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The other games today - 2012/13


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So we're behind Liverpool now, and even a win tomorrow will only take us 10th. Worse goal difference than anyone in the top half, including Swansea and West Ham. Champions League spots (lol) already look like they're restricted to one, not that it was likely to be any different of course.

 

Need to buck our ideas up very soon.

 

I realise it is poor forum etiquette to ask in a (seemingly, but unintended) brusque/smug way, but what were you expecting? Your earliest post about Chelsea and Spurs being miles ahead of us made me ask the same question too.

 

Early season form has, thus far, borne out many of the concerns/predictions which were expected to surface last season. We did remarkably well last season, and I wouldn't seek to denigrate the achievement of finishing fifth (which is, for a club of our financial standing in 2012, a decent achievement) but we were never anywhere close to playing the type of football required to continue competing with those teams long-term without significantly more investment and/or a improved Pardew/better manager.

 

We eked out narrow victories on the back of our talented first XI. We rarely played good football IMO. (This is, I think, largely accepted forum tautology).

 

Given summer activity around us, I really have come into this season thinking predictions of higher than 8th are optimistic in the extreme (which is why the Spurs/Chelsea comment made me furrow my brow - you might as well just have said Man Utd/Man City :laugh:). FWIW, I really rate the potential of our first XI - who are capable of magnificent things but I think we'd have a good season to finish 10th given the other crucial factors which weigh in to what is required to hit that top six this season.

 

2012/13 is all about the cups for me.

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