thunderball Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Playing well and not getting points is a concern, but rather be playing well than badly. Whatever happens, and I think we will scrape through, we are so much better off with Sherwood than Lambert. I reckon we would be rock bottom and nailed on relegated by now under Lambert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Villa: Everton (h), West Ham (h), Southampton (a), Burnley (h) WBA: Man Utd (a), Newcastle (a), Chelsea (h), Arsenal (a) Newcastle: Leicester (a), WBA (h), QPR (a), West Ham (h) Sunderland: Southampton (h), Everton (a), Leicester (h), Arsenal (a), Chelsea (a) Hull: Liverpool (h), Arsenal (h), Burnley (h), Tottenham (a), Man Utd (h) QPR: Liverpool (a), Man City (a), Newcastle (h), Leicester (a) Burnley: West Ham (a), Hull (a), Stoke (h), Aston Villa (a) Leicester; Chelsea (h), Newcastle (h), Southampton (h), Sunderland (a), QPR (h) Leicester & Hull play their games in hand this week against Chelsea & Liverpool respectively Sunderland don't play their game in hand (Arsenal) till the final week of the season. I think we another 6 points to be sure pending the above games in-hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 If we don't beat West Ham, we deserve to go down. Hoping for another 6-1 type performance there to be honest. They are on the beach, they all know Sam won't be there next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daweii Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 We're not going down.. We just made Man City, the Champions look decidedly average for large portions of the game yesterday. I don't really like the saying "we're too good to go down", but based on recent form we seriously are too good to go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) Looking at the fixtures we can't complain that three of the last four games are likely to be against sides with nothing to play for as I think Burnley will have dropped by the last game. I think we will win the next two and though that won't make us mathematically safe we will go into the last two games pretty comfortable. Given the way we are playing though I wouldn't be at all surprised if we won all of our remaining games. It was always going to be the case that we would still be in the mix at this stage. We have got the toughest games out of the way now though, still find ourselves clear of the drop and now it is time to finish the job and I am certain we will. Edited April 26, 2015 by markavfc40 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Think we'll win one of our next two with one loss, a draw at southampton then beat burnley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 We're not going down.. We just made Man City, the Champions look decidedly average for large portions of the game yesterday. I don't really like the saying "we're too good to go down", but based on recent form we seriously are too good to go down. The reality of it all is, If the 3 teams below us get the draw/win they require with their games in-hand, then unfortunately its out of our own hands! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 We're not going down.. We just made Man City, the Champions look decidedly average for large portions of the game yesterday. I don't really like the saying "we're too good to go down", but based on recent form we seriously are too good to go down. The reality of it all is, If the 3 teams below us get the draw/win they require with their games in-hand, then unfortunately its out of our own hands! That is incorrect. We win all of our remaining games, which wouldn't surprise me in fact, then we would have 44 points. Leicester and Sunderland have to play each other and both have five games remaining. They draw that game then the most they could both get to is 44 Leicester and 43 Sunderland. If Leicester win then the most Sunderland can get is 42, if Sunderland win then the most Leicester can get is 43. It is therefore still in our own hands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 (edited) WWWW Edited April 26, 2015 by GENTLEMAN 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Even if Burnley are down by the time they play us, they are not the sort of team to just give us the game, they will still want to win, an this is worrying. Although I think (hope) we will be safe by then. Sunderland, Burnley, QPR are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterfingers Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The bottom 2 are now gone. The remaining spot is between ourselves, Hull, Sunderland and Leicester. We need to get more points than 1 of those sides. It sounds easy but all 4 teams are facing up to the battle. Our run in is as good as any of the others. The quicker we get 6 points, the better. I'm sick of this anxiety every April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 The bottom 2 are now gone. The remaining spot is between ourselves, Hull, Sunderland and Leicester. We need to get more points than 1 of those sides. It sounds easy but all 4 teams are facing up to the battle. Our run in is as good as any of the others. The quicker we get 6 points, the better. I'm sick of this anxiety every April. Hull have a horrible run in now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enda Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 1. To go down we'd (almost certainly) need all three of Hull, Sunderland, and Leicester to over-take us. 2. Sunderland have to play Arsenal and Chelsea. 3. Hull have yet to play Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs, and Man Utd. 4. Sunderland and Leicester have to play each other. Obviously only one of them can get three points from that match. We'll be fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 1. To go down we'd (almost certainly) need all three of Hull, Sunderland, and Leicester to over-take us. 2. Sunderland have to play Arsenal and Chelsea. 3. Hull have yet to play Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs, and Man Utd. 4. Sunderland and Leicester have to play each other. Obviously only one of them can get three points from that match. We'll be fine. And we would pretty much have to pick up 0 points in the process. I think we will get 2 more points from this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterfingers Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I don't build too much into run-ins. These games traditionally become great levellers. Sunderland for example won at Chelsea this time last year and then beat another top 4 side a couple of games later. There won't be a lot to play for, for these top sides as final placings could well be decided. Hull will have found new belief from yesterdays game they won't go down without a fight. I believe nerves will play a greater part than opponents, in deciding who stays up. That said, I'd still prefer our run in to Hulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I just remember that season a few years back when Blackpool and Blues were in the prem and on the final day it was constantly shifting to who was going to go down every other minute i hope were not involved in that rollercoaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I think we'll get a win, two draws and a loss from the remaining fixtures. No idea in what order - hopefully in that order as it'd probably see us safe going into the final day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I think we'll get a win, two draws and a loss from the remaining fixtures. No idea in what order - hopefully in that order as it'd probably see us safe going into the final day. 5 from 4! Super ambitious! 2, maybe 3 at most for me. We are playing better but still susceptible to losing at the moment. 4 very tough games coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butterfingers Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 2, maybe 3 from 3 home games and away to Southampton? We've just got 4 points from Spurs, Man U & Man City away, QPR at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MessiWillSignForVilla Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 We're not going down.. We just made Man City, the Champions look decidedly average for large portions of the game yesterday. I don't really like the saying "we're too good to go down", but based on recent form we seriously are too good to go down. The reality of it all is, If the 3 teams below us get the draw/win they require with their games in-hand, then unfortunately its out of our own hands! I don't want to tempt fate, but, Leicester's game in hand is Chelsea this Wednesday, Hull's is Plop on Tuesday and Sunderland's is Arsenal in a few weeks, I find it highly unlikely that all three will leapfrog us after their games in hand. I think it's still in our hands, personally, if we beat either Everton or West Ham, neither too unlikely, and I think we're pretty much safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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