Recent content by Ralph2211

So the final month of the season and we were in 3rd place, well above what I or the board thought was possible. We still had a fight on our hands to get one of those Champions League Places though with by now 3 teams for 2 places (Arsenal had blown their chances by loosing one of the games in...

April was going to be a very important month. We had been struggling of late and not been picking up as many points as I'd like and that was a trend we would have to reverse if we wanted to make it into the Champions League. Four games this month, three of which I feel we really need to win to...

Two trips to the south coast to take on Southampton and Brighton whilst the only visitors to the Venners this month would be runaway leaders Liverpool. This month could easily go badly with both Brighton (15th) and Southampton (17th) in need of points to pull them away from the relegation zone...

Febuary we would only have 3 games, something that could be good in allowing players time to rest or recover from injuries. I was also keen to get a win on the board following 4 straight draws in January. With homes games against struggling Fulham and Birmingham I had already earmarked these as...

Much like December, January was going to be a busy month, six matches in all including a tricky FA Cup 3rd tie away to Championship leaders Crystal Palace. We also had league games with Watford and Wolves at home and trips to face Arsenal, Huddersfield and Chelsea. By no means an easy set of...

So as usual December was going to be a busy month, and we'd need to use the squad in order to get through it. I was keen not to let our fist defeat of the season effect us too much but with league leaders Liverpool up next that might be eaiser said than done. After the Liverpool game we'd have...

As we moved into November we were still unbeaten in the league and the morale amongst the lads was at an all time high. With games against Burnley, Brighton and Spurs I was keen to exten our unbeaten run even further. Away at Burnley is never an easy game. They are a big physical side who...

We had started well and I was hopeful that we could continue that good form into October. We faced trips to Watford and Everton, which could be two tricky games, whilst we would entertain West Ham and Huddersfield. 4 games that I would be looking to pick up points fro all of the games and in...

After a good 1st month of the season I was keen to push on and try and get as many points on the board as possible whilst we were playing well. September would see us play only games but all against very challenging opponents. We be home to Man City and Arsenal and travel to the King Power...

After our transfer business and our first full pre-season together I was going into the new season fairly confident. I didn't think we'd be anywhere near the relegation places and thought we had an outside chance of making the European places. The cups were still going to be on the back burner...

No sooner than the season had finished that I was immediately thinking about how I could improve the team and what we needed to do to push us to the next level. I felt with a good transfer window we could push for top 10 with an outside chance of a European place. The £131m transfer given to me...

Thanks mate. Yeah the director is the guy that created the original database, so I guess he put in a stadium move when setting it up and named it after himself. If i had noticed this when ammending the database I probably would have changed it to the George Best Arena or Danny Blanchflower...

With safety already assured I was keen to not let our season just fizzle out and I felt that playing some of the younger players would help keep the intensity there. We would round off the season with 3 games. Newcatle would be first up and anything other than a win for Newcastle would see them...

April would be a mixed bag in terms of who we would be facing and what was at stake for the clubs. We had games with Arsenal and Wolves, 2 teams pushing hard for European qualification and then we had matches versus Villa and Brighton who were very much at the opposite side of the scale and were...

March would be a short month with only 3 games. We entertain Man U, who are pushing for the title, and Norwich who are like ourselves are very much at the other end of the table. We would also head take on Bournemouth away from home, and they are ahving a great season and are in the Champions...