The Title Race - 2023/24

How many points will be needed to win the league?

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Andy TheCatalyst Morrison said:
You are somewhat missing the point. You didn't need to win 11 in a row as you had a big lead, 8 wins and a draw would have done it I think. But you kept throwing away points either from very strong winning positions and/or against very poor teams.

If you seriously think your form at the end of the season was decent then you need to give your head a serious wobble. Yeah, you won at Newcastle when the pressure was off as you'd blown it by then (and had a bit of luck that day with the woodwork if I recall).

People were saying on here for most of the season about your club's emotional state (management, players and fans) - getting way too giddy with every game (win, lose or draw). Not being able to cope with the pressure is the very definition of bottling it.
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If you're counting the Brighton and Brentford slip ups in your calculations I can fairly confidently say that if we had needed to win those games we would have done.
 
Deepest Blue said:
If you're counting the Brighton and Brentford slip ups in your calculations I can fairly confidently say that if we had needed to win those games we would have done.
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Absolutely agree. But they dropped 15 points out of the last 27. It shouldn't have mattered what we did - they were in an unbelievable position and quite frankly, they fucked it up.
 
bridgeno1 said:
Fine, if you think Arsenal bottled the league instead of Man City being amazing and going on a superb run that's up to you. Fact is City won the league by 5 points so you guys needed to win minimum 9 in a row (you did 11) to win the league and 9 in a row is by any measurement a super tough task, let alone the 11 in a row you did win.

By saying Arsenal bottled it you are almost downplaying City's achievement last year in winning the league - as if to say you only won it because Arsenal chucked it away. Glass is half empty basically. I prefer to say Arsenal did really well last season when we weren't expected to, and it was an unbelievable run by City at the end of the season that did for us and that's no shame
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You did well until you threw away points against Liverpool Southampton and WHU from very strong positions
You then arrived at the Etihad in a must win game for you as opposed to a must not lose
So yes you bottled it big time
At the start of the season your argument is correct you did really well and improved
But come on seriously with ten games to go it was yours to lose and guess what City ramped up the pressure and you lost
Good luck this year big win today
 
Tolmie scores said:
Way too early. Used to be the case that tge league wasn't mentioned till late March
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very early, i merely meant off the first little block of games who looked like early runners. Essentially meaningless though, need 15+ games to be played.
 
Big test up next, West Ham have started really well and this will be our toughest game yet. Surprised it's not on sky or tnt
 
shemnel said:
very early, i merely meant off the first little block of games who looked like early runners. Essentially meaningless though, need 15+ games to be played.
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At least i mean we are often behind after 28 games!
 
Tolmie scores said:
At least i mean we are often behind after 28 games!
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ah yeah but you have a pretty solid idea of who you challenger is at that point! just trying to suss out which teams are in the mixed or have quality to push for the top spots. Too early for that though, as well.
 
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