.....Martin O'Neill had been our manager at the start of the season where in the league would we be now? Hypothetical I know but you do wonder. For the first time when playing Liverpool I was not scared of what would happen. Normally any win has been lucky - yesterday I never thought for one minute that we would lose. Happy Days
If Bruce had been there until the end of the window and then left and MoN took over, i think - in all seriousness - we would be up with Newcastle challenging them. I reckon 5th is a bit much, but I think us and the Skunks would be on each others heels nipping away. 6th-7th.
Can some numerical wiz not wrk out how many points we've accumulated under O'Neill n average it out over the season? My B in GCSE maths just wont cut it! However id say 6th ish. The turnaround in form, confidence and expectations since he came is just ridiculous
IF MoN had been in charge at the start of the season, and not inherited Bruce's team....????? Difficult to say.
Does anyone think the current squad are punching above their collective weight? Since MON has come our points tally would have us top 4!
I think we have played 14 games under MON now, winning 26 points. We have played 28 games in total so if we had won at the same rate from the start of the season we would now have 52 points. Which would make us 4th in the current table. If we keep on at this rate we will get another 18 or 19 points up to the end of the season. Obviously if our first 14 games had produced 26 points then the whole table would be different as we would have beaten Newcastle, Chelsea and got at least a draw at Man U for example!!! I would need the BBC predictor as it was at the start of the season to work this out properly!!
Too many variables to make any realistic guestimates but it seems pretty likely you'd be higher up. Even if you'd just beaten us at SoL there'd only be a point between us now, fine margins which Bruce seemed to get on the wrong side of and MoN seems to be ace-ing. I think Bruce deserves some credit for some of the fine youngsters coming through but his inability to get and keep good strikers was bizarre. You can't really judge well though as if MoN had come in at the start of the season he'd have had expectations to deal with whereas when he came in at christmas it was a win-win situation (a top ten team playing like potential relegation candidates). He's done amazingly and you look like a different team, love it if both of us finish above Liverpool. Next test will be in the summer, his transfer dealings have been hit and miss (in my opinion) previously, though better than the average manager with a touch more 'hit' than 'miss'.
Also you whould have to take in to account that we whould have got through the league cup a few more rounds which whould have made our players more tierd and potentialy lost us games
You never really know do you? Everton at the moment don't look like losing against anybody yet for the first half of the season we didn't look like winning under the same manager.
