Premier League Thread

Don't think anyone has said that. Arsenal have certainly been mentioned, but ManU, no. Their run-in is pretty bloody awful, just like Liverpool's. I expect both teams to hiccup, possibly badly enough to leave them outside the top four. We may take advantage, but we have to re-learn how to score.

 

Just love the fact you feel the need to come on here and post... You must see us as your rival.

(Or its like looking in a mirror)

 

Steve gerrard, gerrard, he slipped on his..... Well you know the rest.

 

Dick Advocaat confirmed as Sunderland boss .... he doesn't stand a snowball's chance

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*fetches coat*

 

WBA GK Ben Foster out for 4 weeks minimum.

 

Di Canio, Poyet and now Advocaat? It's official. Sunderland only employs Dicks.

 

Interesting stat in the Express...only one of 14 PL managers coming in at this stage of the season improved the league position of the club with most making no difference. The advantage for Sunderland in those stats is that they are outside the relegation zone (just).

 

With time wasting that will be 8 weeks.

 

Harsh, but may be true. At least he will have less chance to threaten Frasers clean sheet record, or his England place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31923713

 

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Typed all that out the other day. Not sure anyone saw it. Should have left it to Barclays, I suppose.

Anyway, perhaps members will now realise that interesting things are possible.

And what's this I hear that 7th place will be good enough for Europe anyway..? All depends on one of the remaining top 6 clubs in the FA Cup winning the trophy, I believe.

Wouldn't it be great if we secured our top 4 place by making Man City drop out of it..?

 

Us and Spurs have the 'easier' games. ManU has an awful run out when you consider that they are winning, but are not convincing...I can see them dropping back.

Makes a nice change not to be in the group at risk of relegation

 

Didn't realise just how similar our run was to Spurs!

7 of the 9 games are the same, 1 is against one another and the other is against one of the Tyne/Wear duo.

Good test of our comparative strength.

 

Can't remember when that last happened. Must have blotted it out.

 

The interesting run of games is for Spuds:

away to us
home to Citeh
away to Stoke

If we beat them and Citeh beat them .... then Stoke away becomes even tougher and it is tough anyway.

 

Our games against the relegation teams are actually as hard as theirs against top four rivals, unfortunately.

 

In theory, but I'd still rather play lower sides than the top sides.

 

You could say that our final run is very similar to our starting run. That worked out pretty well overall. Of course we all know that we werent really tested and only played the easy sides for the first 10 games. Looking forward to average of 2+ points per game.

 

So would I any day of the week. And so would any of our rivals.

 

Agreed. Earlier in the season, lower-placed sides would park the bus and settle for a point or a breakaway winner, but now the chips are down they have to come out and play, which suits us better.