Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
You seem unwilling to accept what plenty of people believe - that last seasons 12th placed finished was extremely fortunate and a false position based on almost all of the key indicators.

I firmly believe City could improve in both attack and defence this season and yet still finish no higher than last season. I think thats entirely possible as the 12th placed finish was something of a freak occurrence under the circumstances.
Yes I think you finish in your true position at the end of the season, once every game has been completed home and away and teams aren't lucky or unlucky, other than terrible injuries or points deductions.

The stats may look odd, but we finished twelfth based on great deadball goals and late goals as we played to the end and had lots of attacking players on the bench who came on and made a difference.

I'm still optimistic about this season, but I'm concerned about the strikers especially now Davies is injured.

The start is also a bit of a worry, Let's imagine a bad game at home to Sunderland with a loss, followed by a stuffing at Burnley, we'd feel the pressure against the Jack's third game in, a loss there and a lot of fans would be calling for Bulut's head already.

I don't think it will happen but you can easily see how it could.

Hopefully, it's the other way around and they've lost to Boro and Preston already!