The elephant in the room….. could this club face a relegation battle in the 22/23 season?

therealtboy said:
Crazy, if we beat Liverpool we will be above them. Are they getting relegated too? It’s too damn early guys. Not the best right now but this is a way way over the top reaction.
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If we somehow beat Liverpool, we all know they will bounce back. We will probably lose to Southampton and they will beat Bournemouth. Lets be real. Liverpool even if in bad form won't be nowhere near as bad as us and to even suggest that is a joke.

Whereas if we lose to Liverpool it will just continue our downhill spiral of bad form.

Difference being top teams obviously lose games and have bad days, we are not a top team an have bad games consecutively.
 
Ldn FanBoy said:
If we somehow beat Liverpool, we all know they will bounce back. We will probably lose to Southampton and they will beat Bournemouth. Lets be real. Liverpool even if in bad form won't be nowhere near as bad as us and to even suggest that is a joke.

Whereas if we lose to Liverpool it will just continue our downhill spiral of bad form.

Difference being top teams obviously lose games and have bad days, we are not a top team an have bad games consecutively.
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Why is our beating Liverpool not a sign of us bouncing back? Look I get the negativity but what’s the point if we can’t be optimistic. We all know we are hopeless right now but it’s not going to get worse than this, that I do know.
 
therealtboy said:
Why is our beating Liverpool not a sign of us bouncing back? Look I get the negativity but what’s the point if we can’t be optimistic. We all know we are hopeless right now but it’s not going to get worse than this, that I do know.
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If i, Partridge, can bounce back, we can bounce back. The LFC game would be the perfect time to get our collective shit together.
 
We are a terrible team right now but I truly believe if nothing else changed except we bring in two new CMs the rest of the team would immediately look miles better.

The lack of CM is damaging us in defending and attacking. Saying that the reality is we have a lot of positions we desperately need to upgrade
 
RedOldBoy said:
Personally I hope that our fortunes will changes soon because right now I just cannot see where our next win is going to come form.
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We could easily be in 15th position by Christmas, I’m not denying that. However, once these players figure out that their careers are on the line, we’ll end up seeing a different team in the 2nd half of the season, and probably race to somewhere like 8th place. I just hope a) Ten Hag isn’t sacked along the way and b) the Glazers sell up.
 
100%. If Leicester can win the league, we can be relegated. Our squad is not geared for ETH football and we will lose a heck of a lot games this season.
 
Of course they can. This team is terrible and it’s in a worse state than last season with a new manager. Unless there’s a sudden change of fortunes I can’t even see where a goal is coming from never mind a win.
 
I can honestly see a relegation scrap I don’t think we’ll go down but I’d take 7 or 8th at this point. The club is in free fall on and off the pitch.it’s astonishing to watch how bad this is becoming.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
I don't understand posts stating we've too much quality to go down. Where is this quality? A wantaway Ronaldo aside. I would expect a lot of Championship sides to give us a tough game currently, we are completely devoid of form, confidence and in some players case, ability.
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That’s what I’m like too. It’s this lack of quality that has plummeted us into this state.
 
Seven away defeats on the spin....losing to Brighton at home...losing to Brentford at home....best CF wants out (and is 37), GK has a save percentage of about 50%...morale in the toilet...new manager adapting to the league...

We won't go down, simply because if we were in any sort of danger, we'd go back to playing 'normal' football...but if we did insist on playing this progressive, penalty-box tika-taka, man-marking and high-line all season...I would say it's definitely a possibility
 
The sheer amount of abysmal threads that get created on here is mind boggling.
 
Samid said:
The sheer amount of abysmal threads that get created on here is mind boggling.
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Any poster that genuinely thought we could be in a relegation battle should be rounded up and banned.
Absolute state of them.
 
Sandikan said:
Any poster that genuinely thought we could be in a relegation battle should be rounded up and banned.
Absolute state of them.
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I’d hang fire. Two tight games broke our way. They could have both easily been losses on another day based on the chances created and conceded. Against Liverpool if felt like our players really worked to secure the win and we did deserve it. Today that same intensity wasn’t there and we actually lost to Soton on xG according to most algorithms.

If we play like we did today in our next six before the international break, we’ll lose half of them, if not more. Relegation was always a less than 10% prospect, but so was finishing top four. We’re still likely to have a very frustrating season in the midtable unless performances pick up.
 
TMDaines said:
I’d hang fire. Two tight games broke our way. They could have both easily been losses on another day based on the chances created and conceded. Against Liverpool if felt like our players really worked to secure the win and we did deserve it. Today that same intensity wasn’t there and we actually lost to Soton on xG according to most algorithms.

If we play like we did today in our next six before the international break, we’ll lose half of them, if not more. Relegation was always a less than 10% prospect, but so was finishing top four. We’re still likely to have a very frustrating season in the midtable unless performances pick up.
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We could easily be way off top 4. But we won't in a million years be fighting relegation this season.
 
TMDaines said:
I’d hang fire. Two tight games broke our way. They could have both easily been losses on another day based on the chances created and conceded. Against Liverpool if felt like our players really worked to secure the win and we did deserve it. Today that same intensity wasn’t there and we actually lost to Soton on xG according to most algorithms.

If we play like we did today in our next six before the international break, we’ll lose half of them, if not more. Relegation was always a less than 10% prospect, but so was finishing top four. We’re still likely to have a very frustrating season in the midtable unless performances pick up.
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Tells you what a load of old shite xG is. We were never losing to Soton. Yesterday to Leicester on the other hand...need to step up our attacking game now, we won't be able to grind out 1-0s forever.
 
Drama queens the lot. Even worse are those who claimed they would take relegation if that meant getting rid off Glazers :wenger:
 
Swedish_Plumber said:
If there was ever a thread to epitomise the panic that can spread through the cafe :lol:
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If we lose to Arsenal, there'll be another of these.

Whenever we lose, there's an immediate 4 or 5 "we're shit" threads on the front page that get released by the cafe like ink from an octopus.
 
Swedish_Plumber said:
If there was ever a thread to epitomise the panic that can spread through the cafe :lol:
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Exactly..

This thread should be pinned to the top of the forum as a reminder and warning against exaggerating and overreacting after a couple of losses. Literally writing off the new manager, any potential signings and the whole club's future after 2 games...
 
Vital win against a fellow relegation candidate last night. Some breathing space but still not out of the woods.
 
Fulham, Forest, Wolves. 3 massive wins in a row against fellow relegation candidates. Still not 100% safe but realistically we only need 1-2 more wins between Jan-May which should be doable.
 
Samid said:
Fulham, Forest, Wolves. 3 massive wins in a row against fellow relegation candidates. Still not 100% safe but realistically we only need 1-2 more wins between Jan-May which should be doable.
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Lets face it we need to beat the likes of Arsenal, City, Pool, Spurs, Chelsea and Newcastle when it comes to it. All 6 pointers for us now
 
To be fair to the OP we were on a dire run at the time and thread was made before we bought Casemiro and Martinez......I think!
 
LordSpud said:
Lets face it we need to beat the likes of Arsenal, City, Pool, Spurs, Chelsea and Newcastle when it comes to it. All 6 pointers for us now
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I'd be delighted with four points from the two games v City and Arsenal. Even two points wouldn't be the end of the world.
 
If Ten Hag had caved to Ronaldo’s demands - set up the team around him and played him every minute without subbing him - we could have stayed on a similar trajectory.

Thankfully we marginalised and sold him and turned back in a functional team.
 
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