Steve Zodiak wrote:"Taking Off The Blue Blinkers"
What can we do next season?
Nine wins and nine or ten draws will probably keep us up. I see our competition being Bournemouth, Brighton, Burnley, Palace, Huddersfield, Southampton, Wolves & Watford. Possibly one or two I may have missed out who could join us in the battle to stay up.
I am sure we will pick up the odd unexpected win like we did last time (Man City), but I don't think we will get too many points against the top sides. We are going to need to pick up a lot of home points against the above teams, and hopefully get two or three away wins as well. Not going to be easy, and I think we will do well if we can end the season with three or four clubs below us.
I would guess that the other nineteen sides are looking at us as a guaranteed four points at least. Hopefully, team spirit and the willingness to battle for the full ninety minutes will help us, but do we have the quality to pick up enough wins and avoid losing more than twenty games next season. I think with a little luck we can just about do it, but I can see why we are favourites to be relegated, and we certainly won't get any help from the refs against the established big boys. Looks like a tense season ahead, but great to have the chance of testing ourselves against the best. My head says we will probably finish in the bottom three, but I did not expect to see us here in the first place, so hopefully I will be wrong again.
2blue2handle wrote:Its going to be massively tough, but warnock seems to like the underdog tag and you can see where he is going with the team and the signings, hard to beat, pace in all the attacking positions and hungry players with something to prove. I am concerned with the talk of only needing two more players though as if we realistically want to stay up then I think we need a minimum of 4 players ideally 5 but I don't believe we only want 2, im sure Warnock can see we need more than that
Steve Zodiak wrote:2blue2handle wrote:Its going to be massively tough, but warnock seems to like the underdog tag and you can see where he is going with the team and the signings, hard to beat, pace in all the attacking positions and hungry players with something to prove. I am concerned with the talk of only needing two more players though as if we realistically want to stay up then I think we need a minimum of 4 players ideally 5 but I don't believe we only want 2, im sure Warnock can see we need more than that
I agree that Warnock can probably see that we need more than we have right now. I suspect the money is not there for him to do a lot more than he has done already, we always knew that finances would be tight and I think we are about to find out just how tight they really are.
2blue2handle wrote:Its going to be massively tough, but warnock seems to like the underdog tag and you can see where he is going with the team and the signings, hard to beat, pace in all the attacking positions and hungry players with something to prove. I am concerned with the talk of only needing two more players though as if we realistically want to stay up then I think we need a minimum of 4 players ideally 5 but I don't believe we only want 2, im sure Warnock can see we need more than that
Bluebina wrote:Cardiff 8/11 4/5 4/5 4/5 8/11
Huddersfield 6/5 5/4 5/4 6/5 5/4
Fulham 6/4 7/4 13/8 13/8 6/4
Brighton 2/1 2/1 9/4 2/1 9/4
Watford 2/1 9/4 2/1 15/8 3/1
Burnley 4/1 3/1 7/2 7/2 4/1
Bournemouth 5/1 5/1 9/2 9/2 4/1
Newcastle 6/1 5/1 5/1 6/1 5/1
Crystal Palace 11/2 6/1 5/1 6/1 9/2
Southampton 7/1 8/1 8/1 7/1 6/1
We are favorites to go down and the bookies aren't often wrong !!!
Although they were last year, with us going up !!!
https://www.oddschecker.com/football/en ... to-stay-up
https://www.justbookies.com/premier-lea ... YIQAvD_BwE
paulh_85 wrote:its not really much of a stretch to say we will struggle this season is it?
if all the money we have is already spent then it should have been spent better imo. still hoping we can bring one more player in with cash though.
maccydee wrote:paulh_85 wrote:its not really much of a stretch to say we will struggle this season is it?
if all the money we have is already spent then it should have been spent better imo. still hoping we can bring one more player in with cash though.
Spent better how?
paulh_85 wrote:its not really much of a stretch to say we will struggle this season is it?
if all the money we have is already spent then it should have been spent better imo. still hoping we can bring one more player in with cash though.
Flyingpostman wrote:Bookies may have us odds on but things we need to look at . We do need one or two top class players to chip in with goals but defensively I think we are well drilled and organised and need not to worry that much .
We have a team that are together , we have very few if any big time Charlie's at the club . Look at the togetherness of teams that didn't necessarily have masses amounts of quality throughout the team ( Leicester winning the league . Wales getting to the semi's and England getting to the semi's)
Teams are going to come at us for 3 points which will massively suit us if we are going to punish them on the break .
We are very physical team and will make CCFC and intimidating place to come play . Premiership teams do not like this and we will ruffle plenty of feathers . I feel as long as we don't get on the managers back and infighting starts we will do well . I look at the likes of Southampton and having Hughes s as a manager and think we will out perform teams of slightly more talented mercenaries every time .
Keep the faith
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