What do I know?
How often do we ever feel certain about things? It’s quite rare isn’t it? One thing I felt certain of this year is that Lawrie Sanchez would improve Fulham. I liked the thinking behind his signings and I thought they’d do well for us. But maybe it isn’t happening.
Sometimes I really have to take a step back. Enough people are saying things that worry me that now I’m getting worried too. Left to my own devices I’d still be looking on the bright side, still waiting for the luck to even itself out, still waiting for the team to find its collective identity. But it really doesn’t seem to be happening. Rob at Following the Fuham is a pretty even handed bloke, usually, but he’s really not happy. I was playing football tonight with a couple of Fulham supporters and one of them was telling me how unhappy he is. I daren’t even look at the message boards today for fear of getting even more depressed. Things do appear to be going wrong.
Nothing that a couple of results won’t fix, but where are these results going to come from? The defence still looks wobbly, the midfield still looks lightweight, and the attack is either completely starved of service or firing blanks, whichever way you want to look at it. At least Niemi seems to have got his groove back.
This is when Lawrie Sanchez earns his corn. Earlier in the year he was talking about raising the bar, raising expectations, getting the team to think like a top half team. Come on then, let’s see it. He needs to get them out of this funk, and fast.
