Wonderwall wrote:Lets hope we put the lesser teams to the sword!
LEAGUE TABLE
1 Chelsea - WON
2 Manchester United
3 Arsenal - LOST
4 Manchester City
5 Newcastle United - WON
6 Bolton Wanderers
7 Tottenham Hotspur - DREW
8 Sunderland - LOST
9 Liverpool - WON
10 West Bromwich Albion - WON
11 Everton
12 Blackpool - WON
13 Fulham
14 Aston Villa
15 Birmingham City
16 Blackburn Rovers - DRAW
17 Stoke City
18 Wigan Athletic - WON
19 Wolverhampton Wanderers - LOST
20 West Ham United
DoomMerchant wrote:jesus those 4 pts dropped to Rovers and Wolves really stings.
Slim wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:jesus those 4 pts dropped to Rovers and Wolves really stings.
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DoomMerchant wrote:Slim wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:jesus those 4 pts dropped to Rovers and Wolves really stings.
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what's a point among friends. pedant.
Wonderwall wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Slim wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:jesus those 4 pts dropped to Rovers and Wolves really stings.
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what's a point among friends. pedant.
pot and kettle?
Slim wrote:Wonderwall wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Slim wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:jesus those 4 pts dropped to Rovers and Wolves really stings.
-sigh-
Try again.
what's a point among friends. pedant.
pot and kettle?
The funny thing is, 4 points puts us in 2nd, 5 points ties us for first. I wonder if we were looking back in May if that 1 point wouldn't matter.
Wonderwall wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Slim wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:jesus those 4 pts dropped to Rovers and Wolves really stings.
-sigh-
Try again.
what's a point among friends. pedant.
pot and kettle?
Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Notably LPool,Chelsea,Arse and Scum will all have been home games so the harder versions still to come.
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:You get 3 points whether you you beat Chelsea or West Ham.
Going by your table we have an average of 1.75 points against the bottom 10 currently - this isn't good. 1.75 ppg would get you 66.5 overall - exactly half a point less than we got last year. And that's just going off the bottom half.
Last season Chelsea lost to City x2, Villa, Everton, Spurs & Wigan. So 5 of 6 losses to comfortably top 10 sides.
Last season Chelsea got 54 points against the bottom 10, that's 2.7 ppg whereas our current rate gets us 35 points from the bottom rate.
Imo, making sure you get 3 points against the lesser teams is THE way to make sure you're on your way to winning the leauge.
LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:Imo, making sure you get 3 points against the lesser teams is THE way to make sure you're on your way to winning the leauge.
Tokyo Blue wrote:LookMumImOnMCF.net wrote:Imo, making sure you get 3 points against the lesser teams is THE way to make sure you're on your way to winning the leauge.
Your point is a good one.
I wonder though if it is possible to tell who the "lessser" teams are until much later on in the season.
And while yes, there will be teams at the bottom end of the table, it does look to me as though this year the "lesser" teams are a lot more dangerous than they might have been in other seasons. It is a lot harder for everyone not just us. Chelsea just lost to fifth from bottom (at start of play). Tottenham just lost to a midtable side and conceded four and that should have been more - Bolton hit the woodwork twice. united threw the lead away twice to Fulham and newly-promoted West Brom at home, as well as limping to draws against Sunderland and Bolton. Wigan, currently third from bottom, won at Tottenham. Sunderland and Wolves beat us and Balckburn took a draw. You see Stoke coming from behind to beat Villa who finished in the top 6 last season. These "lesser" teams are getting nearer and nearer to the standard of the "top" teams.
So while I do agree with you, it is a lot easier said than done.
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