Ikon Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Will be fucking lovely to get Gayle back which means that the opposition's defensive line can't push up as much and our other players will get more space. Lovely to have a player that stretches the back four. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 If anything, those numbers mask the growing concerns many have from watching our recent games. Yeah of course, but despite everyone's worries (mine included) and our rough spell, we still have the best form in the league. Get Gayle back, and hopefully we'll pick up where we left off in November. Before this shit spell (started with Blackburn at home then the Forest refereeing masterpiece) weren't we on for a club record winning streak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 How on earth are we top man? We've been shite for weeks. most of the rest of the league have been shite all season? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 How on earth are we top man? We've been shite for weeks. We have the best squad in the league. We may not play the best football, but we have more matchwinners in both ends of the pitch than anyone else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Pinkman Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 It's in our hands now! Let's make sure we bring it home! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 How on earth are we top man? We've been shite for weeks. 10 points from our last 4 league games, like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 If anything, those numbers mask the growing concerns many have from watching our recent games. Yeah of course, but despite everyone's worries (mine included) and our rough spell, we still have the best form in the league. Get Gayle back, and hopefully we'll pick up where we left off in November. Before this shit spell (started with Blackburn at home then the Forest refereeing masterpiece) weren't we on for a club record winning streak. We've missed the AFCON players too. Diame and Atsu will give us options we badly missed in the last month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 How on earth are we top man? We've been s**** for weeks. 10 points from our last 4 league games, like. Winning whilst playing badly, you say? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 So, Top of the table by 1pt 6pts clear of 3rd with a game in hand Most goals scored by 11 (57 scored) Best goal difference by 11 Most wins by 2 Only derby have conceded fewer goals (22 to our 23) Top of the form table for last 6 games (13pts) Only Huddersfield picked up more points in last 10 games And this is after/during our bad patch. 17 games to go... with our goal difference, you can add a point, effectively leaving us 2 points clear at the top and 7 clear of 3rd with a game in hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Never been that concerned with Reading or Leeds, it's all about Huddersfield imo. I think we'll do well to get a point there. The sheer strength of our top individuals has got us where we are, on paper we should be straight back up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Atsu back for Wolves is he? He'll be a very important player for us in the final run in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Have to say, I was surprised when looked at our recent results. All the pessimism about, including from myself, thought we'd been on a shocking run. With the FA Cup loss, expectation of winning at home and the recent density of games, I'd missed that we'd gotten 10 out 12 points in last 4 matches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. There's a bit more to it than that like. Remember when we (well, not you) were having some concerns under Pardew as, although we were riding high in the league, the football wasn't great and we were kind of flukily edging games? Nowhere near as bad as that obviously but recent performances haven't been as good as earlier in the season, if Derby had scored that easy chance from three yards out the other night we'd be looking at 4 points thrown away at home. The defeat at Oxford obviously compounds this along with our lack of January activity so it's not hard to see why some people are getting a little worried when you look further than just the bare statistics. Personally I think we'll be fine but I can see how people might look at this as a bit of a bad spell despite the decent points haul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. There's a bit more to it than that like. Remember when we (well, not you) were having some concerns under Pardew as, although we were riding high in the league, the football wasn't great and we were kind of flukily edging games? Nowhere near as bad as that obviously but recent performances haven't been as good as earlier in the season, if Derby had scored that easy chance from three yards out the other night we'd be looking at 4 points thrown away at home. The defeat at Oxford obviously compounds this along with our lack of January activity so it's not hard to see why some people are getting a little worried when you look further than just the bare statistics. Personally I think we'll be fine but I can see how people might look at this as a bit of a bad spell despite the decent points haul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Need to 'protect' our key players against the likes of Reading, Brighton, Huddersfield and Leeds. Not saying we shouldn't play our key players but our players should be aware 1 cynical challenge might criple them and the team for a period of time. Everyone wants to beat us, everyone wants to chase us. We just need to be aware and clever protecting our lead and our team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I wouldn't be surprised if those who are overplaying any dip in form are the same people who were talking about record points, unbeaten season and promotion by March etc etc before a ball was kicked. I think most rational fans knew it would be a difficult league to get out of (as it always has been), there'd be ups and downs along the way but we'll probably do it in the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Benitez is strongest when teams come and attack. If memory serves his Liverpool side would draw too many games at home against weaker opposition. That season they got 84 points or something they lost just twice with something like 10 draws. A number of which they should've won. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Dancer Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Since we were last down, an average of 93pts win the league, and 87.5pts get you promoted. I think the chasing pack this time will mean that needs to be slightly higher, but we should have enough. Convinced if we're in the top two after Reading away on March 7th we will be fine. Going to be an interesting 4 weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Never been that concerned with Reading or Leeds, it's all about Huddersfield imo. I think we'll do well to get a point there. The sheer strength of our top individuals has got us where we are, on paper we should be straight back up. As good as Huddersfield were against Brighton and Leeds, I have doubts over their ability to sustain those levels throughout the run-in. Agree that we'd do well to nab a point there mind - they'll be well up for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Ya'll love having a go at Ian, man, wtf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Ian W's 'backing' of Pardew used to drive me crazy, but he's just an always look on the bright side of life type of poster IMO and it wasn't like he was a dick with his views. Having met him he's a canny fella as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 What's going on here then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 yer a cunt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 There is no redress for a Dave insult. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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