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neil999 said:
true, they also have to rely on 3 teams having poor run ins..arsenal possibly..but i cant see both chelsea AND city collapsing...i would have thought citys blip has ended now and they have a couple of home games to get back ontrack

still city for me
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Agreed: 8 wins and a draw in the last 10 matches constitute City's "slump".

It's laughable, it really is. Even on the basis of their "slump" form they'll take 31/32 points from the last 39 available to them. 85/86 points is more than enough to win this league this year.
 
Ok a little question for my previous explanation.

Imagine doing a job reasonably well, going from place to place. You aren't what thye are looking for and keep letting you go but you pick yourself up, get a new interview and keep going to new jobs. These jobs are working in Burger Vans around town, running them to a fair degree but nowhere making a profit and that is why you are being replaced all the time.
Then imagine going to a burger shop that has been growing for a while now and is ready to exand its business. you get the job because of all your other previous experience and you oversee the burger shop expanding its business to compete on a national scale. The environments good and the staff know what they are doing so you dont have to involve yourself too much with all your previous ideas that were bad.

Now seeing how well you are doing in this growing burger shop, the world chain which has been losing money head hunt you as they think you must be doing something good and off you go to work for them. Now the financial muscle is there to force results and you take everything that went on previously to this new place to really improve the fortunes of the world wide chain. You do all this despite not actually improving much since working in the burger van, you got a lucky break in the buger shop looking for experience.

That is Brendan in a nutshell
 
chris ashton17 said:
Ok a little question for my previous explanation.

Imagine doing a job reasonably well, going from place to place. You aren't what thye are looking for and keep letting you go but you pick yourself up, get a new interview and keep going to new jobs. These jobs are working in Burger Vans around town, running them to a fair degree but nowhere making a profit and that is why you are being replaced all the time.
Then imagine going to a burger shop that has been growing for a while now and is ready to exand its business. you get the job because of all your other previous experience and you oversee the burger shop expanding its business to compete on a national scale. The environments good and the staff know what they are doing so you dont have to involve yourself too much with all your previous ideas that were bad.

Now seeing how well you are doing in this growing burger shop, the world chain which has been losing money head hunt you as they think you must be doing something good and off you go to work for them. Now the financial muscle is there to force results and you take everything that went on previously to this new place to really improve the fortunes of the world wide chain. You do all this despite not actually improving much since working in the burger van, you got a lucky break in the buger shop looking for experience.

That is Brendan in a nutshell
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The Peter Principle kicked in with Rogers last season: he'd been elevated beyond his skillset, and that his own method of possession of the ball deep in their own half and building up slowly was going to be catastrophic for his chances of keeping the job. He's basically this season just rolled the dice and gone in the complete opposite direction, gambling that the reverse of what he was doing would achieve better results. They have the personnel for that game and he's stumbled on that. No more needs to be said about Brendan's 'genius'.
 
Kiwi said:
probably haha. As a club we will always struggle to be successful where others can afford to throw money at their problems in the hope that they will be fixed eventually, see liverpool paying 20mil each for downing and Henderson, 15 for adams and 35 for Carroll. Despite us having money we cannot afford to over pay for players, and we also need them to be successful long term in order to maintain our position and try to push into and near the european places. For this reason I think long term unless we are successful in the market that we will struggle to stay in the upper echelons of the League, because others can afford to fail three or four times and fifth time lucky get a Suarez. We cannot afford on a financial basis to fail even once. While Martinez and his style of play will go some way to reducing the impact of finances on our league positions, we need to get the quality players in our system too. We need an arteta 2003-2009 type player IMO, someone who can play the killer passes while also being able to retain possession in the way that pienaar does for us now. That comes expensively now, and we can't afford to screw up when buying sadly.
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I thought Adam cost 7m not 15m?
 
davek said:
The Peter Principle kicked in with Rogers last season: he'd been elevated beyond his skillset, and that his own method of possession of the ball deep in their own half and building up slowly was going to be catastrophic for his chances of keeping the job. He's basically this season just rolled the dice and gone in the complete opposite direction, gambling that the reverse of what he was doing would achieve better results. They have the personnel for that game and he's stumbled on that. No more needs to be said about Brendan's 'genius'.
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You talk utter nonsense sometimes.

To say PL manager stumbled across a game plan is the most ludircrous thing ever, he knows his players, he knows what they're capable of and what their stregngths and weaknesses are, and he's implemented that into his gameplan. Jesus Dave, thats basic management principles (not even talking about football) of using whats available to the best of its needs. Thast why they've scored 66 goals in the league!!!

If Martinez changed his gameplan next year, and went a bit more direct you'd hail him as a tactical genius, and rightly so. Because he's improved the teams dynamics

You're shifting the goalposts and your RS argument week in, week out; you assumed they would have fallen away by now but they haven't so you're now looking for a new argument to justify these pathetic assumptions your making.

Nobody is saying they are going to win the league, people are saying that they are contenders because they are. End of discussion
 
davek said:
The Peter Principle kicked in with Rogers last season: he'd been elevated beyond his skillset, and that his own method of possession of the ball deep in their own half and building up slowly was going to be catastrophic for his chances of keeping the job. He's basically this season just rolled the dice and gone in the complete opposite direction, gambling that the reverse of what he was doing would achieve better results. They have the personnel for that game and he's stumbled on that. No more needs to be said about Brendan's 'genius'.
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It'll fall apart when it gets sussed too because they don't have the squad. Which will happen soon.

In fact, if Arsenal beat them in the FA Cup and expose them, I'm sure it'll get brushed under the rug. But that could be the game when it happens
 
kenada_blue said:
It'll fall apart when it gets sussed too because they don't have the squad. Which will happen soon.

In fact, if Arsenal beat them in the FA Cup and expose them, I'm sure it'll get brushed under the rug. But that could be the game when it happens
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gonna be a very interesting game, wenger should be able to work them out tactically now hes played them..if he doesnt then i'll worry!
 
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