Well I must confess that I had Hull down as bankers for the drop but after tonight's result and their epic fightback against ourselves, I am having to re-appraise things. Defensively they are poor but pouring forward, they are looking pretty irresistible at the moment. Stoke couldn't control them, we couldn't contain them and now Everton have found them too much of a challenge. Remember, this is the Everton team that mugged us not so very long ago.
Give Brown his due, with his head on the chopping block, he has somehow inspired the mob to rise up in defence of the ancien régime. The blueprint for the returning Robespierre was to decapitate Brown on the basis that if one man had to be sacrificed to save the club, then so be it. The program notes for the Stoke game virtually said, first defeat and Brown is gone. Well three games in and Brown is still alive and kicking and Hull have battered their way to relative safety.
As a fan of the underdog, I would normally be delighted by this, but with Birmingham winning on Saturday too, our position is looking increasingly precarious. Why, I wonder, are we unable to muster the same fighting spirit?
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Because we're Newcastle in disguise where the players do not give a damn aslong as they have their agents at the ready.
I said the same about Hull being my faves for the drop and still think they'll go down. But they're gonna do it kicking and screaming. We need nothing less than 3 points agst Burnley Saturday or we're in danger of getting cut adrift at the bottom and scrapping with the likes of Wolves, Portsmouth and Bolton (who should also be a shoe in for the drop).
Crisis? What crisis? Burnley, Wolves, Bolton, Portsmouth are all poor teams and as for Hull and manager Brown,....... many a severed head continued to mouth off after meeting "madame" by all accounts.
No, I think I can sell off a couple in January and still maintain premiership status.
Hull started well last season then fell off dramatically whilst we started slowly and had a decent run for five minutes which kept us safe.
Hull will stutter when PermaTan Brown starts thinking he's safe and good enough to bollock his players on the pitch again, then they lose it.
We'll be fine until February when we have lost Green, Upson and Behrami to be replayed by a Sweatie goal keeper and Tomkins coming back into the side, but will have secured enough points by then to settle into a gradual slide down the table to 15th.
I saw it in the tea leaves this morning, although it might have been the remains of the hash I crumbled into it...
Don't be happy, just worry..
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