1st you answered your own question as I’m not sure officiating will improve any time soon.
2nd I think there will be times this season when we just do struggle to put it together. The villa game had some ridiculous luck to make it seem worse but we probably still lost that game even without the freaky luck. A game we should comfortably win. I think that’ll happen a fair bit this season to all teams even us.
-9 is still the magic number for me, if we go under that I will start to worry but if we can stay above -9 points I think it will be enough
Tall order, that. Would mean we can only afford to drop 2 points in the next 15 matches in the league.
No, more could be dropped if we expect to do better against Burnley at home and Arsenal, Utd and WBA away
Gulp…
Feels like a key part of the season right now, we are on the brink for me. Anymore stupid slips could be critical.
We have gotten away with it so far because other teams have been dropping stupid points, but I think City are past that now and look like they have taken a bit of fight from our struggles. They will not be as bad in the second half of the season as they were in the first, so we have to address this slump we are in tonight for me.
City have been in poor (for them) form for a season and a half now. They look like they’ve hit a bit of form in recent weeks, but it’s too early to think they are getting back to their previous imperious level.
I don’t disagree that it is too early…
But I think it is absolutely clear that they won’t need to reach that level to still be a very good chance of lifting the trophy.
Fucking stupid draws!!!
Any more yellow on that table and this will become a Norwich forum…
They won’t need that. We were out of sight a few weeks ago, and now they are potentially a point away. So, what does that say about our current form? Our lads have to improve very soon, otherwise we’ll be in for a rude awakening.
Hopefully Thiago can stay fit from now on, because I see him as genuine game-changer for the second half of our season. Fingers crossed!
Edit: Keita apparently injured again… so that’s that… we simply can’t get a break.
Keep seeing Keita injured again. Did he actually come back? I’m losing track of where one injury ends and another starts.
He played against Palace, then dropped out of the squad for the WBA and NU games. Don’t remember anything about him being injured then - but could have missed it
Think he pulled a cracker
We are officially in trouble lads
Get this fucking Santa Hat off my head, I’m not in the mood for it
Trailing by 13 points now, isn’t it? That means that if we match results from now on until the end of the season, we would end up at 86 points. That could possibly be enough to win the league this season, but matching our results from now on, with our current form and injuries, looks like a daunting task… 
Fixed it for you.
Can you do us a table showing the shit decisions that have cost us points?
Anyone remember how we suffocated the absolute bejesus out of Arsenal in Week 3??
I do…
