Are the Rags Deluded?

14 Points behind top and still maintain they can win the Premiership.

Loving the Rags rage on Talkshite.

Man Utd its the gift that keeps on giving.

To simply answer your question....YES!

Not a hope in hell of winnin the PL, they're fighting to get a CL place at the minute.

Without Rooney and RVP, they'll struggle to get 4th especially if Suarez stays fit and on fire.

Apparently RVP isn't even training so how many more weeks will he still be out?   If they don't spend this window they are properly dead in the water.

Trouble is they just don't have it, the Yanks leech the 80m a year they should be spending on players to remain at the top table.

If they get that reputed £60M a year from Nike (5 yr deal), then they'll have more money to spend but they'll have to pay over the odds to get top players. If they aren't in the CL, they won't get top players and they'll have to play catch up. Now wouldn't that be funny?

Love it when they get beat in front of Taggert....and (David Gold)!

That's a moix between David Gold and SImply Red frontman Prick Hucknall...

Mick Hucknall has always looked a little bizarre...but wtf does he look like here???

The rags are currently six points and a massive goal difference off Liverpool and that fourth CL place.  And if Everton win tonight (and I fully expect them to), they'll be seven points and goal difference off.  To just get up into fourth, they need this to happen as a bare minimum:

- Liverpool and Spurs to lose two games
- Everton to lose two games draw one

That's a big enough ask, but to win the league, they need that AND at least these things to happen as well:

- Chelsea and City to lose four games and draw once
- Arsenal to lose four games and draw twice

This is never going to happen.  Chelsea and Arsenal haven't lost four games in total all season and I can't see us doubling our lost games tally despite the fact we still have to go to the Emirates, Anfield, WHL and the swamp.

Without Rooney and RVP, it's hard to see where the rags are going to score enough goals to win games themselves.

To put it another way, we're in second place, one point behind Arsenal, and I don't think we'll win it this season even though we're the favourites to do so.  For any rag to think they have a better chance than I think we do, they'd have to be deluded to the point of being a dipper...

leopold wrote:The rags are currently six points and a massive goal difference off Liverpool and that fourth CL place.  And if Everton win tonight (and I fully expect them to), they'll be seven points and goal difference off.  To just get up into fourth, they need this to happen as a bare minimum:

- Liverpool and Spurs to lose two games
- Everton to lose two games draw one

That's a big enough ask, but to win the league, they need that AND at least these things to happen as well:

- Chelsea and City to lose four games and draw once
- Arsenal to lose four games and draw twice

AND in addition....they have to win all their own games too, unlikely given their results so far.

Yep. Forgot to mention that little nugget! It therefore stands to be said, for every game United lose, every one of those teams needs to lose another one as well.

I really do hope the raggies fall outside the top four this season. In fact, what I'd really like is for Sunderland to knock them out of the C1C and then get an FA Cup final featuring a team that's not in the top six, just to close down the Europa League to fifth place and shut them out of Europe altogether. Not that I think one single season out of the CL will be enough, but if it's enough to make potential signings think twice about a season of no CL football, that might just be enough.

I'd still like them to qualify for the Europa League as that is tough on a team having to play on Thursday and Sunday.

Topdawg wrote:I'd still like them to qualify for the Europa League as that is tough on a team having to play on Thursday and Sunday.

Haha, yeah i can just see Moysey now complaining how unfair the fixtures would be     .

I normally just copy images in there.....but it keeps saying message too long now. Any ideas?

I can't see those pics, Bluey. Can anyone else?

leopold wrote:I can't see those pics, Bluey.  Can anyone else?

Nope  .....unless we were supposed to fill the blanks in    

Maybe that's the number of points and sponsors they'll get next season...

hmmm...will try again, sorry guys.

help!!  

Try right-clicking the picture, select "Copy Image URL" and then on here, click on the "Insert an image" icon and paste what you copied into the URL box. Or is that what you did before?

Cheers Leo...can you see it?

Yes, I can see them now

Here's more delusion:



We'll see who's laughing on Wednesday night...