if...

a) Robert was fit and on form
b) We had a commanding midfielder
c) Elliot was a bit better

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

Answers

where would we be?

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

the assumption in all of this is that the opposition don't improve in the mean time.

Sunderland only needed a couple of players to improve from 7th. They've managed to get Reyna and McAteer, losing Huthcison in the meantime and have gone backwards.

Man U strengthened with Veron and RVN.

There has always be a weakest link. If it wasn't your three suggestions then it would be a more mobile forward than Shearer, then yet another commanding midfielder, then a real right back, then an error free commanding centre half, then a Bellamy who didn't get booked for mouthing off .......

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

You're spot on about the opposition MacBeth. Both Man U and Chelsea have been very inconsistent and the way the league looks, any team stringing together a decent run will power to the top. We have to keep going but without at least one addition we might fall off the pace.

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

.... well, I reckon we could easily have been in the top 5 in the PL.

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-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001