Your Serious Preseason Prediction…

[Harry's Game]

Seems to me the majority claiming nailed on bottom 3 should be supporting a different team. Reminds me of the doom and gloom merchants voting for remain tied to EU. No confidence or gonads in the management or players.
We should be no worse than Luton, Burnley or Everton. Add in Wolves in the sh** and maybe Palace and Forest struggling and Blades have every chance of achieving lower mid table.
Signings so far appeal to me, add in more loans or Doyle and i will be expecting Blades to give all the clubs a fight not roll over like the punters on this thread.

The flaw in your argument here is the people wanting to remain in the EU have unquestionably been proved right.

 

[OLDBLADE43]

The flaw in your argument here is the people wanting to remain in the EU have unquestionably been proved right.

By who's analysis?

 

[LS16Blade]

Seems to me the majority claiming nailed on bottom 3 should be supporting a different team. Reminds me of the doom and gloom merchants voting for remain tied to EU. No confidence or gonads in the management or players.
We should be no worse than Luton, Burnley or Everton. Add in Wolves in the sh** and maybe Palace and Forest struggling and Blades have every chance of achieving lower mid table.
Signings so far appeal to me, add in more loans or Doyle and i will be expecting Blades to give all the clubs a fight not roll over like the punters on this thread.

Agree completely.

There seems to be a ridiculous amount of respect/deference to the other sides in the Premier League, despite the reality that season after season, outside of the giant clubs - who frankly are playing a different game to everyone else - there are teams who spectacularly fail to live up to their hype, are flaky and/or are exposed as complete basket cases who have over-reached themselves to stay on the gravy train. On top of that, certain clubs will make poor decisions during the season - be that in terms of transfers or managerial sackings/appointments - to scupper themselves. It happens every season.

Now, we might well be one of the ’other 14’ who commit one of those acts of self-sabotage. But, from what we know of the set-up at the Lane though, it seems unlikely. And, Hecky’s essentially cautious/pragmatic approach to games will become an asset in the top flight - much more so than it was in the Championship where it could be a hindrance. For instance, for 41 minutes at Wembley, the management and players in our weakened side, nullified Man City more effectively than the majority of the Premier League sides did last season, with an excellent game plan. An individual error by a young player undermined that plan, of course, but we still made a better fist of things than many Premier League teams that I saw laying down and going for damage limitation with their expensively assembled teams, from minute 1 against Man City.

We need to win 10 or 11 games and sprinkle in a few draws, in order to achieve our primary objective. And, at the Lane, outside of Man City, I can’t think of any other sides where I look at it and think ‘we’ve next to no chance of getting anything today’.

 

[Harry's Game]

By who's analysis?

Every sensible person

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

Please tell that to the thousands coming over in small boats.....

 

[Hull Blade]

Bottom 3: 20th Forest (2nd season syndrome kicks in...21st Bournemouth (see Forest) 22nd Luton (ground fiasco sees them not having a home game until October)
Not so much as clutching at straws with Forest and B'mouth, more like grasping if the truth be told...
The usual suspects will also be down there floundering ie Wolves, Everton, Palace, Burnley, also expect Brentford to struggle.....Blades to survive by the width of a skin on a rice pudding.