Parky

Perhaps you need to lower your expectations. Aye, I forgot I expect us to win every game and get the Champions League Straw man-tastic. The amount of times my opinion has been exagerrated like that in this thread is ridiculous. We should be doing better against the so-called 'mediocre' teams - I'm not saying we should have won them all, but we should have at least won one. Now if that makes my expectations too high, then I guess my head is in the clouds. Can you just clear something up? Are the clouds made of vanilla ice cream?

Third and desperate attempt at getting a nibble.

No, I don't see that catching on at all.

Same here.

Strange how the 'big clubs' are all having periods of struggling this season. Man U have won only one away game out of 7 for instance.

Ranger needs gametime somewhere else in a less pressured setting, but we are woefully short of cover.

Even Wenger admitted he was surprised at how Carroll has come on and he has a dossier on nearly everbody old enough to kick a ball.

Chelsea look really lethargic,

Would have thought Ramirez would have been better to come off.

See how they miss Terry.

Nedem I'lldoya.

Had Bale as first sub. Thank the lord Walcott didn't get on.

It's all in the hair.

Yeah, this is where we could have done with a Beardsley-Bellamy striker to open up defences. Hughton was pinning a lot of hope in Ben Arfa, so his injury is limiting our development a bit. See edit above. Too late. Your post was exposed as horribly incomplete.

Yeah, this is where we could have done with a Beardsley-Bellamy striker to open up defences. Hughton was pinning a lot of hope in Ben Arfa, so his injury is limiting our development a bit. See edit above.

The home and away form is quite simple really. Away - sides come at us and we tend to absorb and have larger gaps/space to hit them on. At home most sides sit deep or play an uptempo pressing game and we don't have the creativity when there is less space/gaps to break them down. This didn't apply to the derby for obvious reasons and the Villa game was a freak result as they were a bit at 6's and 7's just after MON jumped ship, you could see the heads drop as soon as they went behind. We will continue to struggle at home untill Bafra comes back or we get a good support striker for Carroll to play with.

Tbf to Hughton he has very little quality to pick from.

Spot on.

Hope to god there is some transfer movement in Jan or we're going to knacker Carroll in one season.

Far too much of the workload on his shoulders though. Agree and starting to look very tired at the end of games (I know we've played 3 recently). Will need a break soon.

We've played City, Man Utd, Arsenal & Everton all away so far. There's only really Chelsea, Spurs and possibly Liverpool where I'd fancy us to lose 100%, and even then, the way we got a result at Arsenal and were robbed at City, who knows? Our away form has been good, But looking at the fixtures brings me no compfort till early Jan.

Good post.