Colo urges us not to get carried away about our 4th place position
Posted on September 29th, 2011 | 18 Comments |
We’re 4th in the Premier League and we can afford some optimism about that, although I think that should be guarded optimism as I suspect the only way from here is down. Captain Coloccini’s Bouffant has been speaking recently about how we should keep our feet on the ground too. Or at least that’s the way our Assistant Manager tells it. John Carver said:
“We’re not getting carried away – it’s important we keep our feet on the ground.
“There are some good characters here, and some different characters.
“The first thing Colo said after coming off the pitch was that we need to keep our feet on the ground. That’s important coming from the captain.
“There are people here who’ve been around the game long enough to make sure not one person gets carried away with what we’ve done so far.
“Where we are in the league table’s an added bonus, but if you get carried away, it can bite you on the backside.”
Quite so.
I always think it’s the slog after Christmas, when injuries start to take their toll on the squad, that’s the really telling time. But what is realistic in terms of our finishing position?
Well, I think we’re getting stronger. We may have ridden our luck a bit in the first few games but recently – certainly against Blackburn – we’ve looked liked deserved winners and then some, and it looks like things are starting to ‘click’ a bit.
We’re up against Wolves next and, whilst they can be a tricky team to break down, I think we can get at least a point at The Molineaux. But the match after that – at home to Spurs – will give us more of an indication of what we’re about.
At the moment I would still suggest that we’ll be doing well to get a 9th or 10th place finish but if we keep improving – and if we can take points off teams like Spurs (and Liverpool) – I might well revise that upwards by a place or two.
Well, that’s what the optimist in me says, anyway.
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Divven’t worry Captain Colo, I’m not getting carried away!
“At the moment I would still suggest that we’ll be doing well to get a 9th or 10th place finish but if we keep improving – and if we can take points off teams like Spurs (and Liverpool) – I might well revise that upwards by a place or two.”
Hugh, that sounds like a very good call to me. As I pointed out in a previous comment somewhare, the strength of our squad dictates that we should finish around about eleventh, much as we did last season give or take a place. I’m not saying that we will, but that we should if things are about average. Anything significantly above that would be something of a success with our resources, and anything significantly below that, the opposite.