hector wrote:
You appear to be perplexed as to why people might be pessimistic and depressed regarding our prospects. Have you looked at the league table? Considered our woeful form? Considered the form of our reminding opponents. All we have is faint hope. The grasping at straws kind. There is no rational reason to conclude that we will take points, other than hope we will. If that is not reason enough to feel pessimistic then what is?
I am not perplexed at all about why people are depressed. I am as depressed as anybody and, yes, I can read league tables. I guess for some folk on here, pessimism is like a comfort blanket, at least they won't be disappointed. For others (e.g. the eternal pessimist Brucie) they comment pessimistically season after season, and yes they will be right sometimes (he has now been proved correct in one out of the last three seasons, what a great record).
The thing is, I don't get why football fans generally love to engage in hand wringing, like Private Fraser from Dad's Army saying "we're all doomed". Optimism, even if it is blind, is better for you, you are happier for more time than you are sad. I am not daft, I feel as let down as any other fan by many of our performances this season and by mismanagement at the club that I love. However, I am determined to keep a modicum of hope until that old bag has actually sung. Then, and only then, should the finger pointing and recrimination start.
I am going on Saturday with some hope (some, not lots). Barnet have had a few good results of late, but they did lose at home yesterday, which is surely a positive sign. There are more twists and turns to come. Even Argyle are not safe, they have three very tough fixtures out of their last four, and the fourth is an away game to Rochdale (3 away games left for a team whose away form is only marginally better than our own awful form, and their home game is Rotherham). We'll see.
