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Poch has said the only way this season can be a success is silverware, he didn’t say what silverware but he added “just” finishing in the top 4 isn’t acceptable success anymore.......the man is on a mission!!
Is now
Heaven forbid someone has an opinion different to your nauseating happy-clappy wankathon - even yet be allowed to express it on here
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Sort of....
The week before was the last time it was “in our own hands”.
Leicester drew on the Tuesday, we played Spammers Wednesday night 3pts behind..... but lost 0-1.
If we’d have held on vs Arse we’d have been top for a few hours, which could have put pressure on Leicester, who won later that day to finish the week 5pts ahead of us.... then they just kept on bloody winning 1-0!
I still maintain it was Arse who should feel most aggrieved that season.....
When Leicester beat us at the Lane in January, they went 7pts ahead - the gap they had after the Battle of Bridge ended. So we matched them for four months.
But Arse were top throughout January..... so if they’d have matched Leicester, they’d have won it - and they even beat Leicester in February!
Not only were Woolwich top at Xmas, they did the double over Leicester too. I think the only team that season. And still didn't finish top. While we're on the subject....
We made things much harder for ourselves by not giving the El Thursday Nightio a miss, a constant bug bear of mine. There was no CL place for it then. We blew 7 pts in the first 3 Sundays of the season after Ropey Thursdays (Swans, Barcodes and a crap Chavs).
This isn't the benefit of hindsight. AVB blew top 4 by sending top teams out to Europe. Bale, Lennon and Moose ALL got injured playing those fucking stupid games. H just used it for kids and those coming back form injury, quite right too.
Leicester took the right decision to sack off all cup games, playing reserve teams and getting knocked out very early. Their first XI played 38 matches the whole season.
We need to be lucky with injuries and hope our signings acclimatise quickly...
...but yea, fuck it.
We're on.
...but yea, fuck it.
We're on.
It’s quite annoying how in the last decade the Champions’ tactics were always found out in the next season (Leicester, Chelsea, Pellegrini’s City) and they couldn’t replicate the same form, yet City look fucking unstoppable after smashing the league twice in a row. Has Pep really discovered the magic formula? (along having the best fucking squad in the league and maybe the world atm)
Injuries and luck matter more to building momentum than the fixture order.
Fixtures are irrelevant if the other components are not there - it’s fairly obvious what I believe our biggest hinderance to be and there is a body of evidence to support that.
It's both. All the games count the same. Well, games against Liverpool and City count more if we are talking about a title challenge since it gives them a loss too.
I appreciate the optimistic tone of your post, and I'd like to think we have a legitimate title shot, but I just think it's a bit naive. Liverpool wasn't lucky last year. They have a great squad. You don't win the Champions League and the come in second in the PL by a point based on luck.
Whenever I think points gained in the PL might be a bit misleading, I look at goal differential to see if that tells a different story. Here's what the top 6 teams in the table's GD looked like last year.
1) Man City 72
2) Liverpool 67
3) Chelsea 24
4) Spurs 28
5) Woolwich 22
6) Man U 11
Our GD gap to Man City was 44 goals and to Liverpool 39 goals. Those are enormous differences. As a point of comparison, Newcastle finished 13th in the PL and Bournemouth 14th with 45 points, 26 points behind Spurs (the same point gap between Spurs and Liverpool). Bournemouth's GD gap to us was 34 goals and Newcastle's was 42.
That's the sad reality. Liverpool's gap to us from both a points and GD standpoint was like our gap to Newcastle and Bournemouth. That's the enormity of the task that is in front of us in trying to catch the frontrunners.
If it was just City OR Liverpool, I'd say that shit happens and we've got a shot. But passing both of them? I'd love to see it but I just don't see it happening.
We have a better shot in the CL due to the limited number of matches and possibility for favorable draws.
The order's not irrelevant. Confidence and momentum play a part. If we do well up to Christmas, the fact that we then have the top teams at home may well boost the second half of our season and we will go on to win the league.
This is not my opinion, it's a scientific fact, proven in numerous published papers and written about by God, in Leviticus, Chapter 13, so don't bother telling me I'm wrong.
Bit disappointed in you. Searched the thread for the impolite advice post.
Wasn’t there. WTF.
I think we also need to tighten the back considerably. We went from having the best defensive record in the PL few year back to shipping clown goals and not being able to absorb pressure
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80m back then was a shit tonne of dosh!
Losing the best right back in the PL, our defensive rock suddenly suffering recurring injuries and the best LB in the league falling out of form, sanity and fitness regularly also had an impact. I still maintain that as a pair, Toby and Jan are the BEST CB two in the league, it’s just those support around isn’t as strong as it was.
Maybe, just maybe... playing bottom half teams at home up to xmas will help to cement new ground 'status' as a fortress and influence results positively against title rivals.
Well yeah I agree but when the CL draw hasn't even been done yet and we don't know what the lay of the land will be in the league at the business end it's dumb to say the calendar is advantageous or not.
Er, back on topic
I think we will have a better chance when Pep goes. If Poch still with us at that point, with a strong XI.
Still think we can win it this season, regardless of the result Sat.
I think we will have a better chance when Pep goes. If Poch still with us at that point, with a strong XI.
Still think we can win it this season, regardless of the result Sat.