St Marys is crap compared to the Dell for atmosphere , but that goes for a lot of stadiums nowadays , more families , ladies and day trippers have come into fill the stadiums which is great BUT at a cost of atmosphere , the working class mans game is no more .
I'd hope we can get four points from those two games, but I'd accept two points, no problem. Carroll will almost certainly be back however (rumours he may even make the bench tomorrow night), and that worries me - especially from a set-piece point of view. I've not been entirely convinced at our ability to defend them so far. Fellani almost scored yesterday, Benteke almost scored last week, Rio almost scored for Utd, and RVP did score for Utd - all headers from corners. And of course being a striker, Carroll also poses an aerial threat from open play, not just set pieces.
3 from the Fulham game is possible need to be careful they don't do us like Wigan did, i.e. play deep and organised at the back and look for the breakaway goal; West Ham is harder to predict - last season they outplayed us for most of the game with 10 players and we scraped an equaliser from Jos near the end. Might be able to grab a draw from that game - see the next two games as being somewhere between 1 and four points - most likely 2 or 3.
Would love 6, but more likely 1-3 with my best guess being 3 points. We have to try and get back to fortress St Marys...our best chance of wins.
Nah...we were better than West Ham last year and there's no reason that will be different this year Fulham's next three games are us, Aston Villa and Reading and I am sure they are licking their lips at the prospect. I would say that it's going to be a tough game but they all are.
