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A Premiership Season in Review 2015 / 16

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  • #32
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,561 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    When you look at West Ham's ppg in the last 10, it does look mediocre. But in 4 games in a row of those last 10 we had massive, game changing and ultimately wrong refereeing decisions go against us. We drew each of those games and without those decisions it would almost certainly have been 4 wins in a row. Those 8 extra points would have technically had us up in 4th had everything else been the same (which obviously isn't guaranteed).

    Don't see why we can't push on next season. It was our best ever PL season points wise and the first ever one that we ended with positive goal difference. Our transfers have been fantastic in general (Payet and Lanzini together cost less than Benteke) and our only main needs over the summer are a right back and striker.

    As long as Payet doesn't get crocked during the Euros, I'd actually be fairly confident of another good season. Watch us fall flat now.


  • #33
    Icaras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Icaras


    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    When you look at West Ham's ppg in the last 10, it does look mediocre.
    As long as Payet doesn't get crocked during the Euros, I'd actually be fairly confident of another good season. Watch us fall flat now.
    How do you think moving to the new stadium will affect the team and style of play? If ye fill it (and I think it will be filled as long as the team are doing okay) it will be a great atmosphere. Payet staying injury free is the key.


  • #34
    eagle eye
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    The last ten games of the 14/15 season had Leicester on 2.4ppg, Southampton 2.3, Arsenal 2.0 and Manchester United 1.9 as the top four over that period.

    So Leicester finish as they did last season, Southampton up .1, Arsenal down .4 and United remain the same.


  • #35
    patmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,607 ✭✭✭patmac


    LEICESTER WON THE LEAGUE BY 10 POINTS.
    If you said to any club you would finish 10 points behind Leicester they would deem the season a failure.
    My ratings:
    Magnificent, Stupendous, Brilliant: Leicester City,
    Good: Spurs, Southampton, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth.
    Average: Arsenal, Liverpool, Stoke, Everton, Swansea, WBA, Norwich.
    Poor: Crystal Palace, Man City, Sunderland.
    Pure shíte: Man Utd, Chelsea,Newcastle.
    Utter,utter shíte: Aston Villa.
    LEICESTER WON THE LEAGUE BY 10 POINTS.


  • #36
    LuckyLloyd
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    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    At the end of the day, Palace, Bournemouth and Watford stayed up on the strength of the first half of their season.

    I think it'd be mad to sack the managers there. In the end, Bournemouth and Watford were expected to struggle but they survived relatively comfortably, they weren't involved in the relegation scrap in the last few months of the year. Palace are no great shakes either. They had a great one at the start of the year but fell off the boil and it's their lowest finish since returning to the PL so I think Pardew (especially as a more experienced PL manager than Howe and Flores) deserves more stick than the rest. That said the Cup's saved his skin.

    I think Howe and Flores earned the shot at another season in the PL and don't see why people think Howe will get Bournemouth relegated. He might have done poorly in the second half of the year but he's also the manager who got the points in the first half of the year.

    Ideas go stale. Players stop responding to the same old thing. Opposition coaches and scouts figure you out after playing you before and analysing you in more detail. The idea that you should just ignore the second half of a season because the objective was achieved in the first seems crazy to me.

    Bournemouth's premier league form since Christmas:

    DLWDWLLDWLWLLWLLLDL

    Pts: 19; 1ppg; GD -10

    It's been trending in the wrong direction quite obviously. If you bring in a new manager it's a gamble, but to discount the fact it's a gamble in keeping him is folly imo - you're gambling that he manages a re invigoration of things over the summer and addresses creeping weaknesses.


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  • #37
    eagle eye
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    patmac wrote: »
    LEICESTER WON THE LEAGUE BY 10 POINTS.
    If you said to any club you would finish 10 points behind Leicester they would deem the season a failure.
    My ratings:
    Magnificent, Stupendous, Brilliant: Leicester City,
    Good: Spurs, Southampton, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth.
    Average: Arsenal, Liverpool, Stoke, Everton, Swansea, WBA, Norwich.
    Poor: Crystal Palace, Man City, Sunderland.
    Pure shíte: Man Utd, Chelsea,Newcastle.
    Utter,utter shíte: Aston Villa.
    LEICESTER WON THE LEAGUE BY 10 POINTS.
    No rating for Spurs?

    Also United had an average to poor season. People are just failing to realise that Alex Ferguson has retired and there aren't many managers in history that could do what he did.


  • #38
    patmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,607 ✭✭✭patmac


    eagle eye wrote: »
    patmac wrote: »
    LEICESTER WON THE LEAGUE BY 10 POINTS.
    If you said to any club you would finish 10 points behind Leicester they would deem the season a failure.
    My ratings:
    Magnificent, Stupendous, Brilliant: Leicester City,
    Good: Spurs, Southampton, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth.
    Average: Arsenal, Liverpool, Stoke, Everton, Swansea, WBA, Norwich.
    Poor: Crystal Palace, Man City, Sunderland.
    Pure sh te: Man Utd, Chelsea,Newcastle.
    Utter,utter sh te: Aston Villa.
    LEICESTER WON THE LEAGUE BY 10 POINTS.
    No rating for Spurs?

    Also United had an average to poor season. People are just failing to realise that Alex Ferguson has retired and there aren't many managers in history that could do what he did.
    Spurs are there under good, as a United fan results wise average to poor, football wise utter shoite.


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