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MARTIN IS BACK AGAIN

MARTIN IS BACK AGAIN

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We are being totally written by virtually every pundit - relegation is a certainty
am I missing something the squad has been strengthened in the right areas
we did actually lose some games with cambiasso !
ranieri's overall record suggest he is no mug.

do they really think our squad is worse than bournemouth, watford, norwich, sunderland, newcastle, and Villa
I reckon we should be well capable of finish above at least three of the above.

bring the season on - pissed off with the phoney war:headbang:
 
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MARTIN IS BACK AGAIN said:
We are being totally written by virtually every pundit - relegation is a certainty
am I missing something the squad has been strengthened in the right areas
we did actually lose some games with cambiasso !
ranieri's overall record suggest he is no mug.

do they really think our squad is worse than bournemouth, watford, norwich, sunderland, newcastle, and Villa
I reckon we should be well capable of finish above at least three of the above.

bring the season on - pissed off with the phoney war:headbang:
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It will make victories even sweeter - hopefully the rest of the league think that so we can do them over.
 
It's the same with Sunderland mate, everybody has us going down. We also think we have signed next level players in the right areas and will do ok next season. I suppose you can't really blame them though.

I have noticed that an awful lot of Leicester fans have Sunderland to be relegated and an awful lot of Sunderland supporters have Leicester to be relegated. I don't believe there's any malice in them selections it's just other people don't see what we see about our own clubs.
 
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pundits are always right just glad they picked us for relegation last season we need a list list of these experts so we can remind them at the end of the season that they have no idea what they are talking about. perhaps the club could play their comments pre match once our safety has been confirmed so we could all chant that "you dont know what your doing".
 
Safc83 said:
It's the same with Sunderland mate, everybody has us going down. We also think we have signed next level players in the right areas and will do ok next season. I suppose you can't really blame them though.

I have noticed that an awful lot of Leicester fans have Sunderland to be relegated and an awful lot of Sunderland supporters have Leicester to be relegated. I don't believe there's any malice in them selections it's just other people don't see what we see about our own clubs.
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Spot on buddy ... heard John Cross of The Mirror on TalkSport this morning confidently predicting that we will finish bottom ... because he thinks Ranieri is a disastrous appointment ... seems to totally disregard that it is the players that will untimately determine our fate ...
 
The media are far too happy having their love affair with the new Burnley- Bournemouth. Going to be happy if we go under the radar, but the number who seem so certain we're going down is strange.
 
Cambiasso is a massive loss and without him we wouldnt of got out of the mess that we got ourselves in last season

But flip the coin and he was part of the team that got in that mess

We are a stronger team this year and if things are going to **** again we will spend in January.
 
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Stuart Pearce has tipped us to go down! which I am pleased about because he his a useless t**t and could not tip a wheelbarrow.
Rodney Marsh has yet again said we will go down, but he hates us because of what the late great John Sjoberg did to him.
With them two idiot knowledge boxes tipping us to go down, I am more than confident that we will stay up.
 
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It all seems to stem from our appointment of Ranieri, because a) he 'tinkered' with the Chelski team (because he had to according to the Chelski fans posting on here) and b) because he's had some mixed results since then. Now, I don't know how he'll do anymore than they do so how they've decided it's going to be a disaster I'm unsure.

We have added to the squad giving us greater strength and depth. We have lost one first team regular in Cambiasso, a player of immense quality and influence but he was actually playing during our poor run. We are still looking to strengthen the midfield. It was widely acknowledged that Huth was as important in that he stabilised our defence, we've signed him & added Fuchs.

Reading the BBC blokes preview this morning, West Ham will be 11th despite a manager change, one who has never managed at this level & is considered a bit of a liability. Newcastle will be 13th when they've appointed McLaren, who conspired to not get the best Derby team in years promoted (good man). They were incredibly poor last season and have not added a barage of world class players. Villa have signed quite a few but struggled most of last year even with Benteke & Delph. Are Sunderland significantly better, not for me.

Bournemouth are going to be brilliant on the basis they played well in the Championship, interesting assumption when our points total was far superior & we were tipped for instant relegation. Watford are as random as, changed managers ever 5 minutes but still got promoted.

We've got a years prem experience under our belts and for the most part last year we played well, we just weren't winning for a while, ok a long while! It wasn't only down to Nige that that changed.

I'm worried but that's just part of my dna. I'd rather be the underdog as yes it's when we are better. In my opinion we're in a good place. Can we get on with it now please.
 
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Proud Fox said:
Cambiasso is a massive loss and without him we wouldnt of got out of the mess that we got ourselves in last season

But flip the coin and he was part of the team that got in that mess

We are a stronger team this year and if things are going to **** again we will spend in January.
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Pretty much what I've been saying ... if we hadn't signed Huth we'd have been relegated irrespective of having such a smashing player as Cambiasso in our side ... but our survival also owed a lot to the growing belief and confidence of younger players like Mahrez and Schlupp - Vardy's 'no such thing as a lost cause' attitude; Kasper confident in the defenders in front of him and Ulloa converting the chances that started coming his way ...

The 'pundits' or dumbtits (wich seems more accurate) - seemingly choose to ignore any of that - and you have to question why they are happy to do so but seemingly ignore factors like Villa having sold their two best players (and the next best,Vlaar, being out injured for the beginning of the season) whilst replacing them with relative bargain bucket signings ... can you imagine it if we had also sold Ulloa and that Huth was going to be out injured at the start of the season? ... although, even then, I'd still back our squad over Villa's <laugh>

Instead we are being spoon fed that 'Eddie Howe' has somehow morphed into Sir Alex Morinhigardiola and will be guaranteed survival on footballing principles <doh> - that Sherwood is a proven manager at the top level <doh>, <doh>- that realtive success at Hamilton Academicals eclipses anything Ranieri has done in his career <doh> <laugh> - that the Pulis factor guarantees West Brom survival - that the North East of England teams are too big to go down and have become transformed from strugglers into 'comfortably mid-table' on nothing really more tangible tha some average signings and the presence, respectively, of the 'Wally with the Brolley' and a Geriatric Egg Nog bloke whose wife has given him permission to 'stay another day' (where are East 17 now? <whistle>)

Humour aside (and I ws attempting to be funny <laugh>) - I'm always optimistic about our prospects before the season starts - I realise it's tinged with my tribalistic patriotism for my team - but I sincerely believe this group of players is better than the group that started last season ... so is it really inevitable that we are going to struggle because we have a new manager and have lost our highest profile (if ageing) talisman?

I also firmly believe that our squad is better in quality than the squads of the teams that have come up - and also some of the other incumbents ...

I consle myself on all the negativity with the thought that it will be extremely satisfying (won't it just <laugh>) if, week by week, we continually rub it in the faces of the 'experts' ... BRING IT ON <grr>
 
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FosseFilberto said:
Instead we are being spoon fed that 'Eddie Howe' has somehow morphed into Sir Alex Morinhigardiola and will be guaranteed survival on footballing principles doh - that Sherwood is a proven manager at the top level doh, doh- that realtive success at Hamilton Academicals eclipses anything Ranieri has done in his career doh laugh - that the Pulis factor guarantees West Brom survival - that the North East of England teams are too big to go down and have become transformed from strugglers into 'comfortably mid-table' on nothing really more tangible tha some average signings and the presence, respectively, of the 'Wally with the Brolley' and a Geriatric Egg Nog bloke whose wife has given him permission to 'stay another day' (where are East 17 now? whistle)
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Brilliant FF. I shall retire to bed with a smile on my face.
 
For the record, I don't think Sunderland or Villa will go down. I also think that our squad is more than capable of being comfortably mid table, although I thought that last season as well. We don't even need the advantage of being given a free stadium, cough West Ham, cough.
 
Paul Merson has backed us to stay up but have a difficult season. He was one of the pundits who backed us to get out of the mess from last season
 
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Paul Merson has backed us to stay up but have a difficult season. He was one of the pundits who backed us to get out of the mess from last season
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Of the Sky Soccer Saturday boys, Matt Le Tissier has us for relegation on the grounds of Manager upheaval, seriously, wft! However the other 3 don't. Savage doesn't have us for the drop either, although I think I'd prefer it if he did.
 
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