Cally Fedora
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Did he? Hadn’t noticed. Arse.
Solid start to the season (5 Viewers)
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Lamps
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How many sides that have played Sheffield United this season beat them in the corresponding games last season?
blunted
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Yeah that's why the Forest, a top club at the time bought him. I'm talking Stuart Pearce the England right back not the centre half.
shmmeee
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Not sure how this disproves that any comparison is invalid if you take that line.
CCFC96
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No it isn’t - comparing us at home vs Wednesday last year to what it will be this year is a completely pointless endeavour.
However comparing both say, ours and Bristol City’s starts (played similar sides) is a fair thing to do.
shmmeee
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In what sense are you classing sides as similar?
blunted
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Bobby Gould said at the time he had asked his players if any of them knew a good right back. Pearce was recommended. Terry Venables wanted him. Can't remember if he was managing QPR or Spurs. Gould said he couldn't believe how good a player he was for a bloke who had been on a building site.
The only player I remember taking Pearce to the cleaners for us was Kevin Gallacher. Incidentally, Gallacher was another player who came in and was brilliant right away. Apart from Grimes, I struggle to think of another player who has come in and has been really good from day one.
CCFC96
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We’ve both played Derby and Hull.
you get no benefit comparing us playing a Selles Hull side to this season hull
blunted
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Have to disagree with your Sunderland play off matches observation. Most third party observers thought we were not only the better side over two legs, but had the best chances and were unlucky as well.
The bounce of the ball twice for Rudoni in front of goal were really unlucky preventing him scoring. They parked the bus twice and we gave them two soft goals. The one from MVE was a school boy error which happens when the pressure is on. See Maatsen in the Euro final.
I completely agree we never got near Leeds in two matches and only gave Burnley a match at home where goalkeeper errors undermined us. Sheff Utd took us to the cleaners at their place and we got lucky with the sending off at home, or it is likely we would have lost that match as well.
Add West Brom and Bristol to clubs we must compete with.
They were coasting as they couldn't achieve second spot by the time they played us?
clint van damme
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Robbie Keane
CovValleyBoy
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That was Andy Pearce I think
Lamps
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So it's got nothing to do with how the clubs played last season and it's got nothing to do with how they've played this season so far?
shmmeee
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So it's got nothing to do with how the clubs played last season and it's got nothing to do with how they've played this season so far?
In either metric we’ve had an easy start. I know people want to play all mysterious and maybe Oxford are going to win the league this year but be serious.
Cally Fedora
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It’s simple. Two wins, two draws and unbeaten. In the championship, that’s a solid start.
BackRoomRummermill
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Good start
DazzleTommyDazzle
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Mick Quinn
Captain Dart
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Dion Dublin scored on his debut and was consistantly more than a 1 goal in 3 games striker in the 4 full seasons he was with City.
itsabuzzard
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Wouldn't argue with your statement about being in a better place, but it's an indisputable fact that we're 4 points away from 12 points. Not close.
skyblue025
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Stuart Pearce has never played right back in his life. Unbelievable left back though.
Lamps
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Over a whole season there's a 2 points a game target. That's a 92 point finish. We're not just close but spot on and having Middlesbrough with a very good start doesn't suddenly mean we're not close to our target. Our biggest rivals were supposed to be Sheffield United and the relegated sides. Would you have been happy with being 8 points above Sheffield United after just 4 games?
For working out how we're actually doing against our rivals you need to wait for about 10 games. Taking a snapshot of the table now is like saying Middlesbrough will stroll to the title and Sheffield United will finish bottom. But in reality neither will happen.
itsabuzzard
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I was merely questioning the notion that 8 points is close to 12. It just isn't.
blunted
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My bad, don't know where right back came from. Brain fart.
TomRad85
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So we're getting almost everything right. Just keep at it I suppose and good things will hopefully follow.
SeaSeeEffCee
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That stats would suggest we are one of the best teams in the league. Just feels a bit frustrating because we should be at least 4 points better off.
Evo1883
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Yeah I think we are looking good personally , we will only get better a the season goes on
castellon_skyblue
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Mick Quinn.
AOM
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The next two games will be a good test, but I've not really seen much from other teams in the league for us to fear so far.
Nobody seems to be running away with it yet, unless Ipswich suddenly kick into gear after last night
AOM
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International breaks seem to have weird effects on teams. I recall we've turned poor form around or fallen out of winning runs post international breaks as well