Where can TheSky Blues finish next season? (1 Viewer)

turlykerd · Jul 29, 2014

Otis said:
Don't see how any of us can make any predicition before we have even seen the new players play and before Pressley has recruited all the players he is going to recruit.

Would say anything now is not a prediciton, it's just a wild guess.

i agree with this.

if ive learnt anything from last year , its that predicting how city does is harder to do than having a conversation with a villain without dry retching.

i was pretty convinced we were going down this time last year and we flew out of the blocks with championship form... by December i actually believed
we were going to make the playoffs at least and then look at what happened .

i would love for us to make the playoffs this season, but i would take a return to coventry/new ground officially purchased land and avoiding relegation any day.

SkyBlueRuffian · Jul 29, 2014

1st……or 2nd

TrueSkyBlueLiam · Jul 30, 2014

Looks like we are at Shitfields next season. Does this affect our chances of going up?

shmmeee · Jul 30, 2014

TrueSkyBlueLiam said:
Looks like we are at Shitfields next season. Does this affect our chances of going up?

We won't go up.

It's not in the plan.

LB87ccfc · Jul 30, 2014

Kingokings204 said:
Avoiding relegation would be a successful season. Make no mistake about that.

There is always one...

LB87ccfc · Jul 30, 2014

Should we call this the suicide thread.. no one has anything positive to say.

dongonzalos · Jul 30, 2014

Two more strikers (including one who can finish) and a midfielder

Top six

Without the signings mud table

Hobo · Jul 30, 2014

LB87ccfc said:
Should we call this the suicide thread.. no one has anything positive to say.

You mean like several fans who all predicted Slager scoring on his debute? They were positive.

Personally I'd rather stick with balanced realism compared to blind optimism.

Grendel · Jul 30, 2014

Hobo said:
You mean like several fans who all predicted Slager scoring on his debute? They were positive.

Personally I'd rather stick with balanced realism compared to blind optimism.

I don't see it as balanced. Most signed are experienced players in the league above us. They look significantly better than the signings made two seasons ago and then everyone seemed very excited.

Otis · Jul 30, 2014

Grendel said:
I don't see it as balanced. Most signed are experienced players in the league above us. They look significantly better than the signings made two seasons ago and then everyone seemed very excited.

Everyone though was very excited about the signings because Andy Thorn was very excited about the signings and at the time Andy Thorn was the 2nd best manager in England after Alex Ferguson.

Hobo · Jul 30, 2014

Grendel said:
I don't see it as balanced. Most signed are experienced players in the league above us. They look significantly better than the signings made two seasons ago and then everyone seemed very excited.

I think the squad we have today will struggle to get out the bottom third of the table. I have doubts about Tudgay, although experience should see him through at this level. Miller could be a surprise package.
Pugh I think is a sound signing. Johnson could be excellent if he can shake the injury prone tab.

Don't know enough about Swanson and OBrien? I hope they offer more consistency than Moussa and Baker.

The two keepers seem reasonable but Murphy was excellent at this level.

So I don't think we are stronger than last year and the second half of the season was relegation form.

Maddison sounds promising, but I would hate to burden him with the next Wilson tag. If he can step up fine, but let's not force it upon him and destroy him.

Want list 3 to 4 players...a combination of centre mid and strikers
I can live with less goals and more solid performances. Although in this league and level of football I think we lack an ability to be competitive in the air (a problem last season as well).

Time will tell Grendel. Not making anything of pr season games they never tell you much. I never really form an opinion on any team until after 6 league games, form starts to settle down then.

Johhny Blue · Jul 30, 2014

LB87ccfc said:
Should we call this the suicide thread.. no one has anything positive to say.

We'll be undefeated

shmmeee · Jul 30, 2014

What are the bookies saying? Anyone know?

Deleted member 5849 · Jul 30, 2014

shmmeee said:
What are the bookies saying? Anyone know?

'Stupid mugs, paying for my holiday in the Seychelles'

The Gentleman · Jul 30, 2014

LB87ccfc said:
There is always one...

Alright then smartarse, tell me in the last 30 years how many relegation battles have we been involved in. Forget our recent troubles for a moment, we are a team that is around the relegation places more times than I care to remember so KOK isn't very far off the mark at all. It is called realism, we are all optimistic that the next season will be better because that is what keeps us coming back, but remind us when the next season was better than the last?

SlowerThanPlatt · Jul 30, 2014

shmmeee said:
What are the bookies saying? Anyone know?

22/1 to win the league. Promotion 13/2. Relegation 11/2.

wingy · Jul 30, 2014

SlowerThanPlatt said:
22/1 to win the league. Promotion 13/2. Relegation 11/2.

Seems illogical ,never understood how one set of Odds doesn't marry to the opposite end .

shmmeee · Jul 30, 2014

Do they do odds on top/bottom half finish?

Seems from that like they haven't a clue how we'll do.

SlowerThanPlatt · Jul 30, 2014

shmmeee said:
Do they do odds on top/bottom half finish?

Seems from that like they haven't a clue how we'll do.

All under the column 'outrights'. To stay up, top half finish, top goalscorer etc etc

http://www.skybet.com/football/sky-bet-league-1

RFC · Jul 30, 2014

Huckerby said:
lol....even a 1st place finish wouldn't make me call this "our year"

j

Sad boy, very sad. HELP!

RFC · Jul 30, 2014

shmmeee said:
Do they do odds on top/bottom half finish?

Seems from that like they haven't a clue how we'll do.

And you of course do have a clue? LOL

About as much as a clue as I have until I've seen 4 or 5 games and patiently waited for the transfer window to close.

Then again we also have the loan-option!

shmmeee · Jul 30, 2014

RFC said:
And you of course do have a clue? LOL

About as much as a clue as I have until I've seen 4 or 5 games and patiently waited for the transfer window to close.

Then again we also have the loan-option!

What are you on about?

stupot07 · Jul 30, 2014

At the minute, about 12-14th, but I still expect another 3-4 signings before the window closes so it's a bit early for predictions.

Moff · Jul 30, 2014

paulw said:
I am an optimist but I am quickly going off SP. I think his handling of Baker leave a lot to be desired and his continuation of bringing in only Scots as backroom staff and players is worrying. The last time we did that, under Mac and Strach we got relegated.

Is that the same Mac who was playing for Liverpool the year we got relegated. Perhaps you should check all the relevant facts first.

shmmeee · Jul 30, 2014

So going from those odds, they seem to reckon about 10th.

I could buy that.

Moff · Jul 30, 2014

Like every year since relegation (bar the season of the clown) I predict we will get into the playoffs.

I am always wrong, but f*ck it, who cares I enjoy the optimism before a ball is kicked and the team let me down again and again and.........but one year they might not

Deleted member 5849 · Jul 30, 2014

Moff said:
Like every year since relegation (bar the season of the clown) I predict we will get into the playoffs.

I am always wrong, but f*ck it, who cares I enjoy the optimism before a ball is kicked and the team let me down again and again and.........but one year they might not

I on the other hand always predict relegation, so find myself slitting my wrists later than my peers!

wingy · Jul 30, 2014

Deleted member 5849 said:
I on the other hand always predict relegation, so find myself slitting my wrists later than my peers!

Pessimism Is healthy.

Moff · Jul 30, 2014

Deleted member 5849 said:
I on the other hand always predict relegation, so find myself slitting my wrists later than my peers!

Novel, but I like it.

I like the depression to have taken full hold of me by the seasons end, so that I cant get any lower when Wimbledon is on... I hate tennis, I really hate tennis, so that when Wimbledon's over I feel myself looking forward to the new season again, and all the battles we have fighting for cups, and titles, and play off success........

Deleted member 5849 · Jul 30, 2014

wingy said:
Pessimism Is healthy.

Certainly is!

In CCFC's case it's realism.

Let's be honest, we have indeed lost virtually all our goals from last season, and we haven't, bar Tudgay, signed anybody with any kind of proven past of scoring... we're also depending on Tudgay having another season or two left in him, too.

Much as I'd love to be optimistic, it's hard to be anything else at the moment. Maybe once the side gels it might actually come good (a couple of the signings look wise picks, but there's just not enough of them), but there's not a lot there yet to say this is our year.

skybluesam66 · May 5, 2015

bump

favourite was just staying up!!

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