Well done Pedersen, the best start to a season for 30yrs!

[Ante's Bubbly]

Well done to the management for getting a great bunch of coaches and players together on a limited budget and for recognising what an amazing job Pedersen did last season and giving him the chance to actually manage a team of players, where substitutions are not all forced on him and he can actually use the attacking tactics he wants to. Best start for us in 30 years, well done Pedersen!

[OughtibridgeOwl]

I read that as well - best start since 1996 and we were top of the Premier League! I don't think we should get carried away though. Five games in and all the away games have been close shaves. We will be able to get a very decent assessment at 12 games or more. 

[Utah Owl]

3 minutes ago, OughtibridgeOwl said:

I read that as well - best start since 1996 and we were top of the Premier League! I don't think we should get carried away though. Five games in and all the away games have been close shaves. We will be able to get a very decent assessment at 12 games or more. 

Very tricky away games though. Places where we normally struggle. Hopefully win the remaining games in September (at least two of which are tricky) and we'll be in a fantastic position.

[Kopparberg]

To have this start, after all last season, is absolutely fantastic. 
 

It felt like things changed at the Honolulu game football wise. 

[elated owl]

Echo that completely. 2 absolute colossal games at home now. If we can take 6 from them it will do absolute wonders for the players confidence to kick on and really cement themselves at the top end. 
 

how nice it is to be debating football again. 

[Geedee]

4 hours ago, OughtibridgeOwl said:

I read that as well - best start since 1996 and we were top of the Premier League! I don't think we should get carried away though. Five games in and all the away games have been close shaves. We will be able to get a very decent assessment at 12 games or more. 

Lets get carried away and enjoy it.

[Ante's Bubbly]

7 hours ago, OughtibridgeOwl said:

I read that as well - best start since 1996 and we were top of the Premier League! I don't think we should get carried away though. Five games in and all the away games have been close shaves. We will be able to get a very decent assessment at 12 games or more. 

 

Yes, there are another 41 games to go, so nothing gained yet really except maybe a bit of pride and we all know what can come after that.

 

I think we can enjoy it for now at least and most of us are not going to get too giddy just yet. Wednesday do have a knack for making things difficult dont they. It is just great to see us up there, especially after last season, although a bit like Hull in the prem, you do realiise that it could change a lot and very quickly too if our injuries keep piling up!

 

For now though we are top of the league, we have been entertained, seen some battling performances and can hopefully get a decent run going for when we do hit a bad patch.

 

UTO! 

[Nick the Owl]

Considering the squad was expected to take time to gel I don't think there were many that could have expected such a good points haul straight away. 

 

We just need to remain patient as and when the inevitable blip does arrive, HP still has a huge amount of credit in the bank and the start to the season should only have added to that. 

[Danish]

Wonderful start to the season and something of a surprise.

 

I still feel we’re very much a work in progress, so it’s a massive bonus to be in this position right now.

 

Well done to all involved. 
 

 

[sweetsheri]

Everyone at the club deserves massive credit for what has been achieved this past 4 months. Including Pedersen 

[jp1981]

8 hours ago, OughtibridgeOwl said:

I read that as well - best start since 1996 and we were top of the Premier League! I don't think we should get carried away though. Five games in and all the away games have been close shaves. We will be able to get a very decent assessment at 12 games or more. 

ATM I'm only looking towards getting enough points to secure survival, then I will move on to play off spots and then the possibility of top 2. 

 

However that's not taking away from the good start we have had. Well done to everyone who has been involved to allow us to get here.

[The Tea Lady]

One game at a time.  

[Ian]

1 hour ago, Ante's Bubbly said:

 

Yes, there are another 41 games to go, so nothing gained yet really except maybe a bit of pride and we all know what can come after that.

 

What do you mean "nothing gained yet"......do we not get 12 points for winning those 4 games

 

FFS the EFL won't leave us alone will they.....ok, they decided not to give us the minus 15 at the start of the season but now we don't get 3 points for a win?

[Roy Of The Roasters]

1 hour ago, Nick the Owl said:

We just need to remain patient as and when the inevitable blip does arrive, HP still has a huge amount of credit in the bank and the start to the season should only have added to that. 

 

Wise words. If the results hadn't gone our way and we maybe had 6 points rather than 12, the voices calling for his removal would have been louder than ever. I still anticipate that we'll lose a few games and drop points in some of those scrappy games in the next month or two, but as you say he's hopefully now generated enough goodwill to ride that out

[Paul..]

Yes but, yes but, Richie Humphreys, yes but, yes but, easy opponents, yes but, yes but, can't give him any credit...