Coffee_Johnny Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 6 minutes ago, Checko said: I like to imagine you handwrite all your posts in a freezing writer's shed at the bottom of your garden, wearing a battered old coat and fingerless gloves, accompanied only by a metal coffee flask, an ashtray overflowing with roll-up butts, and stacks of NUFC history books all over the floor. Then you have to give your note scraps to a kindly old neighbour to publish online for you. Are you psychic? Almost spot on, except it’s a garret with a single cracked single glazing pane (looks bright out…) and overflowing B&H blue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 I’ve added Spurs, to the comparison with our Top 4 rivals. Looking at relative difficulty of games to date and where points have come from so far. We have had a harder start than either MU or AV: 8 games against Tier 1&2 sides (6 at home and 2 away) compared to 6 for MU (3H 3A) and 5 for AV (1H 4A). TH have had a more comparable start to us: 7 games against T1&2 sides (4 at home and 3 away). In terms of points accrued we have 15 from T1&T2 (all home). MU have 3pts (H) and AV have 9pts (3H 6A) all from T2 sides. Neither of them have taken any points from T1 sides. TH have taken 9pts from T1&2 (6H, 3A). On form to date, Spurs look like strongest competition for fourth. Though they don’t look the same team without Maddison (no points in Nov, when ‘should’ have accrued 5 or 6) whereas we’ve limped along quite nicely (so far). They also have a killer run end of 4 games in Apr-May: New A, Ars H, MC H, Liv A which might determine their season. Tiers based largely on league position last year (T1=MC, Ars, MU, NU, Liv; T2=Bri, AV, TH, Bre, Che etc.). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnbull2000 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Currently expecting Pool, City, Arse, then one of us, Man U, Villa, and Spurs for 4th. Villa looking by far the best bet right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 All results currently going against us. Perfect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Slow and steady wins the race. Or something like that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 As ever, one set of results hadn't really changed much. Us, Villa, Spurs and Man United will be in the mix for 4th, but it's a long old season and all of us will have good and shitty runs before it finishes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Ooof going to be tough going with Villa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiston Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Time for some to realise Villa are the 'real deal'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt1892 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Win tomorrow and we are a point behind Man City, with all of the players coming back there is no reason we can’t finish above them at this rate. They look a side that needs freshening up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDT Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 8 minutes ago, cubaricho said: All results currently going against us. Perfect. Good job the league is settled after 15 games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 It's almost like teams at the top usually win more often than not Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samptime29 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 We need to beat Villla away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Not the set of results we wanted but it's only an issue if we fail to win tomorrow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 1 minute ago, samptime29 said: We need to beat Villla away. Do we ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingArthur Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 1 minute ago, samptime29 said: We need to beat Villla away. Of course we do not need to win that. There are 22 other games left.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt1892 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 1 minute ago, samptime29 said: We need to beat Villla away. We don’t, we need to beat the clubs of the level of Bournemouth, Wolves and West Ham away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Not even worth taking on board. If that was after 25 games then definitely but not when we're not even at Christmas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 We can just do the best we can with what we've got. I said before we played Chelsea if we could stay within about 8 points of the top 4 going into the New Year with players coming back we'd give ourselves a chance. We're probably going to be much nearer that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt1892 Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said: We can just do the best we can with what we've got. I said before we played Chelsea if we could stay within about 8 points of the top 4 going into the New Year with players coming back we'd give ourselves a chance. We're probably going to be much nearer that. If you look at our fixtures then it isn’t a bad run at all once you get January out of the way, the sort you would want for a run in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geogaddi Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 I don't even worry about what the other teams around us are doing , if we do what we did last season we will be top 4/5 regardless of what the other teams do. So far we are pretty much on course for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, Geogaddi said: I don't even worry about what the other teams around us are doing , if we do what we did last season we will be top 4/5 regardless of what the other teams do. So far we are pretty much on course for that. Exactly. It's only a bad week if we don't win tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, Geogaddi said: I don't even worry about what the other teams around us are doing , if we do what we did last season we will be top 4/5 regardless of what the other teams do. So far we are pretty much on course for that. Liverpool are going to do better than what we finished on last season, and Villa's momentum could easily push them into the mid 70s too. I'm comfortable with us finishing 6-7th this season in the circumstances, I still think we can push a bit higher though. We probably could do with winning one of the next two and they're not going to be easy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Feels like this season every time I check the results they are rarely what we wanted as opposed to last season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Sick of Villa, like. Truly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menace Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 The gap between top6/7 and the rest is night and day compared to previous seasons it feels like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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