Big big game. Hopefully Hughes and James are both back.
If we lose this, then the carefully selected word of the week will be : Untenable.
It can be what anyone wants it to be.
I try not to jump on the Chiefy out train whenever we lose - And let's face it, we're doing a lot more of that than winning these past 18 or so months!
But the real reason I'm more firm in my wording, especially for this week, is that quite frankly last weekend was a galling, disgusting loss to a team that was not only bottom of the league, but was a team that we should look at paper everytime we come up against them and go "We'll have a bit of them please" - Especially so at home!
To be completely honest here as well, it just feels like the whole club is ambling into somewhat of a no-man's land at the moment - Engagement down, results are middling to poor at best, and fan's are voting with their feet and staying away, and who can blame them?
It's taken me all week to mull things over to this point from after the final whistle v Newcastle, and including what I've said above, the conclusion I came to was that it almost feels like a loved one is dying.
Now some people might say "Well you're clearly just overexaggerating or overthinking things" and maybe I am, but I'm not going to sit here and apologize or back down from saying it.
Every game we lose or play poorly (been a few of late eh?) it genuinely fudges up my whole week, and to that end I know a few that feel exactly like me. But for me, the really grinding thing about the club at the moment is that from top down it doesn't seem like we're up for the fight. This is turn is extending down to the XI on the pitch and looming large over performances.
My small case in point for the above falls back to all the soft/poor goals we have been conceding - No one's barking, no one's got that rallying call to guys to up the ante or even admonish mistakes. Hell at times it looks like guys are just shrugging their shoulders and just going back to it. I can tell you all for free I am fair screaming everytime a ball hits the back of our net. I don't even fully know what i'm even after, but god damn it I'd love some emotion, some passion, hell even just give me some unadulterated anger just so I know guys feel it as much as I/we do.
Full disclosure here too - I would be absolutely over the moon to sharkhouse a 1-0 win over an 'exciting' 2-3 loss any day of the week. This is the trap that I think a lot of people are falling into in regards to this team and the style of play this year.
Sorry for the rant.
Time to turn shark around - Absolutely nothing short of a win this weekend will do.