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TCEvo said:
Up to Christmas we did OK. It was Boxing Day onwards that it tailed off - lost 2-0 away at Chelsea followed by a home defeat to Arsenal; only managed three more wins (all at home): Hull, Burnley & Sunderland) in the league after that.
Chelsea was the game where he decided to play a weaker team in the hope of beating Arsenal at home... Completely took away the momentum and confidence we'd built up.RichB said:
I recollect we started to slide away around this time last year and the disappointment with Allardyce got worse. Almost as if the great start (and we were like a different team from 2013 with Downing playing some great football) made the 2nd half of the season even worse. Expectations increased and the way we fizzled out to finish 12th was the end for BFS. I am expecting much more fight from a Bilic side! and still predict a top half finish being in a position to finish 8th or there abouts going into the last few games.
Agree Rich 8th/9th ish is where I see us, comfortable with that .sjc said:
TCEvo said:
Up to Christmas we did OK. It was Boxing Day onwards that it tailed off - lost 2-0 away at Chelsea followed by a home defeat to Arsenal; only managed three more wins (all at home): Hull, Burnley & Sunderland) in the league after that.
Chelsea was the game where he decided to play a weaker team in the hope of beating Arsenal at home... Completely took away the momentum and confidence we'd built up.
bad company said:
sjc said:
Agree Rich 8th/9th ish is where I see us, comfortable with that .
I'm always worried until we get to 40 points.A bit of trivia. Anybody else notice that both goalkeepers had the squad number 13?
sjc said:
Looks like 2 months for Sakho, to add to Valencia and Payet... But of course all we will hear about is the Arsenal injuries.
Bloody shame; add in the getting back to fitness etc & it's a massive loss; plus takes us back to relying on AC as the starting striker w/ the ineffective back-up that's Jelavic. 
TCEvo said:
sjc said:
Looks like 2 months for Sakho, to add to Valencia and Payet... But of course all we will hear about is the Arsenal injuries.
Bloody shame; add in the getting back to fitness etc & it's a massive loss; plus takes us back to relying on AC as the starting striker w/ the ineffective back-up that's Jelavic. BrabusMog said:
TCEvo said:
sjc said:
Looks like 2 months for Sakho, to add to Valencia and Payet... But of course all we will hear about is the Arsenal injuries.
Bloody shame; add in the getting back to fitness etc & it's a massive loss; plus takes us back to relying on AC as the starting striker w/ the ineffective back-up that's Jelavic. 
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