Where do you think we will finish this season?

ziedth

PMU wrote: »

if we could pick him up cheap, would he be a better striker than Pav?

I'd happily take a £20m punt on him. he was the best stoker in the world (debatably) for a while. That has to be still in there somewhere. Can't see Chelsea selling him to us though.

Anyway, Utd/City both knocked out of CL tonight. Be interesting to see how they react. Hopefully at least one will spiral and freefall but in reality I'd say both will pull away in the league.

oppiuy

Utd are they to be got at, and when teams realise that they are vunerable ill expect them to lose a few games over the Xmas period

2nd Row Donkey

Was really hoping both Utd and City would progress.
I run in the CL would really have distracted Citeh from the PL.

Now both teams have nothing to aim for but the PL title. Ah well.

Wendell Gee

I think the opposite. The pressure increases, particularly on Utd. One of them goes out of the cup in the 3rd round.
We meanwhile, are coming up serenely on the rails, belief increasing with every game, and as their fallibility is exposed. This title is there for the winning. If we go for it and fall a bit short, we'll still be top 3. We gave the mancs a 2 game start, but in return got parker in, Ade was always coming. Now we can catch them. Citeh will drop a few points this side of Christmas.

2nd Row Donkey

@wendell

I suppose if you take our experience last season; the good run in the CL was mirrored in PL performances and it was only after we lost to Real that our league formed dipped so badly. Hopefully the same thing will happen with City but i doubt it.

ziedth

Both their games this weekend will tell allot. I expect City to bounce back and I have a gut feeling Utd could struggle.

mushykeogh

If we go out of europe, as is most likely, it could now be to our major advantage in the league. While city have the squad to put out a competitive second 11 and not have any impact on their premier league side, utd may struggle.

Already depleted by injuries, they may have landed themselves in a dilemma. Put out complete youngsters in the Europa league and get eliminated, the press will have a field day, play a strong team in an attempt to win it, and they will struggle as surely a good few players will have to play Thursday's and Sunday's?
Smalling and Jones will be great players, but right now they certainly can be exposed. vidic out for the season is a major blow, neither ferdinand or evans are particularly imposing at the moment. Advantage spurs for a top two finish?

mushykeogh

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

@wendell

I suppose if you take our experience last season; the good run in the CL was mirrored in PL performances and it was only after we lost to Real that our league formed dipped so badly. Hopefully the same thing will happen with City but i doubt it.

Our form dipped big time in the league after the fantastic result and performance against AC Milan in the San Siro. Lost away to blackpool,draws against wolves, west ham, and we already had 5 defeats and a whopping 8 draws in the prem league prior to the AC Milan game! So i dont think its fair to say we were in good form prior to our champs league exit. Post real Madrid our Prm league was played 7, won 2, drawn 3, lost 2. Our form was pretty patchy all season last year.

Dublin Spur

1st

Hatch99

Dublin Spur wrote: »

1st

:D:D someone is on the wine tonight

everdead.ie

Hatch99 wrote: »

Dublin Spur wrote: »

1st

:D:D someone is on the wine tonight

I think I'd actually die

Dublin Spur

best Spurs team I've ever known
we can do it
a lot will depend on how many injuries we get

ziedth

I think our whole season we depend on how we bounce back from our next loss. When it does happen hopefully we'll have a handy enough game the following week.

Then of course comes the inevitable dip in form that happens everyone. Hopefully we muddle through.

2nd Row Donkey

Damn BBW websites premiership fixture predictor has me second guessing all of our upcoming fixtures.

I reckon we will be 6 points behind City on Jan 1st, and 6 point behind on Feb 1st (but with our game in hand played).

I'd bite your hand off for that right now.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Suarez out for 8 games, would be shocked now if Liverpool got fourth, they'll struggle big time without him.

everdead.ie

THFC wrote: »

Suarez out for 8 games, would be shocked now if Liverpool got fourth, they'll struggle big time without him.

Suarez has not performed well this season Liverpool are struggling for goals this ban could see them change formation and actually start banging them in.

He also has his probable ban for his gesture toward Fulham fans to come as well.

BERBA

he got off lightly with only 8 games

bradolf pittler

if liverpool wait the full 14 days to appeal/or not then suarez will only miss 4 league games,2 F.A. cup ties and both legs of the carling cup semi final.
the last game he would miss would be their home game against us and he'd be back against man utd the following week.i dont think they'll appeal,they'll weight it all up and 4 league games isnt much.
p.s. john terry must be sh1tting himself

ziedth

That thread in the soccer forum about this is bloody hilarious. If I wasn't a mod on this site I would troll the shít out of it :pac:

Wait till Terry gets off scot free (which he will) and you'll see the shít hit the fan.

Hopefully it'll throw everyone involved off their game

K-9

bradolf pittler wrote: »

if liverpool wait the full 14 days to appeal/or not then suarez will only miss 4 league games,2 F.A. cup ties and both legs of the carling cup semi final.
the last game he would miss would be their home game against us and he'd be back against man utd the following week.i dont think they'll appeal,they'll weight it all up and 4 league games isnt much.
p.s. john terry must be sh1tting himself

He'd be back in time for United!

The run of games isn't that bad, only Spurs out the top 6. The 2 Carling Cup is kind of irrelevant now. Make or break time for Carroll though and probably Liverpool's challenge for 4th. They've been hanging in there so far. Time for Carroll and Kuyt to start scoring.

everdead.ie

K-9 wrote: »

He'd be back in time for United!

The run of games isn't that bad, only Spurs out the top 6. The 2 Carling Cup is kind of irrelevant now. Make or break time for Carroll though and probably Liverpool's challenge for 4th. They've been hanging in there so far. Time for Carroll and Kuyt to start scoring.

Suarez will be back now for th spurs match but to be honest I still think Liverpool are better without him because his finishing is terrible.

I actually think that if they play Carroll up front and start playing to his strengths they'd score a lot more.

dodgygeezer

3rd. Manure shaken at the moment but will recover - unfortunately helped subtly by Sky's expectations and referees. City's power and squad to steamroll to the title. If we keep the squad together next year will be ours. The richer teams will be grappling with the finacial Fair play regulations coming the season after and simply won't be able to bring in many huge transfers....