to strike while the metal is.......COLD??? Oh, bloody hell! We're doomed! 😂

 

[Jon with no H]

Well as Argyle fans were saying in January, argyke should have brought in an additional striker even a free agent. Hardie has always been a patchy stroker so that leaves Whittaker only to find the goals, instead we brought in two defenders, a defensive midfielder in his twighlight years and injury prone, great recruitment and data analysis there.

Monty you really ought to get an editor or have a read before pressing send. A patchy what?!

 

[Greenarmy1234]

I must say I'm getting tired of the "it's still in our hands" line. It was in our hands at Stoke and Millwall and we ended up goal-less and empty-handed. Given that most other results have gone against us since we last took it in our hands to beat Leicester, it really is going to be down to grabbing the bull by the horns, to extend the metaphor.

Agreed, the fact were making out that being "in our hands" is any sort of positive is nonsense, as we do not have the quality to ensure 3 pounts, luck needed. The fact we are mathematically ahead on points and that Brum may slip us is our only hope.