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Is the bingo on TV or will I have to attend in person?

I read somewhere that in the second half of the season we only dropped 3 points from the leaders. This gives me some optimism.

We started the season dropping points from silly mistakes. We had a right back at left back and inexperience on the right.
This weakness was duly exploited.
With Kolo Toure we have a better player than Carra, but I would really like to see a new defender coming in that can challenge for a place. Skrtel is quality on his day, but his inconsistency has always been an issue, not to mention shirt pulling and going to ground early.

Lets be optimistic that with Enrique, Agger, Toure, Johnson, we have a defence without the same gaping holes like we did last year. We even had to rely on Allen who was arguably out best player as the start of the season.

6th sounds logical, but I wouldn't place money on us NOT finishing in the top 5. Football can change quickly, take Chelsea as an example for the last few years that start the league off as world beaters, them champions league starts and the become an inconsistent mess.

I'm hoping that no europe will help rather than hinder us this year. At best I hope to challenge for 4th, as worst we finish where we just did.

Why do people keep holding up Sturridge and Cortina as some sort evidence that we have hit gold with them similarly to people who bring up the teams second half of the season facts. The honest truth of the matter is both assumptions are badly flawed as Liverpool from midway through January had virtually nothing to play for so every game was played without pressure which is an entirely different kettle of fish than games when u have to get something from. We have seen first hand how damaging that was of thinking is when King Ken was appointed on the back of a second half of the season after Roy Hodgson was sacked then bang first game the following season home to Sunderland with something on it we choked and only got a draw, we then went on to have the lowest points tally for about 40 odd years. I just think the jury is still out on Cortina and Sturridge and we need to judge them next season, there is no reason why they can't continue but up to now it's a bit false to suggest they are the answer or the team has turned a corner

Cherry picking a particular run of games only highlights our inconsistencies and inability to maintain good form. There is only one way to assess us and that is to look at our final league position. For those that think we can challenge the top teams, have you forgotten that we only beat 1 top half team last season, and that was the Swansea reserves? I can't be arsed to dig out the details but I'd bet a lot of money that spurs, arsenal, chelsea, utd & city, all beat a lot more top half teams than we did. In a nutshell, we're nowehre near their level and one transfer window won't change a lot. There will be settling in periods, climate/culture adjustments, gelling in, and of course any newcomers will need a year or 2 to get used to BRs footballing 'philosophy'!! Oh, and we might be losing our best player/top scorer. Finally, the teams above us will all improve - they won't stand still waiting for us to catch up.

I think everyone needs to stop playing football/champ manager. Torres for example was amazing one minute then the next he lost something.
Last year we had injury issues, that the weak squad struggled to cope with. Towards the end we still lost squad players through injury.

All this showed was that we don't have the depth to cope twice a week with the current squad. Luckily we have less games and an opportunity to add greater depth and quality to the squad.

This game is about thin margins. A lot of our points dropped were self made, if we improve then by default we get more points. If the teams above us improve what does it matter, we didn't win them games anyway. With 6th you can still win 28 games from the teams below and get 84 points, would never happen but its still a fact.

right the only reason we didn't fight relegation last season is suarez and carra coming back. so far we have swapped suarez for aspas ad carra for nobody or a rather fat toure.

there was talk of signing men. I would have assumed the first thing BR would have done is go out and buy a centre half.but we are being linked to astu and other such players that ain;t in the men category .

so right now would have to say we will leak goals all over the place, much like the start of last season.

Im starting to think cool flames (or what ever his name is this week) and Carheex are the same person (both pessimist of the highest order) either that or they are long lost brothers

Or lovers

thought you were the caller, am I wrong?

Usually.