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Author Topic: Anyone starting to get worried?  (Read 222155 times)

Offline Axl Rose

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1125 on: January 12, 2020, 05:53:55 PM »
Just fucking raging.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1126 on: January 12, 2020, 05:55:49 PM »
I think today has killed off our title challenge.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1127 on: January 12, 2020, 05:56:42 PM »
It is going to be an interesting couple of weeks until the end of January. We have the transfer window, our next three games are all six pointers and there will be constant question marks over our manager.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1128 on: January 12, 2020, 05:57:36 PM »
I think today has killed off our title challenge.

It might have kick started our Championship title challenge for next season. ;)

Offline Jon Crofts

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1129 on: January 12, 2020, 06:00:00 PM »
Can we just concede to Leicester please?

Offline Legion

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1130 on: January 12, 2020, 06:02:08 PM »
Mightily.

Offline Deano's Mullet

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1131 on: January 12, 2020, 06:04:32 PM »
Bournemouth are in free fall but they will still beat us. We won't beat Watford. We are screwed.

Offline Damo70

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1132 on: January 12, 2020, 06:06:43 PM »
I think I am teetering somewhere on the brink of worry and resignation.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1133 on: January 12, 2020, 06:10:23 PM »
This result will break us. We are going down.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1134 on: January 12, 2020, 06:11:47 PM »
A shot!

Online SoccerHQ

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1135 on: January 12, 2020, 06:13:31 PM »
This result will break us. We are going down.

It really shouldn't. West Ham, Southampton and Newcastle all been thrashed this season by Leicester and Man. City and all responded with their best runs of the season.

Would just be another excuse and ways to stop it is always to bring in some fresh faces.

Offline Proposition Joe

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1136 on: January 12, 2020, 06:13:52 PM »
This match is like those moments in Goodfellas where the action freezes:

That was the moment we knew we were going to get relegated.
That was the moment when Jack Grealish decided he would push for a move to another club in the Summer.

On the bright side, it was more fun in the Championship than this, that's for sure.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1137 on: January 12, 2020, 06:14:37 PM »
We’ve got two good players and no tactical clue. We’re in a lot of trouble.

Offline JJ-AV

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1138 on: January 12, 2020, 08:48:13 PM »
Way too ambitious in the Summer and it may cost us. The signings were based on ideology and not in practicality.

Much like Summer 2015 - the players aren't bad, but you can't integrate that many without a solid unit and expect to get away with it. The squad we went down with were the second worst squad in Premier League history, a few years on and look at Amavi, Gana Gueye, Veretout, Adama and Ayew now. They'd form half of a solid midtable side.

We went for the juggular with our approach, trying to uneaerth gems and refused to take any loans. Imagine another world where we'd have been more pragmatic and looked at Cahill, Phillips and Delph and loned in Wilson and Benteke instead of Engels, Nakamba, Luiz and Trezeguet. We'd have been much better off and given us a solid base to allow the younger and inexperienced players to develop from.

Offline brontebilly

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #1139 on: January 12, 2020, 08:52:13 PM »
Way too ambitious in the Summer and it may cost us. The signings were based on ideology and not in practicality.

Much like Summer 2015 - the players aren't bad, but you can't integrate that many without a solid unit and expect to get away with it. The squad we went down with were the second worst squad in Premier League history, a few years on and look at Amavi, Gana Gueye, Veretout, Adama and Ayew now. They'd form half of a solid midtable side.

We went for the juggular with our approach, trying to uneaerth gems and refused to take any loans. Imagine another world where we'd have been more pragmatic and looked at Cahill, Phillips and Delph and loned in Wilson and Benteke instead of Engels, Nakamba, Luiz and Trezeguet. We'd have been much better off and given us a solid base to allow the younger and inexperienced players to develop from.

We really should have pushed the boat out to get Phillips. He is miles better than any of our other midfielders. Agree 100% with you, some of the new signings have potential but we don't have a solid spine in the team that fits it all together.

 


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