VillaChris Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 22 hours ago, Zatman said: Brighton are in awful form, not shocked if drop Was amazed when I looked at the table and were as low as they are, thought they were at worst 14th. They are that team who's dropped from mid table into brink of relegation but think they'll be o.k just as they still have to play Huddersfield, Newcastle, Cardiff, Southampton and Bournemouth all at home so should collect enough points there. Can't see it being anyone other than Cardiff, they have worst GD of the teams wanting to stay up and on last day they've got Man. United away while Southampton have Huddersfield at home so really they need to be 4 points clear of Southampton and don't see them doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Don't think anyone in the bottom 5 would significantly strengthen the Championship next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 1, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted March 1, 2019 Don't really understand why they've sacked Ranieri now. They're not going to stay up. May as well wait for the summer. Guess it gives the new guy more time to assess the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: Don't really understand why they've sacked Ranieri now. They're not going to stay up. May as well wait for the summer. Guess it gives the new guy more time to assess the squad. scott parker gets the chance to do darren moore not sure what assessing he can do though, a lot of that squad will try and move in the summer, he'll lose the 5 loan players, babel, need another summer upheaval Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurru991 Posted March 1, 2019 Visiting Supporter Share Posted March 1, 2019 6 hours ago, Wainy316 said: Don't think anyone in the bottom 5 would significantly strengthen the Championship next season. I actually think any of the bottom five would challenge for top six in the championship. Does that constitute strengthening ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 2 hours ago, gurru991 said: I actually think any of the bottom five would challenge for top six in the championship. Does that constitute strengthening ? I think the teams that came down this year are stronger than the ones the ones that will come down this year. I think Stoke are having the same problem as us. They have been a Premier league club for so long now they don't know how to operate any other way. We have badly struggled with that as we were a Premier league side for over twenty years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurru991 Posted March 1, 2019 Visiting Supporter Share Posted March 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Demitri_C said: I think the teams that came down this year are stronger than the ones the ones that will come down this year. I think Stoke are having the same problem as us. They have been a Premier league club for so long now they don't know how to operate any other way. We have badly struggled with that as we were a Premier league side for over twenty years. I agree, it's a massive transformation to go from the Premier to the Championship and the longer spent in the Championship the tougher it gets. Both Stoke & Swansea are struggling to adapt this season and could be in trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 6 hours ago, Demitri_C said: I think the teams that came down this year are stronger than the ones the ones that will come down this year. Ok, I understand...... Oh wait 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 11 hours ago, gurru991 said: I agree, it's a massive transformation to go from the Premier to the Championship and the longer spent in the Championship the tougher it gets. Both Stoke & Swansea are struggling to adapt this season and could be in trouble. Yep. West Brom can handle it better than us as they were relegated a number of times. This was our first relegation in how many years. I think this is a major problem. huddesfield for example will handle relegation better than we did as they have much smaller budgets and have been a football league club most of their existence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted March 10, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 10, 2019 Cardiff - 28 points Chelsea (h) Man City (a) Burnley (a) Liverpool (h) Fulham (a) Palace (h) Man Utd (a) Southampton - 30 points Brighton (a) Liverpool (h) Wolves (h) Newcastle (a) Bournemouth (h) West Ham (a) Huddersfield (h) Burnley - 30 points Leicester (h) Wolves (h) Bournemouth (a) Cardiff (h) Chelsea (a) Man City (h) Everton (a) Arsenal (h) Brighton - 33 points Southampton (h) Spurs (a) Bournemouth (h) Wolves (a) Newcastle (h) Arsenal (a) Man City (h) To be arranged - Watford v Southampton Brighton v Cardiff Chelsea v Brighton Yesterday’s wins for Brighton and Southampton has given them a massive boost. Brighton should be able to scrape 5 or 6 points from their remaining 9 games. Southampton have a more favourable run in, so should be ok. Burnley v Cardiff is looking like the pivotal fixture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Wow Burnley's last four games. Thought they were pretty much safe after beating Spurs but obviously not. They need a win and not to lose to Cardiff in their next 4 to give them some breathing space. Would still say Cardiff down though as they have lots of tough fixtures in that run aswell. Everyone else safe, Southampton have Huddersfield at home on last day as insurance policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Look at Cardiffs games, they may have won but I think they are in serious trouble. for me its between them and burnley for last spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Agree with dem - Cardiff’s run is utterly horrific and I can’t see them gaining many points from that. I guess it will broadly come down to Burnley v Cardiff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Huddersfield down today, 2nd earliest relegation in Premier League Amazingly our pathetic 3 wins in a season hasn't made the 6 earliest relegations in history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted March 30, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 30, 2019 Huge wins for Burnley and Southampton to confirm that Huddersfield relegation. Pretty hard to see past the bottom three now. IF Cardiff scraped two points from their two games in hand in the next four days (Chelsea and Man City, hence the big “IF”) then maybe I think they could get out of it. Regardless of those results they would have to beat Burnley next Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 2, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 2, 2019 ....and Fulham make it two confirmed relegated teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Huddersfield will finish bottom but Fulham have been actually a lot worse considering the resources they wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 The relegated three has been pretty predictable for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 13 minutes ago, PaulC said: The relegated three has been pretty predictable for a long time. Interesting contrast in promoted teams this season: Wolves have excelled, Fulham surprisingly struggled after their momentum, and spending, but no surprise with Warnock’s Cardiff, I wonder if Sala would have made any difference? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I think Cardiff have done well this season tbh - been **** over by a surprising amount of poor decisions. I thought they'd finish bottom at the start of the campaign. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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