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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1095 on: January 02, 2020, 11:31:47 AM »
*silently corrects grammar and weeps*

Offline gpbarr

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1096 on: January 03, 2020, 04:39:40 PM »
Jan 18th Brighton
Jan 21st Watford
Feb 1st Bournemouth

Three massive fixtures and we have time to hopefully bring in a player or two before those games.

6 points from those, if against Watford and Bournemouth, would be good.


6 points from those 3 games plus the Man City game would be good. In fact, if we average 6 points from 4 games though the end of the season, we'd be on 46 points come end of the season and survival.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1097 on: January 03, 2020, 04:43:44 PM »
Our second half of the season looks a lot tougher than the first half.
We now have serious injuries to contend with.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1098 on: January 03, 2020, 05:27:11 PM »
Let's hope we make some astute signings.

I'm hopeful that with a decent midfielder and 2 strikers we'll be fine.

Do you mean the 2nd half looks harder because of the injuries or just in general?

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1099 on: January 03, 2020, 05:33:01 PM »
The run of games from March until Mid April looks extremely difficult, and we need as many points on board before then:

7/3 Leicester away
14/3 Chelsea home
21/3 Newcastle away
4/4 Wolves home
11/4 Liverpool away
18/4 Man U home



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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1100 on: January 03, 2020, 06:06:28 PM »
Let's hope we make some astute signings.

I'm hopeful that with a decent midfielder and 2 strikers we'll be fine.

Do you mean the 2nd half looks harder because of the injuries or just in general?
The home fixtures look pretty difficult with only  Watford out of the bottom 10 at home.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1101 on: January 04, 2020, 06:28:38 PM »
The run of games from March until Mid April looks extremely difficult, and we need as many points on board before then:

7/3 Leicester away
14/3 Chelsea home
21/3 Newcastle away
4/4 Wolves home
11/4 Liverpool away
18/4 Man U home

Leicester and Liverpool away are but the others are all beatable.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1102 on: January 04, 2020, 07:06:07 PM »
The run of games from March until Mid April looks extremely difficult, and we need as many points on board before then:

7/3 Leicester away
14/3 Chelsea home
21/3 Newcastle away
4/4 Wolves home
11/4 Liverpool away
18/4 Man U home

Leicester and Liverpool away are but the others are all beatable.
We have played quite a few beatable teams this season, without beating most of them.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1103 on: January 04, 2020, 07:14:29 PM »
The run of games from March until Mid April looks extremely difficult, and we need as many points on board before then:

7/3 Leicester away
14/3 Chelsea home
21/3 Newcastle away
4/4 Wolves home
11/4 Liverpool away
18/4 Man U home

Leicester and Liverpool away are but the others are all beatable.
We have played quite a few beatable teams this season, without beating most of them.
That made me chuckle CL :)
A lot of fans as  well as the manager/coaches have really underestimated the ability of the opposition this season - in fact I will go so far as saying we've not prepared tactically for the majority of our games .....is that lazy or just down to lack of quality of our coaches/squad?

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1104 on: January 04, 2020, 07:21:36 PM »
The run of games from March until Mid April looks extremely difficult, and we need as many points on board before then:

7/3 Leicester away
14/3 Chelsea home
21/3 Newcastle away
4/4 Wolves home
11/4 Liverpool away
18/4 Man U home

Leicester and Liverpool away are but the others are all beatable.
We have played quite a few beatable teams this season, without beating most of them.
That made me chuckle CL :)
A lot of fans as  well as the manager/coaches have really underestimated the ability of the opposition this season - in fact I will go so far as saying we've not prepared tactically for the majority of our games .....is that lazy or just down to lack of quality of our coaches/squad?
I think the manager got stuck, did not know or want to change things until his job was on the line. I am not convinced by the Burnley result because we let them back in second half.
I agree that we have underestimated the opposition.
I think that we go into a tougher second half of the season weaker.
We need the same sort of January transfer activity that help transform our form last season.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1105 on: January 04, 2020, 07:37:24 PM »
I do fear for us. 3/4 quality additions this January and no further injuries are absolutely crucial.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1106 on: January 04, 2020, 07:45:11 PM »
Two more away wins and I reckon we'll be o.k. Bournemouth and Newcastle are certainly winnable for me, we are well overdue a win at St James.

Do that and I reckon 10 points from our home games would keep us up. Difficult given some of the teams we're playing but we simply have to step up against the better teams in the league which our relegation rivals seem to have no trouble doing.

Spurs at home for example. They're poor away from home (continued under Mourinho) and Kane will likely be out so that's a game we should be looking at a point minimum from imo.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1107 on: January 04, 2020, 07:52:28 PM »
By Feb  2 And the break we will have played Brighton A Watford H Bournemouth A..
This will decide our season.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1108 on: January 04, 2020, 08:13:23 PM »
I really, really, really hope we beat the Gerodies away from home.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1109 on: January 04, 2020, 08:43:51 PM »
I really, really, really hope we beat the Gerodies away from home.
Gerodies ;)
Yes it would be good to  shit on the Magpies and then unfurl a banner dedicated to Ant and Dec " Log on the Tyne" :)

 


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