uRRRs blog Uncharted waters...

Posted: September 26th 2008
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Let’s not get carried away, we all thought. Let’s see how these three tricky away games in the space of eight days pan out...

Game One. Norwich. Never a happy hunting ground. And midweek...we don’t do midweek aways. 25 minutes, reduced to 10 men. Here we go. Hang on, come half time we’re one up and it could’ve been three...second half, backs to the wall...holding on...then they hit the side netting in injury time. This has NOT gone according to script...

Game Two. Coventry. Hard to predict...other than the suspicion it’ll be after the Lord Mayor’s Show. First half it is...soft penno, 1-0 Cov...second half...hang on ...revitalised...dominant...non-stop possession...attack v defence...ok, we fail to score, but again we have deviated from the normal plot

Game Three. Villa, Carling Cup. We don’t do Cups, neither do we do Prem teams, especially in form top end of the table ones. Only now, it appears we do do...

We’re all whispering it...but is this team the real deal, or at the very least, the stirrings of a real deal? Is Dowie once again the brightest young coach around, as he was deemed to be at Oldham & Palace, Charlton & Cov being CV blips that were to an extent beyond his control? And whatever Messrs Keegan & Curbishley may think, maybe, just maybe, paying a coach to coach whilst some other folk go and find the players required for the job (the much-discussed “continental system”) can work in this country...

Right, two very winnable home games in 4 days. 6 points, and I really will start to believe...

uRRRs!