Christmas Slump

[boltonboris]

How ironic woul it be if Allardyce lost his job at the Reebok? I wouldn't wish it on him, by any means, as he was/is a legend here. But with these new owners potentially getting twitchy, a derby defeat could be the straw that broke the Camels back!

Erm quite?

More Ironic was the "type" of goal scored that ultimately lost him his job.

Call me Nixon.. Oracle Nixon

[Worthy4England]

How ironic woul it be if Allardyce lost his job at the Reebok? I wouldn't wish it on him, by any means, as he was/is a legend here. But with these new owners potentially getting twitchy, a derby defeat could be the straw that broke the Camels back!

Erm quite?

More Ironic was the "type" of goal scored that ultimately lost him his job.

Call me Nixon.. Oracle Nixon

BWFCI is busy posting on BRFC forum that he's been getting better inside info about the Dingles from "Boris" on The-Wanderer forum.

Please predict Gary Megson is being lined up for them next....

[bw@bw]

Ok, after a great November we have traditionally as a club suffered a "december and January slump". Not necessarily across the whole two months but usually its around this time we have our annual 5 or 6 defeats in a row.

Will we be able to avoid this happening this time, the next few fixtures look somewhat tricky.

City Away....Ok a result from this is not out of the question but a Citeh win is the most likely outcome you'd have to say.

Blackburn Home....Should be ok we always do well in this fixture

Sunderland Away...Hardly lost a home game have Sunderland. Tricky game.

West Brom Home...You'd have this down as a win but as they showed at Everton, no push-overs sandwiched in between two tough away trips, anything could happen.

Chelsea Away...Lampard and Terry will be back for this.

Liverpool Away...They are no great shakes but Gerrard will be back and we've got an awful record at Anfield of late.

5 points from these would be very decent. 6 would be great.

Lets see how we do.

6 games - 5 against teams in the top half - plus one against Liverpool

I think that 6 points would be a decent return

I still think it was a decent return.

Could have been better, but the wins were hardly walkovers either

[Eire_Trotter]

Here's my prediction:

City A - Draw
B'Burn H - Win
S'Land A - Win
WBA H - Win
Chelsea A - Loss
L'pool A - Draw

Yes I do believe we will get a hat-trick of wins in december and have and extra 11 points by mid Jan. We are a very hard team to beat under Coyle and I think our season will go from good to great. Should certain players stay fit and at our club.

. Although I think we would have beat liverpool if we had Chungy and Robinson playing. Maybe also snatched a draw at sunderland if Holden was fit to.

[HMX]

City A - Draw
B'Burn H - Draw
S'Land A - Win
WBA H - Win
Chelsea A - Loss
L'pool A - Loss

I'd take 8 points out of 6 tricky games

Not bad, eh?

[William the White]

City A - Draw
B'Burn H - Draw
S'Land A - Win
WBA H - Win
Chelsea A - Loss
L'pool A - Loss

I'd take 8 points out of 6 tricky games

Not bad, eh?

I'm amazed and awestruck...

[Worthy4England]

City A - Draw
B'Burn H - Draw
S'Land A - Win
WBA H - Win
Chelsea A - Loss
L'pool A - Loss

I'd take 8 points out of 6 tricky games

Not bad, eh?

I'm amazed and awestruck...

Yeah, who'd have thowt that we'd lose at Stamford Bridge and Anfield.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMEEED.

City's a difficult one. Blackburn are on a downer now. Hopefully Saturday's defeat will put Sunderland into their shell. West Brom's difficult, but they're nowhere near as consistent as they were when we went to the hawthorns (and Odemwingie's pulled a Zaki). With any luck Chelsea will keep feeling sorry for themselves until after Chrimbo. And if we play to approaching our potential at Anfield we'll be better.

Because of the good start, I don't mind six points from these either. But I'm optimistic we'll manage ten points here.

I'm still happy with what I said here. Particularly what's in bold. Was my minimum, could easily and feasibly have been my optimistic, give or take a few VERY dodgy refereeing decisions, uncharacteristically world class saves and late goals.

[Worthy4England]

I managed to get all 6 the right way round on our I Know The Score competition - but only 2 correct scorelines...Liverpool and Blackburn...

[HMX]

City A - Draw
B'Burn H - Draw
S'Land A - Win
WBA H - Win
Chelsea A - Loss
L'pool A - Loss

I'd take 8 points out of 6 tricky games

Not bad, eh?

I'm amazed and awestruck...

Cheers, mate

And yet we come out after both games and claim that we could've won them...

[Worthy4England]

City A - Draw
B'Burn H - Draw
S'Land A - Win
WBA H - Win
Chelsea A - Loss
L'pool A - Loss

I'd take 8 points out of 6 tricky games

Not bad, eh?

I'm amazed and awestruck...

Cheers, mate

And yet we come out after both games and claim that we could've won them...

What you could've done and what you put your money on aren't necessarily the same things...

[Hoboh]

Two on the trot, both to soppy goals, p*ss poor defending, strikers goals drying up!
Damm the wheels are coming off!!!
Coyle?
Has he taken us as far as he can?
Do we need Megson back to shore us up?

Mr worried