It's all getting a bit serious now, my boys can go second today, level on points with Fulham who tonked us 7-0 at home 8 weeks ago.
Since then we've taken 19 points out of 21 with six wins and a draw, scoring 16 and conceding just 2 goals. It's conceivable by 9.45pm Wednesday we will be top.
Start of the season I began with the hope of a decent side knocking about in the top ten. As games went by top six beckoned but every year for ten seasons each time we've got close the team and manager seem to bottle it. November 3rd Fulham came to town and we had no answer to a team who hammered us 7-0 at home in a game we need to take at least a point from. All I can say in defence of the result is at 0-3 the boys clearly decided to try and get something back, the door was left but open heads didn't drop. This proved to be a turning point.
The following Saturday we saw the perfect response with the dismantling of Sheffield United at Ewood.
Football fans will know our sad story of the past ten years. Today more by luck than judgement we once more have a proper team. This is a sensational side packed with kids who simply don't know when to stop. The nonsense of going 2-0 up and sitting back which cost us 4 points against Luton and Coventry has disappeared. Another turning point.
Covid isolation stops me traveling to Hull today otherwise we would have gone.
One match doesn't decide a season but starting today we have a run of six games which we should win. If we can take 15/18 points we are serious. So far there has been no real pressure but now we're going to discover how a team packed with young players, five are under 21, react. Carry on playing with style and without fear and this can happen.
After ten terrible years under Venkys we can dream again. Once more we can walk along Bolton Road with pride, anticipation and a knot in the stomach. It is so exciting.
A proper team for proper fans. Those of us who stuck by the club when thousands walked away are being rewarded.
Come on you Blues.
