- Feb 5, 2006
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Was looking at the table last night and noticed that there is a bit of a gap developing between 14th and 11th. Even if we win our next 2 and newcastle lose both theirs, they will still be ahead.
So it is clear that we have some serious work to do and we need to do this right now. In my opinion this is do or die for us now. If we can string to together a few wins now, we head into the christmas fixtures with some confidence. If we can get some results during the festive season we will be right on track for top 8 spot or better over the second half of the season.
I still believe the likes of villa, man city, blackburn and portsmouth will struggle with having smaller squads with less quality so we are at an advantage in this respect.
Our next four league games are critical but all very winable.
25th Nov West Ham (away)
2nd Dec Birmingham (home)
9th Dec Man City (home)
15th Dec Portsmouth (away)
Then....
Arsenal (away)
Fulham (home)
Reading (home)
Villa (away)
....over Christmas
We need to pick up a rake of points from these games, which, lets face it, isnt the most unkind of runs.
Fingers Crossed, coz with a bit of luck and good football a top 6 place is still in our hands. ray:ray:
So it is clear that we have some serious work to do and we need to do this right now. In my opinion this is do or die for us now. If we can string to together a few wins now, we head into the christmas fixtures with some confidence. If we can get some results during the festive season we will be right on track for top 8 spot or better over the second half of the season.
I still believe the likes of villa, man city, blackburn and portsmouth will struggle with having smaller squads with less quality so we are at an advantage in this respect.
Our next four league games are critical but all very winable.
25th Nov West Ham (away)
2nd Dec Birmingham (home)
9th Dec Man City (home)
15th Dec Portsmouth (away)
Then....
Arsenal (away)
Fulham (home)
Reading (home)
Villa (away)
....over Christmas
We need to pick up a rake of points from these games, which, lets face it, isnt the most unkind of runs.
Fingers Crossed, coz with a bit of luck and good football a top 6 place is still in our hands. ray:ray: