Sol thewall Bamba Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 21 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said: I think I would have took being 4 points from top going into the new year at the start of the season. Don’t think about those games, we need to look forward now. the table is very tight but 29 from 16 games is a very good points haul however you look at it. Of course it's a good haul but Liverpool dropping points tonight doesn't excuse Fulham or West Ham at home now does it. Everyone will be rightly gutted if we miss out on something by a few points at the end of the season and those will be the games that will have cost us. Man City drawing with West Brom has zero bearing on what we're doing.
weller54 Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 1 minute ago, Sol thewall Bamba said: Of course it's a good haul but Liverpool dropping points tonight doesn't excuse Fulham or West Ham at home now does it. Everyone will be rightly gutted if we miss out on something by a few points at the end of the season and those will be the games that will have cost us. Man City drawing with West Brom has zero bearing on what we're doing. And those 2 points we pissed away against Palace!.. Absolutely criminal. 3
Dr The Singh Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 Just now, weller54 said: And those 2 points we pissed away against Palace!.. Absolutely criminal. Can you imagine how valuable those points will be at the end of the season???? 3
CosbehFox Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 No team can hit 100 points this season now. Gonna be around mid 80s to win the league I reckon 1
foxes_rule1978 Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 11 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said: Of course it's a good haul but Liverpool dropping points tonight doesn't excuse Fulham or West Ham at home now does it. Everyone will be rightly gutted if we miss out on something by a few points at the end of the season and those will be the games that will have cost us. Man City drawing with West Brom has zero bearing on what we're doing. Poor games, they happen but on the whole it has been a very good first half of the season. 4 points from top with players to come back from injury and hopefully a signing or two in January to help us through the second half. 1
Hollyfox Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 At the start of the season, some on here would have taken being 4 points out of the relegation zone😄😄 3
weller54 Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 25 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said: Can you imagine how valuable those points will be at the end of the season???? 2 points this season is massive as things are so tight.. I've no doubt that game will come back to haunt us. 2
Popular Post Reg Vardy Posted 30 December 2020 Popular Post Posted 30 December 2020 Liverpool got five points from Palace, Albion and Newcastle We got 5 points from Spurs, Man Utd, and Palace.... there are no easy games in this league.... We are as likely to win on Sunday as lose... The opposition do (did at Palace) have an option to change how they play,,,,it is never given we will win.... 7
weller54 Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 12 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said: Liverpool got five points from Palace, Albion and Newcastle We got 5 points from Spurs, Man Utd, and Palace.... there are no easy games in this league.... We are as likely to win on Sunday as lose... The opposition do (did at Palace) have an option to change how they play,,,,it is never given we will win.... We win the games we shouldn't win and lose the games we shouldn't lose!
ARM1968 Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 21 hours ago, trabuch said: We are better than Man U and will finish above them. Doubt this will age well - just saying.
foxfanazer Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 10 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said: Liverpool got five points from Palace, Albion and Newcastle We got 5 points from Spurs, Man Utd, and Palace.... there are no easy games in this league.... We are just as likely to win on Sunday as lose... The opposition do (did at Palace) have an option to change how they play,,,,it is never given we will win.... If that truly is the case what's the point in having more expensive players and a manager on such a high wage if that doesn't heighten expectations
trabuch Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 Just now, ARM1968 said: Doubt this will age well - just saying. Your reply or my post? 1
Popular Post Aus Fox Posted 30 December 2020 Popular Post Posted 30 December 2020 3 minutes ago, weller54 said: 2 points this season is massive as things are so tight.. I've no doubt that game will come back to haunt us. The same as Liverpool drawing with Newcastle or Fulham Man Utd losing to Arsenal or Crystal Palace Man City drawing with WBA Spurs drew with Crystal Palace Everton drew with Burnley and lost to Newcastle These are just a few of the top of my head. Every team is dropping points. If we finish behind a team it’s not down to one individual moment or one result. We will finish where we deserve to finish after 38 games. At present we are 3rd and only 4 points from the top of the league and 3 points from 9th which suggests we are about as consistent as every other team in the top half. Add to this we still haven’t had our full strength team out this season. We have also played 23 games this season, not counting the international games we have played. That is 8 games more than Aston Villa, 5 more than Everton and Southampton. We need to rotate a bit more but have been limited by who can come in. All in all we’re doing pretty well I think. 10 3
Guest Fktf Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 Are the people claiming we should not have dropped points against some of the lower placed teams, also complaining that we don't have enough squad depth until we've replaced nacho, hamza, albrighton, etc.?
hawxi1882 Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 (edited) Burnley takeover completed.. was posted on the following new owner site earlier and removed https://alkcapital.com/news-media/ Edited 30 December 2020 by hawxi1882
hackneyfox Posted 30 December 2020 Posted 30 December 2020 13 minutes ago, weller54 said: We win the games we shouldn't win and lose the games we shouldn't lose! I'd sooner win the games we shouldn't, we're taking points of the teams around us. It's not realistic, with our injuries and the number of games, to expect us to have also won against lower teams, Liverpool and Man City have also dropped points due to the number of games. Teams are tired, more so than they normally would be at just over a third of the way through the season. 1
filbertway Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 14 minutes ago, hackneyfox said: I'd sooner win the games we shouldn't, we're taking points of the teams around us. It's not realistic, with our injuries and the number of games, to expect us to have also won against lower teams, Liverpool and Man City have also dropped points due to the number of games. Teams are tired, more so than they normally would be at just over a third of the way through the season. We're capable of taking points from teams around us but it's not realistic to take points from the lesser quality teams? I don't follow that logic at all.
hackneyfox Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 Because no team is capable of playing at 7 or 8/10 every game. Thankfully we've managed those figures in a lot of the games that are six pointers, sooner drop points to Palace than Man United. 1
Fightforever Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 If we hadn't had such an injury ridden squad eariler on in the season it wouldn't be outlandish to say we could have been top of the table. Either way happy with us just getting Europa league. Anything extra is a bonus.
dsr-burnley Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 6 hours ago, gurru991 said: I doubt very much that he will be there after the Summer. The new owners will have more ambition than just staying up. I suspect the new owners will realise that with Dyche we have achieved vastly more than expectations. Since the most recent promotion, we have finished 16th, 7th, 15th, 10th. Two top half finishes in the last 3 seasons. One qualification for Europe. (Nothing in the cups, partly because we keep being drawn against Man City and partly because we can lose to anyone in the League Cup.) Compare that with yourselves. The biggest club outside the "big 6", I would say - OK, maybe Everton and then you - 12th, 9th, 9th, 5th. Better than Burnley, but not by that much. That's not a criticism, that's just how it is. For any club outside the "big six" to do significantly better than either we have or you have in the last 4 years is not simply a matter of chucking a bit more money at it. Leicester has significantly bigger crowds than Burnley and a vastly bigger catchment area, and a vastly richer owner for that matter, and challenging for honours isn't the basic starting point for you to move on from. Point is, the new owners do not have enough money to throw at it to feel confident about doing better than we are doing now. (I am not forgetting your Champions season, which was a year before this window. We weren't in the Prem at the time - you had just relegated us! Grr. But it was a glorious season, but even so, it appears it might have been a one-off. Hope not. Win it again, this year.) 2
RumbleFox Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 The wee man still ahead of everyone else in terms of true interceptions for the year 2020. He’s the GOAT in his position in my opinion. 1
RumbleFox Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 Schmeichel 4th best shot stopper in the calendar year also.
winteriscoming Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 2 hours ago, RumbleFox said: Schmeichel 4th best shot stopper in the calendar year also. As Roy Keane would say - that’s his job
Fox92 Posted 31 December 2020 Posted 31 December 2020 12 hours ago, Hollyfox said: At the start of the season, some on here would have taken being 4 points out of the relegation zone😄😄 Look at page 1 of this thread. It was ridiculous people even speaking of relegation battle. That's why I posted at that time, on page 1, that we'll be nowhere near the bottom.
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