Tayls

Ah well. We make our own destiny! It’s a good job we are going to win at the weekend and probably win 4 of our last 6. 

So with the news about Birminghams new stadium plans and ideas, it would seem that those involved in the ‘development’ of VP are morons. And I’m disappointed in the owners for not recognising what the potential was and going through with it. Completely missed out. Only themselves to blame. Proper small time mentality. 

So 5th or 6th is where we will end up then after this weekends events. It’s the difference between playing in the champions league and playing in the europa league.. I’ll tell ya, I’ll be disappointed if we end up out the champs league places having spent so much of the season in them.  I think 4th is Spurs’ to lose now. They have a tough run of fixtures, sure, but they aren’t 4th because they are a terrible side. I reckon they’ll hold it. Roll on the end of the season, it’s starting to get a bit nervy now. 

2 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

Is this a joke?

….it COULD happen…. 

8 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

One win in the next six games and we'll have done our bit.

Why only one more win? 

1 minute ago, nick76 said:

We can also still win the league then! Mathematically it’s possible but it’s also very very unlikely as well.

Correct! I’m against calling people ‘delusional’ for thinking it CAN happen though. 

6 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

Anyone that thinks Manure will/can finish above us is **** delusional

Whilst the likelihood of them finishing above us is low, when you say “anyone that thinks Man U CAN finish above us…” there is a little thing called ‘Maths’ which tells us that actually, they CAN indeed do it… 

Whilst he has many many qualities, I also think that he is one of the ones that Ollie refers to when talking about lacking game management. Some of his fouls are in ridiculously dangerous positions. He also gets booked for insane/unnecessary reasons. 

10 minutes ago, Mantis said:

None of them are guaranteed defeats. The only game you could reasonably pass off as a guaranteed defeat was City away.

Im gonna say Arsenal away and Liverpool at home are guaranteed defeats at this point. There isn’t a chance we are getting anything from those. I’ll be amazed if we achieved a single point. 

We are very very good at it. 

Can we get 9 points to match my prediction at the 25 games played mark? I’m slightly less confident after today! Six to play and two of those are guaranteed defeats now that we have reverted back to type. 

2 minutes ago, Mantis said:

Tbf this is the first time we've done that all season (unless you count United as struggling).

At the time I would have counted them as struggling.. I don’t think they were even top 7 at that point? They were certainly fragile. 
We also got pegged back against Luton but managed to nick a winner. 

So settling for 5th then I guess. Should hopefully scrape through. It’s not great at the minute is it. Losing the games we used to expect to lose, and failing to hold onto leads against struggling sides. 

45 minutes ago, est1874 said:

There goes 4th.

Yea pretty much 5th it is, bar an absolute disaster and we end up 6th. 

Really really bad to have this happen numerous times. Very very fragile mindsets. Pretty disgraceful. 

Yea that’s not great is it 

3 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

God bless you Tayls, that raised a chuckle from me. Probably only 16 points off us if they scramble a win at Sheffield United....

You are most welcome! I really wanted a Chelsea win. I was in no way as confident as many on here with the point gap between ourselves and Utd and their game in hand. It’s still a small concern for me, because it’s not mathematically impossible, but that loss for them today has made me slightly more relaxed. I guess. 

CHELSEA TO CATCH US AND TAKE 4TH!! 

I’m saying nothing! 

1 hour ago, fightoffyour said:

As well as what?

The city game! I wouldn’t say we went full strength there! 

So I wonder if the plan is to throw the Arsenal game as well then? Prioritise the conference league and the other lesser teams remaining in the prem?  I say throw the game, but I mean ‘field a slightly weaker side’… 

7 games…10 more points. Can we do it? Can we make it to the magical 69? 

2 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

Only once in our last 7 PL games have we won on xG. That was against Forest. Unlike the season up to that point where we were winning games on xG and on scoreboard

We will be found out soon if we don't improve our performances. 

What does this mean? 

Well if we continue to play like that we’ll win more than we lose.