Points Dropped

[Brownie]

Don't make me get my boyz on you.

What do you think about "d'brag", with the brag bit pronounced like Prague. It's got a bit of everything really, got that nice little continental style apostrophe in there, a couple of interesting letter combinations. I think you'd struggle to find a better option than that if I'm honest.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

What do you think about "d'brag", with the brag bit pronounced like Prague. It's got a bit of everything really, got that nice little continental style apostrophe in there, a couple of interesting letter combinations. I think you'd struggle to find a better option than that if I'm honest.

Good call that.

Can put on a sexy european accent.

"My name is D'brag and i am a very good friends with Johnny Heitinga from the Holland".

 

[billycopper]

In the amount of drawn games table, if there were such a thing, it's:

Villa 13
Stoke 13
Everton 12
City 11
Birmingham 11
Sunderland 11

We've actually only lost one more game than both Arsenal and Spurs and two more than United. If we can turn half of those draws into wins, then we'd have as good a record as the teams challenging for the Champions League places.

In the first part of the season we tended to give teams a one goal headstart. Since Christmas we've let leads slip. I agree that Distin needs to be replaced by either Yobo or Heitinga. I thought that Jags had turned the corner in the City game, but he still doesn't seem his old self yet.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

We have dropped some points this season and it has been annoying at times, but we have also got points I honestly didnt think we would get, so its "swings and roundabouts" (as saint and Greavesy used to say)

We just have to accept that it has been a tough old season, lots of injuries, lots of changes and a small squad, we just have too keep going and try to win the last 3 games, if we do, we could be in europe again, if not so be it.

 

[billycopper]

Part of the process of becoming a club challenging for honours is becoming more clinical. We need to keep ironing out flaws and becoming ever more economical. We know that we're capable of defending better than we have been doing recently. We demonstrated that last season. It's very difficult to improve offensively and defensively at the same time. Our forward play has been more inventive this season. Hopefully next season we'll be as miserly at the back as we were in 2008-9, without sacrificing our newfound attacking flair.

 

[little curly alan ball]

We've dropped a total of 18 points this season after letting a lead slip. If we'd held on to collect even half of those points we'd now be ahead of City and challenging Spurs for fourth.

Fulham (A) 3pts dropped
Bolton (A) 3pts dropped
Villa (H) 2pts dropped
Birmingham (H) 2pts dropped
Arsenal (A) 2pts dropped
Birmingham (A) 2pts dropped
West Ham (H) 2pts dropped
Villa (A) 2pts dropped

Last season we kept a club record 16 clean sheets. It's only 10 so far this season, a 37.5% drop. I think part of the problem is that we're not as switched on defensively as we were last year- that could be contributed to Jagielka refinding his form, Howard suffering from fatigue through overplaying and Distin being error-prone. I also think that we're not as solid since Neville moved to rightback. As a defensive screen he was disciplined and closed people down quickly, whereas neither Fellaini or Heitinga are as mobile and they both like to get forward.

On the whole, I'd like to see us continue to play our football once we take the lead in games, rather than dropping deep to protect what we've got. It invites pressure on ourselves and ends up leaving the lone striker isolated upfront.

We've failed to score on 5 occasions this season:

Burnley (A)
United (A)
Liverpool (H)
Liverpool (A)
Wolves (A)

In none of those games were we overwhelmed. Even against United, they were fortunate to score the goals that they did. We've scored 3 times at Stamford Bridge, twice at the Emirates and twice at the City of Manchester Stadium this season. Why should we be afraid of anyone? For the first 20 minutes against Blackburn yesterday we looked like a real class act. Hopefully we'll continue to play the same brand of football next season and impose ourselves on teams more, rather than handing the initiative to them.

Even , just , Burnley , Hull , and givin' Tottenham a 2 goal start TWICE , an' it'd be a WHOLE different story .

L.C.A.B. - Out .

 

[faddy the blue]

I'd have Yobo over Distin anyday. the thing is that Yobo being the senior most player at the club has suddenly lost his way. I regarded him as a future captain at one stage.

We were right on track and of all those games that we turned the nob to " relax mode" had that nob been kept to " ruthless mode" like against brum away and home and then west ham at home we could have been in for forth even. I think that the chance is gone. Villa have won against pompey and they still got a game in hand.

Looking forward for some CL the season after next!

4th spot next year,nailed on

 

[Neiler]

The mighty Hull also gave us a bad spanking.