The Title Race - 2023/24

[TravisBickle]

We are 5 for 5 in these title races, which is good.

But if you believe in omens, every time Pep has won the title with City, we have had at least a 12 game winning streak in each of those winning seasons.

It’s still possible we can do this again, but it’s looking very unlikely.

I don’t believe in omens and still think we win it regardless.

 

[citymad]

Having a small squad the injuries we’ve had over the course of the season haven’t helped Stones,Kev, Haaland, Grealish, Eddie, and Kovacic have all been missing. It’s a wonder we’re still in the mix.

 

[citymad]

We are 5 for 5 in these title races, which is good.

But if you believe in omens, every time Pep has won the title with City, we have had at least a 12 game winning streak in each of those winning seasons.

It’s still possible we can do this again, but it’s looking very unlikely.

I don’t believe in omens and still think we win it regardless.

That’s a worrying stat. We have too many tough fixtures to put a run like that together not in our current form anyway. That’s okay though we can’t win it every year. I can still see us doing well in the two leg games scenario of the CL.

 

[blueparrot]

That’s a worrying stat. We have too many tough fixtures to put a run like that together not in our current form anyway. That’s okay though we can’t win it every year. I can still see us doing well in the two leg games scenario of the CL.

Our current form is good,even yesterday wasn’t bad, and good enough to beat anyone.We might not win it but we have as good a chance as anyone, with our experience a better chance.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Well, we'll need to beat Arse at home, thump Utd, not lose at Anfield and win at BHA if we are going to win it this season. March is crucial. Issue is, Arsenal seem to be on a bit of a form role, when they came to ours last season they were dropping points left right and centre.
We've made hard work of quite a few games this season, we just don't seem to be as clinical as we were last season and that needs to change in the forthcoming big games.
Can still do it, no doubt about that.

 

[burning blue soul]

Rather Arsenal win it if we don't

Between those two options, it's like deciding if you'd rather contract hepatitis or gonorrhea :(

 

[burning blue soul]

They intend to manipulate a new winner, but my spider senses tell me they will fail :)

We'll try our best, let's see what happens.

Let the Spider Senses battle commence!! :)

 

[burning blue soul]

Everytime we write the team off they do something exceptional.

Sometimes I wish us fans has the same mindset as the team that Pep has instilled. A calm, collective and humble winning mentality.

Look mate, we go off what we see on the green stuff. Not what we want to see. That's the realm of the red scouse.

 

[blueparrot]

Look mate, we go off what we see on the green stuff. Not what we want to see. That's the realm of the red scouse.

Yes we do, last 15 games won 13 drawn 2. Hopefully the next 15 will be similar.

 

[bridgeno1]

Between those two options, it's like deciding if you'd rather contract hepatitis or gonorrhea :(

To be fair the act of catching gonorrhea is more fun than hepatitis, so there's that to factor in.

 

[Withnail]

12 months ago today we drew at Forest and the doom merchants were out in force. Not promising this season will have the same outcome but way too soon to be coming to conclusions now with the inevitable twists and turns still to come.

So after being held to Forest last season we were 2 points behind Arsenal and they had a game in hand. Far too early to throw in the towel, but currently it doesn't look like the Dippers will have a downturn in results like Arsenal did last season. Could do with Chelsea beating them next week which may halt their momentum and we certainly can't afford to lose at Anfield and ideally need a win.

 

[burning blue soul]

To be fair the act of catching gonorrhea is more fun than hepatitis, so there's that to factor in.

Not when I caught it a mate of mine caught it off a toilet seat :(

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

take away about 30 posters on here and this place is full of right moaning soft cunts and splitters

not one bert I spoke to in town last night drinking in NQ though we were now out of the title race or we wouldn't win it

Fuck me when Pep goes and we are battling for 1st-6th place I may need to quit here, the headloss from most postercl will be bad for my own mental stability

Fucking A.

 

[burning blue soul]

Yes we do, last 15 games won 13 drawn 2. Hopefully the next 15 will be similar.

It has been a relatively easier run of games, though

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

A few on here seem to be giving up on it. Fair enough; that's their call.

It’s not fair enough though, is it? it’s actually completely unfair, ungracious and disrespectful to a group of players that have given us so much. Thank fuck the players aren’t as mentally weak as so many posters on here.

Like @urban genie said, what the fuck are this tedious lot going to be like when we inevitably fall away when Pep leaves? Needy and boring as fuck is the simple answer.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

12 months ago today we drew at Forest and the doom merchants were out in force. Not promising this season will have the same outcome but way too soon to be coming to conclusions now with the inevitable twists and turns still to come.

Remember it well. That game was repeatedly cited as irrefutable evidence on here of why last season would end in failure.

 

[jimharri]

It’s not fair enough though, is it? it’s actually completely unfair, ungracious and disrespectful to a group of players that have given us so much. Thank fuck the players aren’t as mentally weak as so many posters on here.

Like @urban genie said, what the fuck are this tedious lot going to be like when we inevitably fall away when Pep leaves? Needy and boring as fuck is the simple answer.

I thought I'd made my position clear in my post, that you've only partially quoted, by the way. I don't agree with them. Quite the opposite. But, as long as they don't contravene the rules of the forum, they are entitled to their opinions.

 

[burning blue soul]

It’s not fair enough though, is it? it’s actually completely unfair, ungracious and disrespectful to a group of players that have given us so much. Thank fuck the players aren’t as mentally weak as so many posters on here.

Like @urban genie said, what the fuck are this tedious lot going to be like when we inevitably fall away when Pep leaves? Needy and boring as fuck is the simple answer.

How to Handle Pessimism

Having realistic expectations, rather than taking extremely positive or negative positions, may actually be the recipe for good health and happiness. Perhaps not surprisingly, low levels of pessimism, rather than high levels of optimism, have actually been associated with better health.
In other words, pessimism may be a risk factor for heart disease and other physical and mental health conditions, but optimism won’t necessarily prevent you from becoming ill. Rather than constantly aiming for a bright smile and sunny disposition, or giving in to an overall negative outlook, the goal should be moderate optimism with a daily dose of pessimism.

GDM, It's the human condition. Get with the programme, mate. Helps to cope with the stress.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

How to Handle Pessimism

Having realistic expectations, rather than taking extremely positive or negative positions, may actually be the recipe for good health and happiness. Perhaps not surprisingly, low levels of pessimism, rather than high levels of optimism, have actually been associated with better health.
In other words, pessimism may be a risk factor for heart disease and other physical and mental health conditions, but optimism won’t necessarily prevent you from becoming ill. Rather than constantly aiming for a bright smile and sunny disposition, or giving in to an overall negative outlook, the goal should be moderate optimism with a daily dose of pessimism.

GDM, It's the human condition. Get with the programme, mate. Helps to cope with the stress.

To be pessimistic isn’t definitively the human condition. We are all different in that respect at least.

It’s this deployment of the word ‘realism’ from those of a pessimistic disposition that especially gets on my tits, because their perspective goes against the weight of experience in recent years.So they don’t have a monopoly on reality, just their own perception of it.

And I haven’t stridently predicted we will win it, just that we can and imo it’s likely we will. That doesn’t make me blindly optimistic, just applying common sense and experience to the equation.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I thought I'd made my position clear in my post, that you've only partially quoted, by the way. I don't agree with them. Quite the opposite. But, as long as they don't contravene the rules of the forum, they are entitled to their opinions.

That doesn’t make what they say to be fair, which is what you literally said.

They are entitled to their opinions, but those opinions are not fairly or rationally held.