Clever Fox Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 You are probably like me, and thinking about the last four games of the 1962/63 season. I can never forget how that felt! Neither can I which was why I urged caution instead of the triumphalism of some on here. Now after one draw they're very quiet or worried. I still believe we'll do it but we have to win on Saturday. Otherwise the pressure will get to the players. As I've said previously we're going to have to do it all ourselves.
nnfox Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 This forum was less negative when we were going to get relegated last year.
shen Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 Have people not seen spurs fixtures? West Brom - Pulis factor Chelsea - local derby Southampton - fighting for Europe Newcastle - fighting to stay up Honestly don't think they will win all those games. The only hard fixture left for us is Man U. Tottenham arguably have 4 difficult fixtures. West Brom have all mentally gone on holiday. Very poor today and lost to bloody Watford last weekend Chelsea got dismantled by Man City and have nothing but pride to play for Southampton flatter to deceive. Stok are fighting for Europe too and Spurs tore them apart. Newcastle will be a hard-fought game, but I don't see Newcastle doing the double over them. That said, I trust we will win two of our remaining games, and hopefully that will be enough.
biggs Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 Have we not been watching the same games, we should not have beat Newcastle, thank god for us Sissoko was garbage, Palace hit the bar in stoppage time and we were under siege the entire last 20 minutes. We snuck out a win against Norwich. Strangely the West Brom game was our best performance of late and that was a draw. Ok we probably would have beaten West Ham but for the red. If Sunderland's defenders dont fall asleep I am not sure we get a goal in that game. I am far from worried but to say that we have played well or rather to contradict his statement that we have not been playing well. I am not so sure. All that said, I expect a win on the weekend put one hand on the trophy. You're far from worried.......haha......No you're watching scared out of your socks......some of us are watching with excitement and no fear. Ever watched a replay of a game you think we played like crap in only to find out we played just fine once you knew the score. Fear does horrible things to your mind.
Stevosevic Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 Southampton are five points off sixth anyway, all likelihood they'll be playing for nothing when they go to Spurs. If Man United win the FA cup then 7th qualifies for Europe. They'll want to secure that spot just in case maybe.
nnfox Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 If Man United win the FA cup then 7th qualifies for Europe. They'll want to secure that spot just in case maybe. And if Liverpool win Europa, 8th qualifies.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 Do people not watch football on this forum? Have they never watched brilliant teams thwarted by a goalie having the game of his life and the ball going into their own net off the midfielder rushing back to help his defenders? Or seen key players sent off for no apparent reason? Or injuries, or dodgy penalties, or onside goals disallowed for offside? Spurs getting all available 12 pts is far from certain, and they need all 12 if we win 2 of our last matches and there's no reason to suggest from any of our form, not from just this season, but the last 13 months, that we won't do that. So get a grip!
SpinneyHillRanger Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 Let's just beat Swansea and see what happens. Ranieri and the lads will have burning desire to win. Swansea despite Ashley Williams can not match our desire. Sigurdson hit the post against us at their place and we will need to watch giving soft free kicks away around the box. Drinky, mahrez, okazaki all due performances... Even if one of them is man of the match we will have this.
weller54 Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 Pulis reckons we're f***ed.. We'll choke and Spurs will win the title.. Confidence booster going into their game with them on Monday..what a c***!
LJS Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 Pulis reckons we're f***ed.. We'll choke and Spurs will win the title.. Confidence booster going into their game with them on Monday..what a c***! He is being misquoted. It is being reported that he said "it isn't going to be them it's going to be Tottenham". What he actually said was he wants us to win it and hopes he can help on Monday, but IF it isn't going to be us it's going to be Tottenham, which is still good as it's still someone different.
FireFox Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 I posted this in another thread, but hopefully for those that didn't see, this will calm some worries. When Ranieri won Ligue 2 (38 game season) with Monaco, he was 5 points ahead with 4 games to play. He won 3 of them, and finished 6 points ahead.
char123 Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 West Brom have all mentally gone on holiday. Very poor today and lost to bloody Watford last weekend Chelsea got dismantled by Man City and have nothing but pride to play for Southampton flatter to deceive. Stok are fighting for Europe too and Spurs tore them apart. Newcastle will be a hard-fought game, but I don't see Newcastle doing the double over them. That said, I trust we will win two of our remaining games, and hopefully that will be enough. I cant see newcastle doing the double either but they are looking better under rafa and they have a lot to fight for. I think thle best we can hope for from that is a drawSent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
David Lowe Posted 21 April 2016 Posted 21 April 2016 No worries for me - we are going to finish first or second which is amazing. If it happens to be second, I don't want to see crying supporters. We should all be disappointed on missing out but we need to show appreciation to the players not sit there blubbing.
Fox92 Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 Pulis reckons we're f***ed.. We'll choke and Spurs will win the title.. Confidence booster going into their game with them on Monday..what a c***! First of all he's been misquoted. Secondly, I don't care what non-Leicester people say and neither should you or any of us. "What a c***t" just for saying something against Leicester, grow up.
weller54 Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 First of all he's been misquoted. Secondly, I don't care what non-Leicester people say and neither should you or any of us. "What a c***t" just for saying something against Leicester, grow up. Not for saying something against Leicester.. It's the fact he's predicting our choking and Spurs to win the title, when in 4 days his team play Spurs!.. What message does that send out to his players?
Christoph Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 I can't see Spurs dropping points to any of those teams. They have been dominating most teams since Christmas and have only seemed to gain momentum as the season has gone by.
Finnaldo Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 Not for saying something against Leicester.. It's the fact he's predicting our choking and Spurs to win the title, when in 4 days his team play Spurs!.. What message does that send out to his players? Obviously a message to try and boost them. He likely still wants us to win it but is playing mind games for his (and indirectly, but ultimately our) benefit. It's not all some big FA/Premier League/FIFA/Tea Lady conspiracy that some posters are embarrassing themselves with. The truth is that there are far more behind us than Spurs to win it.
Ric Flair Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 We have the much harder run-in. Spurs will get 9-10 points minimum. Southampton are dog mess away from home and West Brom will be slaughtered. That leaves Chelsea doing us a massive favour as Newcastle will probably be relegated by the last game but if they aren't then that makes that game a huge one but I'd still expect Spurs to put them away but then again they lost at home to Newcastle under McLaren!!! Sunday is massive, if we don't win that then it's going to be a horrible, horrible last few weeks that may well get the better of us. If we win that though then we've just got to hold our nerve against two very tricky games. Man Utd and Everton both are erratic and both have the cup but both will have played the semi's before we play them so one will be out and I think Everton might sack Martinez if they lose this weekend which then makes the game against us much harder. They are under-achieving so much and once awoken would be a tough game for us to win home or away. Utd will do everything to get top 4 and I don't fancy winning at Old Trafford without Vardy who has their number. Chelsea away I'm cool about, if we need a result I think we can get it. It's an intresting few weeks but I'm so glad we're the ones with the 5 point lead.
weller54 Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 Apart from playing Villa.. Spurs couldn't have an easier game than WBA at home!
Finnaldo Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 I can't see Spurs dropping points to any of those teams. They have been dominating most teams since Christmas and have only seemed to gain momentum as the season has gone by. Until they faced a difficult West Ham side and lost. We played them and managed a draw. With ten men. Believe it or not I believe we're harder to beat than Tottenham. They have brute skill and undeniable talent, and can bludgeon teams to death with it at times, see Man U and Stoke recently. But when it comes to the big games, the derbies, where teams actively want to beat them with more at stake than League points, that's where they can struggle. West Ham put in a good shift and beat them. Arsenal played their best down to ten men and still got a point out of them. We went to White Hart Lane and got max points. They can seem almost shocked at times when teams come to them wanting something rather than fearing them, the first 20 minutes of their game vs Man U they got fairly rattled, and had it not be Van Gaal's United and had any forward presence it could have been points dropped again in my opinion. Our not-so-secret weapon is the resolve and spirit the team carries. It pushed us through the first half of the season when goals were flying in left right and center. We can't say for sure that WBA or Newcastle will show any tenacity to give them a game (unlikely if Newcastle have nothing to fight for by then) but Chelsea aren't going to allow them to walk away from Stamford Bridge without a battle, or the fans will be outraged, and even Southampton have a point to prove to Poch as well. We may have the harder run-in but it's not that much harder on paper and we've shown the resolve and spirit to overcome anyone at this stage. Ultimately it's up to us and to worry about Tottenham is null if we do our part.
LJS Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 Not for saying something against Leicester.. It's the fact he's predicting our choking and Spurs to win the title, when in 4 days his team play Spurs!.. What message does that send out to his players? Good job he didn't say it then.
Thracian Posted 22 April 2016 Posted 22 April 2016 I'm surprised the Spurs fixtures are getting so much attention. If I were worried about anything (other than my wife's recovery from open heart surgery two days ago) it would be about attention-grabbing officials. But, if they can bear to stay out of the limelight, the outcome of the Premiership title is basically down to ourselves and the need to win the necessary points to haul ourselves over the line. I don't so much worry about our ability to do that as our habit of retreating 10 yards deeper once we've taken the lead and showing no great desire to deploy supporting runners for any further attacking moves thereafter, thus inviting additional pressure we can do without. What makes that pressure worse is that we're often so bad at passing the ball when we take possession. We give it away far too easily and unnecessarily - apart from when we're searching out Vardy - it simply invites more pressure. They're good players in other ways but they can be so frustrating in possession and usually it's down to choice of pass rather than ability. It's also about people making themselves available but, when we've scored, the action in this department is suddenly halved or even worse than that. Against Swansea the test will be to maintain pressure and to avoid becoming predictable by hoisting everything towards Ulloa. We need to keep directing out attacks in different directions and to use the skills available on the flanks and, hopefully, the ability of King and or Schlupp to offer an option going forward from midfield. We have a brilliant central midfield pairing but, without Vardy, the absence of any real goal threat from central positions, including Shinji and the central midfielders, is almost embarrassing. It was a major mistake failing to strengthen our strike-threat in January - one of only potentially significant mistakes all season - and we really need to boost that threat in the absence of our main striker. Get our own game right and what Spurs or Arsenal do won't matter.
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