The Premier League - 2019/20

How can anyone seriously think we have a chance?

we’d need 30 points in half a season, we’ve never had a 60 points season yet and this squad isn’t doing it.

 

Because your maths are wrong.

Its half way through the season after another 2 games. If we get 4 points from them, 30 points in half a season would leave us on 43, which is more then we need. I'm hoping we only need 36ish because like you I dont see us getting 30 from half a season. But we'd only need 23 from the second half which is a 46 point season. Even getting to 40 would be 26.5 (53 in a season) - if we get some results in the next 2 games. My hope will fade away if we lose the next 2.

 

I approximated. Here is the long hand version:

Last season was our best ever finish and we finished on 50 points = 1.31 points per game.

We have 20 games left, so if we pick up points at the same rate as we did last season... we will finish on 36+9= 35.

I do think we will see a big improvement under Nige and I sincerely hope he stays next season because I really like what I've seen and heard so far, but 35 points isn't going to be enough.

 

Probably you are right, but after that win we have 20 games. So the outcome of emulating 1.3 ppg is 38 points... I'll take that as a chance from now on in. Plus I think Pearson may well get a tune from a set of players that I reckon are better than norwich, villa and southamptons.

 

Nice to see Spurs on the wrong end of some VAR decisions to compensate for the ones that went their way against us.

 

Wrong end but both right decisions at least.

 

Son sent off after VAR reveals him to be a petulant child. The crowd clap him off! Unreal.

 

That’ll be all the Korean tourists there.

 

How do you know it was one person?

 

there’s nothing I’d like better than to be wrong

 

I thought it was brilliant. Exactly why VAR has been brought in to screw over fans of teams like Wolves.

 

Could you imagine us coming from 2-0 down to beat City?

Neither could I. Fair play to Wolves, ambitious club that we should be if we didn't have the Italian Mike Ashley.

 

I don’t really get the last bit GD. Seems a bit like ‘if my auntie had balls she’d be my uncle’ to me. Wolves have billionaire owners and one of the few true super agents using them as a shop window. And as a business proposition they’ve easily got the potential to have 45k+ fans in the stadium. If we were in their position it’d have to be built up a completely different way.

 

Maybe the shop window thing was the original intention with them but it certainly hasn't come to pass.

 

You compare Mike Ashley with Gino Pozzo?

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Wait, why are Southampton and West Ham **** if they have billionaire owners? Isn't that all it takes?

 

No, of course not!

Ashley chooses not to be ambitious for his club financially, although he could invest big time.
Gino Pozzo May be ambitious for Watford but financially, he can’t be.

You can’t compare the two and Gino is not, and cannot be ‘the Italian Mike Ashley’.

 

At the time they were (and they couldn’t have done worse), BUT - that semi-final changed the direction of our clubs -

It spurred Wolves to get that Europa spot and the momentum to get where they are now..

whereas we’ve just ****ed up, the players minds became jelly and the team turned into blancmange ..

 

So you do need to have rich owners then?

 

Maybe I’m just misunderstanding your post?

Are u saying we should have a billionaire owner who just splashes the cash so the Pozzos should piss off and sell up to one?

According to Duxbury who is Gino’s mouthpiece, we are ambitious for the club to perform in Europe. He (Gino Pozzo) just doesn’t have the cash to splash so has to run the club sustainably using a different business model.
(If you can call a billionaire throwing hundreds of £millions at his ego plaything and not making any financial return a business model).

Duxbury interview with The Times:-

‘Clearly, he and the club have higher ambitions now - even to match the likes of Man United, if not with their bank balance.
He said: “We never will be as big financially as Manchester United or with the size of the stadium, but the ambition can be as big.
“There is no check on ambition. I want people to believe that we are a challenger and that we are a big football club — because we are." ‘

So we should be ambitious like Wolves but what’s your point comparing Gino Pozzo with Mike Ashley?

 

We were told by members of this forum that it was stupid to have believed Duxbury's comments. Not sure they can still be used to define our level of ambition.

Mike Ashley is in it for the sweet sweet PL money. Doesn't matter if the team are **** and show no ambition, as long as they are 17th, that's all that matters. Which is the same for Gino.

 

17th would be good this season but I hope Gino' s ambition for the club is better than just survival.

Maybe I'm just naive, and its the hope that will kill me.

But I don't always believe what the forum members tell me. If I did I would've been in the grave long ago.

 

City were playing with 10 men though (albeit even then I suppose we'd prob struggle to even score)

 

I think we'd at least try to under Pearson. That's the difference between him and QSF.

 

What’s the best result for us here? I guess a draw to keep them both close to us. Shame they can’t both lose!

 

League's tightening up this weekend. Naarch beating Spuds atm.

 

There is a chance this season 40 points won't be enough