liamctid
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To clutch at straws - game on game we're only -3 on the corresponding fixtures last season and if we got 78 points then we've got a chance of winning the title. That's the best I can do I'm afraid.
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Happy Clapper thread
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Eccles Blue
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This is Manchester City we are the best team in the land, in all the world. We are brilliant and will show them all. Come on City.
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese
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End of Nov, no injuries and pissed the CL group stage without breaking a sweat.Non of the usual league cup fixtures piling up on everything else and a couple of decent results for us could see us shoot right back up the table.
jimharri
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Hence the "if". You must have missed that.'current form' in November means nothing. Especially in a slugfest season like this.
We now probably have the fittest squad in the league in terms of availability and our fixtures between now and the end of January are very favourable.
We're ready to go.
jay_mcfc
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Well yeah, considering you didn't say it!Hence the "if". You must have missed that.
jimharri
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Fair point. Humble apologies. My general point still stands, though. On our current form, we won't win the league. So far, we've dropped 12 points. In the centurions' season, we dropped 14 in the whole season. Was that a freakish season? Possibly. Maybe mid-high eighties might be enough this time around; compressed season, lots of muscle injuries, teams will drop more points. We just don't look capable of going on a, say, 10 game winning run to put pressure on Liverpool or Spurs. Hope I'm wrong, mind.Well yeah, considering you didn't say it!
jay_mcfc
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Fair point. Humble apologies. My general point still stands, though. On our current form, we won't win the league. So far, we've dropped 12 points. In the centurions' season, we dropped 14 in the whole season. Was that a freakish season? Possibly. Maybe mid-high eighties might be enough this time around; compressed season, lots of muscle injuries, teams will drop more points. We just don't look capable of going on a, say, 10 game winning run to put pressure on Liverpool or Spurs. Hope I'm wrong, mind.
The centurion season has been and gone, we're in a different world. We have had a tough start to the season - finishing 3 weeks after everyone else, no pre-season, injuries, covid, fixtures, no strikers, fatigue, Internationals, CL games. Considering everything, including current form which is far from great, we have lost to Leicester and Spurs and drew with Liverpool, Leeds and West Ham. That's not the end of the world all things considered.
What I know is that from this point forward as it stands we are the squad best equipped to see out this kind of season. The squad is fit and the fixtures have opened up at the perfect time. You could easily see us being <3 points behind come Boxing Day looking at our rivals injuries and fixtures. It's gonna be a season of ifs though. If Laporte and Dias get injured we're done. If Liverpool play as well as they did v Leicester with their second string they could run away with it again. If Kane and Son stay injury free Spurs will mount a serious challenge.
I still like our ifs but we're gonna have to pick up a lot of points these next 4 weeks to make up for our form so far.
Centurions
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100 points in a season, never before done and never since (although we had a damn good try). Yeah, I think we can label that one a freakish season Jim ;)Fair point. Humble apologies. My general point still stands, though. On our current form, we won't win the league. So far, we've dropped 12 points. In the centurions' season, we dropped 14 in the whole season. Was that a freakish season? Possibly. Maybe mid-high eighties might be enough this time around; compressed season, lots of muscle injuries, teams will drop more points. We just don't look capable of going on a, say, 10 game winning run to put pressure on Liverpool or Spurs. Hope I'm wrong, mind.
This season is probably going to be equally freakish but for very different reasons.
Man_City_Loyal
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watched very few games this season as getting annoyed more with how we play.