Where will we finish then?

[Red74]

Change the shitty tactics that haven’t worked all season and give the lads a fighting chance

[s(k)aturation]

 

4th... if we play Alisson up front again.

[Scott_M]

5th and win the CL.

[Harry Squatter]

6th. 

 

Then listen to FSG propaganda from April onwards about how the summer transfer fund will be affected by the lack of CL football. 

[skend04]

Midtable. We might string a few results here and there but if Leeds and Forest can beat us, then most the league can.

[The Golden Eel]

We pulled it out of the bag a couple of seasons back and none of the other contenders are overly strong either, so I'm still at least hopeful... but then you remember we've been shit basically all season and it's hard to fancy us to win pretty much any match at the minute so who knows... 4th - 6th 

[El Rojo]

12 hours ago, Jairzinho said:

 

On behalf of @El Rojo and myself, thanks. I'd offer you a fridge magnet but I won't pretend we have any. 

 

Nice work. Looking forward to my 7.5% of that new subscription. 

 

Send him a jpg of one of the new virtual fridge magnets. 

[No2]

Dave has said this repeatedly and it seems to always get ignored. Just because we're a little bit shit doesn't mean the others aren't shitter. 

 

The advantages we have over Utd, Newcastle and Spurs are clear,

1) We have a better manager.

2) We have successfully been through this before.

 

I am struggling to find a number 3 to be positive a out but that's Jurgen's job and I'm fairly positive he will find a solution with the group he has or by adding someone else.

[Bobby Hundreds]

The concern is we don't look like we've been looking at solutions more a case of its worked before so we will keep on trying.

[JohnnyH]

We've won 4 out of our last 5 league games.  We'll keep doing that kind if form with frustrating losses along the way but comfortably finish top 4 although well off 1st and probably 2nd.  We're way better than most teams and no worse than all but City.  These kinds of questions are always asked when on a low ebb.  We'll be grand. 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Fair points. Maybe it just feels like we're worse than we are because we've fallen from such recent heights.

[Fallen Angel]

3 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

We are 7 points behind Newcastle & Man U (and we have a game in hand on Newcastle). It doesn't take an implosion to close that gap in 20 games: it just needs our form to improve.

Good point. Hadn’t checked the margins for a while.

[Anubis]

Top four is well within our reach but our performances have been on the wrong trajectory. We need to improve significantly or we could easily find ourselves in the 6th to 10th bracket.

 

Ive seen Villa fans banging on about how they’re only six points behind us. Clearly lower teams see is as a team they can hunt down.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, skend04 said:

 if Leeds and Forest can beat us, then most the league can.

The same logic says that if we can beat City and Newcastle we can beat most of the league.

[Karl_b]

6th but we'll win the Champions League; put a monkey on it, monster, monster, monster.

[skend04]

58 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

The same logic says that if we can beat City and Newcastle we can beat most of the league.

Until we face Forest and Leeds again.

 

Why don't you piss off with your positivity and let me moan for a bit 

[Brownie]

Before Leicester I’d have said 3rd but boy have we been shit (against mediocre teams too) in the last few games.

 

Any confidence I had has evaporated. Can’t see us getting top 4 with the current squad.

[mike23]

I was confident of top 4 before the season got back underway, but I'm no longer feeling as confident. It just seems like the same issues game after game with no signs of them being fixed. My earlier optimism was also based on the assumption that we'd be insane not to bring in at least 1 new midfielder in this window, and yet I've seen a few worrying stories suggesting that any budget we did have has gone on Gakpo. Hopefully the journalists who wrote those those stories don't really have any real idea of what is going on at the club. At the moment I'm leaning towards 5th or 6th, but there's still a part of me that won't let go of the belief that we'll suddenly click into gear and go on a big run at some point. 

[TheDrowningMan]

3 hours ago, Harry Squatter said:

6th. 

 

Then listen to FSG propaganda from April onwards about how the summer transfer fund will be affected by the lack of CL football. 

This, although the talk of us, the only club in modern football whose spending power is mysteriously affected by CL qualification, having fuck all to spend in the summer will be in full-flow by late February.

[El Rojo]

2 hours ago, JohnnyH said:

We've won 4 out of our last 5 league games.  We'll keep doing that kind if form with frustrating losses along the way but comfortably finish top 4 although well off 1st and probably 2nd.  We're way better than most teams and no worse than all but City.  These kinds of questions are always asked when on a low ebb.  We'll be grand. 

 

I think the Real Madrid tie will give us an idea of whether our decline is something more terminal than other bad patches we've had under Klopp. 

 

Hopefully we'll be in the shape to give it the good rattle we owe them, but a damp squib of an exit would be extremely worrying. 

 

If we were to beat them, I reckon we'll remember who we are and the domestic performances will improve. 

[coachpotato]

2 hours ago, JohnnyH said:

We've won 4 out of our last 5 league games.  We'll keep doing that kind if form with frustrating losses along the way but comfortably finish top 4 although well off 1st and probably 2nd.  We're way better than most teams and no worse than all but City.  These kinds of questions are always asked when on a low ebb.  We'll be grand. 

Repped for the positivity.

[Harry Squatter]

59 minutes ago, TheDrowningMan said:

This, although the talk of us, the only club in modern football whose spending power is mysteriously affected by CL qualification, having fuck all to spend in the summer will be in full-flow by late February.

Weirdly it doesn't seem to affect any other teams in the league who try to compete near the top half of the table.

 

You'd think we had Barcelona levels of debt with a Tottenham level stadium to build the way the club carries on pleading poverty. Even after the Gakpo signing we were being told by the FSG apologist journalists that the club were stretched financially making the deal. 

[Carra_is_legend]

3 hours ago, JohnnyH said:

We've won 4 out of our last 5 league games.  We'll keep doing that kind if form with frustrating losses along the way but comfortably finish top 4 although well off 1st and probably 2nd.  We're way better than most teams and no worse than all but City.  These kinds of questions are always asked when on a low ebb.  We'll be grand. 

 

Villa should have put us out of the game in the first half with the chances they had. Leicester were better than us. Brentford tore us a new one.

 

I appreciate your points and positivity and wish I had similar confidence. 

 

I have gone for 5th on the assumption that the tight arses will not spend money on a midfielder.

[dockers_strike]

Heart says top 4 is best we can get now but head says we'll likely finish 5th.

[Creator Supreme]

6 hours ago, Harrison Booth said:

We have a better manager.

Based on this season? Must fucking hairy hoop we do!! He's persisted with the same system with same gobshites week after week in some vain hope that it will somehow change! And it won't, he's far too fucking stubborn, and it will cost him and us!

 

2 hours ago, Carra_is_legend said:

 

Villa should have put us out of the game in the first half with the chances they had. Leicester were better than us. Brentford tore us a new one.

 

I appreciate your points and positivity and wish I had similar confidence. 

 

I have gone for 5th on the assumption that the tight arses will not spend money on a midfielder.

I agree with the points you've made about the Villa, Leicester and Brentford games, but I'm fucked if I know how you get from that to finishing 5th, especially when you know that we won't buy a decent midfielder!