Tactical Preview to the new season

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Indeed, our league position did hide what was a distinctly average campaign for the Blues; we finished 15 points off the final relegation place. To put this into context the difference in each of the previous 3 seasons was 31, 29, and 29 (more than double).

That nails it for me. We were very close to bad danger until that title-winning type form late on.

Good article - also very interesting to see in figures what I suspected; Anichebe and Cahill were a liability last year.
 
That nails it for me. We were very close to bad danger until that title-winning type form late on.

Good article - also very interesting to see in figures what I suspected; Anichebe and Cahill were a liability last year.

Cahill will be around 6-9 goals if he stays healthy. This will be Vic's last chance he needs to get out of the gates with a vengeance and build from there.
 
That nails it for me. We were very close to bad danger until that title-winning type form late on.

Good article - also very interesting to see in figures what I suspected; Anichebe and Cahill were a liability last year.

Come on, he was only in the team regularly until Christmas, when the whole team was pants, went off to the Asian Cup and got injured and wasn't fit again all season. Bit harsh, that.
 

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Last season’s most effective players for the Blues were Baines and Osman. Whilst Baines will continue in his wing back role, its likely Osman will be shifted from the central role he excels in to the flanks to accommodate Cahill. It’s our biggest conundrum – on the face of it you would go with Osman given that he transformed our season playing as the pivotal player in a 4-2-3-1. Such is our gaping lack of goals though that it’s hard to leave one of the few players we have in the ranks with a genuine goal threat that opposition teams fear such as Cahill.



Cheers mate. Maybe people will stop acting like I'm the antichrist for pointing out that Tim Cahill shouldn't be the player we build our team around anymore. Tim shouldn't be starting every single game in a slow, predictable, boring 4-4-1-1 anymore because it doesn't work. At the very least we shouldn't be setting up like that against Wigan at home!

Stats aren't everything but how about that for a Tim Cahill vs Leon Osman match up; Ossie has our highest win with percentage and lowest win without percentage, whilst Cahill our lowest win with percentage and highest win without percentage. Yet again stats aren't everything -- Arteta and Felli have poor stats there but I'd have them in my starting XI whenever possible -- but it should hammer home two things: that Leon Osman shouldn't have to play second fiddle anymore and that we really need to stop relying on the 4-4-1-1 with Cahill for every single game.
 
Interesting stats on how far off, points wise, we finished from the last CL spot and relegation places last season. Sobering stuff.
 
Interesting stats on how far off, points wise, we finished from the last CL spot and relegation places last season. Sobering stuff.

In some ways I was a bit annoyed that we did finish 7th because it masked some of the problems of the campaign. It wasn't a good 7th or a comfortable 7th, because as the points show we really did have a poor season by our standards and left it even later than usual to climb the table.

I'm obviously glad we finished 7th, but if we'd have finished 16th or something might there have been more urgency from the board? Maybe more vocal discontent from Moyes? It's probably wishful thinking on my part, like.
 

In some ways I was a bit annoyed that we did finish 7th because it masked some of the problems of the campaign. It wasn't a good 7th or a comfortable 7th, because as the points show we really did have a poor season by our standards and left it even later than usual to climb the table.

I'm obviously glad we finished 7th, but if we'd have finished 16th or something might there have been more urgency from the board? Maybe more vocal discontent from Moyes? It's probably wishful thinking on my part, like.

I dont think it worked out that way mate. Everyone knew it was a poor campaign and this summer's seen the lid come off in terms of protest.
 
I dont think it worked out that way mate. Everyone knew it was a poor campaign and this summer's seen the lid come off in terms of protest.

Yeah I'd never wish us to finish lower or anything. I just felt like, being honest, 7th flattered us. We were there because 13 other teams were even crapper, if you know what I mean.

I do hope something positive comes from of all this protesting and *gasp* decent media coverage.
 
I can see The Executioners Bong just copying and pasting last years write ups as the season progresses LOL

Its gonna be deja-vu.
 
The most optimistic I can be is that Tim Howard avoids dropping a few into the net, and that puts us 6 or 9 points better than last year....before we consider the points we drop by our failure to strengthen, and the late sale of an important player.
 

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