Panthers aspiration

[fishman]

Do we think Panther should be "busting a gut" to win every league game or take it easy in some games, for example this weekend the Clan at home with a team just 4 point behind Panthers but have player 2 games more a win in this game would create a buffer, then Sundays game against Blaze are 12pts behind Panthers so Coventry are not a immediate threat to a league position and not forgetting the trip to Italy with the first game 5 days after this game and to win the Continental cup would great for the Panthers reputation in Europe.

 I do think like others on this forum that the league title as gone!!!!!

[tim27]

Just play who ever is in front of you. you try and pick and choose who your going to play hard against or take it easy against and it will come back and bite you as you will find it difficult to up the intensity when you need too.

Just come to play every game.

[PantherB]

The title is likely to have gone unless there's a monumental collapse from the top 3 and we catch fire, but that's very unlikely.

Regardless though, got to win every game. We cannot finish 5th again and I won't be pleased if we aren't in the Top 3. Might not be a successful season in terms of not winning the league but rising up to at least 3rd, whilst hopefully winning another trophy, that's some improvement. Rome wasn't built in a day.

I'd like to see 2 gut busting performances this weekend. Clan are the little sister team, nobody likes them and we can't let them get another win over us. Blaze, rivals of course and they stole 2pts from us last time.. Well maybe more like Green serving them on a plate to Blaze, after all he was dressed as a waiter. It's an away game so it will be tough but it simply will not be good enough if we fail to take 2pts. Coventry aren't a walk over, far from it but we shouldn't drop points against them.

Hopefully this will send us off to Italy in high spirits and with the scent of victory still fresh.

3 in 3, in Ritten, won't be easy.. I'm sure the Officials I'll once again be anti-British but hey ho. We should beat Odense again but they're on fire at the moment, won 11 in a row last time I checked. Atyrau are pretty much entirely unknown but the Kazahks are always tough. We've played a fair few Italian teams in recent years, know their style and with Williams having played there this season, hopefully he can sit down with coaching staff and discuss their weaknesses, key guys, tendencies etc..

Tough weekend but an overall victory is far from out of question. Hopefully Clarke & Waugh are back for it and Miika & Pacl are 110%.

[iginla]

Wow with a thread title like that,this could be the shortest thread ever.

Yes they should be busting a gut to win every game.
And the squad we have now is the minimum we should start every season with....at least one "star player" and two spares !

[shinobi]

I certainly think the club should have aspirations to win the league every year. Cups are great, but league titles are better. I appreciate its easier said than done, but meh...

[tootootrain]

And there was me thinking this would be a thread about the respiratory patterns of melanistic big cats.

[BigLad]

Momentum is everything.

[titch]

Just like in football - the top teams who usually take the most points from the lower teams, usually end up winning the title.

We've beaten Sheffield & Cardiff enough times this season to justify that we should be close to them or above them in the table but unfortunately we've dropped points to Giants, Clan, Flyers, Blaze and Storm. We need to be pushing 1 point away from home and not allowing teams like Giants to come and dominate us in our own barn.

There is only one major influence that hasn't changed in the EIHL era and that's GM, the aspirations all boil down to him - who is far too relaxed to care.

[spik]

See the work done by one of our supporters and penned to the Fixtures thread about cross conference play.