VillaChris Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 5 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said: I would say now was a good time. We are 16 points ahead of Fulham and they have played a game more than us. I think we have more chance of winning the league than we have being relegated. We have more points now than we did going into that Palace game which was the 35th of last season so done it 17 games earlier. To have a serious danger of relegation we'd have to go on a worse run than anything we did in 15/16 and worse than what Sheffield United have done so far this season so bookies would probably price it higher than Leicester odds to win the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Table starting to normalize now where you need to average a point per game to stay up. Fulham, WBA and SU have lot of work and catching up to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) Considering the current 16th placed team is averaging 1.1 PPG, and the team placed 17th is averaging 1 PPG, seems the bottom 3 will have to reach our points total at least to have any chance of staying up (35 points), and might even need late 30's to survive (ie: 38-40). To put that in context: Fulham will need to average 1.1 PPG over their remaining fixtures to achieve 35 points, they are currently averaging 0.7 PPG. WBA will need to average 1.35 PPG to achieve 35 points, they are currently averaging 0.6 PPG. Sheff Utd will need to average 1.6 PPG to achieve 35 points, the are currently averaging 0.4 PPG, they are improving recently, however the required avg. PPG of 1.6 is top 6 or top 8 form usually, so seems highly unlikely, even if they do pick up form wise. (even last year when finishing 9th, their PPG avg over the season was 1.42) Considering Burnley, Newcastle & Brighton are 7/8 points ahead of the bottom 3 already, i think it really looks like its going to be the current three in the relegation zone to go down, barring a miracle. Edited January 31, 2021 by MaVilla 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 The huge gap from 18th to 17th really looks absolutely cavernous doesn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepal_villan Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Kind of feel bad for Fulham as they are playing decent, they just can't turn their draws into victories. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 3 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: The huge gap from 18th to 17th really looks absolutely cavernous doesn't it. Leicester were 20th at this stage 2014/15 season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 4 hours ago, MaVilla said: Considering the current 16th placed team is averaging 1.1 PPG, and the team placed 17th is averaging 1 PPG, seems the bottom 3 will have to reach our points total at least to have any chance of staying up (35 points), and might even need late 30's to survive (ie: 38-40). To put that in context: Fulham will need to average 1.1 PPG over their remaining fixtures to achieve 35 points, they are currently averaging 0.7 PPG. WBA will need to average 1.35 PPG to achieve 35 points, they are currently averaging 0.6 PPG. Sheff Utd will need to average 1.6 PPG to achieve 35 points, the are currently averaging 0.4 PPG, they are improving recently, however the required avg. PPG of 1.6 is top 6 or top 8 form usually, so seems highly unlikely, even if they do pick up form wise. (even last year when finishing 9th, their PPG avg over the season was 1.42) Considering Burnley, Newcastle & Brighton are 7/8 points ahead of the bottom 3 already, i think it really looks like its going to be the current three in the relegation zone to go down, barring a miracle. Every year, there usually is one or mofe teams down there that goes on one of those runs that make the relegation battle a lot more tight. There's plenty of the season left to go so I wouldn't be too hasty in calling the relegation battle essentially over now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 The bottom 3 right now are really in the s*** Can't see how they are getting out of it. They are all too far behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Time to move to Other Football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I'm surprised that Fulham haven't done more in the transfer window, at times they've played well but are drawing too many games, only Brighton have drawn more, a decent striker could turn some of those draws into victories, just winning their game in hand would put them within four points of Brighton, five of Burnley and Newcastle, and six of Wolves, the latter three have all lost just as many games as Fulham, but the problem for Fulham that they've only won two games all season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 7 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: Time to move to Other Football Or merge with Wolves thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 10 minutes ago, useless said: I'm surprised that Fulham haven't done more in the transfer window, at times they've played well but are drawing too many games, only Brighton have drawn more, a decent striker could turn some of those draws into victories, just winning their game in hand would put them within four points of Brighton, five of Burnley and Newcastle, and six of Wolves, the latter three have all lost just as many games as Fulham, but the problem for Fulham that they've only won two games all season. They have good keeper in Areola. Would expect a bigger club to come in for him at some stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 23 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: Time to move to Other Football I don't know still. We still need 6 points from next 19 games to stay up. Big ask. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Sheffield United - West Brom on Tuesday Interesting game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Why the hell is thread called "relegation chase"? Who chases relegation??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 minute ago, Sulberto21 said: Why the hell is thread called "relegation chase"? Who chases relegation??? Small Queef Fulham look to be the newage yoyo thesedays. West Brom are a vintage yoyo at this point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Fulham have a number of decent players, they remind me a little of how Norwich were last season in that sense, and even have the same number of points that they had after 21 games last season, main difference being that Fulham's main problem is scoring whereas Norwich's was conceding goals, but both teams somehow had/have a bunch of players that would probably be welcome in better teams. Looking it up Areola is actually on loan from Paris Saint-Germain, as are a number of their other better performers like Andersen, Lemina, Loftus-Cheek, and Lookman. Robinson, Anguissa, and De Cordova-Reid have all looked decent as well, but yet somehow as a team are still struggling, a signing like Wilson or similar would have made a big difference to them Edited February 1, 2021 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted February 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Kiwivillan said: They have good keeper in Areola. Would expect a bigger club to come in for him at some stage Hes a tit! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Can see Fulham getting out of it still. The others are gone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Just now, Nigel said: Hes a tit! Yeah unfortunate name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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