Woeful defeat: certainties for relegation?

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,783]

There seems to be an awful lot of examples so far this season in the Premier League.Week one: Sunderland have a shocker against Leicester, an uninspired Bournemouth lose at home Villa, and West Brom offer nothing at home to Man City. All looking in real trouble, if that is anything to go by.Week two: Sunderland are dreadful again against us, West Ham are very poor as they lose at home to Leicester, and Newcastle limp to defeat at Swansea after having a right back sent off for two first-half yellow cards. Relegation candidates, the lot of them.Week three: West Ham fold again at home to Bournemouth. Looking bleak for them.Week four: Norwich''s turn as they get pummeled by Southampton. Yep, they''re in serious danger as well.

So, in addition to Arsenal (v West Ham), Chelsea (v Man City and Palace), Southampton (v Everton) and Liverpool (v West Ham), that is ten teams now who have suffered a bad defeat (or two) and six of them may realistically get sucked into a relegation battle.It is a good job teams don''t get relegated on the back of one bad game, or we''d be down to a ten-team league already.One swallow does not a summer make.

[Nuff Said 5,092]

So are you saying we need to start the relegation maxi-league?

[Tetteys Jig 830]

Lol, chill out! So we missed our chance to go 4th today and Mbokani is joining. Crisis ain''t it! We need 17th, we are still good for that, just makes Bournemouth game a bit bigger.

[Yorkshire Canary 118]

It was a poor performance and poor result today, there will be other defeats but also better days. We are a bottom 6 side at the moment but if we manage to stay up that will be our objective for this season

[The ghost of Michael Theoklitos 0]

[quote user="Tetteys Jig"]Lol, chill out! So we missed our chance to go 4th today and Mbokani is joining. Crisis ain''t it! We need 17th, we are still good for that, just makes Bournemouth game a bit bigger.[/quote]I think if you''d actually read the OP, rather than just the heading, you''d see that you''re both making exactly the same point.Still, way to click-bait OP!

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,783]

[quote user="The ghost of Michael Theoklitos"][quote user="Tetteys Jig"]Lol, chill out! So we missed our chance to go 4th today and Mbokani is joining. Crisis ain''t it! We need 17th, we are still good for that, just makes Bournemouth game a bit bigger.[/quote]I think if you''d actually read the OP, rather than just the heading, you''d see that you''re both making exactly the same point.Still, way to click-bait OP![/quote]

Thanks, on both counts!

I''m glad it wasn''t left to me to point it out!

[Gordon Bennett 780]

Its staggering how people fall over themselves to go utterly overboard when we have a bad day and can''t wait to scapegoat individual players yet its a ghost town when we have a good day with very little positive comment. We will have bad days in this league, that''s a given, but if we can have more good ones then we will be fine. There is far more quality in this squad than people realise or want to admit.

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,783]

[quote user="Gordon Bennett"]Its staggering how people fall over themselves to go utterly overboard when we have a bad day[/quote]

Indeed, and that''s the point I''m getting at.

It isn''t just us though. Fans of every club over-react, and so do the national media. We saw when we beat Sunderland that the pundits, and also their own fans, were falling over themselves in their haste to lay into Sunderland and write them off. They''re not the only side it has happened to this season, they''re not the most recent, and there will be plenty more.

It seems that so many people- Norwich fans, fans of other clubs, neutrals and the media- are so quick to write certain clubs off with knee jerk reactions.