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    Spanish second division this week for me, Lorca who sit in 21st (out of 22) host 5th place Granada and its 10/11 for the away side to win, Lorca haven''t won in their last five and look almost certain for relegation whereas Granada picking up three points could take them closer to automatic promotion.

    Lorca vs Granada- Away win

    For the Fulham game was having a look at the bet builder on 365 and at 11/2 you can have Madders to score anytime, BTTS and over 3.5 goals, would even be tempted to add Mitrovic to score anytime to make it 11/1 as i''m sure there will be plenty of goals in this one, and the QPR game I think just Norwich to win at 13/8 isn''t a bad bet!

    Good luck :)

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    A big part of me believes if Alex hadn’t gotten us promoted his first season, say we lost in play offs or finished 7/8th position and he’d had another full season in the Championship he would have gotten us up that time and possibly kept us up. He went from player/manager in Scotland to a PL manager in less than a year at such a young age for a manager. Must have been such a steep learning curve and just a little too much.

    We did play some good football under him and could have been so much more. I hope he does well in his career and in the future certainly wouldn’t be against him coming back with more experience under his belt.

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    Slightly risky pick this week, but one that I think could quite easily happen. In Italy Sampdoria vs Inter Milan- Draw (5/2)

    Quite close in the table, Inter drawing quite a few recently and up against a decent side away seems like them failing to win is somewhat likely.

    And Norwich how about Wes to score first? Its 13/2, feel like he might start after increasing noise from the supporters to have him on the pitch more with all these draws lately.

    Good luck :)

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    Nice to see this sort of stuff still goes on! Been years since I was involved, feel left out now.

    I don’t see any problem with the answers Swindon has provided? You never clarified you meant draws in all comps... Because most of the time you don’t include other comps, like Arsenal’s ‘invincibiles’ season, they lost games in cups. Man City this season were being called unbeaten till they lost to Liverpool, even though they’d lost a CL game. So I feel like looking for a record of consecutive draws automatically calls for you to look at league records unless you clarify you mean in all comps...

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    I’m probably not in the best position to comment really as I haven’t seen us play half as much as I would have liked this season, but based on what I have seen and what’s happened with the club over the past couple (or more even) years leads me to believe we aren’t underachieving at all.

    Slow build up can work, ive seen a few goals over the years that get so much praise from all corners because there were 30/40 passes in the build up, usually with a relativly simple finish. Relying on Maddison isn’t a bad tactic because it works quite often, but it isn’t a long term plan or ideal. Not having seen to much football I don’t want to say Olivera isn’t up to it, but his lack of goals seems to be partially his own doing as well as a ‘lack of service’ but Grant Holt, for example, despite frequently having Hoolahan feeding him amongst others created so many of his own chances.

    I think what’s happening, and this is by no means an original thought is that the club as a whole is changing. And that means this season was probably always going to be a write off. If we had (I mean it’s still technically possible) gone up this season what do you think would happen next season? Probably exactly the same as what happened under Alex Neil. Which for me personally wasn’t all that enjoyable most of the time. Webber and Farke between them could create a team and club capable of winning promotion in the next couple of seasons that then has the foundations to establish themselves in the PL rather than just go up and come back down having wasted a load of money.

    I think the team is adapting, some of these players are getting better and better and developing to play the way the manager wants, but to get that working week in week out is taking some time, but I think it will work. The biggest challenge is making sure it works when Maddison leaves.
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