1964 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 We still have HMRC on the horizon, just saying Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Rafa don't do losing streaks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 We still have HMRC on the horizon, just saying I doubt anything's going to come of that since a judge reckoned their raid might be illegal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 31 more pts and we're safe. Fuck off, man, I'm thinking about the Champions' League. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 8 points clear if we win tomorrow. That's probably the equivalent of allowing for 5-6 or so games losing in a row and still being outside the relegation zone already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 8 points clear if we win tomorrow. That's probably the equivalent of allowing for 5-6 or so games losing in a row and still being outside the relegation zone already. Think it's probably equivalent to losing 8 or 9 in a row. Relegation teams aren't picking up 3 wins in 5. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 True. Get as much on the board as possible because December on paper is a 5-6 game losing streak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 True. Get as much on the board as possible because December on paper is a 5-6 game losing streak. We can beat Leicester and Everton at home, man. Even West Ham away is very winnable Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 True. Get as much on the board as possible because December on paper is a 5-6 game losing streak. We can beat Leicester and Everton at home, man. Even West Ham away is very winnable Brighton at home n'al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 We need to get to 40 ASAP then we can kick on. Another good result tomorrow (even a draw would do) and we're 6 points clear of the drop and a quarter of the way there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 I always find it funny when managers say that because for the majority of teams even surviving comfortably, it's well into February or March by the time you get to that point. Then the players stop giving a fuck and tend to go on a shit run Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 We wont do 5-6 losing streaks under Rafa. We'll at least scrape some 0-0's in that space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 I don't think you'd ever see any of that attitude from a Benitez side like. Could theoretically be like a third of our way to safety with a win tomorrow and 8 points clear Obviously we're gonna lose 2-1 like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Did this re relative difficulty thing for the season. Surprisingly, we're on track. Thought I would 'classify' and colour code our fixtures according to finishing position last year of opposition treating the top seven (15 point gap between Everton 7th and Southampton 8th) as RED (least likely to beat), next six as AMBER, and remaining four, plus promoted sides as GREEN. To make this pseudo-scientific cluster-f*** even more elaborate, opposition moves up or down a category depending if home or away if we are playing a RED team at SJP it becomes an AMBER fixture; and a GREEN team away becomes an AMBER fixture (I know this ignores our relatively better away form, last year). Point is (other than I am bored and NUFC obsessed...) this should give, based on last year's form/squads, a sense of the relative difficulty of different periods of the season. So: August: Spurs H PRED 1 Lost ACT 0 Huddersfield A PRED 2 Lost ACT 0 West Ham H PRED 5 Won ACT 3 September: Swansea A PRED 6 Won ACT 6 Stoke H PRED 9 Won ACT 9 Brighton A PRED 10 Lost ACT 9 Liverpool H PRED 11 Drew ACT 10 October: Southampton A PRED 11 Drew ACT 11 Palace H PRED 14 Won ACT 14 Burnley A PRED 15 November: Bournemouth H PRED 18 Man Utd A PRED 18 Watford H PRED 21 WBA A PRED 22 December: Chelsea A PRED 22 Leicester H PRED 25 Everton H PRED 26 Arsenal A PRED 26 West Ham A PRED 26 Man City H PRED 27 Brighton H PRED 30 January: Stoke A PRED 30 Swansea H PRED 33 Man City A PRED 33 Burnley H PRED 36 February: Palace A PRED 37 Man Utd H PRED 38 Bournemouth A PRED 39 March: Liverpool A PRED 39 Southampton H PRED 42 Spurs A PRED 42 Huddersfield H PRED 45 April: Leicester A PRED 45 Arsenal H PRED 46 Everton A PRED 46 WBA H PRED 49 May: Watford A PRED 50 Chelsea H PRED 51 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Your total suggests we should never be beat at home though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Predicting we'd go all season unbeaten at home was never going to end well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Your total suggests we should never be beat at home though. Yeah, sadly for my early retirement plans I haven't stumbled upon some infallible secret predictive formula. Point is, if there is indeed any point at all, that this may give a sense of relative difficulty and the total points may average out. Lose some 'greens' win some 'reds' lose or win some ambers but overall if we're on for a low top ten finish, we should accumulate somewhere near those totals for the different months. Ish, kinda, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 So a win today and we're ahead no matter what happens against Liverpool. You should graph it up to track predicted vs actual. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Getting this in early, NO overreations please. We've had a decent enough start to the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 We'll still be 6th after 6th games. No panic. You never win "every" game you expect to. Losing an away game isn't catastrophic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Be interesting to see where we go from here in terms of goals. Mitro? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Getting this in early, NO overreations please. We've had a decent enough start to the season. We have, to be where we are after 6 games is great, need to not get beat in the next two though, or the good start will feel a long way off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 We had a generous start fixture-wise, so 9pts is only par. This game and the Huddersfield defeat show how little we offer going forward. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 We had a generous start fixture-wise, so 9pts is only par. This game and the Huddersfield defeat show how little we offer going forward. I don't think its a coincidence that we've lost to the two teams we'd have expected to get something from, we seem to be better when we're the underdog, was the same last season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Getting this in early, NO overreations please. We've had a decent enough start to the season. We have, to be where we are after 6 games is great, need to not get beat in the next two though, or the good start will feel a long way off. 9 points is the minimum we should have had from those fixtures tbh. Slightly disappointed we don't have another point or two tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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