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Post by Mark on Jan 26, 2020 21:49:30 GMT
That familiar feeling of the club not really doing all they can to win the league. Cardiff two seasons ago, Belfast last season and looking like Sheffield again in March. Not enough quality signed with far too much deadwood retained. But we knew that already.
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Post by wgray on Jan 26, 2020 22:01:43 GMT
The frustrating thing is we’ve taken 4 league points from 6 in Cardiff this season, we’ve just let ourselves down against the rest of the pack, at home in particular.
The inbality to bring in another impact forward and failing to cover injuries has hurt us. Missing a top 6 forward and top 4 dman was always going to catch up with us as we’ve not got good enough scoring depth, or a decent enough spare to have an impact.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2020 22:06:12 GMT
As long as TW/GD take everything on board and move forward, cut the mistakes/errors and build on it then thats the best outcome
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Post by wgray on Jan 26, 2020 22:16:48 GMT
As long as TW/GD take everything on board and move forward, cut the mistakes/errors and build on it then thats the best outcome Exactly, there’s still plenty to play for with the cup comps, we can also have a big say in the outcome of the league title. Let’s just see what happens for the rest of the season and support the team.
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Post by bobness on Jan 27, 2020 8:56:04 GMT
That familiar feeling of the club not really doing all they can to win the league. Cardiff two seasons ago, Belfast last season and looking like Sheffield again in March. Not enough quality signed with far too much deadwood retained. But we knew that already. Didn't all on here say that this year's team would be about 4th? Looks like we're all going to be dead on. That poor start has meant that it would always be a struggle to get it back. 0.350 hockey after 10 games won't win you many leagues.
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Post by Jord v4 on Jan 27, 2020 11:01:55 GMT
That familiar feeling of the club not really doing all they can to win the league. Cardiff two seasons ago, Belfast last season and looking like Sheffield again in March. Not enough quality signed with far too much deadwood retained. But we knew that already. Didn't all on here say that this year's team would be about 4th? Looks like we're all going to be dead on. That poor start has meant that it would always be a struggle to get it back. 0.350 hockey after 10 games won't win you many leagues. A lot of us said a battle for 4th, yes.... So currently, given the quality of the recruitment, on target to meet/exceed our expectations.
A victory for Wallace there, maybe not Doucet though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 11:11:39 GMT
But theres plenty to build on for next year .. theres plenty of positives to take that's for certain.
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Post by pantherlee on Jan 27, 2020 13:05:35 GMT
But theres plenty to build on for next year .. theres plenty of positives to take that's for certain. Agreed. The way that Tim and Gui have turned things around after an appalling start fills me with optimism i think they've done a good job. Sure some mistakes have been made but then maybe that was to be expected with them being new to their roles. The encouraging thing is that they have corrected and hopefully learned from those mistakes which should stand us i good stead going forward. I hope things stay as they are coaching wise as i think stability is what we need at the moment and i believe Gui and Tim can lead us to silverware in the long run
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Post by Bagheera on Jan 27, 2020 15:33:45 GMT
That familiar feeling of the club not really doing all they can to win the league. Cardiff two seasons ago, Belfast last season and looking like Sheffield again in March. Not enough quality signed with far too much deadwood retained. But we knew that already. Didn't all on here say that this year's team would be about 4th? Looks like we're all going to be dead on. That poor start has meant that it would always be a struggle to get it back. 0.350 hockey after 10 games won't win you many leagues. Whilst I agree, most of us did say that and that start was aweful, we probably didn't expect to be so close to the title race this late on. That 4th was based on us looking well behind the other 3 in terms of roster quality. Since then we have also made 3 key changes which had a really good impact on the team. For me the biggest failure has come in recent weeks. Panthers havn't done all they can to compete when they found themselves in the thick of it somewhat unexpectadly. With a bit more investment we could have kicked on and challenged all the way to the end. Thats where they havn't stepped up and done what they could. Im putting that squarley at blacks door(without knowing facts) and will continue to back Gui and Tim into next season. It's just a shame that with so many positive shoots coming through we didn't look to capitalise.
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Post by iginla on Jan 27, 2020 18:30:52 GMT
That familiar feeling of the club not really doing all they can to win the league. Cardiff two seasons ago, Belfast last season and looking like Sheffield again in March. Not enough quality signed with far too much deadwood retained. But we knew that already. Didn't all on here say that this year's team would be about 4th? Looks like we're all going to be dead on. That poor start has meant that it would always be a struggle to get it back. 0.350 hockey after 10 games won't win you many leagues. We were actually probably all wrong,because we made the 4th place prediction based on the seasons starting roster. Had Panthers kept that original roster together it’s a fair bet they would now be fighting for about 6th place. That’s poor.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 19:04:39 GMT
Didn't all on here say that this year's team would be about 4th? Looks like we're all going to be dead on. That poor start has meant that it would always be a struggle to get it back. 0.350 hockey after 10 games won't win you many leagues. We were actually probably all wrong,because we made the 4th place prediction based on the seasons starting roster. Had Panthers kept that original roster together it’s a fair bet they would now be fighting for about 6th place. That’s poor. And where would Steelers be if they didnt bring in Tronsinsky and Sandstrom .. both who have been scoring timely goals of late! It's only really Cardiff who haven't swapped and changed that much.
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Post by shinobi on Jan 27, 2020 20:17:39 GMT
Didn't all on here say that this year's team would be about 4th? Looks like we're all going to be dead on. That poor start has meant that it would always be a struggle to get it back. 0.350 hockey after 10 games won't win you many leagues. We were actually probably all wrong,because we made the 4th place prediction based on the seasons starting roster. Had Panthers kept that original roster together it’s a fair bet they would now be fighting for about 6th place. That’s poor. So you want to sling some mud Panthers way because of something that could have happened if the original roster had been kept together...?
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Post by wgray on Jan 27, 2020 20:25:13 GMT
Didn't all on here say that this year's team would be about 4th? Looks like we're all going to be dead on. That poor start has meant that it would always be a struggle to get it back. 0.350 hockey after 10 games won't win you many leagues. We were actually probably all wrong,because we made the 4th place prediction based on the seasons starting roster. Had Panthers kept that original roster together it’s a fair bet they would now be fighting for about 6th place. That’s poor. I agree we’d be in a worse position if we hadn’t made any changes, but the season didn’t finish on Sunday, there’s still plenty of league games left to play.
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Post by iginla on Jan 27, 2020 20:37:07 GMT
We were actually probably all wrong,because we made the 4th place prediction based on the seasons starting roster. Had Panthers kept that original roster together it’s a fair bet they would now be fighting for about 6th place. That’s poor. So you want to sling some mud Panthers way because of something that could have happened if the original roster had been kept together...? Just saying it how it is or was. Where do you think they’d be if they’d kept the original roster ?
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Post by iginla on Jan 27, 2020 20:38:48 GMT
We were actually probably all wrong,because we made the 4th place prediction based on the seasons starting roster. Had Panthers kept that original roster together it’s a fair bet they would now be fighting for about 6th place. That’s poor. And where would Steelers be if they didnt bring in Tronsinsky and Sandstrom .. both who have been scoring timely goals of late! It's only really Cardiff who haven't swapped and changed that much. Difference is Steelers have swopped like for like. Panthers have swopped crap for much better quality.
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Post by texpef on Jan 27, 2020 21:41:38 GMT
But theres plenty to build on for next year .. theres plenty of positives to take that's for certain. Always good to be optimistic Pidge but this is the panthers we are talking about here not Man u or in our case steelers... the big reason last few weekends havent been good is lack of quality players available for the squad and no matter how good a coach we have can you really see us competing on a even footing with out rivals in the league because i cant see anything changing anytime soon... It could be argued our challenge this season is now being scuppered by not signing sufficient cover for the key injuries we are suffering and this is before you take into account what is a poor brit pack in nottingham compared to what we have been used to added to what is generally thought of given past experience a pretty average set of imports at the start of the season...
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Post by shinobi on Jan 28, 2020 16:50:32 GMT
So you want to sling some mud Panthers way because of something that could have happened if the original roster had been kept together...? Just saying it how it is or was. Where do you think they’d be if they’d kept the original roster ? I don’t really give a flying F where the Panthers could have been had they not made changes to the roster; what’s important is that the person/people in charge made changes that made the roster more competitive.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2020 18:17:25 GMT
Just saying it how it is or was. Where do you think they’d be if they’d kept the original roster ? I don’t really give a flying F where the Panthers could have been had they not made changes to the roster; what’s important is that the person/people in charge made changes that made the roster more competitive. Exactly ... who gives a fudge where Panthers could have been.. it's the position they are in which is important .. this is a classic post hoping/wishing the Panthers to fail if I've ever seen one!
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