Hmmm...Lawro again!

[Making Plans 936]

[quote user="FourFourTwo"]The BBC don''t like us, no idea why[/quote]Because we don''t match their perceived, and blinkered, view of what a Premier League Club is, or should be. We don''t have "big stars", we don''t have a team full of foreigners, we don''t spend loads of money, we don''t pay huge wages.Their expectation of us is therefore low and even now, after 10 games unbeaten, they cannot understand how we have gotten where we are or how we have achieved it.And because they don''t understand it, even though they are supposed to be football experts, they dismiss it.  And it''s not just MOTD or the BBC, it''s the media in general. Week after week, the same old stastics of our climb from League One to the PL are trolled out simply to remind everyone that we shouldn''t be where we are - our players all come from League One or the Championship, Holty is "an old fashioned centre forward", our players only cost £x etc - inferring that sooner or later we''ll be going back from whence we came.

[lake district canary 0]

[quote user="Making Plans"][quote user="FourFourTwo"]The BBC don''t like us, no idea why[/quote]Because we don''t match their perceived, and blinkered, view of what a Premier League Club is, or should be. We don''t have "big stars", we don''t have a team full of foreigners, we don''t spend loads of money, we don''t pay huge wages.Their expectation of us is therefore low and even now, after 10 games unbeaten, they cannot understand how we have gotten where we are or how we have achieved it.And because they don''t understand it, even though they are supposed to be football experts, they dismiss it.  And it''s not just MOTD or the BBC, it''s the media in general. Week after week, the same old stastics of our climb from League One to the PL are trolled out simply to remind everyone that we shouldn''t be where we are - our players all come from League One or the Championship, Holty is "an old fashioned centre forward", our players only cost £x etc - inferring that sooner or later we''ll be going back from whence we came.

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I remember when in the 70''s and 80''s it was a similar thing.   We were always little Norwich, punching above our weight - although  as the years went by things did improve.    It was the European cup run that they really went overboard.  We became the media darlings that year.  Flashy adverts and "prequels" to our matches.     But it was still condescending, even then.     

Statisticians and media pundits like to pigeon hole everything.  We are labelled as a small country club without enough resources to stay in the big time.   We will always struggle to beat that label - but we are going the right way about it - gradually building the club up over a period of years.   If Hughton can keep us going on the track we are on, we - and I hope one or two other smaller clubs - will make the media and statisticians eat their words and figures.     Football, thankfully, is still a sport - and anything can happen -  but the more people believe in the media and the statistics - the less likely it is that smaller clubs will break through.    Its about what you believe, not what you hear from biased pundits and numbers on a page.

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[quote user="lake district canary"][quote user="Making Plans"][quote user="FourFourTwo"]The BBC don''t like us, no idea why[/quote]
Because we don''t match their perceived, and blinkered, view of what a Premier League Club is, or should be.

We don''t have "big stars", we don''t have a team full of foreigners, we don''t spend loads of money, we don''t pay huge wages.
Their expectation of us is therefore low and even now, after 10 games unbeaten, they cannot understand how we have gotten where we are or how we have achieved it.
And because they don''t understand it, even though they are supposed to be football experts, they dismiss it. 

And it''s not just MOTD or the BBC, it''s the media in general.

Week after week, the same old stastics of our climb from League One to the PL are trolled out simply to remind everyone that we shouldn''t be where we are - our players all come from League One or the Championship, Holty is "an old fashioned centre forward", our players only cost £x etc - inferring that sooner or later we''ll be going back from whence we came.


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I remember when in the 70''s and 80''s it was a similar thing.   We were always little Norwich, punching above our weight - although  as the years went by things did improve.    It was the European cup run that they really went overboard.  We became the media darlings that year.  Flashy adverts and "prequels" to our matches.     But it was still condescending, even then.     


Statisticians and media pundits like to pigeon hole everything.  We are labelled as a small country club without enough resources to stay in the big time.   We will always struggle to beat that label - but we are going the right way about it - gradually building the club up over a period of years.   If Hughton can keep us going on the track we are on, we - and I hope one or two other smaller clubs - will make the media and statisticians eat their words and figures.     Football, thankfully, is still a sport - and anything can happen -  but the more people believe in the media and the statistics - the less likely it is that smaller clubs will break through.    Its about what you believe, not what you hear from biased pundits and numbers on a page.



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Very well put, another thing the Media never say is that We own our ground and have minimal debt and ticking over well with what we have,and you don''t need to spend Megga bucks to get to 7th,