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Relegation/ 3 worse teams
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jamiemartin721  Reading 04 Sep 17 11.59am |
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Originally posted by Sportyteacher
Sorry. Should've read as: '...and yet can't see where we can even buy a goal from. WAY too dependent upon Benteke and Zaha' Being dependent on Benteke is an step forwards. Previously we had no one we could be dependent on. Its not that long ago that Scott Dan was a top goal scorer.
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chateauferret  04 Sep 17 12.30pm |
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But there are things we can do to improve our situation. We can step away from this wing-backs nonsense and play a strategy that suits us and works for us. We can get a striker in on a free or in the winter window with the money we would have spent on Niasse. We can get our injured players back at some point. One of the reasons we are where we are is because we have been experimenting (unwisely), and fixing that is a case of phoning de Boer up and telling him to stop it FFS, which we have done. We can bring in a player who is a proper leader and organiser, which we are doing (Sakho). Ultimately we could dump de Boer and go with someone else. And of course we can now drop Puncheon because we have better midfielders now. Wet Spam have spent a bundle of cash in the window and they're still s***e. And unlike us they've been playing their established system with their established manager and their "best" players. Would someone else do better than Bilic? I don't know what the problem is there but I'm not sure it's (only) him.
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| chateauferret 04 Sep 17 12.31pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
I hope the referees figure Huddersfield out for the thugs that they are.
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 Sportyteacher London 05 Sep 17 8.36am |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
Being dependent on Benteke is an step forwards. Previously we had no one we could be dependent on. Its not that long ago that Scott Dan was a top goal scorer. I see where you are coming from alas we were fortunate last season that Benteke played throughout the season without injury. He only has to fall foul of injury to put him out for a period of time and then we will be relying upon Dann...given Wickham being likewise prone to life on the first aid bench.
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| pompeyeagle Relocated to Shropshire 05 Sep 17 8.42am |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
I hope the referees figure Huddersfield out for the thugs that they are. It's funny how football fans don't mind it if they have players who get "stuck in", but don't like it if the opposition do.
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| pompeyeagle Relocated to Shropshire 05 Sep 17 8.44am |
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There's are currently no teams who are even close to being as bad as we are.
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| Bexley Eagle Bexley Kent 05 Sep 17 4.06pm |
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I think you will find West Ham are officially worse than us, but having played all their games away from home they have some mitigating circumstances.
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| npn Crowborough 05 Sep 17 4.21pm |
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Worst thing about where we are now is that I am no longer confident of 6 or even 4 points from Brighton, or even finishing above them. I really hope we see some improvement soon, or we are bang in trouble
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| YT Oxford 05 Sep 17 4.44pm |
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Originally posted by pompeyeagle
It's funny how football fans don't mind it if they have players who get "stuck in", but don't like it if the opposition do. If only we did have such players...
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| miles18 Telford 05 Sep 17 4.55pm |
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Us and Brighton bottom 2. Then maybe Newcastle or Huddersfield for the last place.
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| Malcolm Ali's Son 06 Sep 17 4.37pm |
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Hmmmm...it's not just the squad, manager instability will play a large part in determining the bottom 3 or 4. I reckon Benitez is bound to go, Bilic too, and for me that makes Toon and the Hammers likely to lurk in the bottom 3. We are certainly in danger unless FdB finds an approach that works, or he will also be off and we will have another period of readjustment. Brighton will struggle to get goals and so will bounce around the bottom, but in Hughton they have a stability and will probably improve. Bournemouth whilst not impressing so far also have that stability in Howe. There is also likely to be one other club hitting a bad run of form, and with Drinkwater gone and Mahrez bound to go in Jan could it be Leicester?
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| OneWayTicketToMars Selsdon 06 Sep 17 4.43pm |
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17. Palace Thats my prediction for the bottom 4 at the end of the season ...
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