Dour
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Or, we have as many wins as we had after 5 games last season, when the first game most really expected us to win was the 6th match against Palace or the 7th against Burnley,
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Or, we have as many wins as we had after 5 games last season, when the first game most really expected us to win was the 6th match against Palace or the 7th against Burnley,
Miles Away
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Yes, or that, Dour.
Miles Away
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So we should expect title-winning form?
FOX Franks
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It's almost impossible to make a comparison. Sooner or later we will have a run of bad results, it happens to every club. But, make Hay whilst the sun shines.
Based on what we've seen so far, we're looking pretty damned good. But we shouldn't start to expect higher than mid-table IMO
camberwell fox
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Agree with all of that.
I think what would be progress would be more consistency. By this I mean not going on a 15+ game run without a win followed by a 7+ win and a draw out of 9.
Our current form is very good and we are playing very well (and sensibly) and of course we can't keep on winning in this vein, I just don't want the lows to be so extreme and if we need to trade that for the highs not being so acute, then so be it.
fitz
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They're big in Sunderland.
Mawsley
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Mawsley
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Expect what you want...but anyone trying to infer that this season's start can be directly compared to the first season in the top flight (as players bedded in) seems to me to be fatuous.
Miles Away
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Illuminate me.
Mawsley
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Eh?
What you do with your gold spots is up to you. Burnish and be happy!
Miles Away
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Regarding why comparing the starts is not of value.
Or the lightbulb thing, that sounds good.
fitz
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Stupid ****er. I meant big in what was Sunderland before they moved the borders to become a city. They even stole a waste tip off Gatesheed to be part of their City.
Mawsley
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Pretty sure I've already alluded to the reason why.
Ike O'Noclassed
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Yes, I wondered if we're witnessing a "Taylor Trajectory" start to the season, good reason to be optimistic that this isn't the case. Ranieri isn't out of his depth as Taylor was, his legacy from NP looks wholly beneficial at the moment - the complete lack of Junior Lewis-type henchmen (Carl Cort for e.g.) coming in has been a very pleasant surprise for me. Unless NP turns up as manager at Sunderland before Xmas, the "King Across the Water" scenario and disgruntled senior pros which destabilised Taylor and the team so disastrously - also absent.
Best of all, after two rounds of matches, virtually every PL team looks vulnerable to the "simple" tactic of attacking in numbers and at pace, with wingers running directly at (or past) defenders - and we seem to be the best exponents of that, at the moment.
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| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Leicester | 46 | 97 |
| 2 | Ipswich | 46 | 96 |
| 3 | Leeds Utd | 46 | 90 |
| 4 | Southampton | 46 | 87 |
| 5 | West Brom | 46 | 75 |
| 6 | Norwich City | 46 | 73 |
| 7 | Hull City | 46 | 70 |
| 8 | Middlesbro | 46 | 69 |
| 9 | Coventry City | 46 | 64 |
| 10 | Preston | 46 | 63 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 46 | 62 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 46 | 62 |
| 13 | Millwall | 46 | 59 |
| 14 | Swansea City | 46 | 57 |
| 15 | Watford | 46 | 56 |
| 16 | Sunderland | 46 | 56 |
| 17 | Stoke City | 46 | 56 |
| 18 | QPR | 46 | 56 |
| 19 | Blackburn | 46 | 53 |
| 20 | Sheffield W | 46 | 53 |
| 21 | Plymouth | 46 | 51 |
| 22 | Birmingham | 46 | 50 |
| 23 | Huddersfield | 46 | 45 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 46 | 27 |
