4 Points off 4th

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for the fourth year in a row i find myself saying it's only the first game, we could still be boss etc. and i am sure that by Wednesday after our tanking of sheffield utd. that the feeling will be intensified, but then will com the dire 1-0 defeat to blackburn, this up and down thing will proceed to late december by which time we will be about 15th, but then the pressure is off and we go on the type of run that champions experience it will however be tempered by a few defeats late in the season where the players look half-arsed. come the final home game against newcastle there will be nothing to play for as seventh was secured mid-april and any chance of sixth was destroyed by defeat at west brom or whatever, stoke winning the carling cup have denied seventh as a european place. I have three years experience behind me to make this prediction. The only way to change the future is to bring a couple of players in, but that cannot happen as we all now know. Oh and Carslisle and Barnsley will knock us out of the third rounds of the carling and FA cups.