I would hardly call it financial muscle comparing the amount they had spent to the likes of Man City, Chavs, or Woolwich. Mahrez secured at 400k, Vardy for £1m, Kante for £5.6m. Let this sink in for a minute 1 Raheem Sterling or 1 Kevin De Bruyne = entire LCFC squad..
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I would hardly call it financial muscle comparing the amount they had spent to the likes of Man City, Chavs, or Woolwich. Mahrez secured at 400k, Vardy for £1m, Kante for £5.6m. Let this sink in for a minute 1 Raheem Sterling or 1 Kevin De Bruyne = entire LCFC squad..
Hmmm thats guess work at best. We rested the most players before Newcastle at home and we lost....
Our midfield was completely overrun in the 2nd half. Carrol most obviously (who'd played 90 v Monaco on the Thurs), and Dier, who'd had a knock in the same game. Lamela played most of that one too.
There's no guess work re poor results after EL. Don't just look at our results, there's a site that's collated 27,000 matches where one team has the full week to recover and prepare. Well reported on another board. Imo we've lost at least 5 pts (Chavs 0-0; Barcodes 1-2), maybe 7 (Swans 2-2, they were in the middle of an atrocious run).
I still think we can do it. LCFC could well have a horrible run in, losing pts in their games. Let's keep on giving it all so we can take advantage. But every Thursday night I wish Poch would temporarily morph into old Saggy Chops and just play the likes of GDS.
That person had far too much time on their hands. We dominated away at the Emirates after a european game by the way. Probably deserved to win those Chelsea and Swansea games on the balance of play too. I just don't believe there is a connection thats all I'm saying, take each game on its own not link it to the one before.
Plus, no point winning the league games to get into Europe if we're just gonna throw it to finish higher in the league....vicious cycle that.
The problem this season is that we did not play at this level from match 1 as Leicester did and were always playing catch up. We did not win any of our first 4 matches. I do not get that without Europa matches it will be easier next season because there are weaker teams in the Europa that we can play some fringe players as we found against Dortmund, if we do it against better teams we get beat. This is the leading positions on 14th December after the Newcastle defeat and nobody was talking about the title then.
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(3) Leicester City 16 10 5 1 34 22 12 35
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(1) Woolwich 16 10 3 3 29 13 16 33
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(2) Manchester City 16 10 2 4 32 17 15 32
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(4) Manchester United 16 8 5 3 21 12 9 29
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(5) Tottenham Hotspur 16 6 8 2 26 14 12 26
We have pulled back 2 points on Leicester and overtaken the others.
Next season we need to start the season stronger and maintain it for the whole season but we do need to have more players of the standard of the first teamers to compete in the CL and qualify again.
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We have pulled back 2 points on Leicester and overtaken the others.
Next season we need to start the season stronger and maintain it for the whole season but we do need to have more players of the standard of the first teamers to compete in the CL and qualify again.
Need to get 16-18 points from our remaining fixtures to have a shot. That is a tall task indeed. Need Leicester to drop all 3 points against at least 2 of the Spammers, Chavs, and Manure, the other can be a draw. Likely...probably not, but I will keep the faith, until there is no chance left.
I am also trying to not let the season slip by without taking time to appreciate what a great squad this is to watch. So many great stories and performances throughout.
I am also trying to not let the season slip by without taking time to appreciate what a great squad this is to watch. So many great stories and performances throughout.
The leicester game was the cunt, that gave them real hope.
Exactly. Take 3 points off them and put them on our total...we are within a gnats bollock hair & in a great place to strike. I won't give up til it's not possible but it's looking to be a huge ask now.
There's no sense in looking back and dwelling on points lost, past results can't be changed and we are where we are. My concern is whether the players still believe that they can win the league after the draw at Anfield. Whilst it remains mathematically possible to overhaul Leicester, I'll keep the faith, but from the look on the faces of many of the team at the final whistle I'm concerned that they've lost belief. If the team's performance dips by 5-10% for the remainder of the season, rather than catching Leicester we'll be battling with Woolwich for 2nd/3rd place.
Best defence, best attack , and you crumble when you think losing to inferior sides makes us weak !
Not sure if are a troll or another melt who expects us to wipe the floor with everybody, just cause we draw, maybe look at who we drew with ?
I'd just like to add, the numbers thrown around for our results against the top 12 does include most (?) of our first few games of the season where we got some disappointing results as the squad was still gelling (think Alli finding his feet in the Premier League, etc).
Not saying that's a great excuse: but it is another reason to be cheerful, and it is indicative of how good we've been since then to get where we are.
Not saying that's a great excuse: but it is another reason to be cheerful, and it is indicative of how good we've been since then to get where we are.
Let's not stew over points lost at this critical time for our club. We will have months to fill up pages on this forum with what ifs once the season is officially done. For now let's just believe, and do what we should do all the time, and support the club. It's really not that hard. Crazy how shitty we can all get when we have so much to be excited about.
That Sir, is the attitude!
I remember the feeling of pure satisfaction going into the World Cup in 2010, knowing that the biggest stage of European football awaited Spurs the following season... then the WC happened, and England fucking ruined everything!!!
Still, this season, we have far exceeded my own personal expectation... I dunno about anyone else's??
At Christmas, NO ONE was talking about the Title... we've had a phenomenal season, let's not forget that... and even if it ended tomorrow, 2nd place, even 3rd would be beyond even the most optimistic fan's realistic dreams at the start of the season.
NOBODY expected us to be fighting for anything more than 4th/CL Qualification... the fact we may well surpass that would be incredible!!
The title is just plain greedy! (as unbelievable as it would be!)
As soon as I genuinely started believing we had a shot at the title we lose to West Ham and failed to beat a 10 man Woolwich. That's it for our title race IMO, 7 points is a lot to make up. I'm not going to sit and wait for Leicester's "luck" to run out every week. Just going to focus on Spurs and enjoy the good footy we've been playing.
This! It was only Christmas/New Years that we pulled up the table and thought: 'fuck me, fourth is looking possible!'
Cast your mind back, and I doubt anyone was fancying us to finish above Woolwich either at the time.
We have to remember that the positive side of our recent disappointment is that we're actually disappointed to not be catching the league leaders.
SO IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT??? DAMN YOU, TRUE BELIEVER!!
Thing is, how can we cite genuine belief as the catalyst for our mini-stumble... Leicester have been selling 'Champions 2016 Scarves' for the past 2 home games apparently, and their luck or tedious winning streak hasn't seemed to taken a dip because of it (...or has it? Mwooh-hahahaha-haaa-haa!) Maybe we should be selling Champions 2016 Scarves... show a bit of belief eh?