Premier League Thread 2015-16

Pleased for them from the perspective that they are not one of the usual suspects. Like Saints last season, but even more so, they point the way to what a well integrated team can do while the glamour clubs are in a quandary. Their timing has been spectacularly good. Where I'm not pleased is that their position is where Saints ought to be. However, where Leicester City can go any team who get it right can go.

Leicester City are a team composed of no stars and also-rans, although their names are becoming much better known now. They work for each other and their formation and tactics are perfect for the group of players. Of course, the various managers and coaching staff have brought the squad together, but their improvement has been more than coaching and management. They are a group of coached individuals who are way, way better than the sum of their parts. By any stretch of the imagination, LC would be doing extremely well to be in the Top 6, given their squad, and my hat is well and truly doffed to Ranieri, and Pearson before him, but this is something out of the ordinary. It is what sustained confidence does to a group. And it means that LC are much nearer to maxxing out the potential of their team than all others, in my opinion. They are proof of what can be achieved when everything comes together aided by knowledgeable coaching and management. They could even turn out to be a modern day version of Clough's Nottm Forest.

And if Leicester City do manage to win the PL and/or qualify for the CL I would like those supporters who trot out the line, that Saints can never achieve the same, to just think about their view, and ask themselves why not? Never is a very long time.

 

Let's hope Chelsea start losing again. Their supporters are far to big-headed!!

 

Don't want both NE teams to go down. Need one match a season to go to. Can't rely on Boro to go up. Went to Sunderland match yesterday. They really were dreadful for 80% of match. Couldn't put 2 passes together, typical Big Sam hoofball to tiny Defoe.

 

Have Arsenal just got a huge mental block when it comes to playing a Chelsea? Losing 9 times out of 10 to London's 3rd team is absolutely shocking for a club of Arsenal's stature.

 

I agree with you about Chelsea. I think we would all be very happy for Manchester United to join them as well.

 

Anyone but Spurs, thanks.

 

I thought he was recently released from hospital after heart problems

 

I would be happy for any team in the division, including Liverpool, to win it and for Saints to finish 17th if it meant Spurs don't win it. Anyone seeing the faintest glimmer of romance in Spurs winning the Championship needs to go to Specsavers.

 

Only possible positives of Spurs at the moment is the prospect of their manager getting poached.

 

I am glad to see a reassuring wave of Spurs hatred on the board! I cannot respect the evil Levy-Poch partnership!

 

Worry not, Man City will win it easily.

 

I'm beginning to have nightmares about spurs winning the league. It doesn't help living in North London, but at least if the worst does happen, the gooners will feel the pain more than I will.

 

I've seen their manager's face on my screen a little too much this weekend for my stomach. I don't normally keep lasting bitterness at all, but I surprise myself that, even now, the C-word forms in my mind every time I see it. It's a shame because it darkens my good memories of the humorous press conferences with David Salas.

 

What makes it worse of course is that he's a bloody good coach who's got the squad he wants playing the way he wants.

 

Dammit, yes.

 

One thinks of John Terry, Diego Costa, CHAVS, and Chelsea in general. In comparison, Spurs ooze class.

 

Is our game against Arsenal televised?

 

Don't think its live. Although may be on BT sport, think our next live game is the following Monday against WHU on Sky.

 

Your love for Spuds is unhealthy

 

Poched?