You were right, I hate you.Was arguing with many posters when he took over who seemed to think we should play out the rest of the season with Greenwood and Gomes as there’s nothing left. Only took 6 or 7 weeks!
Just been labelled the ‘Master if Hindsight’, I’ll claim ‘Master of Foresight’ too thanks!
Yeah we were 0-2 down and it was an awful performance. Perhaps you're right though, West Ham.Didn't we actually win that game - perhaps would have been a little unfair
Spurs would have to collapse if you are to catch them.
They've been lucky to get some of the results they've gotten recently so I'm not discounting anything at this stage. What I would love to see is a Leicester title winning season end of season collapse from everyone in the top 6 apart from United.
Hehe. Tbh you can’t blame anyone for writing it off at that point anyway.You were right, I hate you.
Those results. He so wanted to be sacked. Likes pay offs and can't handle anything beyond the short medium termDidn't we actually win that game - perhaps would have been a little unfair
Thanks!
I don’t think they have been lucky, a couple without Son and without Kane as well. They have got better results than I expected since the Utd game. They have done well. If they had dropped a few points over the past month, then we would have had a chance to catch them, that’s not going to happen now.
They could've easily drawn against Newcastle, Watford, Fulham and Leicester; in any normal scenario from a fortune point of view they'd have dropped at least 5 points in those games. That's before even looking at the start of the season, where they were awful for a couple of months but narrowly won 4-5 games (Look through the Spurs thread whereby their fans were complaining about how poor they were playing).
Agree largely but I think it's a better mindset for the players to chase something as it is to run away from something. If we continue to push for third and beyond, we should continue to win games, if we start looking behind us instead of in front we're more likely to become complacent.
I'd agree to some extent, however there is a difference between scoring late and not deserving a result. I could just as easily claim that in a normal scenario we should have scored earlier in some of those games you mentioned. We can also mention offside goals other teams have gotten, as well as results other teams have gotten without playing particularly well. I'll agree that we have somehow managed to win a lot of games with fine margins, but I think this luck narrative is quite exaggerated. We have been unlucky as well this season with injuries, the winter schedule, and also a few games such as the Liverpool game where we should have had a penalty. And if you want to argue for how we were lucky to beat Leicester I could also argue that you were lucky to beat us.
Would be very upset if complacency sets in after all the hard work we've done to get from where we were to where we currently are and I think the players know how far we have come and I think will stop complacency.
Agreed, all we can do is give ourselves the chance, nothing we can do about the rest bar head to head games. The first round form took care of that.
Everyone always try to get maximum points. It never ever happens.
I'm not just referring to late goals, but general performance level. I think if you'd watched City, Liverpool and Spurs all season you'd probably have City top by maybe 5 points and Spurs third around 5-6 points behind Liverpool. As it is both Spurs and Liverpool have had large slices of luck as otherwise City would be pretty much champions and Spurs would be looking over their shoulders nervously.
Possibly, I'm not sure how many points we 'should' be behind City, but I've watched plenty of games from other top 6 teams who won the game by 1 goal that could have ended with point loss and sometimes late. I have no problem with people saying we have played worse than Liverpool and especially City, anyone who watch football would tell you that. But as someone who also watch Arsenal, Chelsea and United I think we are deservedly ahead, and I don't think we have looked less convincing in most of our wins until recently where we have luckily got through a rough patch with maximum points. Early in the season Arsenal always left it late and were chasing the game, Chelsea have had quite a few unconvincing wins in their unbeaten run and United also got a few points under Jose that could have gone the other way, as have Ole against us and Leicester. I was only commenting on the current view that we have been particularly lucky, to me that just sound like recency bias, and doesn't reflect the whole season imo.
