Crooked_rain
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Disagree. They have good options at Full Back , have a mobile midfield and have 4 strikers compared to our 1.
They did last season too and finished 3rd
Disagree. They have good options at Full Back , have a mobile midfield and have 4 strikers compared to our 1.
My how we’ll all chuckle to ourselves when we read this thread in May with another title in the bag.
The recency bias is off the charts. It’s mental how people overrate the dippers based on one successful season when we pretty much downed tools - why does that season resonate more than every single other season when they’ve always come up short ? Arsenal will be our closest rivals.
And for the umpteenth time, Brighton is not a must win game and nor is any other game we play this side of May.
The time to start worrying is if City are 8 points behind with six matches to play.
Maybe not, as those of us who recall 2011-12 will understand?
Literally the only time we've cantered through a season and won the title with room to spare was ’17-’18. That goes back to ’11-’12 and ’13-’14. In fact, it goes back to the 1967-68 season, while we're about it (can't speak for 1936-37, calling @Gary James). We're good at negotiating tight situations in the second half of the season. That's why no definitive judging of anyone's prospects can be done at this point. Arsenal are not out of it. Six, seven points at this stage of the season is nothing very much. Liverpool are obviously a threat.
To be even in the mix when we've not played at all well, by and large, is an extraordinary testament to the sheer bloody cussedness of this lot. I think we'll play better as the season goes on, but there's no guarantee. By the way, I was astonished at how bad we were at Bournemouth. Long time since I've seen us as gormless as that. Let's just enjoy the ride.