2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)


johnjoeefc said:
If we stay up this season and push on in the new stadium then we owe a lot of gratitude to Dyche for keeping us up during very hard times. That's for sure
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Correct mate.

I wanted him gone by this June myself and said so at the time. He was the perfect steadier of a ship that had been abandoned. But this summer we'll need fresh impetus with hopefully cash to spend.
 

Ipswich fans genuinely gleeful at their consolation goal in a 1-4 thrashing, then applauding the players off really shows the difference in pressure for players in a relegation battle for, with respect, teams with zero expectations, and teams with huge history and fan expectations.

Must be terrifying playing for us when we drop into the bottom 3, compared to teams who realistically are looking forward to the parachute payments. Fair play to their crowd like.
 
HalfTimeSayers said:
Ipswich fans genuinely gleeful at their consolation goal in a 1-4 thrashing, then applauding the players off really shows the difference in pressure for players in a relegation battle for, with respect, teams with zero expectations, and teams with huge history and fan expectations.

Must be terrifying playing for us when we drop into the bottom 3, compared to teams who realistically are looking forward to the parachute payments. Fair play to their crowd like.
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I noticed this with regards to the Ipswich fans, and agree that you have a point with regards to pressure on players being different for different clubs.

Not entirely sure though that their reaction to a meaningless consolation was particularly positive. Think it exposed a total loser mentality. The lad who scored celebrated like it was a late equaliser, and the wacky funsters in the away end were either genuinely overjoyed, or thought celebrating gleefully would be a “laugh”. Half of them are probably kopites on the sly who had their absolute perfect day out.

Putting aside the fact that losing 4-1 at Anfield has a specific difference for us, I would be absolutely fuming if we reacted like that to a late consolation in a battering against Chelsea for example. It’s something that separates us from these type of clubs and while that might create a pressure, that is probably a good thing.
 
allen said:
That was the Dyche nadir, the lowest of the low.

It felt bad at the time, but it only seems more and more preposterous in hindsight.
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I really hope they don’t break Derby’s points record, because we will become a meme and a quiz question for decades to come. Like Newcastle being famously the only team that Derby beat that season and are laughed at because of it.
 

Been a great week but we beat a Spurs team in crisis and were fortunate yesterday. Great defensive performance but one effort on target and that a penalty. Worrying lack of options up front now. We’re not there yet. Need a Super Kev type loan to get us home.
 
MikeH72 said:
I really hope they don’t break Derby’s points record, because we will become a meme and a quiz question for decades to come. Like Newcastle being famously the only team that Derby beat that season and are laughed at because of it.
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“Against which catastrophically managed team was Southampton’s only league win of the 2024/25 season?”
 

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