yet another depressing even numbered summer

[bonny78]

Yet another depressing even numbered summer ahead L   Years ago it didn’t bother me because we weren’t even close at qualifying   (2014WC we fcked that up from game 1 with the 0-0 at home Serbia and the other games that followed under CL) but this one does!  Fck up against a mino team we should have known better from lessons of 8 years previous and didn’t produce. 

 

2012 was also a massive disaster with the 0-0   1^st game (sep 2010).   Begs the question,  how many times have we fck up after one game in a campaign?

 

Sep 2014   lost but not disgraced at all

Sep 2012   (0-0 at home)

Sep 2010   (0-0 away to a mino)

Sep 2008    (1-0 away to mino)

Sep 2004   ( 0-0 home v an average team)

Sep 2002  (  2-2 where the team should have been drowned after the game)

 

[bossman4]

Good starts are the key, no doubt. We have to do that this time, 7 points a minimum from first 3. Anything from Wembley is a bonus

[Guest allyc]

We are shit...got use to it along time ago.better not expect anything then if we do get something it's a bonus...can't deal with the expectation only to be continually let down.

[bonny78]

it's cause we are so close a few times.   Fk off Georgia. 

[Toepoke]

Just realised reading this thread it's ten years since we got a campaign off to a winning start, and that was against the bloody Faroes! 

Shocking stat, time to put it right...

[Regenmann]

6 hours ago, Toepoke said:

Just realised reading this thread it's ten years since we got a campaign off to a winning start, and that was against the bloody Faroes! 

Shocking stat, time to put it right...

That's a horror statistic!

[Orraloon]

6 hours ago, Toepoke said:

Just realised reading this thread it's ten years since we got a campaign off to a winning start, and that was against the bloody Faroes! 

Shocking stat, time to put it right...

And, this time we have Malta away. That's got 0 -0 written all over it.

[Regenmann]

1 hour ago, Orraloon said:

And, this time we have Malta away. That's got 0 -0 written all over it.

Aye, can't say I'm overly confident either. We have to get off to a flier in this campaign - maximum points from the first two games.

[bossman4]

19 minutes ago, Regenmann said:

Aye, can't say I'm overly confident either. We have to get off to a flier in this campaign - maximum points from the first two games.

More than ever we have to get off to a flier this time as the first 3 set of fixtures really favour us. Gives us a real chance to burry one of or even both of Slovakia and Slovenia early doors. If we are serious about finishing in the top 2 we have to start winning in places like Slovakia in competitive games. 7 points would do depending on results in other games.  If we don't win in Malta then it's curtains from the word go no doubt.

Slovakia's first 3 are England (h), Slovenia (a) and Scotland (h)

Slovenia's first 3 are Lithuania (a) Slovakia (h) England (h)

Not beyond the possibility that Slovenia and Slovakia could be on 2 or 3 points each after 3 games.

Edited May 27, 2016 by bossman4

[Orraloon]

6 hours ago, bossman4 said:

More than ever we have to get off to a flier this time as the first 3 set of fixtures really favour us. Gives us a real chance to burry one of or even both of Slovakia and Slovenia early doors. If we are serious about finishing in the top 2 we have to start winning in places like Slovakia in competitive games. 7 points would do depending on results in other games.  If we don't win in Malta then it's curtains from the word go no doubt.

Slovakia's first 3 are England (h), Slovenia (a) and Scotland (h)

Slovenia's first 3 are Lithuania (a) Slovakia (h) England (h)

Not beyond the possibility that Slovenia and Slovakia could be on 2 or 3 points each after 3 games.

I think Scotland to have 4 points after 4 games is more likely.