No I think general consensus is we’re 4th most likely to go down still with a bit of a gap between us and the 3 promoted sides. The bookies have us 2/1 to go down and those 3 all odds on. But you never know, if we pick up some injuries and any one of them hit a bit of form doubts could creep back in.
It’s definitely fucked us massively, but if we survive then I wouldn’t say the improvement was entirely a waste, because if we continued playing like we did last season and got a 10 point deduction, we were definitely going down even with the weaker relegation opponents
The most surprising thing upon his introduction last season, even though results didn’t go brilliantly, was that our xG shot up massively in the second half of the season. xG conceded also went up a bit I think though. So even more impressive that after he improved xG a lot in the second half of the season, this season is a massive improvement again.
Not that far off
I’ve been on a million medications for a million things, I get some fairly bad side effects sometimes but it’s almost always physical, and I’ve never had side effects from a painkiller before this, and I don’t know how unusual this is, but on tramadol I had the wildest mood swings of my life. I was on holiday when taking it, and I don’t know if I took too much or another medication fucked with it, but one minute I was doing what my mate called a “frog dance” in the pool in complete bliss laughing my head off, then I was angrier than I’ve ever been, then I was incredibly depressed in a very short space of time where literally nothing happened to cause any of it. I’d never experienced anything like it, it was horrible and I never want to take it again.
Worth noting our top scorer is Doucoure who has essentially been playing alongside Calvert Lewin, and this doesn’t count Harrison who is a very advanced forward winger, and Danjuma who has played up front and as an advanced winger.
How am I shitting myself this much, this early in the season when we’re defending leads? I can’t believe the lack of subs when we were clearly knackered and inviting so much pressure on ourselves, but we scored a class goal and Branthwaite is a big giant robot of a defender so I won’t complain. West Ham were absolutely poo
He’s started 5 games in a row, and made 2 sub appearances in the 2 games before that
Not far behind Newcastle to be fair, and won a proper trophy much more recently
4 of the top 8 in the north west, including 1st, 2nd, and two in joint 4th for league titles cos we’re sick up here
I’m counting 1 extra trophy for most of these on wikipedia. Not sure if I’ve missed a thing that a lot of teams have won only 1 of that doesn’t count as a major trophy. I was assuming you were removing super cups from this chart
Aye, if we get lucky with injuries and/or get coverage in January, despite I imagine being strapped for cash, and we can maintain our PPG we’ll probably be safe. That’d end us on 34 points which might well be enough. And that’s including all the games at the start of the season we lost without half our first team.