Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Yes, it’s almost, not quite, like say We should be beating teams like …..
How we hated that when we first got promoted.
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[Albion] Will we ever be in the top three?
- Thread starter kevo
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How we hated that when we first got promoted.
Oh ffs we are firmly in the frigging premier league, the pundits and other fans applaud the way we go about our football and our business, we have a good shot at being back in Europe next year, all this less than 30 years from nearly not existing and people are whining that we are not doing well enough. Just stop it.
Morning Marvin
Possibly, but not in this division.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
It wasn’t less than 30 years ago, we have to remember people who are now 30 won’t relate to the old days. They have watched the Albion on the main progress to where we are now.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
It’s a reasonable question had we beaten Wolves & Ipswich we would be top 3. It’s not so far away as some think.
Improve the home form and it’s not impossible.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Do you mean at the end of the season or top 3 at any given time? If it’s the latter we have achieved that a couple of times.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
But we have done it, early or not.
- Oct 17, 2008
- 14,359
On balance @kevo I understand your frustration that the win was thrown away. But look realistically; what difference would it have made if we were top three just for this week anyway? We have Liverpool away and Manchester City at home next in the league, and can have no realistic expectation of points from either of those games.
Our consistently poor home results against lower ranking sides is disappointing, but sums up our overall ability and is offset by our unexpected wins against those higher ranked.
If we could do both, we’d be flying, I agree. But I can pretty much guarantee, a “team like Brighton” would start winning the “easier” games and losing the harder ones.
To be consistently good you need world class footballers like Manchester City et al do, and that costs money - enormous money we don’t and might never have.
Leicester did it. Blackburn did it. They are extreme outliers and look what’s happened to them since.
Let’s aim at top half and a cup run, give Tony another pay back on his loan, and enjoy each and every game as it comes because we are in dreamland.
Who knows, we may go on another European tour in the next few seasons.
Our consistently poor home results against lower ranking sides is disappointing, but sums up our overall ability and is offset by our unexpected wins against those higher ranked.
If we could do both, we’d be flying, I agree. But I can pretty much guarantee, a “team like Brighton” would start winning the “easier” games and losing the harder ones.
To be consistently good you need world class footballers like Manchester City et al do, and that costs money - enormous money we don’t and might never have.
Leicester did it. Blackburn did it. They are extreme outliers and look what’s happened to them since.
Let’s aim at top half and a cup run, give Tony another pay back on his loan, and enjoy each and every game as it comes because we are in dreamland.
Who knows, we may go on another European tour in the next few seasons.
think you'd need to look at net spend the last 5 windows for fair assessment on that
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,268
Aston Villa would appear to be the football model we should currently be aspiring to, rightly or wrongly. What are they doing right that we could be doing better?
boik
Well-known member
League positions nearly always correspond to wage spending, not transfer spending.
DavePage
Well-known member
they have more VeltmansAston Villa would appear to be the football model we should currently be aspiring to, rightly or wrongly. What are they doing right that we could be doing better?
Left Footer
Well-known member
You reckon Russell Martin will still be manager on 29th November?
- Oct 17, 2008
- 14,359
Great manager primarily, one of the top guys in the gameAston Villa would appear to be the football model we should currently be aspiring to, rightly or wrongly. What are they doing right that we could be doing better?
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Yes and why shouldn’t they, he got them promoted playing some decent football.
We'd have only been 3rd for 1 day though, and only if we hadn't conceded the 1st goal because despite being identical everywhere else, Aston Villa were above us on alphabetical order. So if you're angry with Weiffer for us not being 3rd, you should also be just as annoyed with conceding straight after scoring.
That 1st goal took us from 3rd to 4th on GD, the second took us from 4th to 5th on account of dropping two points.
Anyway, yes, I think we will. Although quite why anyone cares at this stage when we've not even hit 10 league matches yet. The league table at this stage is a nonsense except probably the order of the top 3