10 Nov 2025 06:46:46
Morning all
This won't be a popular post at all, so my hard hat is at the ready.
For me Haaland needs to get injured for us to win the league, even before the weekend I thought we just don't have a killer instinct up front.
Gyokeres scored for fun before arriving here, now of course it's a different ball game.
Not helped by the way we are playing, by that I mean it's not to suit VG.
No doubt we have the strongest squad but doesn't mean we will win the league.
As for the weekend, not easy going away to Sunderland for sure BUT it's a fixture I'd expect us to win, in saying that a good recovery in the 2nd half but a lack of concentration at the death.
We have a 4 point cushion and with Spuds, Munich and Chelsea away we will see where we are at, personally I think 2 draws and a win from the 3 games but let's see.
10 Nov 2025 09:53:03
Morning Banbury, lots of good points in your post, especially regarding Haarland. I really think he could get City over the line single handedly if he stays fit!
10 Nov 2025 10:20:38
Totally agree with you Banbury. The fact that city are hot on our heels will kick in the psychological aspect and we’ll have to see how the team deals with it. The league these days demands so much consistency that we need to win all the matches and not loose to our title rivals. Whether we can do that over the course of the whole season this time is a question mark again.
We have a good squad but injuries aren’t helping, against Sunderland we had a depleted bench. Hopefully, all injured players are back after the break and we push on hard and achieve our goals (no pun! )
10 Nov 2025 10:49:45
At this point I think I'd rather be 2nd and chasing than 1st looking over our shoulders at Haarland bombing towards our defence lol.
10 Nov 2025 11:16:54
Mal! Sally's been drinking again!
10 Nov 2025 13:02:12
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10 Nov 2025 17:54:00
Bit of negativity on here over 1 draw against a very tough organised very good Sunderland side. If any of the main title contenders had already gone up there and rinsed them I would be a bit worried.
Pretty confident that the other challengers will also drop points. City parking the bus after scoring early, then conceding very late against us, what was that for City, point won or 2 points lost.
10 Nov 2025 18:37:18
Haaland is the most prolific goal scorer the Premier league has ever seen and who wouldn't want someone like that in their team, but even with Haaland in unbelievable form city are 4 pts hind us.
Saturdays result wasn't perfect but City even with Haaland have clearly experienced more imperfect result than us, or they wouldn't be 4pts behind us.
Will Haaland maintain his devastating form throughout the season, who knows, how will City cope if Haaland hits a bad patch? Who knows.
What we do know for sure is that The Arsenal are out performing all competitors so far this season despite having several players out, in my opinion all other clubs have more to worry about than we do., yet somehow we seem to find problems for ourselves to worry about ???.
10 Nov 2025 22:15:33
Hi 62, Bill,
I admire your posts but we don’t have to be always philosophical, we can be critical of performances as well. We are in far better position as a club and team than we were 4 years ago but this position will demand more and any shortcomings will have to be analysed. We crumbled under pressure in the last three years so the point is that the team must be matured enough now to deal with it. Man City play before us after the break and if they win the gap is 1 point, under this pressure we must win in the NLD else doubts will start creeping in everybody’s mind including the players.
And something isn’t right with the amount of injuries we are seeing, we have a strong squad but they need to be available throughout the season, however, I am pretty confident we will achieve something by taking the next step this year!
10 Nov 2025 22:38:37
Hi Highbury.
So we have to be worried, fearful and critical if we want everything to turn out as we hope it will rather than how we fear it might if we don't worry find fault and enjoy what really is at this moment in time
That makes a lot of sense mate ?
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11 Nov 2025 06:46:50
Morning all
SHARPIE I think Sally would prefer the name
Chardonnay.
11 Nov 2025 10:43:15
Perhaps that's my real name Mal ? ? ?.
11 Nov 2025 12:42:19
The performance needs to be looked at we were not there in the first half. The draw summed the game up and was well deserved for sunderland. We need that spark from the moment go that we had a few seasons ago score that goal seal the game and then sit back. For me personally bringing on a defensive sub while there was all to play for showed signs of lack of confidence, the team does need a kick up the back side. But hey ho still very early and a long time to go.
I was expecting SY to be on here straight after the game addressing all faults so was dissappointed not seeing anything hope he is well.
11 Nov 2025 14:09:03
Don't matter what you're name is sally
Your 1 of the gang.
11 Nov 2025 19:03:05
Hi G4 mate, it doesn't sound like you know mate but SY is currently coming to terms with a very sad time regarding the loss of his dad.
11 Nov 2025 20:45:30
We'll start calling you ChardyB. Can you sing?
12 Nov 2025 10:16:46
I have been known to Sharpe. ? ? lol.
13 Nov 2025 17:50:28
Thanks for letting me know, G62 i was not aware. If you are reading this SY4 sorry to hear of your father.