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 Brinscalleagle2  Brinscall 23 Mar 22 5.41pm |
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Yes we are doing well and by all accounts will develop still further . However let us not lose sight of the fact that in general your success in the league is directly proportional to the wealth of the owners. As it stands top 10 is our level without the extra wealth input as any top six quality players we produce will be poached by the top six. As it stands there is not much we can do about it without the wealth input. It will be interesting to see how Newcastle develop as the latest to inherit new funds.COYP.
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Nicholas91  The Democratic Republic of Kent 23 Mar 22 6.26pm |
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Originally posted by Brinscalleagle2
Yes we are doing well and by all accounts will develop still further . However let us not lose sight of the fact that in general your success in the league is directly proportional to the wealth of the owners. As it stands top 10 is our level without the extra wealth input as any top six quality players we produce will be poached by the top six. As it stands there is not much we can do about it without the wealth input. It will be interesting to see how Newcastle develop as the latest to inherit new funds.COYP. Too bad it is not mirrored by the amount of P!55 in your toilets. The Arthur Wait would have won it's very own Ballon D'or by now.
Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!! |
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| Omph Liverpool 24 Mar 22 9.46am |
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Originally posted by scarlet
Whatever happens from now until the end of the season it will have been a great season. Can we take out two of the three possibly best clubs in the world and win the FA Cup finally? Who knows but surely worth a bet. No relegation battle this year is a welcome relief. We have an exciting band of footballers performing for a coach I hope we can keep. Proud to be Palace! Pausing for reflection I'd argue against this. At the 25 match mark we were exactly par for the course. The only time we had a notably different league position at that point was the Pardew implosion and under Roy we were decently better off at least twice. The season still has potential of course. A final would still count as great in parochial terms and a win would be historic. Likewise a top 10 finish would be a real achievement for the club in terms of our history. It would still only park us just above par for the course really as in all likelihood we would be a couple of results from 14th too! 7 wins and 3 draws with no single goal victories tells its own story. Great when we are good but all potential really. Realistically we won't often get a generational team like this one. It's key we keep it's core together as long as poss, reinvest well when we do inevitably sell and produce at least one "I was there" season in terms of achievement to match the Coppell side. Top 6 is a reach but doable if you look at it as a high-water mark of a generational team. If you had said it has been an amazingly entertaining season I wouldn't quarrel at all! But that's a different point surely. Edited by Omph (24 Mar 2022 9.51am)
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| Ipswich Eagle Ipswich 24 Mar 22 9.54am |
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Originally posted by Omph
Edited by Omph (24 Mar 2022 9.51am) That's the key and big worry for me.... Already the newspaper are pumping out stories of a "four way tussle" for Tyrick Mitchell, and similar for Olise, both of who are good enough to attract attention from the top 4, which we can't get in the way of. Throw in the fact I'm pretty sure we'll lose CG at the end of the season, and frankly next years squad could look markedly different.
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| Omph Liverpool 24 Mar 22 10.20am |
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Originally posted by Ipswich Eagle
That's the key and big worry for me.... Already the newspaper are pumping out stories of a "four way tussle" for Tyrick Mitchell, and similar for Olise, both of who are good enough to attract attention from the top 4, which we can't get in the way of. Throw in the fact I'm pretty sure we'll lose CG at the end of the season, and frankly next years squad could look markedly different. Following the news wire below can be misleading! Pretty much all the Olise and Mitchell stories are just one story regurgitated by other outlets. Personally doubt anyone will be in for Olise this time around anyway. A youthful wide player is exactly what Arsenal are not looking for - they have trouble fitting in the 3 they have already. He's also at that stage where he's unlikely to go anywhere he isn't going to get football. Much the same applies to the Mitchell story. He's an increasingly tidy player but would be second choice at any club that outranked us in the market. The time may come for both of them - and Guehi and Eze - a year or so down the line but having trawled other clubs forums there are very very few references to them right now.
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Slimey Toad  Karsiyaka, North Cyprus 24 Mar 22 10.32am |
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Originally posted by Omph
Pausing for reflection I'd argue against this. At the 25 match mark we were exactly par for the course. The only time we had a notably different league position at that point was the Pardew implosion and under Roy we were decently better off at least twice. The season still has potential of course. A final would still count as great in parochial terms and a win would be historic. Likewise a top 10 finish would be a real achievement for the club in terms of our history. It would still only park us just above par for the course really as in all likelihood we would be a couple of results from 14th too! 7 wins and 3 draws with no single goal victories tells its own story. Great when we are good but all potential really. Realistically we won't often get a generational team like this one. It's key we keep it's core together as long as poss, reinvest well when we do inevitably sell and produce at least one "I was there" season in terms of achievement to match the Coppell side. Top 6 is a reach but doable if you look at it as a high-water mark of a generational team. If you had said it has been an amazingly entertaining season I wouldn't quarrel at all! But that's a different point surely. Edited by Omph (24 Mar 2022 9.51am) This is a too literal post. I am pretty sure the OP was not not referring to a good season as the most points, goals scored, games lost etc. Please think about it. It is a transitional season, a good squad is being built, possible FA cup final, no relegation.
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| Omph Liverpool 24 Mar 22 11.57am |
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Originally posted by Slimey Toad
This is a too literal post. I am pretty sure the OP was not not referring to a good season as the most points, goals scored, games lost etc. Please think about it. It is a transitional season, a good squad is being built, possible FA cup final, no relegation. Nah If it's a transitional season why call it a great season no matter what? The implication is perhaps that we will inevitably go on to much better things next time around. It's a transition to something much better. I imagine Leeds fans felt that way this time last year before they lost Bamford and Phillips for pretty much the whole season. This could be the start of something but there is no inevitability about it. Let's judge what is happening now and not what we hope to happen in the future. Pretty sure that's how Vieira sees it. We've done okay. Relegation avoidance is the first priority but in truth you need to go back quite a time to find a time when that was a sustained threat through the season. The football has been much more enjoyable. The squad looks better. We've made a cup semi on a very easy run. Does that add up to great? Really? More fun this time as I said. Great it isn't. I'm not really part of the "it's time we made the next step" brigade - too old for that - but I do think there is potential for a probably temporary step up. It's underselling the club to think that this season is anything special.
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| doombear Too far from Selhurst Park 24 Mar 22 12.28pm |
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So easy to get carried away. Thus far it has been an enjoyable season. I've been going to matches expecting to be entertained and to see us score goals and most games both expectations have been met. It has been great to see players visibly developing and improving as the season has progressed. The future is looking brighter than it has for a while. BUT 1. We have relied heavily on a loanee who will almost certainly NOT be with us next season. 2. We have been very fortunate this season on the injury front. The only injury that saw our form and performances dip for a while was McArthur's but we have got over that with a rejuvenated post Afcon Kouyate and some good performances by Schlupp. We may not be so lucky next year (Think Leeds). 3. We don't know what the summer window will bring in way of arrivals and possibly more importantly, departures. Let's just enjoy what we have whilst we have it and if we should end up being a top 10 team in the next few seasons then we can talk about having a great period
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| Slimey Toad Karsiyaka, North Cyprus 24 Mar 22 12.41pm |
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Originally posted by Omph
Nah If it's a transitional season why call it a great season no matter what? The implication is perhaps that we will inevitably go on to much better things next time around. It's a transition to something much better. I imagine Leeds fans felt that way this time last year before they lost Bamford and Phillips for pretty much the whole season. This could be the start of something but there is no inevitability about it. Let's judge what is happening now and not what we hope to happen in the future. Pretty sure that's how Vieira sees it. We've done okay. Relegation avoidance is the first priority but in truth you need to go back quite a time to find a time when that was a sustained threat through the season. The football has been much more enjoyable. The squad looks better. We've made a cup semi on a very easy run. Does that add up to great? Really? More fun this time as I said. Great it isn't. I'm not really part of the "it's time we made the next step" brigade - too old for that - but I do think there is potential for a probably temporary step up. It's underselling the club to think that this season is anything special. Yeah, be old and act it. Enjoy.
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| est1905 24 Mar 22 4.53pm |
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Originally posted by sydtheeagle
This is absolutely true but it also makes exactly the point I was making. Yes, we're the weakest of the four remaining teams, the other three of whom are all world-class which, for all our improvement, we are not. But part of the equation here is self-belief; if you don't think you belong, you never will belong. If you don't expect to win, you probably won't. Look at this forum. Many talk about avoiding relegation as an achievement and in the past, it has been. For my money, it's NOT any more. We need to raise the bar with regard to how we see ourselves. For now, tenth place is an achievement. Finishing in 17th isn't. That's the minimum acceptable standard. I am not saying we should go into the semi-final expecting we're better than Chelsea player-by-player because we're obviously not but I do expect us to go in thinking we CAN win and go in with a plan that gives us the best chance to do so. We have to go into it believing that we are good enough, on the day, to get a result. And we are. We have three players in the full England squad. We have an AFCON winner who's already lifted a major trophy bigger than the FA Cup this year. We've beaten Man City at the Etihad. Whoever we've beaten to get there, we're at Wembley. We are bang in form right now. We are in the semi-final because we're one of the best four teams in the tournament. I agree, we should be realistic but that doesn't mean we can't be positive and optimistic. We probably have a one in ten chance of beating the other three teams in the tournament on any given day. Self belief maybe increases that to two in ten. Let's believe and go for it. Let's all stop thinking we're not as good as we are. I completely agree. I've been saying for some time now, fans that keep talking about the possibility of relegation and totting up how many points we have/how many more we need, etc have a small club mentality. Thanks partly to Roy for putting solid foundations in place and now Patrick and the owners for being brave and ambitious with our signings and our style of play we have been nowhere near the relegation zone. Even when we were on a bad winless run a month or so ago.
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| the.universal 24 Mar 22 5.06pm |
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Personally I’m not worried about a single player or two leaving, provided we get the right fee for them. Gallagher will be a miss, but we have known it was very unlikely he would stay with us since we first signed him. I’m not sure who the replacement will be, but I’m sure we will move to address it in the summer whether it is a new formation, a new position for an existing player (Eze), a promotion from youth or signing someone externally. My main concern is losing Viera. I feel he will be increasingly in demand and the big boys will come calling. The best we can do is make sure we get some decent compensation and have a couple of good replacements lined up. I’m enjoying PV while we have him!
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Lanzo-Ad  Lanzarote 24 Mar 22 5.43pm |
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Originally posted by the.universal
Personally I’m not worried about a single player or two leaving, provided we get the right fee for them. Gallagher will be a miss, but we have known it was very unlikely he would stay with us since we first signed him. I’m not sure who the replacement will be, but I’m sure we will move to address it in the summer whether it is a new formation, a new position for an existing player (Eze), a promotion from youth or signing someone externally. My main concern is losing Viera. I feel he will be increasingly in demand and the big boys will come calling. The best we can do is make sure we get some decent compensation and have a couple of good replacements lined up. I’m enjoying PV while we have him! Yes, i agree, we where lucky that Lampard, Favre and Nino didn't get the job, Forth pick was best, you need a bit luck, i do think a famously named player attracts the players, so if PV does go i think we should go down a similar route
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