Robster Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 .Why would anyone be worried about Villa? If they catch us, we won't be near an Automatic place. In principle I wold agree but nothing is guaranteed in football and there's loads of games to play yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Lets not get too carried away, if Huddersfield win by 12 or more tonight we're off the top again. That's also nearly as many as they've scored all season. Things still looking rosy all across the board. Scoring loads, conceding few, and outpassing and outshooting opponents both home and away. A little dependent on Gayle for goals perhaps , but we've got the best manager in the league if we need a workaround there. Buying in January is also an option if something serious were to happen. Our biggest win and best performance of the season was achieved without him in the side. Not belittling the job Gayle has done, but we are creating a lot of chances, I'm more concerned with an injury to Shelvey than Gayle though TBH. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 http://services.pinkun.com/forums/pinkun-forums/cs/forums/180/ShowForum.aspx They seem a happy bunch Looked over a few threads, you would think they were in Villa's position rather than in 2nd place. I diodn't realise Neil was getting as much stick as it appears on there. One thing the mention is thy believe there problem is closing out games (I'm not sure how much real evidence there is of this, our game against them and Fulham is all I can think of, and in our game they were lucky to even be in the match let alone leading it in the closing stages). This is not a problem for us since Rafa came in, always been pretty confident that if we get a lead we'll generally go on and win, the Villa game is the only one I can recall that that hasn't happened. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Based on away performances/wins/points a solid 9.5 Home form and just as importantly performances though and its still a 7 all in. We will either go up automatically or be in the play-offs. If we start breaking clear, I cannot see a Rafa team letting slip such a grip on things. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Will all of our African players go away for afcon? Diame, Atsu, Mbemba and Lazaar? Tiote as well but he hasn't exactly featured.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Tiote hasn't played for Ivory Coast for ages but the rest of them will go Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Other than Diame, none of them are starters anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 .Why would anyone be worried about Villa? If they catch us, we won't be near an Automatic place. Glad we have got that away fixture out the way, sickna how it ended but still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Other than Diame, none of them are starters anyway. Atsu should be and regardless of Clark's continued good performances Mbemba is still an important member of the squad. If we lose all of them will be significantly weaker during that time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Is this "gulf in class" between the premiership and championship real or imagined? Given something of the dire standards shown by premiership teams i can't help but feel at least a third of championship teams would make a better fist of creating an entertaining game beyond focusing on 17th place or better. Recent years have shown that at least one of the promoted teams surprises.the premiership for whatever reason (not a rule of course)...but who would have considered Bournemouth a premiership team just 5 years ago? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Is this "gulf in class" between the premiership and championship real or imagined? Given something of the dire standards shown by premiership teams i can't help but feel at least a third of championship teams would make a better fist of creating an entertaining game beyond focusing on 17th place or better. Recent years have shown that at least one of the promoted teams surprises.the premiership for whatever reason (not a rule of course)...but who would have considered Bournemouth a premiership team just 5 years ago? I think the gulf in class from the top 6ish sides to rest of the prem, is bigger than that of the lower prem and top half of the championship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Now officially top all on our own, with everyone playing the same amount of games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I think there is a bit of a gap of class, I think there are a lot of bog standard midfielders of the jack colback like in this league and slower centre backs. When you get to the premiership after a while in the premier league suddenly all your nippy wingers aren't getting as many yards on teams, your big guy up front isn't getting the ball at all and you can't control games at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Table is looking so much better after these last two games Up to first spot, with three points clear of third. Really just need to keep winning now, and I am confident that we will. Obviously we will slip up, but hopefully we stay at the top from now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 The way the season has gone is a good indicator of what level we need to maintain. We've had quite a few slip ups, really, and here we are sitting top. From here onwards you'd expect the slip ups to be less frequent especially at home and the string of good results to be a little bit longer. No looking back hopefully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Think it'll be a few weeks before we can be overly confident but it's looking good. Still some tough games coming up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Looking good at the moment, lets see what happens against Ipswich at home. I have feeling Big Mick will want to stop the party and spoil the game. From the first minute. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Nice 3 point cushion. Take it to 10 and it will be virtually impossible to throw away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/3/38/Coon2Hindsight06.png/revision/latest?cb=20101028071111 Looking good at the moment, lets see what happens against Ipswich at home. I have feeling Big Mick will want to stop the party and spoil the game. From the first minute. http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/RpwGu8yNTNI/hqdefault.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Looking good at the moment, lets see what happens against Ipswich at home. I have feeling Big Mick will want to stop the party and spoil the game. From the first minute. Should have tried earlier Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubestationatmidnight Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espio Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 4 points better off than we were at this point last promotion season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Still 7 will move up to 8 if we're top still at Christmas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Would be very happy if the table finished like this with us and Brighton going up in 1 and 2 respectively Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 9.5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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