1) Denial - maybe we can nick a point at the Emirates and still stay up! 2) Anger - these overpaid mercenaries are a disgrace. Get them out of my club and Pozzo can go with them! 3) Bargaining - perhaps we could write to the FA and maybe they will overturn some of the unfavourable VAR decisions and let us stay up! 4) Depression - we may never see players of the calibre of Sarr or Deulofeu play for us ever again. 5) Acceptance - ah well, I always preferred the Championship!
1 2 and 5 probably, can't pick one. Who knows what will happen Sunday, I do prefer the championship and Deeney is a disgrace.
Think I was in denial before yesterday, but after the games were said and done I'm very much in depression. It all feels like such a stupid and pointless waste, like we've chucked all of what could have been away, purely via a combination of stupidity and arrogance.
A bit depressed we've been so **** yet came so close this season, but largely just wanting to get this season out of the way and build for the Championship. If by Micah Hyde you mean 'constantly analysing who goes, who stays, and who do we bring in', I've been at that stage since about the Burnley game lol
I honestly couldn't care less now. I'd be happy to stay up but I fear it will just delay the inevitable and ultimately Set us further back. I'd be happy to go down and reset with hopefully a lot of our loanees and youngsters forming the backbone of a decent and longstanding team together. But I'm very much done with this season and footy until next season. Still looking forward to seeing the new kit designs.
I think I’m at acceptance but know that, come Sunday when it is confirmed, I will feel disappointed again.
I like this. The stages of grief are a good tool for understanding our reactions as fans. At this point in time, though, the death hasn't occurred yet. We're reacting in anticipation of the death. So I'm flitting between all five stages on an hourly basis as I try to cope with probable loss. I'll get properly started, from the top downwards, on Sunday afternoon.
Our natural place is in the Championship so it is hardly like we are dropping out of the league. We had a great chance to kick on, didn't take it so we have to take our medicine. The Championship isn't a bad place to be in the slightest.
That it takes doing to beat Liverpool, Man U, Wolves and get 3 draws against Arsenal and Spurs, and still get relegated.
Mainly 2, partly towards our own team and partly towards the fact that when playing our rivals, the opposition teams' performances for whatever reason dramatically drop off a cliff, whether or not they have something to play for (I meant zero shots on target between Spurs and Arsenal when playing two of the worst defences in the league? WTF?). But also still 1 - Arsenal 1-1 Watford, West Ham 1-0 Villa, pretty please? Not too much to ask is it?
I would say 'acceptance' now. I was in the anger stage probably since Southampton at home due to lack of effort from our overpaid cowards/bottle jobs. It's very much been acceptance for me since the WHU result. Trying hard to see the positives in our relegation, but they'll only be positives if we have a huge clear out from top to bottom, starting with Giraldi!
The wheel turns, ups and downs, if we stay up then we smile. The wheel turns, ups and downs, if we go down then so be it. I've accepted it will most probably be relegation, which although not great, next season would bring plenty of warmth;
