So after being held to Forest last season we were 2 points behind Arsenal and they had a game in hand. Far too early to throw in the towel, but currently it doesn't look like the Dippers will have a downturn in results like Arsenal did last season. Could do with Chelsea beating them next week which may halt their momentum and we certainly can't afford to lose at Anfield and ideally need a win.
The Title Race - 2023/24
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burning blue soul
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Not when
gordondaviesmoustache
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Fucking A.
burning blue soul
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It has been a relatively easier run of games, though
gordondaviesmoustache
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It’s not fair enough though, is it? it’s actually completely unfair, ungracious and disrespectful to a group of players that have given us so much. Thank fuck the players aren’t as mentally weak as so many posters on here.
Like @urban genie said, what the fuck are this tedious lot going to be like when we inevitably fall away when Pep leaves? Needy and boring as fuck is the simple answer.
gordondaviesmoustache
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Remember it well. That game was repeatedly cited as irrefutable evidence on here of why last season would end in failure.
jimharri
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I thought I'd made my position clear in my post, that you've only partially quoted, by the way. I don't agree with them. Quite the opposite. But, as long as they don't contravene the rules of the forum, they are entitled to their opinions.
burning blue soul
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How to Handle Pessimism
Having realistic expectations, rather than taking extremely positive or negative positions, may actually be the recipe for good health and happiness. Perhaps not surprisingly, low levels of pessimism, rather than high levels of optimism, have actually been associated with better health.
In other words, pessimism may be a risk factor for heart disease and other physical and mental health conditions, but optimism won’t necessarily prevent you from becoming ill. Rather than constantly aiming for a bright smile and sunny disposition, or giving in to an overall negative outlook, the goal should be moderate optimism with a daily dose of pessimism.
GDM, It's the human condition. Get with the programme, mate. Helps to cope with the stress.
gordondaviesmoustache
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To be pessimistic isn’t definitively the human condition. We are all different in that respect at least.How to Handle Pessimism
Having realistic expectations, rather than taking extremely positive or negative positions, may actually be the recipe for good health and happiness. Perhaps not surprisingly, low levels of pessimism, rather than high levels of optimism, have actually been associated with better health.
In other words, pessimism may be a risk factor for heart disease and other physical and mental health conditions, but optimism won’t necessarily prevent you from becoming ill. Rather than constantly aiming for a bright smile and sunny disposition, or giving in to an overall negative outlook, the goal should be moderate optimism with a daily dose of pessimism.
GDM, It's the human condition. Get with the programme, mate. Helps to cope with the stress.
It’s this deployment of the word ‘realism’ from those of a pessimistic disposition that especially gets on my tits, because their perspective goes against the weight of experience in recent years.So they don’t have a monopoly on reality, just their own perception of it.
And I haven’t stridently predicted we will win it, just that we can and imo it’s likely we will. That doesn’t make me blindly optimistic, just applying common sense and experience to the equation.
gordondaviesmoustache
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That doesn’t make what they say to be fair, which is what you literally said.
They are entitled to their opinions, but those opinions are not fairly or rationally held.