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Anywhere in the top 8 will be good at the halfway point of the season IMO, then hopefully we can kick on after that.

Yeah i'll dig the thread up in Jan and see how we got on - you forgot to add on the 5pts we already have, so our totals aren't all that different mind..

Liverpool v Stoke Sun 7 Oct = 3 points

Liverpool v Reading Sat 20 Oct = 3 points

Everton v Liverpool Sun 28 Oct = 0 points

Liverpool v Newcastle Sun 4 Nov = 1 point

Chelsea v Liverpool Sun 11 Nov = 1 point

Liverpool v Wigan Sat 17 Nov = 3 points

Swansea v Liverpool Sun 25 Nov = 3 points

Tottenham v Liverpool Wed 28 Nov = 0 points

Liverpool v Southampton Sat 1 Dec = 3 points

West Ham v Liverpool Sat 8 Dec = 0 points

Liverpool v Aston Villa Sat 15 Dec = 1 point

Liverpool v Fulham Sat 22 Dec = 3 points

Stoke v Liverpool Wed 26 Dec = 0 points

QPR v Liverpool Sat 29 Dec 3 points

Estimate of 24 points + 5 thats 29 midway through the season. If we can get another 30 or so points in the second half and gather a total of 60 or more then we will make progress and achieve a higher finish than 8th.

I'm gonna go for 6 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats. That would give us 23 points, plus the 5 we have. 28 point total at the half way mark. Looking forward to this thread being revisited in January and seeing how it actually pans out.

If we finish the first half of the season with 32-35 pts I would be happy. It would on average mean winning all our home games and drawing the away games + the 5 we currently have, which should be within our reach, else all the hype of 'playing well' will not mean much.

Just an interesting point. I estimate a prediction of 28 points at the half way mark. When I checked back at that earlier link to remind myself what we had last season at the half way mark and saw that it was 34, I was quite surprised. That's 6 lower than my PREDICTION. I think I've been fair with my prediction, but we could end up with even less than that (or more!).

To bring a bit of perspective to it though, we may have got 34 points in the first 19 games last season, but in the second 19 games, we got just 18 points, giving a total of 52 points.

18 points in 19 games. That is unbelievably poor. 'Relegation form' would be an understatement. If we got 28 points in the first half of this season, and another 28 points in the second half, it'd give us 56 points which would still be an improvement on last season. We'll be hoping for a better improvement than that though. I'll be very disappointed if pointswise, we're not in the 60s come the end of the season.

I think we went into free fall in the league after the loss to Arsenal at home last season.

We seemed to become a Cup team and the league form suffered greatly.

I am not going to attempt to estimate what points we will gain. But as long as we continue to improve in the way we have recently then the points tally and league position will look after itself.

Dare I say I'm actually starting to look forward to our games again.

Agree. Had we won that home match (which we should have if there was not an unbelievable Van Persie) we would have overtaken Arsenal and would be in the Champions League battle. After that all focus moved to the Cups.

Our last 6 league wins took 21 games to achieve. To expect another 6 from our next 14 is very unrealistic I would say. It looks like a lot of people have suddenly upped their expectations based on 1 victory against one of the leagues poorest team, where we still looked exposed at the back. All of our next opponents are better than Norwich and will give us more problems defensively. Have we suddenly solved our striker problem sufficiently enough to gamble on outscoring the majority of our opposition?


I don't know when we last went 14 games with only 2 defeats but I bet it was a good few years ago. It's also been a long time since we last won 2 league games on the bounce.

I'm going to go for a maximum of 16 points, with every confidence that I'll be closest to the mark.

Let's just see, shall we? I'm not getting carried away with one win, certainly not. I made a lot of my predictions by looking at the opposition in the games, and considering how poor their form has also been. Also, don't discount the teams we've had to play in the last few games.

We have a relatively 'easy' (as easy as it gets in the PL anyway) run in coming up. There's no reason why we can't rack up some points. The trickiest ones would appear to be a home game to Newcastle (which I think we'll win) and away games to Everton, Chelsea and Spurs (from which I think we'll get 1 point). I don't think I'm being overly optimistic or overly pessimistic. I think you're erring on the side of the latter.