nottsblue wrote:Hypothetical scenario and question. If we assume it's a given that Gollum will fuck up the rags if he has long enough. Miss out on top 4 and the best players leave etc. Fans get disillusioned, attendances drop, even the media don't rim them at every chance. Utopia for all of us. Lets now say the rags nosedive and lose 4 or 5 on the spin and carry on plummeting down table. When the next derby comes around if rags lose Gollum gets sacked. He is replaced by someone more talented, exerienced and manages to turn round the season and all is good at the swamp again. The question is would anyone take a one off defeat, want it even, if its means the demise of rags for 3/4 more years or would you want to spank them on their own patch but have them turn round the mess they are in and remain clise challengers. Inconceivable to want a rag win i know but an interesting proposition thats not too far fetched
I can't work on hypotheticals ... by the time next derby comes (in PL at least, not counting any cup draws) there won't be any time for their season to be turned around ... but the way we are going we might need those three points to save ours ...
My point is we should worry about our games and our season and our manager ... would you be happy over next 4-5 years coming 2nd or 3rd or 4th in the league because it's above them, while Chelsea or Arsenal or someone else wins it?
Let's leave mid and bottom half of the table teams where they are and worry about our end, shall we?