Gerard Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 3 minutes ago, bovril said: I still think top 4 is a long way off, but I'm starting to feel like Arsenal and United at home are 'must wins'. I'd really like us to push the top 6 as much as possible. Top four is on. We thought Man Utd & Arsenal would be catchable and the evidence so far this season is there for all to see. Chelsea look vulnerable as well with Hazard gone and poor results this season. Even Tottenham could hit the wall with so many of their players in the last year of their contracts and Pochettino may lose the dressing room. Of the best of the rest last season and the clubs looking to force there way into the top six then Watford, Wolves and Everton have had terrible starts. Only West Ham look like they're capable of challenging for Europe this season. We've got 11pts from 6 games and already played four of the clubs who finished in the top seven last season. Just as importantly we've beaten both the two clubs that didn't and if we're going to challenge then we need to be beating Bournemouth at home and Sheff Utd away. Nothing to fear for us about getting a top four spot.
Corky Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 It's not a pedantic offside, it is offside. The linesman would've flagged went Mount touched the ball- end of attack. There really isn't an issue with that at all.
weller54 Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 17 minutes ago, Super_horns said: 3rd and 4th place could be very wide open at this rate .. Right up to 8..th.
foxinsox Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 1 minute ago, Goober said: Little from column A and a little from column B. Both European finals were all English ties a couple of months ago but 3rd to 6th do all seem to be on the slide. United are awful, Chelsea rebuilding, Spurs slowly falling apart, Arsenal still gash at the back. Us sitting in 3rd after looking quite lacklustre for a fair amount of the season so far probably says it all  The money that mid and lower table sides have has made a big difference. The top 6 cannot weaken the mid table as they used to. It's not just us that have resisted the "big clubs". This is leveling the playing field a lot, bar the big 2.
Tuna Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 31 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said: Is Tyler really going on about tape manufacturers? He was also going on about Speed Cameras at one point
davieG Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 Just now, foxinsox said: The money that mid and lower table sides have has made a big difference. The top 6 cannot weaken the mid table as they used to. It's not just us that have resisted the "big clubs". This is leveling the playing field a lot, bar the big 2. Except that now they will get the lions share of overseas tv money the gap will widen again 1
Jaspa Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 Kante deserves better than this shower, sign him up!
PhillippaT Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 101 reasons my Arsenal-loving wife didn't bother with FPL this season - she knew it wasn't going to be their year... (We have an agreement that our FPL teams must include 3 of our 'own' team members in it, so...)
Popular Post Finnegan Posted 22 September 2019 Popular Post Posted 22 September 2019 1 minute ago, bovril said: Ok but at least change it back to daylight, or something clearer than yesterday. I don't really want to be the fan of the team that loses a cup final or gets relegated because someone's spent five minutes deciding if a player's finger was offside. It doesn't matter what your distinction is, there'll always be a point at which a player is onside by a millimetre or offside by a millimetre. Whether that means a player is an atom or two from being "daylight" clear or not. If you write any kind of "benefit of the doubt" in to the law then you immediately add interpretation which means you then bring in inconsistency. Personally, I'd like to see more technology in the technology. Every player on the pitch these days is wearing a GPS device, like a big fitbit on an undershirt. I'd like to see them wear something on that that's tracked by scanners in the ground the same way hawkeye does the goal line technology. It'd mean getting rid of this stupid "any part of the body that can play the ball" and just going off a player's centre of mass (near enough) but there'd be no arguing with it. 9
Master Fox Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 It had been our goal ruled out instead of Tottenham’s, it would’ve been hailed as “brilliant officiating” and “VAR is getting it right every time” 1
Pablito Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 8 minutes ago, pds said: Martin Tyler really needs to be shown the door. I'm not sure which is worse, listening to Martin Tyler or listening to the commentry in Croatian. (which is what I'm doing lol)
Popular Post Koke Posted 22 September 2019 Popular Post Posted 22 September 2019 4 minutes ago, Gerard said: Top four is on. We thought Man Utd & Arsenal would be catchable and the evidence so far this season is there for all to see. Chelsea look vulnerable as well with Hazard gone and poor results this season. Even Tottenham could hit the wall with so many of their players in the last year of their contracts and Pochettino may lose the dressing room. Of the best of the rest last season and the clubs looking to force there way into the top six then Watford, Wolves and Everton have had terrible starts. Only West Ham look like they're capable of challenging for Europe this season. We've got 11pts from 6 games and already played four of the clubs who finished in the top seven last season. Just as importantly we've beaten both the two clubs that didn't and if we're going to challenge then we need to be beating Bournemouth at home and Sheff Utd away. Nothing to fear for us about getting a top four spot. The way we deal with Newcastle next week, the league's notorious bus parkers, will show us what we are about. 5
ThaiFox Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 Just now, weller54 said: Right up to 8..th. The more the so called big clubs are beaten, the more other teams will believe they can be beaten. It's great for us if we can keep going as we are, because when we really click into gear we should be really in with a chance. Apart from Man City & Liverpool, the other two places in the top 4 is wide open this season. The other so called big clubs all look pretty average and very beatable this season. 1
Guest Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 If we'd have beaten Manure - and we should have - they'd be in the bottom 3 tonight ( and we'd be second).
KingsX Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 37 minutes ago, st albans fox said: He signed a contract worth £70m+ his deal here was worth another £16m to him. it’s his career .......he doesn’t have any real emotional affinity for Lcfc ....... his agent did v well for both the player and himself ! This (from a piece on Watford’s decline) reinforces your point. Maguire was always going to be a temp. The Athletic has also learnt that Watford had the opportunity to sign Harry Maguire before he left Hull in 2017 only for other candidates to be preferred. At the time, it’s thought his representatives considered a move to Vicarage Road to be at the same level as that of Leicester City and would be the perfect next step before making a subsequent move to a top-six side. But hey. We bought the car for ₤17M, drove the wheels off it for two years, and sold it for ₤80M. The replacement drives pretty hot, and still has that new car smell. 1 2
Countryfox Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 Souness looking smug cus he’s got his your pregnant or you’re not VAR analogy in ... pr1ck.
nwl fox Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 7 minutes ago, Pablito said: I'm not sure which is worse, listening to Martin Tyler or listening to the commentry in Croatian. (which is what I'm doing lol) Stick with Drago, Tyler's commentary is basically just a cringe worthy string of pre-rehearsed puns and cliches, makes me want to watch it on mute... 1
Tielemans63 Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 Sorry if someone has already pointed this out but this must be the most miserable line up of pundits ever assembled. Souness, Mourinho and Keane.....enjoy the game everyone! 4
st albans fox Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 (edited) Can’t wait for arsenal fan tv later ..... troopz is gonna be apolplecfic ! Fam Edited 22 September 2019 by st albans fox
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 1 minute ago, Paddy. said: Sorry if someone has already pointed this out but this must be the most miserable line up of pundits ever assembled. Souness, Mourinho and Keane.....enjoy the game everyone! Curmudgeons 'R' Us.
Countryfox Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 1 minute ago, st albans fox said: Can’t wait for arsenal fan tv later ..... troopz is gonna be apolplecfic ! Fam In English ? ...
ARM1968 Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said: Dear ARM1968, Thank you for rising to a piss take. And also for not realising the wider point, which is the utter futility of screaming into the ether. And also thank you for putting words into my mouth that were never implied, thus allowing me to remain atop my highest of horses. Take 100 lines, and repeat in Bart Simpson fashion 'if only we'd bought better after the title, we'd be permanently in the top 4 by now'. Yours in great amusement, Captain Sanctimonious. Oh I don’t think it was such a piss take. I think you meant it. No harm done I’m sure. All humanity ever does is scream into the ether. Almost everything we discuss or talk about is in the past. Oh and surely, if I did, I put words at your fingertips - unless you dictate your posts? 😃 good bants though. I look forward to more.
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 22 September 2019 Posted 22 September 2019 (edited) 14 minutes ago, FIF said: If we'd have beaten Manure - and we should have - they'd be in the bottom 3 tonight ( and we'd be second). If ifs and buts were candy and nuts...we'd all have bloody good Christmas. Edited 22 September 2019 by SouthStandUpperTier
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