davek
Player Valuation: £150m
This team needs backing. It's within touching distance of a massive breakthrough. Teething problems are occurring and will be dealt with.
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fozzy
Player Valuation: £60m
Maybe this thread could be used for any thoughts people have on performance and expectations (what's gone on/how we've performed in the first half of the season and how it matches/surpasses/falls short of their expectations) and what can be expected in the second half of the season?
I'll kick it off in terms of a look at where we've been before at previous season halfway points (last decade) and where we eventually ended up.
Halfway position and points (and in brackets end of season position and points):
2015/16 10th 26pts (................)
2014/15 12th 21pts (11th 47pts)
2013/14 4th 37pts (5th 72pts) EL Qualification
2012/13 6th 33pts (6th 63pts)
2011/12 11th 24pts (7th 56pts)
2010/11 11th 22pts (7th 54pts)
2009/10 11th 22pts (8th 61pts)
2008/09 6th 29pts (5th 63pts) EL Qualification
2007/08 6th 33pts (5th 65pts) EL Qualification
2006/07 8th 27pts (6th 58pts) EL Qualification
This season so far fits in pretty much with the average of the decade at halfway mark in terms of position and points at the turn.
We're obviously playing great attacking football and Keystone Cops defensive football. It'd be nice to think January would bring movement. We need a decent second striker to slot in when the inevitable Lukaku injury comes along and a GK of any note to take over from Howard - although the latter looks unrealistic.
I'm standing by my 60+ point finish and good cup runs as the benchmark of a good season. We'll get them and it'll be a very decent marker down by a developing young team.
eurosrees
Player Valuation: £25m
It's nice to have some great players, it really is, but it was much easier to take when we had avarage players and finished 5th -10th than when we have great players, and we're gonna struggle to be top 10.
No other team of our stature would have this, We have a better side than them lot over the road, they've had one of the worst seasons imaginable and yet are a point ahead of us with a GIH. They had Suarez carrying them and nearly won the bloody thing, we have Lukaku carrying us but we can't seem to win a game at home, it's just not good enough.
No other team of our stature would have this, We have a better side than them lot over the road, they've had one of the worst seasons imaginable and yet are a point ahead of us with a GIH. They had Suarez carrying them and nearly won the bloody thing, we have Lukaku carrying us but we can't seem to win a game at home, it's just not good enough.
It's almost heartbreaking to think all these boss players will almost certainly be off. We just can't get it together at the right time
Verbal Kint
Player Valuation: £35m
I can see why your saying that, but hard to have faith in a manager who obviously treats defensive organisation with utter contempt, Seems afraid to make the big decisions. Howard being the biggest.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
You know as well as I do that the window for this team to achieve their breakthrough will be slamming shut very soon. We will have next season at the very most to get some success. Its quite probable that Lukaku and Stones could go this summer. The procrastination and pandering to Howard has been weak as anything and arguably undermined his entire tenure. A decent keeper and we could be sitting top 4 now that is where the frustration lies. No one is not backing this team, but whether or not you choose to ignore the realities of modern football will not stop them derailing this little development experiment in the very near future putting us back at square one.
Teething problems are getting bigger and nobody is trying to sort them out
The Equaliser
Player Valuation: £50m
There's a lack of wisdom really.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Teething problems? Architects of our own downfall more like, there are no teething problems but plenty that are obvious to everyone apart form the one person who needs to see them but can't.
I am sure he can see them he just has not got a clue how to fix them
The Equaliser
Player Valuation: £50m
Yep. Even a Lukaku brace couldn't sort out our dentistry worries.
Alex Hindmarsh
Player Valuation: £2.5m
I don't even think we look terrible defensively during a game, don't know if that's just me, but it just seems to be silly silly moments by individuals that cost us. Howard every game, Mori v Leicester, Stones today twice. I mean structurally I don't think we're ever dreadful at the back, but we concede. We're just a bit soft really, and having a keeper who really can't bail us out does us no help whatsoever.
larrygobfiend
Player Valuation: £40m
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Halfway into the season and I see one of the most attacking and exciting teams in the Pl and probably our most gifted attack wise since the glory days under Kendall.
There's a problem with the GK and this is down to Martinez. he should have promoted Robles as soon as he played well in the opening games of the LC run.
He needs to act on this and the second half of the season can be more fruitful than this first one.
However, I'm ok for now with where we are. Not great but it's easily remedied when you have a team capable of scoring 35 goals in 19 games.
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