Quote: Jake the Peg "I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist unlike most of the dreamers on here. '"
Typical pessimistic response. "I'm a realist". How can you decide what's "really" happening?
Quote: Jake the Peg "I don't swing from us being world beaters one week to a doom and gloom merchant the next. I tell it how I see it and my knowledge of the game is better than most I see posting on here.'"
Well you would think everyone else's knowledge is worse because you think the worst of everything.
And you don't swing because you always take the pessimistic view regardless of how good we're doing.
Quote: Jake the Peg "As for progress this season, there has been some, notably us winning some games against the top teams, winning a "must win game" against wire in particular, the emergence of some excellent young talent, have shown improvements in defence at times and improvements in our injury recovery time. '"
There you go. That wasn't hard. And to think, if you hadn't been pressed we wouldn't have even had this Jakey Knowledge Bomb!
Quote: Jake the Peg "We've also stagnated in some areas I would have expected improvement in and the on field performances haven't been consistent enough. '"
I agree. But it's not as bad as people make out.
Quote: Jake the Peg "We still lose games we should win (not by right, just that we have better playing personnel and more resources),'"
As does every team in every sport except a very rare perfect few. That's the beauty of sport, it's not down to what's on a piece of paper or built in the back. Underdogs do win.
We also won some games we shouldn't have by comparison.
Quote: Jake the Peg "lack structure and seem disorganised in attack and generally the team regularly fails to play as well as it should with the personnel we have.'"
We've had major disruptions in the halves. That will happen.
Quote: Jake the Peg "Now you may not agree with any of that and that but I can absolutely guarantee it doesn't make me a pessimist so if you think it does go find a dictionary'"
"Pessimism is a state of mind in which one anticipates undesirable outcomes or believes that the evil or hardships in life outweigh the good or luxuries."
Yeah, I'd say that sums you up. There are always more hardships. There's always something more wrong than right.