Looking at our season now, with only 10 games or so left in the league, we're on 53 points and in 5th.
People have spoken about how well the teams above us have played, and in a season passed we'd be 2nd or 3rd on current points. That's a fair enough point and I don't disagree as it's purely factual.
The thing that's making me think is this: We are sort of an 'average' squad right now, not in terms of "being average", but more that we don't have a stand-out player and can't be seen as a "one man team", mainly because no "one man" has been outstanding this year (Lloris has played well, but GKs are normally exempt from that status), but perhaps more because we've got a squad now that has 11+ players all of an equal level of talent.
Now, taking that into consideration, you have to think that we've been mostly crap this season - we've got the points without necessarily deserving them. Several scrappy/lucky 1-0's here and there and so on.
Considering Redknapp would always say "we played well and didn't deserve to lose". This season has been the opposite..
Liverpoop are only 6 points or so ahead, but have been lauded for their performance this season...
So, with that in mind, are we actually a title winning team that's just missing form/tactics/training?
People have spoken about how well the teams above us have played, and in a season passed we'd be 2nd or 3rd on current points. That's a fair enough point and I don't disagree as it's purely factual.
The thing that's making me think is this: We are sort of an 'average' squad right now, not in terms of "being average", but more that we don't have a stand-out player and can't be seen as a "one man team", mainly because no "one man" has been outstanding this year (Lloris has played well, but GKs are normally exempt from that status), but perhaps more because we've got a squad now that has 11+ players all of an equal level of talent.
Now, taking that into consideration, you have to think that we've been mostly crap this season - we've got the points without necessarily deserving them. Several scrappy/lucky 1-0's here and there and so on.
Considering Redknapp would always say "we played well and didn't deserve to lose". This season has been the opposite..
Liverpoop are only 6 points or so ahead, but have been lauded for their performance this season...
So, with that in mind, are we actually a title winning team that's just missing form/tactics/training?