Anybody else a little disengaged yesterday?

The Ruthsayer

The Ruthsayer

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We all know how crucial the win was yesterday, but I didn’t celebrate the goals with the customary elation. Probably a combination of the current relationship between the club and fans, as well as a realisation that, but for the sending off, we would have been well beaten.
Just an odd sensation for me.
 
Yeah, it's probably the least I've ever celebrated us taking the lead in a match.

The disconnect with the club right now was probably the main factor, but I was also so disappointed with how badly we'd played before the red card and it was more relief than anything when Latte Lath scored.
It just felt like we'd gotten away with one when our performance hadn't deserved anything.

I was a bit more cheerful about the Engel goal, and hopefully there's an improvement on Saturday and we can start building for next season with a bit of positivity.
 
Yeah the whole match felt a damp squib

Pre red card, it just felt like "here we go again". Felt like another comfortable away win was incoming

Post red card Norwich totally capitulated and it didn't really feel like we achieved much by winning the game.

The points aren't important. I have never felt like there's any danger of us going down and there's no chance in play offs. What I want to see is some evidence of change in the performance and can't really say we seen that last night. Pre red card we were heading for the exact same performance as Bristol, Plymouth and Stoke.
 
Yeah for me it's just because we aren't realistically in the promotion hunt now and so it just isn't as important to win.
I think that has affected the players a bit as well, I'm sure they were expecting as much as we were to push on.
 
I think it's the prospect of having to wait until May for the season to trudge to a close. It was nice to get the points but what does it matter whether we finish 9th or 15th? Not much is what I feel about it which reflected in my reaction to the goals.

To add, I actually think we have done well to avoid being in the thick of a relegation battle given the huge number of injuries and selling two of our better attackers in January. The season has not been as disastrous as it could have been.
 
Whenever there is a red card or an own goal I feel like celebrating is a bit "unsporting" so even sat at home where no Norwich fans would hear me I didn't cheer like I ordinarily would. I think the fact I thought we were extremely fortunate to get the decision probably played a part, almost like we were the baddies. Getting tonked up to the point of the red card dampened spirits as well.
 
Yep. Was a weird one. Before the red it looked like we were going to get a hiding. After, Norwich rolled over and the result was never in doubt, but the goals were more of a relief that we weren’t going to mess it up, than anything else. Hopefully this can kickstart our season (and run to securing mid-table obscurity) but we were awful again, prior to the red.
The red was exactly what we needed.
 
It was a massive win last night and the boost of having Jones and Howson back was huge for my outlook on the rest of the season.

If those 2 weren't back and if we didn't get some massive slices of luck (about time) then following games against QPR, Birmingham and Blackburn we would probably be in the s*it.

I didn't celebrate to much probably out of relief.
 
Nowhere near the play offs, and not quite in the relegation mire to make it feel like a must win either.
Team in poor form with zero confidence, club and fans have written off the season, it's just something to do to pass the time now......
 
is it because we’ve had so many bad home defeats and feel resigned to it going **** up?

And is it me or was there a delayed reaction to Forss’s goal?

Last home game I was at, Bristol City, went very flat after 20 mins as if “here we go again” and for some downstairs for a pint/smoke/vape.

Hopefully that’s the bad run over and we can pick up something from the next 2 away games.
 
They were a massive 3 points last night to be fair, just to quash the getting dragged in to relegation scrap outlook. We were fortunate, but I do think we needed something to go our way just to kick start things again.

It stops us looking over our shoulder a little bit which to be honest is about all we can now want from the rest of the season
 
Still celebrated like I usually would but the post-match adrenaline after a win wasn’t quite the same. I put that purely down to us not being within a chance of play-offs.

Think it will be the same for the remainder of the season. It’s been a while since we had nothing to play for for such a long period of the season.
 
It happens towards the end of a season. Thankfully this season is now effectively over, one more win and we're 100% safe, but there is no hope of play-offs. The only difference is that seasons rarely end THIS early for us.
 
atypical_boro said:
It happens towards the end of a season. Thankfully this season is now effectively over, one more win and we're 100% safe, but there is no hope of play-offs. The only difference is that seasons rarely end THIS early for us.
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The playoffs in this league are on until they aren’t. You can’t rule Boro out. 3 or 4 wins gets you right back into the mix. I’m not saying we are going to do that but I don’t see why we wouldn’t still be playing for them.
 
Was a little nervous before the game, after kickoff this was replaced with the all too common "jeeeezzzzz........we're a bit sh*t".

Laughed at their goal it was so bad.

Post sending off, yes we improved massively and we did look to get a bit of confidence/ swagger back. But certainly didn't add to my flatlined excitement levels.

1-1 yaaay, sh*t defending that.
2-1 yaaay, sh*t defending that.
3-1, missed as I was having a wee.

Game just petered out for me after that, despite some decent football/openings created. Just looking forward to getting the necessary points to be mathematically safe then be counting the days until the season finishes.

Been a tough one this season. Apathy well and truly rooted.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
The playoffs in this league are on until they aren’t. You can’t rule Boro out. 3 or 4 wins gets you right back into the mix. I’m not saying we are going to do that but I don’t see why we wouldn’t still be playing for them.
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Making up a 1 point per game deficit feels like a very tall order. But yeah I suppose you're right.

Either way, I won't take our goals seriously again until it looks like there's a genuine hope of it. I'm definitely in 'damp squib' mode now. At least we're safe from the drop.
 
It was a weird atmosphere, and I have to admit I don't think I, or really anyone around me, celebrated the goals like normal. Maybe it was a case of relief of us getting that win which all but guarantees us being safe, but everyone is still frustrated with the way the seasons gone. The stadium started emptying on around 80 minutes too, like we were getting beat. Probably people just wanting to get home and out of the cold, but there can't have been many left by the time the whistle went.
 
I didn't even bother checking the result until considerably after full time, got other things going on in my life and football hasn't been a priority the past couple of days
 
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