Guest bimpy474 Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Reading took 4 points of us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Surprised at the amount of people that think we aren't going to lose to Liverpool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuy_O Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Surprised at the amount of people that think we aren't going to lose to Liverpool. I'm getting mortol for that fucker. If we lose to WBA on sat it will be unbearable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 My worse case scenario (i.e we lose every game, which we won't) came out as: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roy the Irish Magpie Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Liverpool will murder us imo. Liverpool who just drew 0-0 against Reading? Aye, but their Keeper was unreal. Liverpool create bucket loads of chances and we dont keep clean sheets. What about the point I made about them struggling against teams who have defensive mindsets simular to Pardew's. Look at their game at the SOS when O'Neill was in charge. They struggled in that one and only drew. What about when they played Stoke at home? Again they failed to beat negative tactics. What about when they played us at Anfield? Again they struggled against that kind of football. They also lost 3-1 to Stoke at the Britannia stadium and Villa beat them 3-1 at anfield in a game Villa just sat back in and got 3 lucky break aways. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuy_O Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 I agree they are massively inconsistent - my fear is they will cut us to ribbons if we play like we did on Sunday? They're a dangerous side with pace and the way we defend that has to be a worry. If Suarez is up for it it could be a long 90 minutes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 I'm not saying it's not a worry, but to already be assuming we'll get beaten to shit is a mistake. It's a mistake to make assumptions about any of our upcoming games tbh, we're massively shit, but have some top players who can change a game in a moment... and we're not exactly facing any world-class super teams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Basically, we could well get knocked for six against QPR only to put 25 past Arsenal. Maybe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheGreatBeardo Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 My worse case scenario (i.e we lose every game, which we won't) came out as: Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roy the Irish Magpie Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 I agree they are massively inconsistent - my fear is they will cut us to ribbons if we play like we did on Sunday? They're a dangerous side with pace and the way we defend that has to be a worry. If Suarez is up for it it could be a long 90 minutes. I don't think we'll play as bad as on Sunday against them. Our players will have more recovery time and that game will be our one and only focus for that week. Suarez is a threat, no doubts, but as long as he doesn't produce a moment of genius like in the 1-1 game, get a FK his ideal spot, and we handle him as well as we did for the majority of that Anfield match I think it'll be okay. I mentioned Sunday and in my opinion the reason we lost as badly as we did to Sunderland is because Di Cannio planned all week for that match, all week their sole focus was on how to beat us and getting prepared etc and it was all they wanted. Us on the other hand we had a QF we really wanted to win too and put at least most our attention on our plan for that game after the Fulham match which left us with just 2 days to prepare solely for Sunderland. Pardew probably just told his players to rest for most those 2 days so we went into the derby a hell of a lot less prepared for it than Sunderland were and that showed on the pitch because Sunderland knew exactly what they were doing, they even had new set pieces set up to try against us, where's all we did was to cross it and hope for the best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 I didn't realise how hard Villa's run in is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 I didn't realise how hard Villa's run in is. Nah. Next home game is Sunderland, and there's no way we'd lose at home to a team that shit. *cheeky wink* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
South-Cheshire-Toon Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 My worse case scenario (i.e we lose every game, which we won't) came out as: As I said before - it's up to Wigan, (3rd bottom) to win, and with them now in the FA Cup final, I honestly can't see them winning that many games, with them to play :- 17-Apr Man City 20-Apr West Ham 27-Apr Spurs 04-May West Brom 07-May Swansea 12-May FA Cup 15/5 ? Arsenal 19-May Aston Villa The last 5 games are in 15 days !!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Would 36 be the lowest ever survival total? Guess that's why nobody in our position has ever gone down... if we could lose every game and still survive. Not that I'd like to test the theory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Would 36 be the lowest ever survival total? Guess that's why nobody in our position has ever gone down... if we could lose every game and still survive. Not that I'd like to test the theory. Didnt someone stay up on 34 or something the year Boro went down with a points deduction? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Hull stayed up with 35 in 09. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Would 36 be the lowest ever survival total? Guess that's why nobody in our position has ever gone down... if we could lose every game and still survive. Not that I'd like to test the theory. Didnt someone stay up on 34 or something the year Boro went down with a points deduction? Sunderland went down on 40 points or so that season I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 My worse case scenario (i.e we lose every game, which we won't) came out as: Mine based on us picking up a point at home to Liverpool and a point away to QPR, we could pick up another point at WBA or West Ham but difficult to see where other points are coming from. Had us finishing 17th with Villa down on 35 points, I probably overestimated Wigan but the jammy bastards look like they are doing what they do had them finishing on 42 points. [/img] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Suddenly looking massively comfortable again if Wigan fuck up their other game in hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 The dog fight would be bloody good fun to watch this year if we weren't a part of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pi_D Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I agree they are massively inconsistent - my fear is they will cut us to ribbons if we play like we did on Sunday? They're a dangerous side with pace and the way we defend that has to be a worry. If Suarez is up for it it could be a long 90 minutes. I don't think we'll play as bad as on Sunday against them. Our players will have more recovery time and that game will be our one and only focus for that week. Suarez is a threat, no doubts, but as long as he doesn't produce a moment of genius like in the 1-1 game, get a FK his ideal spot, and we handle him as well as we did for the majority of that Anfield match I think it'll be okay. I mentioned Sunday and in my opinion the reason we lost as badly as we did to Sunderland is because Di Cannio planned all week for that match, all week their sole focus was on how to beat us and getting prepared etc and it was all they wanted. Us on the other hand we had a QF we really wanted to win too and put at least most our attention on our plan for that game after the Fulham match which left us with just 2 days to prepare solely for Sunderland. Pardew probably just told his players to rest for most those 2 days so we went into the derby a hell of a lot less prepared for it than Sunderland were and that showed on the pitch because Sunderland knew exactly what they were doing, they even had new set pieces set up to try against us, where's all we did was to cross it and hope for the best. Good post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 That may be true to an extent but the last sentence is what we've done for 18 months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ItalianMagpie Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 From the highlights it looks like Wigan dominated yesterday A lot of well built chances and pretty unlucky to come out with nothing. Big difference with our performance over there. I reckon they are gonna easily beat Swansea, who are already on holiday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 In a way that's an example of why we probably won't go down. Teams like Wigan play nice football but when it counts they still usually get beat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 In a way that's an example of why we probably won't go down. Teams like Wigan play nice football but when it counts they still usually get beat. Good point, that never happens to us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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