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by **LFC2007** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:51 am

I don't think Fulham are game for a top four spot. That result was only good insofar as it extended Chelsea's lead over the Manc's.

Spurs look the team most likely to get fourth, IMO. They look a cracking team all round. Villa do too but they don't have the same level of firepower. City are a little harder to gauge given their defensive lapses even though they probably play the best attacking football of the bunch.

We have to raise our game tenfold if we're going to usurp that bunch and given what we've seen thus far it really does look like a stretch to see how we're going to do it. Tomorrow could either see us plunged into serious - arguably irretrievable - sh!t if we were to lose, or we could draw or win and keep ourselves in the hunt. Either way we'll still have it all to do.

by **Ben Patrick** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:54 am

bigmick wrote:
lakes10 wrote:3 points seem a must after todays game.

Well obviously Chelsea beating Fulham was an excellent result for us (I never thought I'd hear myself say that). Birmingham winning was a bit of a blow, but it does now look like Sunderland and Stoke are falling by the wayside a bit so we ought to be able to get above them Ok.

On the downside of course, Mancini is proving to be a bit of an inspiration and looks like he knows what he's doing, which isn't that surprising I guess since he won the title three years on the bounce with Inter Milan and won the Italian Cup with three different teams. They've now won both games over Christmas, while Spurs are also looking like they aren't just going to go away without a good reason either.

I simply cannot believe that Birmingham can carry on as they are (although it has to be said they have been excellently managed so far), but Villa probably will go on for a bit. As I said earlier we probably can't afford to lose this one otherwise we are really in the sh!t.

mick you seem to have gone totally the other way lately, in that i mean the fact that you are looking at only the negative.

Man city's fixtures over xmas of stoke at home and wolves away where bound to yield 6 points.

The credit that i feel your given Mancini now is something that usually you would have passed over as it being the italisn league being easy or something.

Anyway i could be well wide of the mark but i just think that with this one but i just think that you are looking at the wrong thing all the time.
City under Mancini so far havent been great, wolves where the better side until the lucky goal.

by **lakes10** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:08 am

if we only get a draw then we have a big problem, looking at the games coming up and the way we are playing we could end up 10 points off 4th.

by **NANNY RED** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:25 am

lakes10 wrote:if we only get a draw then we have a big problem, looking at the games coming up and the way we are playing we could end up 10 points off 4th.

if i was on me death bed theres no way id want you giving the last rites, Not a glimour of hope at all , we would all end up in pergatry with you Lakes, :laugh:

by **LFC2007** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:33 am

You would expect us to improve so I think the question has to be whether we can improve by enough of a margin to leapfrog three 'very legitimate' teams (to use Joe's phrase). We'll probably need between 70 and 75 points to get fourth spot with the way the competition is this season and that means at least another ten points on top of the 30 we accrued in the first half of the season, i.e. 40. That's almost title challenging form.

by **stmichael** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:09 am

spurs and city are the obvious threats. villa are overachieving in my book. they've been really fortunate with injuries over the past couple of seasons and as soon as they get a few key injuries they'll struggle imo.

by **muzza798** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:45 am

Spurs are the most inconsistant team in the history of the game, city will hover around and prob finnish 5th/6th and Villa have absolutely no subs bench and arent that great. We will have Mash back fresh, Aquilani with games under his belt and players' quality like Gerrard and Torres will only improve. We'll get better, sign a new striker in january and will hopefully sort out our home form. Were too good not to finnish forth.

Imo when all is said and done we'll be challenging for second. Weve had a blip but were through it. Chelsea will prob loose the same games we have and the same goes for utd. We've been really unlucky. The birmingham game etc and Utd have been sickly lucky. Winning against city and winning like 4games this season fro own :censored:

goals. They've played :censored:

this season and worse than us its just they've hade luck.

by **Keris** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:30 am

muzza798 wrote:Were too good not to finnish forth.

Are things really that simple? Then we have nothing to worry about then. :eyebrow

muzza798 wrote:Imo when all is said and done we'll be challenging for second.

Wow, I wished I could share your optimism.

by **lakes10** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:45 am

NANNY RED wrote:
lakes10 wrote:if we only get a draw then we have a big problem, looking at the games coming up and the way we are playing we could end up 10 points off 4th.

if i was on me death bed theres no way id want you giving the last rites, Not a glimour of hope at all , we would all end up in pergatry with you Lakes,

by **lakes10** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:54 am

stmichael wrote:spurs and city are the obvious threats. villa are overachieving in my book. they've been really fortunate with injuries over the past couple of seasons and as soon as they get a few key injuries they'll struggle imo.

i see as a villa, even with a key player out i think the can still be a big danger, i think they have been unlucky not to make it into the top 4 over the last few years.

Man city will be am even bigger danger after the window opens, i am sure we will se new players going in.

the big fear is what the prem is going to look like next year, we might not ever talk about the top 4 again, it might be the top 6 for a very long time, lets hope we are in that.

by **Judge** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:05 am

NANNY RED wrote:
lakes10 wrote:
NANNY RED wrote:
lakes10 wrote:do you think Rafa has been set a points target over the next 6 games?

No . Next question.

Oh i forgot to ask you an all Lakes , did your news room souces tell you why Johnson was wearing that thing on his hand

pmsl..................No

I think he hopes everyone likes it so he can start selling them to bring money into the clb.

Well i know an im not fecking tellin you

w@nkers cramp bandage lakes

by **lakes10** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:13 am

there are a lot of reports going in about players being solf off from Man city, if Rafa is still the boss after tonight i wonder if he will be looking at any of them.

by **lakes10** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:18 am

of by the way the news hubs have gone into melt down saying that JOSE MOURINHO will be our new boss after he said he would love to comeback to england.

well the man city job has gone and Spurs will not have him so the onlt club that he would get is Liverpool.

by **made in UK** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:22 am

Lakes, sometimes I wish you would "hub" off.

You always talk tosh.

by **lakes10** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:25 am

made in UK wrote:Lakes, sometimes I wish you would "hub" off.

You always talk tosh.

lol, just reporting whats coing into the bbc news hub, make of it as you wish.

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