Without any evidence or rationale for my view but I’m wondering if this is the man Citeh moment all over again. This time Newcastle. Add to that Grealish going when he did knocked the stuffing out of us to the degree where the ambitions may have been downgraded. The squad is not as good as it appears.
Quote from: kippaxvilla2 on August 17, 2022, 09:45:45 AMWithout any evidence or rationale for my view but I’m wondering if this is the man Citeh moment all over again. This time Newcastle. Add to that Grealish going when he did knocked the stuffing out of us to the degree where the ambitions may have been downgraded. The squad is not as good as it appears. I think the squad is pretty decent, the main problem at the moment is that very few players ever seem to be in great form and too infrequently do we look better than the sum of our parts. The teams with similar squad quality to us have a more clear identity/style, which is either because their managers have been there for much longer, or because they have better managers, or both. I'm referring to Palace/Brentford/Brighton and probably Newcastle as well, but obviously Howe came in at the same time as SG.
Quote from: coreyfeldman on August 17, 2022, 10:21:02 AMQuote from: kippaxvilla2 on August 17, 2022, 09:45:45 AMWithout any evidence or rationale for my view but I’m wondering if this is the man Citeh moment all over again. This time Newcastle. Add to that Grealish going when he did knocked the stuffing out of us to the degree where the ambitions may have been downgraded. The squad is not as good as it appears. I think the squad is pretty decent, the main problem at the moment is that very few players ever seem to be in great form and too infrequently do we look better than the sum of our parts. The teams with similar squad quality to us have a more clear identity/style, which is either because their managers have been there for much longer, or because they have better managers, or both. I'm referring to Palace/Brentford/Brighton and probably Newcastle as well, but obviously Howe came in at the same time as SG.And yet we took 6 points off Brighton and 4 points off Palace last season. Brentford are Brentford to us, which hopefully we’ll correct this season. Im not saying we don’t need to continue to improve our squad, i think we need to add a couple more players to try and break that top 8/top 6 this season, but God we really do like to talk other clubs up sometimes.
Quote from: RamboandBruno on August 17, 2022, 10:43:46 AMQuote from: coreyfeldman on August 17, 2022, 10:21:02 AMQuote from: kippaxvilla2 on August 17, 2022, 09:45:45 AMWithout any evidence or rationale for my view but I’m wondering if this is the man Citeh moment all over again. This time Newcastle. Add to that Grealish going when he did knocked the stuffing out of us to the degree where the ambitions may have been downgraded. The squad is not as good as it appears. I think the squad is pretty decent, the main problem at the moment is that very few players ever seem to be in great form and too infrequently do we look better than the sum of our parts. The teams with similar squad quality to us have a more clear identity/style, which is either because their managers have been there for much longer, or because they have better managers, or both. I'm referring to Palace/Brentford/Brighton and probably Newcastle as well, but obviously Howe came in at the same time as SG.And yet we took 6 points off Brighton and 4 points off Palace last season. Brentford are Brentford to us, which hopefully we’ll correct this season. Im not saying we don’t need to continue to improve our squad, i think we need to add a couple more players to try and break that top 8/top 6 this season, but God we really do like to talk other clubs up sometimes. Those couple of players are going to need to be world class to break the top six.We haven't broken the top half of the table for over a decade, let alone the top six or eight.
We're talking Palace up as expecting top ten, they were one of the favourites to go down at the start of last season and it's not like they've been buying loads of players. If anything losing Gallagher has made them weaker, and they've got a manager with less experience than our inexperienced manager.
Quote from: LeeB on August 17, 2022, 10:32:19 AMWe're talking Palace up as expecting top ten, they were one of the favourites to go down at the start of last season and it's not like they've been buying loads of players. If anything losing Gallagher has made them weaker, and they've got a manager with less experience than our inexperienced manager.Must be Vieira's 33.33% win percentage since he took over that's impressing everyone.