Are there now no excuses to be made if we are relegated?

[Gordon Bennett 783]

21 hours ago, astro said:

Why do we need to blame anyone? It’s just a game and there are always winners and losers. 

Quite agree, it's a blame culture nowadays with scapegoats required by most. 

16 hours ago, hogesar said:

I think people need to be a bit realistic.

We've had a fantastic window on paper. We've strengthened in pretty much every area.

But this is the Premier League. Compare our squad to the other 19 teams and we are probably weaker than 14 or 15 and on a par with the rest. Farke will still need to get more out of this squad than their individual ability and have us overperforming for most of the season for us to stay up.

We do however,  have a much better chance than two years ago.

Spot on. Many reasons to be optimistic for me.

[Fuzzar 1,702]

4 minutes ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Quite agree, it's a blame culture nowadays with scapegoats required by most. 

Spot on. Many reasons to be optimistic for me.

I blame you for that. 

[Disco Dales Jockstrap 1,891]

37 minutes ago, Foxy2600 said:

So if we beat those teams Home and Away, we end up with 36 points - not enough to stay up.

 

31 minutes ago, Midlands Yellow said:

We won’t take 6 points of them all but 3/4 would help the cause. Norwich will be allowed to take points from any of the others too if good enough. Have a look at the 19/20 results, we were crap against the crap. 

Last 10 seasons - points needed to stay up - 36,36,33,35,37,34,33,36,35,39 = average 35.4.

36 would, more often than not, do it.

OTBC

[Michael Starr 519]

Meanwhile down the road (undisclosed = free or 1p)

3 June 2021	RW		Wes Burns	Fleetwood Town	Undisclosed	[16]
16 June 2021	MF		Callum Page	Needham Market	Undisclosed	[17]
25 June 2021	CM		Rekeem Harper	West Bromwich Albion	Undisclosed	[18]
28 June 2021	GK		Václav Hladký	Salford City	Undisclosed	[19]
1 July 2021	CM		Lee Evans	Wigan Athletic	Free transfer	[20]
1 July 2021	LB		Matt Penney	Sheffield Wednesday	Free transfer	[21]
12 July 2021	CF		Joe Pigott	AFC Wimbledon	Free transfer	[22]
14 July 2021	AM		Scott Fraser	Milton Keynes Dons	Undisclosed	[23]
27 July 2021	CB		George Edmundson	Rangers	Undisclosed	[24]
27 July 2021	CF		Conor Chaplin	Barnsley	Undisclosed	[25]
6 August 2021	SS		Sone Aluko	Reading	Free transfer	[26]
9 August 2021	LM		Kyle Edwards	West Bromwich Albion	Free transfer	[27]
15 August 2021	CB		Cameron Burgess	Accrington Stanley	Undisclosed	[28]
16 August 2021	CM		Tom Carroll	Queens Park Rangers	Free transfer

[Midlands Yellow 3,984]

Excuses will be limited now, time for Farke to deliver now as much as the team. What a great time to go to Arsenal and get the season rolling if we are brave enough. 

[Canary Wundaboy 1,359]

I will forgive relegation only if we now show some fight and some battle. Too often in this league we roll over and make it easy on other teams, we now have plenty of outsiders in and around the first team whom I hope will bring winning and battling mentalities. We now do have the quality and depth required to compete and survive in this league, it's now up to Mr Farke to install the confidence and the fight and play to the strengths of those players who can win us games and get us points.

[RugbyCanary 94]

2 minutes ago, Canary Wundaboy said:

I will forgive relegation only if we now show some fight and some battle. Too often in this league we roll over and make it easy on other teams, we now have plenty of outsiders in and around the first team whom I hope will bring winning and battling mentalities. We now do have the quality and depth required to compete and survive in this league, it's now up to Mr Farke to install the confidence and the fight and play to the strengths of those players who can win us games and get us points.

Completely this. Especially the first couple of lines...,.......

[Christoph Stiepermann 1,135]

I was just pouring through the fixture lists looking for potential points. January to February looks very interesting to me. The Africa cup of nations will be on and off the top of my head we won't be losing any players from that I think. Everton at home, Watford away then Palace at home. Palace who we play 2 days after the tournament finishes will be without Zaha, Schlupp, Ayew, Kouyate. Everton will lose Iwobi and Watford will be without at least 5 players looking at their squad list.

Really could be points there for us that month. I know we play Palace just after that tournament but those players mentioned will likely be tired from traveling or maybe will not be fully focused

[RugbyCanary 94]

Daniel Farke now has the players (money to get them in). New contract from the board (backing). Etc.......it's in his hands. No excuse, this is a make season for him and us!!!