Was just looking at the fixtures to come after this international break, eight of them between now and the end of the year:
Fulham A
Arsenal A
Burnley H
Forest H
West Ham A
Chelsea H
Brentford A
Everton H
This will take us pretty much to mid season. What we havent been great at in recent seasons is converting those "bonus" points against Man City and Spurs in to something meaningful by also picking up the points against the sides below us in the table. Always more difficult to pick up points against those sides that think they can sit deep and frustrate us I know, however looking at this list there's not many of that type there. I suspect Burnley, who up till now have tried to play open attacking football will have now to be more pragmatic so that could be the toughest of these fixtures. Everton too will look to this one as an opportunity.
Burnley & Arsenal aside however, the other 6 games are against teams that are (or would be in Everton's case) within 3 points of us as it stands today, so if we can maintain current form and take points off these sides it will be a huge step towards setting us up for a charge at the top 10 in the second half of the season.
The other benefit of a good run of results here would be that it would give us a enough of a cushion to the bottom three to enable us to go strong in the cup.
The bizarre footnote to this is that we only have two league games in the whole of January.
Something between 10 & 12 points from these games would be a very good return but so with many VARiables, who knows what we'll get.
Next 8 Games
posted on 20/11/23
Great article Goldie, these games will define our season.
How we have played recently should give us confidence to move forward and climb the league,
BUT weem Wolves ay we.
posted on 20/11/23
I think we could get a very healthy 14 points
We're tight (mostly) at the back and if we can start taking our chances up front we'll be safe by Easter
posted on 21/11/23
Great article.
Evidently Hugo Bueno has signed a new five-year contract. Good news for both parties.
posted on 21/11/23
Evidently Gary O’Neil has urged Santi Bueno to stay ready for when his Premier League chance arrives.
The player has huge potential that hopefully we see realised at Molineux.
posted on 21/11/23
Everton fans on Talk Sport saying its unfair being docked points over FFP.
They broke the rules, what do they want, a fine, which will make the problem worse.
Their only cause to complain is that Man City haven't been done yet.
posted on 21/11/23
comment by bostonwolf (U17353)
posted 7 hours, 18 minutes ago
Everton fans on Talk Sport saying its unfair being docked points over FFP.
They broke the rules, what do they want, a fine, which will make the problem worse.
Their only cause to complain is that Man City haven't been done yet.
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Caused a minor domestic over the weekend
She'd bought in to the narrative that it wasn't anything to do with over spending on players (or cheating by over spending on players as I put it) but interest payments on the stadium caused by inflation. Took a while to explain that the interest payment thing was an (overstated) offset that they were claiming against the over spend (cheating). The argument continued in to the taxi home on Friday night and she tried to get the driver onside but he was a wolves fan
posted on 21/11/23
I guess I shouldn't be but I was quite surprised by the PL decision to allow or rather not block loans between jointly owned clubs. Opens the door to Neves to move to Newcastle but also would allow us to mine Grasshoppers for some of their gems. Seems fair...
posted on 22/11/23
Under the false narrative of “sustainability, FFP was introduced to protect the closed shop at the top with the likes of United, Liverpool, Arsenal (and to a lesser degree Laughing Stockspurs!!😂) maintaining a stranglehold at the summit.
Chelsea, City and Newcastle have entered stage right and set out to bend and break the rules they agreed to when the joined the closed shop.
It’s all a bit of a mess really, the league is totally corrupt now. The South Bank “sorts” are right about that.
All this does is highlight the importance of the fire sale we held in the summer, as no doubt we would have been in exactly the same position as Everton. The club must have been aware of what was about to unfold.
posted on 22/11/23
Apparently, only 8 clubs voted to ban it.
The lunatics are running the asylum.
They may as well pi** off to a European super league.
It will happen one day.