We must win every home game from here on in

[Flasher]

Played 10 - we currently have 26 points

 

28 games left, 14 of which are at home. Win those, that's another 42 points. That would bring us up to 68 points.

 

We then have 14 games remaining away from home. If we win half of those (very doable), that's another 21 points, making it, 89 points!!!!!

 

My point is this. We are very capable of winning 7 of our remaining away games. Therefore, we must do everything within our powers to win every home game that remains.

 

This is easy, isn't it.

 

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I'm excited, can you tell? I've drunk to much Cola again.

 

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I know, i know, mockers and everything. But seriously, we need to win every home game, and as fans, we can help that, surely..

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

I don't think it's realistic that we'll win every home game.

[Flasher]

  Kvarme Ate My Food said:

I don't think it's realistic that we'll win every home game.

 

 

Me neither. But we could and we need to. And we could help. Get to it people....

Edited October 30, 2008 by Flasher

[aka Dus]

I'd say United are loving cruising along with hardly anyone talking about them.

 

I actually had to check the wehwehweh last night to get their result. Mass media got their attention on us and Spurs and Newcastle right now. Yuo'd hardly have known United were playing last night.

 

Would love us to be cruising along under the radar like that (even if it'll never happen when you're top)

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

  aka Dus said:

Would love us to be cruising along under the radar like that (even if it'll never happen when you're top)

 

would rather be in our position that theirs

[Chili Palmer]

  Kvarme Ate My Food said:

I don't think it's realistic that we'll win every home game.

 

Around the 50 point mark from home games is whats ideally needed to win the league.

 

A total of 57 to be had and we have dropped 2 so far, go the rest of the league dropping only another 5-6 points. achievable?

[matty]

What we need to do is turn over our own team coach to show the players how much we care.

[Chili Palmer]

  matty said:

What we need to do is turn over our own team coach to show the players how much we care.

 

 

then batter them with Tesco trollies...

 

 

or something.

[Cunny]

why don't we just win all the away games as well?

we'd be sorted then

[Sion]

The way we've been playing at home recently it'd be a better ask for us to win all our away games.

[Spion kop]

i was working this out earlier, if we have nothing but wins for the rest of the season we can afford to lose 5 games, Arsenal away untied away,etc

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

1 game at a time.

 

We could well look back at these threads in March & grimace

[CaptainXabi]

  Macca said:

1 game at a time.

 

We could well look back at these threads in March & grimace

Exactly. If we can just take it one game at a time, we can look at the table again after New Years. That will be around 22 games gone and then we can start extrapolating.

 

The comment earlier about the Mancs cruising in under the radar is very true. Especially if Placcy is back in goal-per-game mode again.

[Cunny]

  Macca said:

1 game at a time.

 

We could well look back at these threads in March & grimace

 

 

I fully expect to but out and out pessimism is my default setting.

[Flasher]

  Macca said:

1 game at a time.

 

We could well look back at these threads in March & grimace

 

 

That's true, and it's the obvious view to take. I couldn't help thinking about a comment elsewhere about how nervous our fans got yesterday. It seemed to rub off on the players, and it doesn't help.

 

Winning at home (one game at a time) is very achievable, particularly when you take it one game at a time.

 

Great support, from us, despite the nerves, could help. The reward for winning the remaining home games could be huge.

 

I love the idea of rolling a bus over though

Edited October 30, 2008 by Flasher

[Molby]

here's what we need to do:

 

not get injuries

 

and rotate within a system, not implement systems as we go along

 

eg: we now have a system of being able to rest Masch according to the opposition

for some home games, eg where teams come to defend, we don't need him and we must prioritise zipping the ball around quickly and moving around the pitch, hence only one midfield 'pivot' needed - Xabi, with as many people moving around him as possible

 

the trick will be to cope with the loss of the likes of Aurelio and Riera without f***ing up our shape and balance

 

I like the idea of winning all our home games mind, let's do that

[Mike]

  Molby said:

here's what we need to do:

 

not get injuries

 

and rotate within a system, not implement systems as we go along

 

eg: we now have a system of being able to rest Masch according to the opposition

for some home games, eg where teams come to defend, we don't need him and we must prioritise zipping the ball around quickly and moving around the pitch, hence only one midfield 'pivot' needed - Xabi, with as many people moving around him as possible

 

the trick will be to cope with the loss of the likes of Aurelio and Riera without f***ing up our shape and balance

 

I like the idea of winning all our home games mind, let's do that

 

alonso needs a replacement too. thought he faded badly last night.

[muleskinner]

Its Gareth Barry

[Molby]

  Mike said:

alonso needs a replacement too. thought he faded badly last night.

 

 

very tough that one

 

if he doesn't play you need great movement and runners all around that make it easy to pick out the passes

 

like Babbel, Riera, Torres

 

and of course the fullbacks bombing on

Edited October 30, 2008 by Molby

[Chili Palmer]

  Mike said:

alonso needs a replacement too. thought he faded badly last night.

 

 

should that not be Gerrard, with Keane coming into replace where Gerrard is playing?

[sean]

If we MUST win all our home games, surely the others are have to win all theirs and an extra away one? One game at a time lads, for Christ sake. Beat Tottenham the weekend and let the others look after themselves. We'll pt too much pressure on ourselves if we're to worry about Chelsea/Arsenal/UTD all the time, as one of them, if not all will go on a long run unbeaten. Just keep plodding on.

[billybunter]

  sean said:

If we MUST win all our home games, surely the others are have to win all theirs and an extra away one? One game at a time lads, for Christ sake. Beat Tottenham the weekend and let the others look after themselves. We'll pt too much pressure on ourselves if we're to worry about Chelsea/Arsenal/UTD all the time, as one of them, if not all will go on a long run unbeaten. Just keep plodding on.

 

 

completely agree.

 

IF we are to win the league and thats a big IF, I very much doubt we will be the league leaders for the entire campaign. Teams will have good and rough spells. The important factor is not to let our heads drop if and when we fall a few places in the league.

[Chili Palmer]

  sean said:

If we MUST win all our home games, surely the others are have to win all theirs and an extra away one? One game at a time lads, for Christ sake. Beat Tottenham the weekend and let the others look after themselves. We'll pt too much pressure on ourselves if we're to worry about Chelsea/Arsenal/UTD all the time, as one of them, if not all will go on a long run unbeaten. Just keep plodding on.

 

the players should have that attitude I totally agree, but fans can allow themselves to speculate.

[R A Softlad]

  Cunny said:

I fully expect to but out and out pessimism is my default setting.

 

 

Reinstall Java...

[CaptainXabi]

  Chili Palmer said:

the players should have that attitude I totally agree, but fans can allow themselves to speculate.

I think there's a very important dynamic that you have pointed out there. Rafa needs to keep it one step at a time for now. But the fans' ability to believe and dream big is critical in the 2nd half of the season. It will no doubt get translated to the players, who at that point will need it as physical and/or mental weariness can start to creep in. I'd liken it to Leverkusen away when the fans' majority opinion shifted to "Well, why can't we win it then?" And it went on from there.