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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Jan 21, 2017 9:57:40 GMT -5
Cracking win for Swansea. Carroll really impressed me, maybe we should have gone for him instead of Livermore?
I wonder if the Liverpool fans who told me earlier in the season that their defence didn't worry them because they can outscore any team are still singing the same tune....
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Post by AV1 on Jan 24, 2017 8:30:01 GMT -5
Cracking win for Swansea. Carroll really impressed me, maybe we should have gone for him instead of Livermore? I wonder if the Liverpool fans who told me earlier in the season that their defence didn't worry them because they can outscore any team are still singing the same tune.... We miss Matip badly. I don't think we've lost when he's played. |
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Post by AV1 on Feb 12, 2017 16:41:34 GMT -5
Top 4 and relegation battle really hotting up now.
Chelsea have the league won but 2-6 could be anyone. Sunderland, Hull and Swansea looked certain to go down imo but managerial changes have helped the alter 2. Think Leicester might actually go down.
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Post by Markw on Feb 12, 2017 17:00:07 GMT -5
We almost certainly will.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Feb 13, 2017 9:34:36 GMT -5
On current form you will but lots can change in 3 months.
Either way, it must have been worth it to win the Premier League even just once.
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Post by Wardyz on Feb 13, 2017 10:05:05 GMT -5
The fake fans who say last year was a fluke for Leicester are beyond annoying. Hope they pull off a late escape like 2014/15 and win the title next year again for deja vu sakes
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Post by Markw on Feb 13, 2017 10:12:32 GMT -5
On current form you will but lots can change in 3 months. Either way, it must have been worth it to win the Premier League even just once. Oh of course, and there's still plenty to look forward to this season. Two legs against Sevilla, still in the FA Cup and a pretty ordinary season for us in the league, so can't complain. I'm just struggling to see how we're going to stay up right now, still I'd written off our chances of survival at a much later stage two seasons ago and we stayed up so who knows. |
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Post by Markw on Feb 23, 2017 15:17:06 GMT -5
Claudio Ranieri sacked, meh.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Feb 24, 2017 14:46:29 GMT -5
Ranieri's statement today was a heartbreaker.
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Post by Markw on Feb 25, 2017 18:46:19 GMT -5
Ranieri's statement today was a heartbreaker. Don't want to sound heartless, because I do love him and what he's done for us. But he was awfully lucky to walk into the situation he did, and yes he did an incredible job with it, but he's leaving having got an awful lot out of it. There wasn't this huge uproar when Nigel Pearson was sacked having previously taken us from League One to the top flight, kept us up and brought in the sports science, scouting staff and most of the players who played a huge role in last season too. Anyway I'm starting to believe, just the tiniest bit, that there's a chance of Pearson coming back. Would absolutely love it, but I can't get too excited because it almost certainly won't happen. |
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Feb 25, 2017 20:32:41 GMT -5
40 points today.
I'm fully expecting a 12-match winless streak now to end the season.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Feb 27, 2017 16:04:17 GMT -5
"We didn't get Claudio sacked, we just couldn't be bothered until he left!"
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Post by Markw on Feb 27, 2017 18:08:38 GMT -5
"We didn't get Claudio sacked, we just couldn't be bothered until he left!" Or, alternatively, Craig Shakespeare selected a team and employed a system that got the best out of the players. We've been s*** for months and it's certainly not just that the players weren't trying. |
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Feb 28, 2017 0:28:54 GMT -5
"We didn't get Claudio sacked, we just couldn't be bothered until he left!" Or, alternatively, Craig Shakespeare selected a team and employed a system that got the best out of the players. We've been s*** for months and it's certainly not just that the players weren't trying. You don't coach effort. The players weren't even trying. And considering what Ranieri helped those players achieve last season, he deserved at least that, even if the players weren't completely happy with his tactics. Shakespeare going back to a system the players were more comfortable with I'm sure helped, as did the pressure on the players once the manager was sacked and everyone was pointing the finger at them. But closing players down, winning second balls, winning tackles etc. That has nothing to do with poor coaching, it's just the players couldn't be  ing bothered to do their best. |
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Post by Markw on Feb 28, 2017 6:31:44 GMT -5
We have a very professional squad (most were very fond of Nigel Pearson, but they still approached last season extremely professionally despite his dismissal), this season they've had all confidence and desire sapped out of them by a tactical approach that's nullified them and additions to the squad that haven't worked. It's not that they couldn't be arsed to close people down, I don't think, it's that they were instructed not to press high up the pitch but to sit back soak up pressure and hoof the ball up to Jamie Vardy in the hopes that that would do something. And invariably it hasn't. I wanted Ranieri to do a great job this season, I'm absolutely certain the players did (they've no reason not too), but it's become increasingly obvious that we weren't going to see any real improvement. Ranieri didn't build the squad, put together the backroom set-up or have a great deal to do with the fantastic character of this group of players. He got more out of them, tactically, than anybody else could have last season. But last season's gone, and everything that made this side brilliant for the last four or five seasons was going with it, that's not down to the players, it's down to the way they've been managed. It's sad, yes. But I think it's unfair to attack the players who won us the Premier League for it.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Mar 4, 2017 11:49:19 GMT -5
40 points today. I'm fully expecting a 12-match winless streak now to end the season. No ambition at this club whatsoever. All people at the club ever talk about is 40 points, now we've got it and that's the end of the season. Pathetic. |
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Mar 18, 2017 17:21:25 GMT -5
Maybe I spoke too soon! Where was that desire the last two games?
Great team performance. Arsenal were abject, can't see any way back for Wenger.
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Post by Brunt's Left Foot on Apr 29, 2017 13:51:50 GMT -5
Sunderland finally run out of time. End of an era.
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Apr 29, 2017 14:50:51 GMT -5
Sunderland finally run out of time. End of an era. Glad it's over, still hurts though. Hopefully get that leech of an owner out and we can try getting back in the Premier League with an actual strategy. 10 years is a long time, I've been on this site in that time  |
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Post by Controversial Maverick PUNK on May 3, 2017 18:18:58 GMT -5
Sunderland finally run out of time. End of an era. It's about time they went. They've got away with it too many times before - enough is enough. Absolute joke they'll be getting parachute payments as well. |
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