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Expectations for next season
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 homes  New Eltham 22 May 17 6.52am |
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I'd take a season where we are completely safe throughout. Don't care if we end up finishing 17.
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| Bexley Eagle Bexley Kent 22 May 17 10.10am |
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I would hope for improved home form, perhaps 10+ wins and a few draws. Away form also good and for them to win if I go! Nearer 50 than 40 points would be great.
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| MKCPFC Spain/MK 22 May 17 10.10am |
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Originally posted by alaneagle1
If you think I got that from WIKI its complete Hogwash. Sorry , I forgot about all your contacts.
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| dannyh wherever I lay my hat....... 22 May 17 10.43am |
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Top ten is where we need to be looking.
"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'" |
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| cpj Kent 22 May 17 10.51am |
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Just staying up comfortably would be nice. Each year you look for 3 teams we can finish above and it gets harder each year to find them. Hopefully Brighton and Reading/Huddersfield will struggle, and Watford and Burnley both had poor run-ins, but so did we, losing 4 of our last 5 without scoring.
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| Bexley Eagle Bexley Kent 22 May 17 11.06am |
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Originally posted by cpj
Just staying up comfortably would be nice. Each year you look for 3 teams we can finish above and it gets harder each year to find them. Hopefully Brighton and Reading/Huddersfield will struggle, and Watford and Burnley both had poor run-ins, but so did we, losing 4 of our last 5 without scoring. So we lost to Man City and Spurs, which most clubs do, and Man U (when we were officially on the beach) and Burnley (when we prematurely thought we were on the beach). I would be disappointed if we didn't finish above all those teams next year.
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| Flightsequence 22 May 17 11.12am |
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Play entertaining football. Not hoof ball. That's all really.
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| VeganPower Chesham 22 May 17 11.22am |
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No expectations, no disappointments If Sakho stays we have a top half chance and a cup run chance. If Sam buys with the intelligence he has so far with Luka, PVA and Schlupp then any sales can be compensated for. If Sam stays, I am confident we can do well and stay up
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chateauferret  22 May 17 11.23am |
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Originally posted by Flightsequence
Play entertaining football. Not hoof ball. That's all really. Surely Seaweed will provide us with sufficient entertainment? Or at least plenty of laughs.
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| bexleydave Barnehurst 22 May 17 11.36am |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Surely Seaweed will provide us with sufficient entertainment? Or at least plenty of laughs. If their only signing and the rumours of players they're linked with are anything to go by, they appear to be trawling the Bundesliga for players in their mid-20s for under £3m. Perhaps they're using a filter on CM? Let's hope it all works out well for them
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| leejaneagles 22 May 17 11.53am |
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I think someone else said it - you can't really look at a guaranteed 3 teams to finish below you anymore, so the only way out of that is to be an established mid-table team like Stoke. I think the past 10 years or so, you can generally not make any investment if you lack ambition but say with some confidence this team will finish 20th, this team 19th etc. Not the case anymore. I'd hope the play-off winners and Brighton struggle but there's no reason they both can't have a silly first season and finish 10th-12th. That straight away puts pressure on the likes of your Burnley's/Bournemouth's/Watford's etc. For Palace to not fall into that trap we need the investment to be a team comfortably better than those 'lower ambition teams'. You'd think if we signed Sakho, Jenkinson, Defoe and an attacking midfielder whilst offering the likes of Zaha £110k a week that establishes you in the top half. IMO you either risk being in a relegation battle or you finish comfortably top half these days, there doesn't seem to be room to 'easily' finish 12th-16th. Too few points in it and you can accidentally end up relegated on the last day.
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| bexleydave Barnehurst 22 May 17 12.09pm |
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Originally posted by leejaneagles
You'd think if we signed Sakho, Jenkinson, Defoe and an attacking midfielder whilst offering the likes of Zaha £110k a week that establishes you in the top half.
Bexley Dave Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing! "The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum) |
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