There doesn't seem to be anybody as bad as Fulham this season. Last year we was always looked better than Norwich, Cardiff and Fulham, at the moment we look the worst team. It seems the weaker teams have improved and the so called better teams (apart from Chelsea) have got worse. It's a strange premier league, very close.
All we need is for Brucie to teach the players to retain possession better than they have been because if you don't keep giving them the ball cheaply, there's a lot less chance that they can hurt you. One other thing that would help would be if we stopped defending so deep when we lose the ball and try putting pressure on it higher up the pitch, whether we've been reduced to 10 men or not. We've got some very good players now and seem very close to getting the system/formation to get the best out of what we have. We are potentially a mid table team, we just need to start playing to our potential and with a bit more confidence that we feel we can actually get a result out of games.
Doesnt all that tie in with us being, as he said, the worst team? I actually think he's got a valid point - who is worse than us? Most would say Burnley, well they beat us and have won their last 2. I wouldnt argue that we have a better team on paper but football isnt played on paper. Potentially only DQPR look worse to me. Burnley look a team. Lester look a team. We look a collection of players who dont know where they fit in, precisely like DQPR.
Until the sending off on Sunday we looked better then spurs imo . I have every faith we will stay up.
What a load of ****ing rubbish. We've played poorly TWICE this season; once at Villa and once at Burnley. Do you even watch games, you muppet?
It seems you don't go to watch games, or if you do you must be watching them with your eyes closed FFS.
It doesnt matter one jot how "well" you play in games. They dont relegate another team with more points cos we played prettier football.
Looks more like a bikers dog, you know bandana and goggles are not really mod gear. Must have chased OLM off and took his scoot.
I think there was a lot of over-optimism by City fans after the summer signings. It'd be interesting to bump up the thread in which we predicted where we'd end up. Then there was the thread started which compared us to Southampton because the OP thought we'd done so well getting some new players in.
I'd like to bump the thread about pre season predictions where every single poster, except me of course, said Saints would massively struggle....
The archived thread summarised as Oh No Shane Long Is Going To Southampton But At Least This Means We've A Great Replacement (Probably Remy) Lined Up - makes grim reading.
4/6 weeks Newcastle were a **** team bound for the championship, now they world beater's, a couple of good results and you shoot up this league, ok we're having a bad run, but our luck will change, we have too many good players for it not to, and we need to get a little bit more street wise when playing whinging arse holes like spurs, the reasons they were in the referee face most of the time till the sending off,was they knew that they were in danger of getting beat, and lets face it, they didn't beat us, we beat ourselves, with the help of one of the worst displays of refereeing I've ever seen, the season has a long, long, long way to go, come April if were still around 17th then I'll start getting worried.
But that's the point - we have a collection of good players. The best collection we've ever had. That doesnt make us a good team.
Which brings us back to the point I was trying to make much earlier in the thread regarding it being down to the management to work out the best system/formation to suit the players we have (I think Sunday brought us a step closer to that) and then make sure that we're a bit more savvy with our ball retention (which we haven't been so far this season and certainly weren't on Sunday) when we're not in the ascendancy.
