brite blu sky wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:IanBishopsHaircut wrote:brite blu sky wrote: some think 4th is good some think it lacks ambition.
Thing is BBS is that last season EVERYONE said that it has to be fourth next season
Shit...I even put up a poll about what would you prefer? Silverware or 4th? And the majority wanted 4th FFS
Now it seems we have ideas about walking before we have learnt to crawl...4th is no longer good enough...we need the title now...seriously...some people are in cloud cuckoo land
I think we should aim for the title. I think it's a huge mistake aiming for 4th & it could cost us. I'm totally happy to finish 4th but I don't rate the top 3 teams at all & I think we should go for it & try to win every game, even if it means losing one or two, rather than looking at draws as 'decent results' because we're 3 points ahead of Bolton.
Your right IBH people did opt for 4th. But that is only the fans! I cant for a minut imagine that the club, Mancini, the staff and the players are thinking we are just going for 4th. They will be going for the best they can.. and at this stage that is the Title.
We could be 5pts off the top with 3 games to play and still get it.. so...
For the record i was hoping we could tilt for the title and i still am... that doesn't mean i am expecting it to flow into a bag like sand through a funnel and i am looking at this stage with a lot of patience and just see how we go along. I am with Mancini's view that if we can stay in touch while we are building and be close enough by the last 3rd of the season then we will have every chance of going for it... primarily because we will then quite likely be coming into our own as a team. As i have stated before i expect us to be the best team in the league by the final stages of the season!
As I've said before, you may well be right but imagine if we are the best team in the league by then but we're watching the rags holding up the trophy purely because of missed opportunities now? I'm not sure if the 'everything's ok because we're on target for 4th' mentality is one of the reasons we're dropping these points; we don't have to win. We have a safety net because we don't care what the top 3 do, we're only trying to be 4th. we just have to nose in front of Spurs & Liverpool. Would Mercer/Allison, Clough or even Kenny Dalgleish have won the league if they'd decided at the start of the season that they were aiming for 4th?
Imo the brainwashing of the PL; that the established teams are invincible, is blinding us to the opportunity & we're not going balls out to win every game. As Andy Gray said yesterday; there are no outstanding teams in the Prem this season.