dholliday
deconstructed rep
All pre-seasons out the way. It's not clear if there'll be any more significant transfer market action.
One week away from our opening game. Time to get a flavour of where we really think we'll be come May.
Gary Lineker famously tells us pre-season results matter not a jot, but performances certainly do, and we've not seen a lot that's been encouraging. The form of our biggest hopes like Baines and Ross hasn't been great, and a couple of our squad players aren't convincing right now that they can help us at Prem-level.
Saying that, our Belgian superheroes, plus Seamus, haven't featured. And the Prem will be taken countless times more seriously than fluffy friendlies against nominally-unchallenging teams (Porto apart). In theory, we should be strong enough to maintain our regular best-of-the-rest status, in this case top 7.
Regarding our rivals, it's difficult to judge if they'll really be stronger with the money they've spent. I think the top 7 will remain the Big 7 of Man U/City, Arse, Chelsk, Spuds, RS and us.
I can feel another 5th coming along (despite the poor-looking pre-season games), this time ahead of RS & Spuds.
Where yous reckon we'll finish?
One week away from our opening game. Time to get a flavour of where we really think we'll be come May.
Gary Lineker famously tells us pre-season results matter not a jot, but performances certainly do, and we've not seen a lot that's been encouraging. The form of our biggest hopes like Baines and Ross hasn't been great, and a couple of our squad players aren't convincing right now that they can help us at Prem-level.
Saying that, our Belgian superheroes, plus Seamus, haven't featured. And the Prem will be taken countless times more seriously than fluffy friendlies against nominally-unchallenging teams (Porto apart). In theory, we should be strong enough to maintain our regular best-of-the-rest status, in this case top 7.
Regarding our rivals, it's difficult to judge if they'll really be stronger with the money they've spent. I think the top 7 will remain the Big 7 of Man U/City, Arse, Chelsk, Spuds, RS and us.
I can feel another 5th coming along (despite the poor-looking pre-season games), this time ahead of RS & Spuds.
Where yous reckon we'll finish?
