Propper & Stephens - I slated them a lot last season (often, in my defence, with good reason) but both have looked far, far better players this term in the new system (especially Davy).
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[Football] The season so far - "I was wrong about..."
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I thought Montoya would shine and show that he is perhaps the greatest player in the team but, while not shit, he has proven to be a pretty flawed player with some technical skills being surprisingly bad considering he spent 13 years in Barcelona.
Overall in the PL, not many big surprises to me. That United and Arsenal are struggling was always a no-brainer. They ripped out so much tradition and football knowledge while transforming their clubs to multinational corporations that it was very obvious things would break down on the pitch once Ferguson & Wenger was gone. As "clubs" they make too much money to fail much harder than they are and at some point are they bound to recover, but its gonna take a very, very long time.
Sheffield United is obviously the big positive surprise. Last year in the Championship no one spoke of them. They were not ridicilously talented, had no superstars, Chris Wilder wasnt described as much more than "a nice guy". But they just kept winning and they've kept doing so in the PL. I dont think its about tactical magics or players being secretly world class - I just believe they have an excellent atmosphere in the team, making them very likable in my eyes.
Overall in the PL, not many big surprises to me. That United and Arsenal are struggling was always a no-brainer. They ripped out so much tradition and football knowledge while transforming their clubs to multinational corporations that it was very obvious things would break down on the pitch once Ferguson & Wenger was gone. As "clubs" they make too much money to fail much harder than they are and at some point are they bound to recover, but its gonna take a very, very long time.
Sheffield United is obviously the big positive surprise. Last year in the Championship no one spoke of them. They were not ridicilously talented, had no superstars, Chris Wilder wasnt described as much more than "a nice guy". But they just kept winning and they've kept doing so in the PL. I dont think its about tactical magics or players being secretly world class - I just believe they have an excellent atmosphere in the team, making them very likable in my eyes.
Razzoo
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You didn't even mention Ndidi and Tielemens
Would not have been a good idea. Would have attracted a lot of input from posters who would never contribute to a thread requiring them to say where they'd been wrong! This thread is quite nice at the moment!I guess to spark up a livelier conversation this thread should have been:-
The season so far - "I was right about..."
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Just a little short
LowKarate
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I thought that the bottle top ban would have been reversed by now.
Apart from that, I have been right about everything.
Apart from that, I have been right about everything.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Poch - had a job for life.
The Albion Kids (anyone with a shirt number over 25) - you can't win anything ......
Man City - top again.
The Albion Kids (anyone with a shirt number over 25) - you can't win anything ......
Man City - top again.
Besides not getting slaughtered at Anfield and blowing the GD away what did we accomplish there? Another zero in points. We haven't turned any corners (not the ones on the pitch) in being successful. We are hiding in place.
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Nope......nope.............I am struggling with this thread.
I thought Vicente would come home
I thought Vicente would come home
I was wrong about:-
Chelsea - I thought they'd be in all manner of Arsenalesque trouble.
Sheffield Utd - Obviously.
Watford - I might have thought they'd be shite, but no more no less shite than the rest of 'us'.
The Albion
Big Jurg - Although he is banging in goals, so technically...
Mooy - I'm still not quite as convinced as everybody else, but there's no way he's as 'bad' a player I thought he was.
Alzate - I don't remember having an opinion, but if I did it would have been wrong.
Big Burn
Big Burn
Big Dan Burn - As above.
Andone - Wrong and somewhat grumpy that he was actually more looney toons, than expected, a bit of a waste.
You seem to have forgotten Ali J. Although so has Graham Potter...
I've not read the thread yet, but mine would probably be that I never expected to see Schelotto representing the Albion again.
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No I haven't although you seem to have forgotten the same reply you've received every single time you've falsely accused me of championing Ali above all others.
As said in the opening post Big Jurg on the other hand, there I do and am only to happy to own my wrongness for being so willing to go into bat for him.
Oh and 'oh look at me I was wrong about some good news' isn't really in the spirit of the thread.
Weststander
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Spuds & Poch - I didn’t envisage their implosion.
Chelsea - I thought the transfers ban would have a huge negative impact, and that Lampard was given the job on sentiment several years too early.
Arsenal - I never thought they’d reach these new lows.
West Ham - they’ve been quietly spending huge sums on players, I thought they’d shine in the top 8, outclassing the likes of us. They didn’t.
Watford - the Pozzo family normally get the club to a safe position, their car crash season (so far) has been a surprise.
Other than that, as expected. I had faith in Potter from the moment TB signed him up. I won’t comment on ManC’s demise .... we’re only at the beginning of December. They have the most expensive squad in the history of the game, giving cover for positions other clubs can only dream of, they may well have bought another title come May.
Connolly - I knew bugger all about him, now I know he’s a great talent.
Chelsea - I thought the transfers ban would have a huge negative impact, and that Lampard was given the job on sentiment several years too early.
Arsenal - I never thought they’d reach these new lows.
West Ham - they’ve been quietly spending huge sums on players, I thought they’d shine in the top 8, outclassing the likes of us. They didn’t.
Watford - the Pozzo family normally get the club to a safe position, their car crash season (so far) has been a surprise.
Other than that, as expected. I had faith in Potter from the moment TB signed him up. I won’t comment on ManC’s demise .... we’re only at the beginning of December. They have the most expensive squad in the history of the game, giving cover for positions other clubs can only dream of, they may well have bought another title come May.
Connolly - I knew bugger all about him, now I know he’s a great talent.
BBassic
I changed this.
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Quite right! How did I miss them out!?
Coldeanseagull
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I thought our type of play would be exciting...I now know it is
I thought he who wears girls socks was a bit lightweight and would fall over a lot.....I now know he does
I thought he who wears girls socks was a bit lightweight and would fall over a lot.....I now know he does
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I think time will tell.
Those of us in #TeamPotter would like to think giving Liverpool a game will be more beneficial than rocking up with 10 men behind the ball and still getting zero points.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
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Fun to watch is a BIG plus to me, we are going in the right direction
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That's not my point of this thread.
Just the here and now, as the season is far enough in to have settled into a pattern.
City can still win the league by 11 points, but that doesn't alter the fact in August I would have had City then Liverpool 11 points clear in December and I was loud wrong.