[Albion] Greedy?

[Sheebo]

Five wins from six to start the season is clearly an exceptional start, but the West Ham defeat still gnaws away at me.

I still feel we coulda shoulda won that.

Is that being greedy?

We were well on top for that first 10/15 of second half then they broke and scored. Such fine margins. Prob played better in that game then we did today tbh in my opinion.

And yes, a little greedy as you don’t always get what you deserve. I thought today we got a bit lucky with the goals etc and weren’t that good

 

[Chicken Run]

I miss the weekly "manager out" (whoever happened to be the unfortunate incumbent) polls on here.

It's not the same without them.

Head over to ‘The Shed End’ there’s plenty there to satisfy your needs

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Head over to ‘The Shed End’ there’s plenty there to satisfy your needs

Chelsea: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

 

[Sheebo]

We made the fatal mistake, again, of not starting with a true RB.

Lesson learnt, God’s back.

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Just always decent isn’t he…! Won’t win many MOM etc but most of us realise what a key player he is. On that note, Lamps has looked quality recently. More than happy for these two to rotate that position.

 

[Chicken Run]

Chelsea: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

“ We might see a cup giant killing against Brighton although I not sure our squad is will be up for it”

One of my favourite comments on there tonight

 

[GT49er]

Yes, if we had beat West Ham, we'd be three points better off (obviously) and our goal difference would have to move by at least +3 (from -2 for that game to at least +1). That would put us top, ahead of City on goals scored.

Am I greedy? You betcha.

Me too - but I'll feel much less aggrieved if we can beat that snidey Villa team that so often seem to skank a lucky win against us (or against our yoof team in the League Cup and crow about it like they'd won the CL!)

 

[Moshe Gariani]

4-1 win at Wolves was an xG draw... today we could easily have not got over the line and drawn too (clearly shaded it but rounded xG was a draw...). Very greedy to want 6/6.

 

[5Ways Gull]

Five wins from six to start the season is clearly an exceptional start, but the West Ham defeat still gnaws away at me.

I still feel we coulda shoulda won that.

Is that being greedy?

Behind closed doors I'm sure RdZ is probably saying the same

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

One of my neighbours is a West Ham fan.
I WhatsApped a picture of the League table to him after today's game.
His response was, "I'm happy being 7th, especially as we have played the top 3".
And it brought home to me that includes our wonderful team!
Top 3, fantastic!

 

[Sheebo]

4-1 win at Wolves was an xG draw... today we could easily have not got over the line and drawn too (clearly shaded it but rounded xG was a draw...). Very greedy to want 6/6.

That’s how I saw those games too a bit. Wolves had 2 great chances at 1-0. The Newcastle game and 70 mins at OT were pure vintage us. The rest a bit patchy (that’s fine as that’s football, but can’t wish 6/6 given that tbh…)

 

[Soton Seagull]

Should be 6 from 6 but fell into WH traps and were a bit crap (like all of Thursday and 1st half today). Not greedy just aspirational!

 

[portlock seagull]

Not greedy, it’s just what required when up against nation states thinly disguised playing club football

 

[Blinkers]

Five wins from six to start the season is clearly an exceptional start, but the West Ham defeat still gnaws away at me.

I still feel we coulda shoulda won that.

Is that being greedy?

No! I said to some friends in my local boozer that I thought we could get 21 points from our first 8 games and that the Liverpool game would be the end of the run. I wasn’t expecting to lose against West Ham but it could still happen as I think Liverpool are beatable. 18 out of a possible 24 would still be acceptable though.

 

[amexer]

I agree Still cheeses me off that a side can set up with 9 defending and win.

 

[Weststander]

Just always decent isn’t he…! Won’t win many MOM etc but most of us realise what a key player he is. On that note, Lamps has looked quality recently. More than happy for these two to rotate that position.

Your decent = my brilliant. We sit under the security/police box in the NS, for 45 minutes each Veltman game we get the perfect view of a full back who's brilliant at defending and team play.

 

[BN41Albion]

If arsenal had taken their chances 1st half they'd have beaten spurs

Etc

It's football - most teams could point to games they should've won. If we hadn't got a jammy equaliser yesterday who knows whether we'd have kicked on to win yesterday

 

[The Fits]

I think I'd be devastated if it wasn't for the Wolves game and the first half Saturday. Had both results reflected the performances then I'd be gutted about West Ham but the reality is the Wolves game could have been any score to either team and a better team would have been out of sight on Saturday. So I think we are probably par or slightly better, just.
As others have said, next three games are the real test. One of our bogey teams and then teams that 'should' be better than us.
If we can get 4 points or more from those 3 I think, despite being 9 games in, we can start believing a CL spot is very realistic. But 0 really wouldn't be the end of the world.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Every defeat gnaws away at me and yes, as I think we’re a better team than them, that defeat does still rankle. But overall to be third after 6 games with 5 wins and a big plus goal difference is amazing.

Interesting few weeks coming up now though. Sky Sports just put a top seven PL table graphic up - of the current top seven, the only team we’ve played is West Ham which we obviously lost. Our next three league games are all against teams in that top seven though in Villa, City and Liverpool. By the evening of the 21st October, we’re going to have a much better idea of just how good we are in relation to the rest of the PL now and whether that West Ham game was an anomaly or generally how we’re going to fare against the better teams.

I know RDZ won’t think like this but I’d be happy with four points from these upcoming three games.

 

[GJN1]

Five wins from six to start the season is clearly an exceptional start, but the West Ham defeat still gnaws away at me.

I still feel we coulda shoulda won that.

Is that being greedy?

So, what you're essentially doing is firing the starting pistol on the 'let's get rid of De Zerbi' campaign, right?