Agree. That's why alot of the fan base see 17th place as acceptable this season. Not ideal, but acceptable nonetheless.
How many points do you think we'll have accumulated after playing everyone once ? Still to play; Forest (h) Scum (a) Bournemouth (h) Spurs (a) Man City (h) Newcastle (a) West Ham (h)
i) Bielsa spent a lot of money. ii) What he achieved, it was very temporary iii) Many fans are misguided by his achievements due to the rapport he had with the club, and its fan base.
I dunno mate. Bournemouth is a biggie. If we win that then confidence comes back and I can see us getting quite a few. Maybe 10. If we lose next week it's gonna get tough again. Results breed confidence and confidence breeds results. Once you get into that cycle either way it just becomes a habit.
That would be very acceptable. We'd need 7 to be on track for 38 points but the way the League is panning out it might be 40+ to stay up this season.
their xg was around 2, depending on which site you use - so unless we re-signed rachubka it was never going to be 7-2 as emu mentioned earlier you can’t have it both ways - the games where we have more shots , more chances but lose it’s not bad luck it’s a useless manager. When we win, we were just lucky.
For sure he deserves some slack - but genuinely I feel he almost cost us promotion with the sitters he missed and any decent striker would have got as many as he did, probably a fair few more in the promotion year - whether said striker does the rest of the work paddy does is another matter. Had a hot streak (mainly first half of the season) back in the Prem - with no fans which may or may not be significant. After that normal service was largely resumed before last season was killed with injury. So do you judge him on the career championship striker he was… or the England cap player everyone decided he was after half a season of behind closed door games? Answers on a postcard
Did you read my post and just add your own words to the text to suit. I didn't accuse JM of being useless and I didn't use the word lucky.
Evening all. I have to eat some humble pie today. I was one of those questioning JM and I was wrong. I do think Liverpool were poor though. They didn't press us at the back and their finishing, especially Nunez, wasn't as good as I'd have expected. As has been said, We'd have been disappointed if Meslier had let any of the shots he saved in. I thought we defended set pieces very well because the delivery from TAO is just what we need and they have dangerous players to get on the end of them. I thought Koch and Cooper did well. Cooper does more than just defend when he plays, he's vocal and sorts the others out. The others play better when he plays. Adams and Roca were immense in the CM and it was Aaronsons best game for a while. Bamford is rusty but he harries defenders so they're rushed. That was by far Jimmy's best game for us. He needs to play on the right. I know Rodrigo scored but I don't think he's the answer. He's loose with his passing, he can't tackle and I don't see him pulling defenders about. Gnonto is our mini Adama Traore. I think he's too small but he's built like a brick **** house. I watched the Bournemouth game and was impressed with Keiffer Moore. He took chances he was given very well. It would be so fkn Leeds if we lose to Bournemouth.
So you said ‘on another day we could have lost 7-2’ so what were you intending to imply if it wasn’t that we rode our luck? Your post didn’t reference that others have ridden their luck against us. Didn’t seem Balanced to me hence the comments. If I have you wrong my apologies I do agree with your main point that one swallow doesn’t make a summer and that we need to find a way to do better against the average teams - who are more defensive minded. Personally I think we’ll struggle against them at home - because we lack the guile and jm’s system lends itself to transition moments which you don’t get against sides who park the bus. We have to score first to get them to show ambition and then defend better than we have been and cut out the individual errors.
