This Weekend's Fixtures & Newcastle v West Ham (23/24/25 Nov.)

[dazthegooner]

Ipswich equalise through one of our ex academy players

Wasn’t he the one who left us for Chelsea because he thought he’d get first team football there sooner? It so see it went well for him

[HCZ_Reborn]

Which is pretty much my position.
But I don't believe that either of us thought Liverpool would have had a start to the season this good, easy run or not. You keep making excuses for why they keep getting results. You never seem to stop and consider you may have underestimated them.

If I thought I’d underestimated them I’d have said so. I repeat I don’t think they’ve won any games that I wouldn’t have expected them too. If they don’t fall away when the truly hard games come fair enough, but at the moment them being where they are is a reflection on us and city more than anything. I think we should have beaten them, and at least seven times out of ten we would have done.


They’ve beaten Ipswich, United, Wolves, Palace and Southampton away from home. I really don’t know what there is to add other than that

[HCZ_Reborn]

Wasn’t he the one who left us for Chelsea because he thought he’d get first team football there sooner? It so see it went well for him

Yep that’s him

[HCZ_Reborn]

He's just such a miserable sod, I'd be suicidal if he was the manager of my club

Is he? Not saying he’s not but can’t really say because don’t really watch post match interviews

I think he has one of those miserable faces, a bit like basset hounds look sad (although in my experience they are the most contented and laid back breed of dogs you could meet)

[Letters]

If I thought I’d underestimated them I’d have said so

Well obviously, I just wonder why you haven’t considered that.
Or maybe you have and rejected the notion.

I’m not disputing they’ve had a lot of games they “should” win, but pretty much all sides drop points in those sorts of games here and there. They just haven’t. Yet. They might start to, but I keep thinking that and they just keep winning. Which is starting to make me think I may have misjudged them and we should take them more seriously as contenders.

But I am also on board with the “let’s see where we are at the turn of the year” thesis.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I’ve watched a lot of their games this season and I think in a lot of them, they’ve been lucky.

They haven’t exactly been pummelling other teams, in their last five wins they’ve only won once by a margin of more than one goal. They’ve relied on the award of a penalty for three of those games.

The other thing i will concede that has surprised me is that they’ve only conceded 8 goals, and kept six clean sheets. That surprise is mainly because they aren’t actually that good defensively….they were all over the place against us.

Could it be that this a Leicester City type season where they make the most of all the other teams shooting themselves in the foot? Possibly

[HCZ_Reborn]

Anyway 1-1 full time

Amorim learning that you can’t polish a turd