Sides we are more likely than not to finish above next season

[fuchsntf]

Most of the aforementioned sides we would reasonably have expected to have beaten in the FA cup last season and with stats of 8/9 wins from 38 games are more accustomed to getting turned over as opposed to a Leicester side that's spent 6 consecutive seasons in and around the top six. Regardless of the level winning becomes a mindset as much as losing and I see no logical reason for us to go to the opposite extreme.

Swansea Southampton and west brom all have new managers none of who most city fans would want to touch with a bargepole despite what any smart arses on here may try and argue. Pardew and fat sam are both lame ducks that know the p45s have been printed and signed but not yet dated. Hull palace burnley and QPR are our realistic peers that we will be fired up to put one over on. Villa aren't far off emulating the Geordies and the hammers.

If/when nige bolsters the squad further and maintains the cracking team spirit and energy there is every reason to presume we can replicate our form of 97-00 in this league.

What is so wrong with Pardew and Sam, because lame ducks they aint.

Granted Pardew, went over the top, on the touchline, last season.Until then he was quietly doing a reasonable job.

Granted again, both might not be city fans choices for beloved club, though a few years ago, I might of liked to see

Big Sam in our hot seat.

Both managers have done well in the PL, especially with what inconsistencies in the management behind them, at their

various clubs.

AND I aint one of your a smart arses,but one has to appreciate/respect the goings on at other clubs, cos without

Opposition we have no game. City so far has not set any remarkable feats to write home about, trashing everybody else

Outside our own, is far from necessary.

[Thracian]

We need to make some significant signings before "expecting" to beat anyone. Even among those we've got I've considerable doubts about how well they'll cope in the top flight.

The World Cup seems to have cost us momentum but most of the homework should have been done months before that. I'm not even that convinced about the value of World Cup scouting anyway.

It can give a false impression.

Apart from England, of course, players are on a high for the World Cup yet too often fall way below those standards when they return. Even Suarez satisfied his appetite and won't be hungry again til he comes out of hibernation!       

[The Doctor]

They're in Europe too.

At the minute the only side that I think we'll finish comfortably above is Burnley.

 

From losing an FA Cup final after beating Middlesbrough, Southend, Brighton, Sunderland and Sheffield Utd. 

 

We may have lost twice to Brighton last season, but I don't see any game in there that I don't think we could have won. They had one of the easiest routes to the final I can remember.

[Stadt]

From losing an FA Cup final after beating Middlesbrough, Southend, Brighton, Sunderland and Sheffield Utd.

We may have lost twice to Brighton last season, but I don't see any game in there that I don't think we could have won. They had one of the easiest routes to the final I can remember.

You misunderstood what I was saying

I meant that they'd struggle even more because they're in Europe like Stoke and Swansea did.