Moving on.......

[Blue and White Toucan]

Right Arsenal have come and gone and as we probably all expected taken 3 poits and played us off the park.

Moving on the games before the New Year are :-

Man C (A) - 1pt (Away jinx ended)
Boro (H) - 3pt (must win and 'Boro are poor)
Liverpool (H) - 1pt (Benitez will tinker with a must win game in Marseille the following Tuesday)
Brum (A) - 1pt (Brum on the way down)
Sunderland (H) - 3pt (Sunderland won't get a point here)
West H (A) - 0 pt (The West Ham jinx will be back)
Spurs (A) - 1pt (Shock Spurs with last minute Equaliser)

Currently played 13 and have 13 points.

I think that we will pick up 10 pts from these games. Leave us with 23 pts from 20 games.

Will be happy with that on New years eve.

[Row Z Royal]

Another 5-7 points from that. A couple of draws and a defeat to optimistic, me thinks.

[Cookie]

You have a good poit my friend but............

Liverpool (H) - 1pt (Benitez will tinker with a must win game in Marseille the following Tuesday)

.......we can get all three from this one.

[Royalee]

Man City away... Elano v Harper... hahahahaha, NIL POINT

Boro home... could go either way

Liverpool home... away win

Birmingham away... home win

Sunderland home... could go either way

West Ham away... home win

Spurs away... home win

[The whole year inn]

Err, Man City are third and have a 100% home record. 7 wins from 7 and only 2 goals conceded

Are Reading going to go there and get something from the game?

[Jeffers217]

Err, Man City are third and have a 100% home record. 7 wins from 7 and only 2 goals conceded

Are Reading going to go there and get something from the game?

I hope so as I'll be there

[Compo's Hat]

A point is possible against Man City. They haven't been that great in the past month.

[bottom left hand corner]

Man C (A) - 1pts
Boro (H) - 3pts
Liverpool (H) - 0pt
Brum (A) - 3pts
Sunderland (H) - 3pts
West H (A) - 0 pt
Spurs (A) - 1pt Might get a point.

11pt not bad

[woodley_royal_124]

Compo's Hat said

A point is possible against Man City. They haven't been that great in the past month.

Sven's Honeymoon period is rapidly coming to an end..........or it has already (not thinking of the result against Chelski recently ?! )

[Cripple Creek]

Nine points out of those games would be pretty good. Why anyone thinks we'll pick up points against Man C and Liverpool is utterly beyond me.

[West Stand Flash]

4 points between now & Christmas at best.

[southbank1871]

We've got to beat Boro and Sunderland at home and avoid defeat away to Birmingham. Anything else is a bonus.

I can't fathom how anyone expects us to get anything away at City. We're shocking away from home and they're superb at home.

[brendywendy]

doom and gloom

blahg blah blah

[66DD]

I think that our chances in the game with Liverpool hinge on whether Liverpool beat Porto on the preceeding Wednesday. If they do then they will need win away at Marseille on the following Tuesday. That being the case Benitez is not likely to risk his first choice players against the Royals; so we may be in with a chance to pick up a point or three up.

If Liverpool don't beat Porto then that's a different matter.

[Blue and White Toucan]

southbank1871 Posted: 13 Nov 2007 10:08 Post subject:

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We've got to beat Boro and Sunderland at home and avoid defeat away to Birmingham. Anything else is a bonus.

I can't fathom how anyone expects us to get anything away at City. We're shocking away from home and they're superb at home.

Sorry - Disagree. They were pretty ordinary against Sunderland and I think if we go at it we stand a good chance of nicking a point.

Anyway 1-0 against Derby, Birmingham, Aston Villa and Norwich doesnt really suggest 'superb at home' Ok they have got results but we have not scored in 3 games out of 13. so I will go for a 1-1 !!!!!

[Silver Fox]

4 points between now & Christmas at best.

Hurray!

[southbank1871]

southbank1871 Posted: 13 Nov 2007 10:08 Post subject:

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We've got to beat Boro and Sunderland at home and avoid defeat away to Birmingham. Anything else is a bonus.

I can't fathom how anyone expects us to get anything away at City. We're shocking away from home and they're superb at home.

Sorry - Disagree. They were pretty ordinary against Sunderland and I think if we go at it we stand a good chance of nicking a point.

Anyway 1-0 against Derby, Birmingham, Aston Villa and Norwich doesnt really suggest 'superb at home' Ok they have got results but we have not scored in 3 games out of 13. so I will go for a 1-1 !!!!!

I obviously hope that I'm wrong and you're right, but 7 wins out of 7 at home in the league this season is a superb record whichever way you look at it.

[strap]

Funnily enough I thought last night that we could nick a point against Liverpool. However, being realistic, we can only reasonably expect to be competitive against Middlesbro (H), Birmingham (A) and Sunderland (H). Those are the only games we can expect to win, and frankly 2 home wins and a draw in Brum will be fine by me. 20 pts from 19 games up to & incl Sham away is job half done.

We are more fortunate this year in that we have Derby, Bolton and Wigan who look doomed already, (although Wigan may buck up once injuries mend). Couple that with Middlesbro, Sunderland (who despite all the bravado aren;t that good) and Brum (ditto), and we should just be OK.

This is the last year we can rely on the boys of 2005-06 though. There needs to be some serious recuritment in the next 6 monhts (i.e. 2 windows), if we are to survive a third straight year in Prem III. From the sound of things SC knows this, and we must just hope that Mr Mad doesn;t decide to take his Sky money and run. Just where HAS the Sky money gone to date? Does anyone know? Indeed, does anyone know when it's handed out? For all I know, this year's £30M or whatever, doesn't kick in until the end of season.

[papereyes]

Funnily enough I thought last night that we could nick a point against Liverpool. However, being realistic, we can only reasonably expect to be competitive against Middlesbro (H), Birmingham (A) and Sunderland (H). Those are the only games we can expect to win, and frankly 2 home wins and a draw in Brum will be fine by me. 20 pts from 19 games up to & incl Sham away is job half done.

We are more fortunate this year in that we have Derby, Bolton and Wigan who look doomed already, (although Wigan may buck up once injuries mend). Couple that with Middlesbro, Sunderland (who despite all the bravado aren;t that good) and Brum (ditto), and we should just be OK.

This is the last year we can rely on the boys of 2005-06 though. There needs to be some serious recuritment in the next 6 monhts (i.e. 2 windows), if we are to survive a third straight year in Prem III. From the sound of things SC knows this, and we must just hope that Mr Mad doesn;t decide to take his Sky money and run. Just where HAS the Sky money gone to date? Does anyone know? Indeed, does anyone know when it's handed out? For all I know, this year's £30M or whatever, doesn't kick in until the end of season.

Two thoughts.

The same number of teams go down in their second as do their third and fourth (give or take one). I imagine this is basically where the players who got them up start really ageing and getting found out. I think teams think "blah got me up, kept me so he'll do it again" and as with last summer, this is just dangerous thinking. Players do get old, players don't always improve year on year.

I thought teams get the money at the end of season as its a measure of how well they will do in that season. So most teams budget in advance - we will get x million so we can spend that money now. We haven't.

Its not a case of going out and spending loads but getting the right players in the right places. We knew Little wouldn't be fit, we could imagine Seol would be off. So why didn't we sign a right midfielder. We knew Bryn might not be able to play 38 sets of 90 minutes, yet were almost expecting that of him.

[Huntley & Palmer]

Man C (A) - 0
Boro (H) - 3
Liverpool (H) - 0
Brum (A) - 1
Sunderland (H) - 3
West H (A) - 0
Spurs (A) - 0

That's how I look at it