Sentences with phrase «than the season before»

If winning back - to - back FA cups IS a sign of improvement, then how on earth did get less points in the league than the season before, and with a stronger squad!

Looking at the last 10 teams to be purchased — going back to the 2005 sale of the Athletics — there were three instances of a team having a lower salary the season after the sale than the season before.

We still have the same defence size and it is stronger than the season before.

With 22 points — seven fewer than the season before — on the board the Hornets were almost certainly safe before the clocks had gone forward.

He played 33 times in the 2014/15 season, four times fewer than the season before.

on not being where he wanted the team to be last season... We made 75 points, maybe four points more than the season before, but it was not enough and we have to do more.

«For myself, my aim is always to do better than the season before.

On Friday morning, the Irish designer showed a collection that was still rooted in his childhood, but felt more wearable than seasons before.

Not exact matches

Just before the holiday season, Stone Temple Consulting's Eric Enge (whom I know from the digital - marketing - conference speaking circuit) published a mammoth blog post, «Twitter Engagement Unmasked: A Study of More than 4M Tweets.»

Additionally, in 2016, one - third of those who began preparation before September reported a very successful holiday season — 12 percent higher than those who started September and later.

But by last September, just months before the crucial holiday season, relentless competition from Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. — combined with more than $ 5 billion in debt from a 2005 leveraged buyout — had finally overwhelmed the chain.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

Meanwhile, with the NFL still muddling through a string of scandals and legal failures (and in a season that is on track to have more penalty flags than ever before), look for a rise in interest in alternative football options like the new China American Football league, in which NFL veteran - turned - ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski is a principal investor.

That's an all - time high, and 6 % higher than last year's fall season, but it's less of an uptick than the pumpkin products saw the year before (10 % growth).

Clubs should cost far less than they do in the summer, and you'll have plenty of time to practice your swing before next year's season begins.

In the wake of a holiday season that was worse than the company expected, Target has decided to cut two of its most ambitious long - term projects before either even got off the ground, according to multiple sources.

The holiday shopping seasons is almost upon us once again, and everyday consumers are more determined than ever before to secure some special discounts or deals.

Just in time for the hectic holiday season, Curbside makes finding, buying and getting the things shoppers need from their favorite local stores faster and easier than ever before — it's a new way to shop, built for the era of «Get It Now» commerce.

Or perhaps there's another explanation for why the increases took place in late winter rather than the usual price hike season, just before the kids get out of school.

Yet often it seems that in those times, in those seasons of doubt and pain, we can find God and respond to Him in a more powerful way than ever before.

I left a couple on the plant, just in case, because the past couple of days have been a little warmer than usual... maybe we will get another red tomato or two to enjoy before the season is officially over.

Strawberry season comes but once a year, and before you know it, you've spent way too much at the farmers» market buying an entire flat of them, only to panic when you remember they go bad faster than bananas.

With the American Diabetes Association's new Pathway to Stop Diabetes initiative, diabetes awareness is more prevalent than ever before, and with healthy eating habits and an active lifestyle, the holiday season is more promising than ever before for diabetics.

Tis the season for gift giving and there are more food related gifts than ever before!

I've found that cabbage typically requires a lot more salt than you'll think you need, so always season to taste and taste it again after it sits for a bit before serving.

Anticipating the shorter - than - usual holiday season this year flying by before I can even blink, you better believe I was in the kitchen, blasting Christmas music while baking cookies and putting up decorations the DAY after Thanksgiving.

You want the oil in your pan to be almost smoking before those eggs go in, especially if you're using anything other than a nonstick skillet or well - seasoned cast iron — cold whites hitting a not - hot - enough stainless - steel pan are going to stick.

Every berry season I make several batches, throwing this or that into the mix, each version slightly different than the one before it.

AFC have had a good run and I hope this continues but as Ive said before IMO I truly believe our current coach can not take us any further than we currently are and have been for too many seasons.

seems to reflect the general mess that the club is now in... rent seeking owner disinterested in the game, delusional manager who continues to believe the game is played in his own head rather than against other teams who are strengthening, too many players in some positions too few in others, inflated wage bill due to hanging on to deadwood players, injury prone before season starts, lack of footballing identity... wexit a necessary but probably not sufficient condition for club to regain its status

That is more than Van Persie scored in the seasons before his last two and no one bashed him.

Faster than the Portland faithful could say Sam Bowie, Oden's first season was over before it started.

Also, Poldi was leading the entire league in assists more than half way thru the season a few years back before Wenger benched him.

Both Arsene Wenger and his Arsenal captain Mikel Arteta have claimed that Arsenal have deserved a lot more than we have got for our efforts this season, highlighted by the way we dominated Manchester United more than we have in years and still got nothing, while they scored two goals before even having two shots on target.

However after our worst start to a league season in over thirty years when we have more money than ever before to strengthen the team then yes boo the man responsible for failing to strengthen the team in two key areas in the summer, boo him for his tactics and boo him for his team selection.banners should be displayed as we need to show le fraud he is not earning his huge pay packet of 8m a year.

@well they havent been as successful as under pep but did win treble season before this.hope the two madrids can stop them winning for nxt few season.but in reality, teams havent devised a formula to counter possession play other than defensing deep which risks teams like barca having chance to keep attacking.so until teams understand how to overcome posesion, they wil probably keep getting success...

However, Spurs» season might still end up being better than ours if we fail to beat Chelsea... The article makes it look like, we would be playing Hull city in the final... we still have a daunting task before us

AW has a way of making players perform better than they are namely alex song, nasri, adebayor, overmars etc. and he has a way of making players better by playing them in other positions namely monreal, ramsey (before the 13/14 season), özil etc. and i just hate this talk of «he was played in an unfamiliar position..

Also while I'm on the subject, I've seen more than a couple players this season pointing players toward something before giving out instruction, we'll need this for sure.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

Cazorla is far better than Ozil in my opinion... We wasted 42M to replace our best player (Cazorla was Arsenal best player the season before we bought Ozil)... Don't get me wrong, Ozil is good but we should have invest that money on a much needed position, maybe a striker (Bitty that the stubborn one didnot get Higuain for less than 30M) or a defender...

There's basically no sense in allowing a player leave for free.The disgraceful thing is he's our best player and you're letting him go for free.PSG have also given us the chance to include Lucas Moura / Blaise Matuidi in the deal.Why not take Matuidi and run.Then go all out to find his replacement before the season starts.I just don't see sense in keeping him.Common sense tells us that he should be sold.You're not granted the title with or without him and just so you know, teams have won the EPL with wingers who are not better than Sanchez.Arsene should be smart before it's too late.I said weeks ago that if he knows in his heart that he's going to sell he had better do it quickly before teams start placing mammoth prices on their players as they'll know that desperation of suitors grows towards the end of the window.

Other than waiting around for 2 - 3 more seasons before going back to Barcelona lol

He threw for almost 900 fewer yards than he did in 2016, and had 23 touchdowns compared to 37 the season before.

«We know we can do better than the two consecutive seasons (at Chelsea) before and I think we will try new things on Sunday to get a better result than last year.»

If only we can cry over the spilled milk, I would have take Higuain from Madrid over Ozil... The season before we bought Ozil our best player was Cazorla (AMF) and we were in a desperate need for a striker (still we are) and Higuain was availabe for less than 30M... Ozil is good (more than good but not for Arsenal) but I think it was a panic buy in the last minutes to pleased the frustrated fans due to lack of actions in that window...

I look at the fact they basically traded a 1st (depending on how you value fuller) and a 3rd round pick (HUGE HAUL) to go get a qb in an off season that had more qbs than any i have EVER seen before.

Before the season started, FanGraphs projected the Dodgers to win more games than the Cubs.

No - one ever kept him for more than one season, with stories of missing training sessions and bustups with managers, before finally settling down and getting nearly a full season with Murcia and then Almeria, where he was playing when he was finally granted a work permit to play in England.

Especially this season, when there is more money being earned by the club than ever before, the players and in my eyes the supporters should all benefit from the new rise in income.