Sentences with phrase «worse teams around»

Many years they had mediocre or worse teams around them, but won anyway.
We are now approaching Arsenal's final game of this campaign and as we are playing the worst team around I am sure we will finish in a respectable third place.

Not exact matches

Though it is an accurate depiction to find the Leafs a bad value, season tickets are still willed down through families eager to be there if the team ever turns it around.
It's difficult for them to play the game if the team bus is always breaking down, if bad press is destroying morale, or if the doctor you have on staff is too busy running his private practice to be around.
What's worse than a potentially interested customer reaching out to you at 1 am with credit card in hand, only to lose interest when the support team finally gets around to answering questions at 2 pm the following day?
Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.
The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.
Wenger will guide the board toward somebody that is unlikely to make him look bad by turning the team around in the way Conte has at Chelsea, or Shakespeare has so far at Leicester.
I should've listened to my team of mental - health professionals when they advised me that the only known cure for the diabolical Locked Address malady that dogged me around the links was to lock the clubs in a closet for three months or more — a fate worse than death, I thought.
OT: I had a bad dream that some teams are sniffing around for Lacazette before his PL debut.
we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...
The Chargers are one of the worst teams in the league, yet hung around because of a bad Matt Schaub interception and seven penalties.
Elsewhere around the NFL, teams that looked excellent in Week 1 — like, the Dolphins, Titans, Vikings, Falcons and Lions — are all heading for bad losses.
But even a great quarterback will turn around a bad team by himself.
If we had a bad run, we are still top of the league, if we haven't looked that spectacular, we are still top of the league... we are still top without the spine of the team (coq) and without the spearhead of our attack (sanchez), their comeback is around the corner, then we will do things spectacularly so everyone is pleased... until then, we are still top of the league
In wenger we trust COYG u spoilt little brats, you muppets ain't even been tested in your arsenal fan career never seen your club finish lower then fourth every year we play in cl against the big boys and you lot act like were in crisis and things are so bad wow I'm beyond belief just can't get my head around the way you lot act sometimes step back a bit a think a little you twats most of you in your life time have never seen your team finish lower then fourth yes fûc #ing fourth most of you don't even no what it's like to be a real fan wen your team are struggling finishing mid table and still saying you love the club and protect them never in my life have I heard a generation of arsenal fans critise manager players board everything about our club wen things our knowere near as bad as you make out to be and could be.
Teams with one or two good players are the ones who play then through bad form in the hope they turn it around, at Arsenal you have internationals going stale on the bench while other internationals are out playing awful.
If they beat the bad teams regularly and play around.500 against the good ones, and good things will happen.
There are great pitchers on bad teams all around the league who have.500 or below win / loss ratios.
«It never feels like a bad thing to stay around for the whole meet,» said Chase Cooper, a breast stroke specialist for the boys» team.
Gazidis will just stand around with his thumb up his a $ $ and 2 years time Wenger can walk past him and get a new deal from Silent Stan... Spineless CEO drags a team down as much as a bad manager.
For a bad team to turn around, that means they have to see great players when other teams miss them.
I think welbeck can only get better with the players around him (because he is a team player) and we have already seen his growth progress, Balotelli on the other hand seems only focus on his bad boy image on and off the field, which stifles his football potential.
One night after the Chargers had blown out the Jets, he was sitting around with Gillman and Jerry Wynn, the team p.r. man, and said, «You know, I really feel sorry for those guys, getting whipped so bad and having to take that long flight back to New York.
Now, unless it can turn things around, the team is staring down the barrel of potentially finishing 10th and last in the constructors» championship, which would be Williams» worst ever season...
Around this time of the season, the Premier League tends to divide into three parts: the Good Teams, who are all shuffling around the European places; the Bad Teams, who are all scrapping around the relegation zone, and the Mid-Table, a strange place where nothing much seems to matter anAround this time of the season, the Premier League tends to divide into three parts: the Good Teams, who are all shuffling around the European places; the Bad Teams, who are all scrapping around the relegation zone, and the Mid-Table, a strange place where nothing much seems to matter anaround the European places; the Bad Teams, who are all scrapping around the relegation zone, and the Mid-Table, a strange place where nothing much seems to matter anaround the relegation zone, and the Mid-Table, a strange place where nothing much seems to matter anymore.
And average teams, those that hover around six wins every season, actually get worse after making a coaching change.
Was not analyzing the Manchester ss and don't really care much there but from a footballing point of view and from the words of MR wenger I understand the logic I do nt read what the media thinks neither My comment above addresses the issues we face in comparison to the two previous seasons adding in our re enforcements The 22 million question «Are the Arsenal capable of achieving 85 point come next May???» I believed we were strong last year and said it here that the team was strong and together and used the very words that MR wenger used cohesion but as the season unfolded the cracks showed up at the very beginning when we lost to west ham and it got worse as we lost pole position and every thing around us came tumbling down by February last season here comes another important question did they know and understand what happened do they know what to do this term to avoid the very same faith well we wait and see Irregardless of what happens I will support Arsenal and will keep analyzing every match my way until May so Good luck Arsenal with your endeavors and hope you do well against Liverpool keep the fight on keep the heads up and give them a good beating
1996/7 was his first (part season) where he formally took over at (If I can recall correctly) around mid-late October.We had actually started the season fairly well with Pat Rice holding the reins until Wengers contract was up in Japan.And that was following a particularly bad run of pre season results I remember.Anyway you will recall we qualified for the UEFA CUP with a late Bergkamp screamer (oh how I worshipped that player) against Bolton.Were we pleased with this?Absolutely we were.You could see the progression in the team and with talk of more top players arriving we were all very encouraged and dare I say it?
Wenger should be building a team around a great player and not expecting a great player to shine in a bad team.
Call for unjust vilification all you want, the man gives this team absolutely zero hustle, makes everyone around him play worse.
I have not felt this bad since 1972 with Arsenal, i just feel that we are drooping out of that elite group of European clubs, no decent players wants to join Arsenal and average Arsenal players don, t even want to be in the team (average = OX), and we must be losing future millions of new supporters around the world for our future income,
Here's how things might look for 2016 if we dropped all 20.500 - or - worse bowl - eligible teams and then slid some teams around, taking it down to a slightly less heaping buffet of 31 bowls:
Derek Carr's best game as a pro took a bad turn when he made a rookie mistake, the latest example of why one player isn't going to turn a team around in his first year.
My favorite thing to do each year in NCAA was to take the Power 5's worst, most desperate team and turn them around.
That is not a bad start in my book, especially as hasn't played with our full first team around him.
Teams around the league, for better or worse, are going to have to rely on themselves running their organizations properly to remain afloat.
Tired of the unappreciative arsenal fans being negative about wenger here we have a club legend one that your luckily alive to witness in your lifetime and man who actually loves the club with heart on sleeve remember the growth the consistency the beauty in our football style and being awed at by clubs around the about the joy of watching an arsenal wenger side play yea soon enough he will be gone hes 68 and uh oh there gos the guy who constantly over the years beat spurs made champions league the invincibles put your belief in the team and him relish what we have and in his tenure we get to be one of the few who get to worry oh maybe we wont finish this year but wait will be top five and probably win a cup or make to or near the final for 21 22 years straight phew wow that could be of been worse had me there for a moment thats all i had to worry about as a fan glad im witnessing a club legend real cub passion not a paid fake smile who will go to another club maybe a rival jose mourinho so stop being a silly nanny negative easy to be worse and it will be after he leaves will go up and down for a bit
They usually aren't the team that can stack bad contract after bad contract, but any team can work around one.
Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!
Arsenal obviously needed to pick up some Premier League points, even if you are like me and feel that our top four hopes are already over, but with all the negativity around the club and the team being on the worst away run and the worst league position since Arsene Wenger took over, we also needed Arsenal to get back to something like the way we can play.
I can be frustrating at times because I write what I want and I wanted to highlight that 1) the game isn't just about pace and desire as Wenger says 2) that the media needs to stand up to these managers because it infantilizes us fans and robs us of seeing games more tactically and 3) because Arsenal are a deeply flawed team, managed by a guy who used to be knows for fluid passing and movement, but which has recently dried up to the point that Arsenal can't even pass the ball around the worst defensive team in the League (Stoke).
Aaron Ramsey has scored some important goals for Arsenal but he perhaps has too many bad performances to merit building a team around.
As Chaudhuri explained it to me: The best team in a top European league typically wins around 85 points in a season, while the worst teams come in around 30.
The bad news is that several teams below them in the standings have been playing better than the Hammers over the first 28 games of the season, and should their fortunes turn around, West Ham might find themselves in hot water.
With more than a few big teams facing the prospect of playing in a lower division next season, we've decided to look around Europe's top five leagues and determine who the 10 teams are with the worst run of form over the last six games are.
And if the teams around them pick up a few points it just gets worse and worse for Roy Hodgson.
For players, coaches and teams around college football, the preseason brought fortunes both good and bad in August.
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