its a Barm
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I will be more confident if we win the next 2
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The Title Race - 2023/24
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Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Whatever's said on here — and of course it's a forum, people are here to speculate and that is their right — I am absolutely, 100% certain that the lads will simply be thinking in terms of winning every single game, with no calculations as to what the other two might do.
A propos of nothing. Had a strange dream, one of those early morning dreams that you remember well. I dreamt that Shaun Wright-Phillips was back playing for us. He broke away with the ball from inside our own half. He was really on his own. He got to the edge of the opposition penalty area, the keeper came out to narrow the angle. Somehow, a defender had got back and was sort of between him and the goal. Suddenly, he spun round 180°, and backheeled the ball into the net, past the defender and keeper. From a fair way out, too. I looked over at Pep (the pitch was tiny at this point, he only seemed to be about 20 yards away). He didn't look up, kept on writing something in his notes (I know, he never has notes, that's what dreams do). I could see, and everyone could see, that he was really angry with Shaun's showboating. Furthermore, nobody around me really celebrated it. We were all angry with his stupidity. I looked over at Shaun, he was now looking pretty sheepish, and he had got hold of a pencil and a piece of paper, and was writing something on it. (Yes, he was still out on the pitch!). I understood in the dream — the way you do — that he was writing “Sorry” and that he was going to ask another player to give it to Pep. I looked back at Pep, and at this point he had completely covered his head with his coat, a bit like those criminals who've been accused and are being escorted by the police to the van. I also understood that Pep was by this gesture completely rejecting Wright-Phillips's goal and anything he might say to mollify him.
End of excursion into my weirdo subconscious… God knows what happened during the day yesterday to spark that one!
A propos of nothing. Had a strange dream, one of those early morning dreams that you remember well. I dreamt that Shaun Wright-Phillips was back playing for us. He broke away with the ball from inside our own half. He was really on his own. He got to the edge of the opposition penalty area, the keeper came out to narrow the angle. Somehow, a defender had got back and was sort of between him and the goal. Suddenly, he spun round 180°, and backheeled the ball into the net, past the defender and keeper. From a fair way out, too. I looked over at Pep (the pitch was tiny at this point, he only seemed to be about 20 yards away). He didn't look up, kept on writing something in his notes (I know, he never has notes, that's what dreams do). I could see, and everyone could see, that he was really angry with Shaun's showboating. Furthermore, nobody around me really celebrated it. We were all angry with his stupidity. I looked over at Shaun, he was now looking pretty sheepish, and he had got hold of a pencil and a piece of paper, and was writing something on it. (Yes, he was still out on the pitch!). I understood in the dream — the way you do — that he was writing “Sorry” and that he was going to ask another player to give it to Pep. I looked back at Pep, and at this point he had completely covered his head with his coat, a bit like those criminals who've been accused and are being escorted by the police to the van. I also understood that Pep was by this gesture completely rejecting Wright-Phillips's goal and anything he might say to mollify him.
End of excursion into my weirdo subconscious… God knows what happened during the day yesterday to spark that one!
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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City's schedule is brutal.
Mad Rid 130 minutes
Chavs 72 hours later + travel.
Brighton 120 hours later + travel.
Forest 72 hours later + travel.
That mixture leaves little time for anything other than rest, warm down & tactics.
Brutal.
Of course it's easy to be wise after the event, but the more I think about it, I'm convinced that if we'd got through and had two matches against Bayern, + a CL final, it would have been a bridge too far, and we would have fallen at all hurdles.
Yes, we did it last season. But the configurations were pretty different. We got through against both Bayern and Real without too much fuss. We've got walking wounded that we didn't have then. People like Rodri and Kev are a year older, and that's starting to show in recovery times between matches. We had a fairly benign semi-final against Sheffield United. And Arsenal folded. None of that holds good for this year.
I think we'll win the Cup and the league, and if we do personally I'll be completely over the moon.
Liverpool have never really bottled it against us, in my honest opinion. Just possibly arguable in 2014 against Chelsea. They've fought us pretty much to the end. Arsenal last season, yes. I don't think either will, we'll win it by a point or so.
For us to win it by a point, the other two teams would need to lose one of their 5 and us to draw 2 of our 6. Or us to draw one and lose one and them to draw 2 of their last 5.
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You're mad as a box of frogs!!Whatever's said on here — and of course it's a forum, people are here to speculate and that is their right — I am absolutely, 100% certain that the lads will simply be thinking in terms of winning every single game, with no calculations as to what the other two might do.
A propos of nothing. Had a strange dream, one of those early morning dreams that you remember well. I dreamt that Shaun Wright-Phillips was back playing for us. He broke away with the ball from inside our own half. He was really on his own. He got to the edge of the opposition penalty area, the keeper came out to narrow the angle. Somehow, a defender had got back and was sort of between him and the goal. Suddenly, he spun round 180°, and backheeled the ball into the net, past the defender and keeper. From a fair way out, too. I looked over at Pep (the pitch was tiny at this point, he only seemed to be about 20 yards away). He didn't look up, kept on writing something in his notes (I know, he never has notes, that's what dreams do). I could see, and everyone could see, that he was really angry with Shaun's showboating. Furthermore, nobody around me really celebrated it. We were all angry with his stupidity. I looked over at Shaun, he was now looking pretty sheepish, and he had got hold of a pencil and a piece of paper, and was writing something on it. (Yes, he was still out on the pitch!). I understood in the dream — the way you do — that he was writing “Sorry” and that he was going to ask another player to give it to Pep. I looked back at Pep, and at this point he had completely covered his head with his coat, a bit like those criminals who've been accused and are being escorted by the police to the van. I also understood that Pep was by this gesture completely rejecting Wright-Phillips's goal and anything he might say to mollify him.
End of excursion into my weirdo subconscious… God knows what happened during the day yesterday to spark that one!
Hilarious.
Post of the morning so far!!!
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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For us to win it by a point, the other two teams would need to lose one of their 5 and us to draw 2 of our 6. Or us to draw one and lose one and them to draw 2 of their last 5.
Maths has never been my strong point.
This was the only upside of going out against RM. We could have progressed and gone out against BM, and ballsed up the PL as well as a consequence of the schedule.The gap we have now ahead of the Brighton game is perfectly ok - that was the one upside of having to play Chelsea on Saturday.
Brighton to Forest is a quick turnaround but nowhere near as troublesome as if we’d had the midweek trip to Munich a few days later which would have entailed some serious squad rotation. Can play a full strength team at both Brighton and Forest now knowing there are six days to recover before Wolves.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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I will be more confident if we win the next 2
I will be somewhat more confident if we win the next 6.
smevchenko
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More simply, we lose one and they both draw oneFor us to win it by a point, the other two teams would need to lose one of their 5 and us to draw 2 of our 6. Or us to draw one and lose one and them to draw 2 of their last 5.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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This was the only upside of going out against RM. We could have progressed and gone out against BM, and ballsed up the PL as well as a consequence of the schedule.
it's pretty much what I said above. I genuinely do believe that we could have paid the highest price for going through. The lads were reeling around like zombies on Saturday. It was the Night of the Living Dead. Can't remember when I've seen the team like that. All over the pitch, too. Funnily enough, we seemed to get a second wind in the last fifteen minutes or so. We could have got a second after Bernie's goal. Sheer euphoria, I think. Or adrenalin infusing tired muscles and minds.
It will still be a bit miraculous if we win anything from this season.