TRO Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 You can only judge every game on its merit.....trying to predict outcomes, is extremely difficult. Our early games are in so much contrast to the last 4....its so hard to predict. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) Into the bottom half we go.... I said recently that we couldn't afford to keep losing to the smaller teams as before you know it, you're down near the bottom. To have had the chance to go top on a couple of occasions recently and to now be in the bottom half and sliding is really frustrating. We could have gone 4th last week too. This postponement really couldn't have come at a worse time. We needed 3 points this weekend badly. We could be 15th by the time we kick off at Wolves next week. Who could be in the top 4 themselves. Edited December 5, 2020 by One For The Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) Yep we are faliing big and hard down the table. Need to pick up some form soon. I don't care how well you think we are playing. Losing football games can quickly become a habit and it's during times like these we need to see the right mentality from the players Edited December 5, 2020 by villalad21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted December 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2020 3 points off 4th 9 points off 17th With games in hand Proper head wobbler this thread 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Two wins v Burnley, WBA, Palace will likely be enough to get us back in top half. Hopefully draw the other and also get something v Wolves and 23 points by Boxing day would be pretty good. Big two weeks ahead as we don't get many wins and we then have rock solid hard fixture list late December and pretty much through January. Still think we've got a good chance of finishing top 10 but we obviously need to get a win or two soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Still think we'll end up lower mid table, around 14th or so. But it will be a frustrating season if we continue to be as patchy as we have been so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) 16 minutes ago, villa4europe said: 3 points off 4th 9 points off 17th With games in hand Proper head wobbler this thread Yeah let's ignore the fact we have lost 4 out of 5 and are sliding down the table. We were a point from going top at one point recently. We are on a terrible run and that's a fact we cannot ignore. The game at Wolves is massive. Lose that and our good start will be officially wiped out. Edited December 5, 2020 by One For The Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 8 minutes ago, One For The Road said: Yeah let's ignore the fact we have lost 4 out of 5 and are sliding down the table. We were a point from going top at one point recently. We are on a terrible run and that's a fact we cannot ignore. The game at Wolves is massive. Lose that and our good start will be officially wiped out. Yes we are No it won't 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Yes we are No it won't Really? 5 losses out of the opening 10 games with all of them coming in the last 6 matches would constitute a good start in your eyes? In no possible world would losing to Leeds, Southampton, Brighton, West Ham and Wolves in the first 10 games be classified as a good start. Edited December 5, 2020 by One For The Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Just now, One For The Road said: Really? 5 losses out of the opening 10 games with all of them coming in the last 6 matches would constitute a good start in your eyes? Switch round who we won and lost against and yes its been fine Then add in just how **** awful the bottom sides are whilst judging us on our football rather than our results and yes we've been pretty good, big improvement on last year and we'll be perfectly safe, we need to tweak the balance between attack and defence and we have a weak squad which will cause us problems at times but there are at least 5 worse teams than us, we just need to stay confident and find some form again, that's why it's a shame they didn't make a weakened Newcastle play last night No knicker wetting here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, villa4europe said: No knicker wetting here Better fan than you insults are not good way to have a debate. Nobody mentioned anything about "knicker wetting," so lay off that crap. My point was that we are in fact sliding down the table after what looked to be a promising start. Thats it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_avfc Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, One For The Road said: Really? 5 losses out of the opening 10 games with all of them coming in the last 6 matches would constitute a good start in your eyes? We’d have won 5 out of 10 games. At that rate we’d win 19 games this season and finish on 57 points. I don’t think we’ve been particularly lucky to win any of those 5 games whereas some of the losses easily could and probably should have been victories. To put this in context we finished on 35 points last season winning a grand total of 9 games all season. I’d say it’s been a solid start to the season and we’ve shown real signs of progress from last season. Talking about relegation at this point when we sit 9 points clear of the bottom three who have managed two wins between them in 30 games is ridiculous. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) I think I agree with both of the above. It’s too soon to be too worried, but the form of the team is relegation form and that’s concerning. The hope is just that we turn it around before we find ourselves properly in the scrap once again. Edited December 5, 2020 by Spoony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, tom_avfc said: We’d have won 5 out of 10 games. At that rate we’d win 19 games this season and finish on 57 points. I don’t think we’ve been particularly lucky to win any of those 5 games whereas some of the losses easily could and probably should have been victories. To put this in context we finished on 35 points last season winning a grand total of 9 games all season. I’d say it’s been a solid start to the season and we’ve shown real signs of progress from last season. Talking about relegation at this point when we sit 9 points clear of the bottom three who have managed two wins between them in 30 games is ridiculous. I never mentioned or talked about relegation once. I simply mentioned in this thread that we were sliding down the table at an alarming rate. Which is in fact true. And 5 defeats in 6 games, (if we lose to Wolves as per my point) is relegation form. Especially losing to those 5 teams. Thats my point. We desperately need to avoid losing that game. Edited December 5, 2020 by One For The Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mantis Posted December 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 5, 2020 Expect a lot of the relegation fears are based more on bad memories from the past decade than actual results/performances. It does have an effect on you. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 City moved from 11th to 4th today. That would have been us if our game wasnt postponed last night. Football Anxiety is the worst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: City moved from 11th to 4th today. That would have been us if our game wasnt postponed last night. Football Anxiety is the worst The issue is more about our form than anything else. City haven't lost 4 out 5 games as far as I know. Our form is awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 1 hour ago, One For The Road said: The game at Wolves is massive. Lose that and our good start will be officially wiped out. Do we have to forfeit the points then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Just now, One For The Road said: The issue is more about our form than anything else. City haven't lost 4 out 5 games as far as I know. Our form is awful. Agree with that The results have been bad, the performances have been OK apart from leeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Just now, One For The Road said: The issue is more about our form than anything else. City haven't lost 4 out 5 games as far as I know. Our form is awful. Of course it is. 3 points from 15 is a poor return but you cant say we’ve played badly. It would be more worrying if we had. Screwed royally in the last 2. Saints was a freak game. I think we’ve been incredibly unfortunate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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