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Inapickle South West 31 Oct 16 10.44pm | |
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Originally posted by Den1923
your living in a dream world, just look at our results against the teams around us and since the start of 2016. That is not mid table form its downwards rather than upwards, its a bit like moving your deckchair around the Titanic to keep your feet dry! ..you have to be in one because we are quite safe at the moment and you're just imagining the worst, we are as good as we were in the last game and seeing as we played the hottest team in this league and basically allowed them the pleasure of scoring all their goals we did quite well for me to happily dangle my feet into the icy cold water knowing this team will easily accumulate enough points to survive...easily.
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Inapickle South West 31 Oct 16 10.55pm | |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
This. Long term thinking over short term thinking. We're not doing that badly this season, West Brom and West Ham aside, I'd say our results are more or less expected performance level. Reality check, if you want top 8, stick with a manager, and let them build the squad. We arguably over performed with Pulis and Pardew with some exciting finishes - but top 10 is a goal, not an expectation. Realistically, we're a minnow in this league, and always will be. In terms of actual, reasonable analysis, we're doing remarkably well. West Ham was a poor show. But lets be honest, Leicester away, they've not been beaten in 20 games, and Liverpool on Saturday were in a different league. The thing about bogey teams, its 80% coincidence, 10% psychology, 10 % reality ..exactly and well put, but that Hammers goal was poor man marking but extremely well worked and taken and we did have some decent play in that game and should have got a draw from it in the end also against Leicester we had good periods of control with good movement and some really good opportunities to score, if we weren't doing this and looking as beaten as Sunderland then I'd be worried about survival, but anyone can easily see this team is very very close to getting it right and having a real fight for top middle table.
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Rachid Rachid Rachid 31 Oct 16 11.03pm | |
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Don't think there's many who really think we should be finishing top eight although I must admit I fell into the trap of thinking that we might have a chance around last Christmas. However, neither should we be happy with a season of struggle but at the moment I don't see anything else. Granted there are injuries but the team looks lacking in energy and ideas and is now shipping goals on set pieces which had previously been a relatively strong area. We also now only have one player who looks capable of going round his man and Bolasie was always going to be a far bigger loss to the team than on paper IMO despite the money we got.
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Canterbury Palace Whitstable 31 Oct 16 11.16pm | |
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Below are two Tweets from a football analyst and, according to his bio, a fellow Palace fan. The first is the "Klopp Premier League Table", the table since he took charge of Liverpool. [Tweet Link]
The second is regarding the amount of goals we've conceded from set pieces this season. [Tweet Link]
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Inapickle South West 31 Oct 16 11.18pm | |
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Originally posted by Rachid Rachid Rachid
Don't think there's many who really think we should be finishing top eight although I must admit I fell into the trap of thinking that we might have a chance around last Christmas. However, neither should we be happy with a season of struggle but at the moment I don't see anything else. Granted there are injuries but the team looks lacking in energy and ideas and is now shipping goals on set pieces which had previously been a relatively strong area. We also now only have one player who looks capable of going round his man and Bolasie was always going to be a far bigger loss to the team than on paper IMO despite the money we got. ..I saw quite a lot of moves against liverpool that had them panicking when at 2-3 and us pressing, especially the last ditching tackle bits, you need to not panic about this team, liverpool will win this league this season because klopp with dosh will sort their defence and to me they are just too freaking scary to comprehend not doing it, please inform me of all the games where we have been knocked out flat and utterly outplayed?
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Den1923 01 Nov 16 8.46am | |
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We are 4 points, off the drop zone, how can that be safe with a run of fixtures in the next few weeks that include Man city, Southampton, Man U and Chelsea. In between we have must win games at Burnley, Swansea & Hull. Safe?, I think not if we keep leaking goals and I repeat based on our performance in 2016 we would be in a pretty dire position if this were the actual season!
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cpj Kent 01 Nov 16 8.56am | |
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Originally posted by Den1923
We are 4 points, off the drop zone, how can that be safe with a run of fixtures in the next few weeks that include Man city, Southampton, Man U and Chelsea. In between we have must win games at Burnley, Swansea & Hull. Safe?, I think not if we keep leaking goals and I repeat based on our performance in 2016 we would be in a pretty dire position if this were the actual season! ... and 1 point off 17th.
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spartakev2 Anerley 01 Nov 16 9.05am | |
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And 4 points off 7th...
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DANGERCLOSE London 01 Nov 16 9.15am | |
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If we don't get a result on Saturday then i think Pards has to go imo
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Den1923 01 Nov 16 9.16am | |
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Current form over full season 38 games would POSITION us as follows:- 20- Sunderland 36PTS This is reality at present lets hope its is not the final outcome 17 would be stressful but fine, lets not get carried away thinking we are better that we actually are!
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Dangermouse Hastings 01 Nov 16 6.37pm | |
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Not a Pardew out member or a Pardew must stay member, more a, I'll support the manager until he's sacked or he really loses the plot member and I'll always defend anyone against unfair criticism.............. BUT!
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Podyonkers Atlanta, Georgia 01 Nov 16 9.27pm | |
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Originally posted by Dangermouse
Not a Pardew out member or a Pardew must stay member, more a, I'll support the manager until he's sacked or he really loses the plot member and I'll always defend anyone against unfair criticism.............. BUT! Bang on, in my opinion. The EPL is so direct, so frenetic. If you think about it, AP played in an earlier version of this league, which, if anything, was even more direct. He learned how to play with hard tackling and an awful lot of shoving and grinding. Not saying he was not an adept player - he was - but I'm not sure he learnt to value space as much as brute force. Moving into space is a given at any level but I doubt many British players have had to move off the ball at the level someone like Guardiola is used to.
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