Surely that's precisely the reason it could happen.
Seeing as you’re only interested in points on the board, we have 29 points on the board. What are your thoughts on that?
Not really, i'm just offering a sober assessment. Saying we'd definitely be safe is baseless optimistic and quasi-magical thinking.
Surprised you're so optimistic tbf Mike, you are quite realistic about Dyche's limitations and hyper-aware of DCL's goal shyness. It doesn't map to thinking were definitely okay.
We have 19. But 29 for arguments sake. We aren't accruing them quickly and Luton are starting to pick up points faster than us.
Nobody is saying that. Who has said that?
Writing off a home game against Crystal Palace is just ridiculous crybaby behaviour though. It’s the complete other end of the scale, and you don’t as little basis to suggest we’re going to lose that game as the people that suggest we’re definitely going to be safe.
Um, quite a few are saying "no way we'd be relegated".
You just said you’re only interested in “cold hard points on the board”. Well we have 29 of them. A man in a suit somewhere has decided to edit the league table so it shows us on 19 points.
You seem to be desperately trying to make some sort of case that we’re one of the worst teams in the league because we only have 19 points, but seeing as you want to discuss “cold hard facts”, then we don’t only have 19 points so that case has just been rendered nonsense.
Quote them.
I edited my answer since - I pressed post too quickly
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £40m
And another point about the "you signed a contract" argument is that we have pretty much no choice but to sign the contract - you need to sign it to play in the PL and playing in the PL is central to our business. So to a large extent the terms, rules and processes in the contract are imposed on us regardless, and that's something a court would take into account.
Like, if the PL put "Manchester United will start every season on -6 points" into the PL contract, Man United's choices wouldn't be sign it, or get thrown out, they'd go to court and win.
An extreme example but you can't just use a monopolistic or semi-monopolistic position to do what you want, contract or no contract.
HalfTimeSayers
Player Valuation: £25m
It’s certainly true, but it’s a stretch going back that far. No point cry-arsing about today, but even in the cup games against average opposition, the team looked a mile of the one that was playing when Beto was racing towards goal to megs the keeper.
Flipside is with returning players and a few “easier” games coming up, no reason that team can’t return.
I'm too lazy
This is obviously the big reason to stay positive. But sooner we get a win the better or the pressure keeps building.
It's fairly obvious stuff, but we need to start putting the ball in the net more often. I think there's a real lack of confidence on show from our attackers at the minute.
We have enough to go get a number of wins but just because games look easier doesn't mean they will be easy
Librarian
Player Valuation: £60m
Ball retention and progression improved with Onana on but hard to tell if that was because City already scored
