Quote Originally Posted by Moodybluebird View Post
Put it like this. If we were very near the bottom of the league but playing good football, the feeling amongst most fans would be to win ugly if necessary because we desperately need the points.

This season we have been the archetypal mid-table team, so the emphasis is not on survival or possibly promotion, it is on entertainment. Thus, the quality of football becomes the focal point for many fan's discussions and given what's been put before them they generally feel dissatisfied.

For the survival and future prospects of the club you have to put results before entertainment because who wants to follow a League 2 side who play good football but keep getting beat ?
We could quite easily be the QPR end of the "finished the season safe" camp next year. Only a handful of results need to change. Not going to start taking results away from us but the Ipswich and Southampton are two obvious standout games that 9/10 we don't win but had great moments and walked away with memorable wins. Take the points and league position away for a sec and look at it purely on performances and we have been dire all year long. You don't get away with that over and over again.
The 1 nil win v Birmingham was 50/50
Watford was the bowler goal and absolutely nothing else. We've picked up points we could easily not 9/10 games.
The performances have been consistently bad imo.