not a chance we will drop 12 points, don't want to say the PL is our's already but it is damn close.
How plausible is another Prem title this year ?
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I would say we currently have three fingers on the trophy, enough to swing it, but still not enough to lift it.
i think we'll win our next two
home to Reading and away to Sunderland
it'll be too much for City
i have to say I was shocked at our second half performance though - it was like Everton last april all over again
there is something not mentally right about our squad
home to Reading and away to Sunderland
it'll be too much for City
i have to say I was shocked at our second half performance though - it was like Everton last april all over again
there is something not mentally right about our squad
There is definitely still a level of uncertainty among some of the less experienced players. We've about six or seven players who've played quite a bit this season that have yet to win the Premier League. That's got to count for something.
well...one thing for me...if we did feck it up and city won it...I would sincerely have to retire from supporting football...I just don't think I could take it!!!!!!
That's like saying I've 3 fingers on my dick,tantalising but not a real grip
I can do it with two...
I meant yours not someone else's
A collapse is possible but I don't think it would be enough to lose the title. We just need to win our next two games and then avoid defeat vs City. That would almost seal it.
Unfortunately I just can't see past City being crowned champions again this season because of Tevez and Yaya Toure and stuff.
I think too many of our fans were deluded and got giddy with talk of the treble which was never going to happen.
I can see our season slowly fizzling out but we have done enough to regain the title.
Before the season began I would have settled for that and will be ecstatic when we win the title anything else is always a bonus.
I can see our season slowly fizzling out but we have done enough to regain the title.
Before the season began I would have settled for that and will be ecstatic when we win the title anything else is always a bonus.
SAF will make damn sure it doesn't happen again.
The treble was a definite possibility, I reckon.
But yeah, I'd have snapped your hand off at the start of the season if I was offered number twenty.
Treble was not feasible in my opinion we did not have enough of our squad performing at their best level
It just goes to show how special the 99 squad was, I don't think anyone will ever repeat what we did that year.
I agree that not enough of our players were performing at their best level, but with van Persie on form and Barcelona likely to go out we would have had a good chance in Europe, and domestically wise we're the best team in England.
Ah well, guess we'll never know anyway.
I don't think we'll collapse. I don't believe the Chelsea match was some sort of mental breakdown following Real or anything like that, so there won't be any lingering effects. And we're good enough to win most matches just like we have until now.
I would have actually been a bit worried even with a 12 point gap in case we were through in Europe. And you can see why, with Fergie down to two midfield players he puts trust in. While we have a good squad in many positions, I'm not sure it's balanced enough to sustain an assault on three competitions. With it down to one - maybe two, if we go through in the FA Cup, though it's not many matches anyway - we should be OK.
While I would have loved to have a go at it, we're not quite a Treble-calibre side. Not yet, anyway.
I would have actually been a bit worried even with a 12 point gap in case we were through in Europe. And you can see why, with Fergie down to two midfield players he puts trust in. While we have a good squad in many positions, I'm not sure it's balanced enough to sustain an assault on three competitions. With it down to one - maybe two, if we go through in the FA Cup, though it's not many matches anyway - we should be OK.
While I would have loved to have a go at it, we're not quite a Treble-calibre side. Not yet, anyway.
A lot less likely now we're out of the champions league. last week it looked like we'd maybe have a massive backlog of games with City, Arsenal and Chelsea all being after European games.
Not proud to say I had 20 quid on city at 23s on betfair just last week in case
Not proud to say I had 20 quid on city at 23s on betfair just last week in case
my sentiments entirely we had keane scholes giigs beckham blomquist and butt our present midfield cannot compete with that plus the four strikers we had then were better than the present four.
If we lose to a re-invigorated, new manager fueled Reading AND City win away at Everton, I'll get seriously worried. We're then really not far off the situation last year, when despite being in no other competitions we crumbled in a way I never thought possible for a Fergie-managed team.
It would be unbelievable, but so was last season.
And I've said before, for City to win it they'll have had to more or less win out their last 13 matches. That's an incredible achievement, if they do it.
It would be unbelievable, but so was last season.
And I've said before, for City to win it they'll have had to more or less win out their last 13 matches. That's an incredible achievement, if they do it.
It will be fun to let City within 1 point below at the end of season. It will hit hard on their fans with a false hope, and the owner would have thought they don't need massive improvement.
We might let the gap drop to around 8 points, but largely i think we'll cruise it.
I'm still a bit worried, this FA cup replay could cause us a bit of trouble. They will probably go into the derby having played a game more so it could be quite possibly be a 9 point lead on derby day, if they were to win that and take it to 6 points feck knows what it would do to our confidence.
Hopefully they drop points at weekend and we win the derby to seal the league anyway but it's not over for them yet. I fancied Everton to get a point at weekend but after their 3-0 loss to Wigan I can see City going there and winning comfortably.
Hopefully they drop points at weekend and we win the derby to seal the league anyway but it's not over for them yet. I fancied Everton to get a point at weekend but after their 3-0 loss to Wigan I can see City going there and winning comfortably.
I am worried about the effects of the last two results, coupled with what happened last season. Before the Real Madrid game the treble was a realistic dream. Now that has gone, and the FA Cup is further away than before the draw with Chelsea.
We should beat Reading, and comfortably, but it is not impossible that we drop two points. If City win at Everton, then the gap is ten. They beat Newcastle and we draw at Sunderland - gap is eight points. They win the derby and it's down to five with seven games to go. They would have the momentum and i would be seriously worried.
Drawing with Reading is the only unrealistic result there and stranger results have happened. Obviously, I think we will beat them and that should settle our nerves but there are no guarantees. The closer to the end of the season we get maintaining our lead, the more comfortable I will feel.
We should beat Reading, and comfortably, but it is not impossible that we drop two points. If City win at Everton, then the gap is ten. They beat Newcastle and we draw at Sunderland - gap is eight points. They win the derby and it's down to five with seven games to go. They would have the momentum and i would be seriously worried.
Drawing with Reading is the only unrealistic result there and stranger results have happened. Obviously, I think we will beat them and that should settle our nerves but there are no guarantees. The closer to the end of the season we get maintaining our lead, the more comfortable I will feel.
a wobble against Reading.....and City will be boosted big time.
if we melt down again, serious questions will be asked from top to bottom.
Ferguson would probably step down if it happened.
Not that it will.
Not that it will.
There's not a lot of pressure on City. They have a good chance of winning the FA Cup and everyone has written them off in the league. So they can just go out and play their stuff.
If we slip up once, the players mind might start thinking about last season.
If we slip up once, the players mind might start thinking about last season.
I see the optimists have all gone to bed. So will I.
We'd have to lose 4 of our 10 remaining games (with City winning every single remaining game) to be level on points, and we've got +10 goal difference on them.
I suppose what I'm saying is that I fecking well hope it doesn't happpen.
I suppose what I'm saying is that I fecking well hope it doesn't happpen.
I would put it like this - if City are more than 9 points behind us after the derby, it is over. So basically - 2 wins in a row and a draw against City and we are there
So Tevez scores a hat trick against fecking Barnsley and he is back in form? Remind me the last time he scored in the PL?
Verry happy that the next match is at home vs Reading.
Everton will lie down for them.
Maybe they'll get new manager syndrome and beat us
Its always a possibility that we could blow it. Highly unlikely but it is a possibility. A few loses early in the next few games will mount the pressure right back on us. Though with each game we manage to get through with a win it heaps the pressure back the other way.
I'm still focusing on each game as it comes. Beat Reading on the weekend and worry about the title when we have actually won it.
I'm still focusing on each game as it comes. Beat Reading on the weekend and worry about the title when we have actually won it.
love the change in the title!
Surely changing it to "How plausible is another premier league title" with the thread dated yesterday is a bit stupid though.
12 point lead with 10 games to go? Yeah I could potentially maybe see winning it as "plausible"
Surely changing it to "How plausible is another premier league title" with the thread dated yesterday is a bit stupid though.
12 point lead with 10 games to go? Yeah I could potentially maybe see winning it as "plausible"