bobzy Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 On 03/03/2018 at 20:01, VillaChris said: Not this again.Five then? There's no way 45 points keeps you up and remember in any case SHA have worst GD aside from Burton. <fixture predictions> FInal two games are Burton away and Forest home which looks pretty comfortable to me. 4 points there for them surely so I'll give them another 13 points. That's why I think they need 6 wins as can see Barnsley, Hull and Bolton all ending up in the 45-48 point range. In SHA's position they can't exactly draw their way to safety, they need to go out and actually win games. If we saw Burton and Sunderland going down who do you think is the third relegated team then Bobzy? On 03/03/2018 at 20:21, bobzy said: Your results are incredibly favourable to really, very average teams. Let’s take Barnsley for example. They are heading to Forest, Ipswich, Leeds and playing Brentford at home... and are going to not only be unbeaten over those fixtures, but are going to take 8 points? Bear in mind three of those games are away and, in the reverse fixtures, they only took 4 points. At the moment, going from the bottom of the league, you have to make it up to 17th (Sheff Wed) before you meet a team who has more points than games played. Yet, you’re thinking to be safe in the league, the team lying 21st will need to have 2 more points than games played? That’s a remarkable turnaround of form for a LOT of teams. It isn’t happening. It’s tough to call on points, but if Blues manage to win 4 games, I’d fancy them to stay up. Originally I said you’d need 47 points to stay up - I think it may turn out to be 44. Edit: oh, and probably Barnsley. Between them, Bolton and Blues. They obviously aren't safe just yet, but in the true spirit of our prediction battle, @VillaChris (I'm sure you won't let me forget about Bournemouth)... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifamad Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 I think 1 more point see’s them safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 6 hours ago, bobzy said: They obviously aren't safe just yet, but in the true spirit of our prediction battle, @VillaChris (I'm sure you won't let me forget about Bournemouth)... Well Hull got there.... TBF Bolton were on quite a good run when they beat us in mid March so thought they'd comfortably get to 45-46 points. They still might with Burton and Forest being their last two but badly out of form. Barnsley have flopped massively. I thought getting in that guy who used to assist Mourinho and McBurnie scoring a fair few would be enough to get them over the line but they are terrible defensively. After they won 2-o at SHA on Feb 24th they were a point above SHA with a game in hand and three home games in hand. They didn't win any of them. They certainly had the fixtures to get up to that points range but couldn't do it. Bar Burton SHA have won pretty much all their six pointers since Monk came in, again something I couldn't see them doing in late February as obviously Wurzel was still there. Technically though they have won 4 of their last last 8 and still aren't quite safe.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Boro are taking blose to court. The circus continues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifamad Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Demitri_C said: Boro are taking blose to court. The circus continues Can’t see anything happening with that, also tbh that’s pathetic from Middlesbrough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 30 minutes ago, fifamad said: Can’t see anything happening with that, also tbh that’s pathetic from Middlesbrough They had a specific clause in their contract preventing them from all working together with Monk until the end of the year. It doesn't sound unreasonable to take someone to court after they violate such a specific term of a contract. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 2 hours ago, Davkaus said: They had a specific clause in their contract preventing them from all working together with Monk until the end of the year. It doesn't sound unreasonable to take someone to court after they violate such a specific term of a contract. Oh dear more of their transfer budgets gone bye bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 27, 2018 Moderator Share Posted April 27, 2018 So the points they're getting now* which will likely save them from relegation, are being won under a management team that should not be working together again until December 28th. Well that's not **** annoying at all is it? I hope they're taken to the cleaners. It's in black and white the improvements they've made under DCI Garry Monk. * 13pts in 9 games under Monk. 1.44 points per game and 9th in the league table over that period, and way way above what they had been achieving up to that point at 0.86 points per game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Have small heath done anything wrong? I don’t think so, they employed people legally (assuming they didn’t know about this clause when they hired them). Sounds like it’s the staff themselves that might be breaching the terms of their old contract with Middlesbrough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 (edited) Wouldn't the staff have had to inform SHA when approached they were all technically on gardening leave? If they all kept it quiet that's obviously a breach of their serverance from Boro so could be an interesting one. I'm more surprised Boro didn't put something in Monk's preventing him from managing another club this season. Guess he refused and wanted a quick return. Edited April 27, 2018 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 4 hours ago, Genie said: Have small heath done anything wrong? I don’t think so, they employed people legally (assuming they didn’t know about this clause when they hired them). Sounds like it’s the staff themselves that might be breaching the terms of their old contract with Middlesbrough. Yeah they are wrong, dont read the contracts they have and staff should explain situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 16 hours ago, Zatman said: Yeah they are wrong, dont read the contracts they have It's small heath, they can't read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Seems they are safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted April 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted April 28, 2018 QPR are winning, they're deep in the shit again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 (edited) 22 minutes ago, villarule123 said: QPR are winning, they're deep in the shit again! They have to lose the last game AND 2 of the 3 teams below them to win on the last day. Unlikely but possible. Edited April 28, 2018 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Oh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilS Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, Genie said: They have to lose the last game AND 2 of the 3 teams below them to win on the last day. Unlikely but possible. They have benefited from some last day escape acts over the years, could they fall victim to it this year. It would be comedy gold if it did happen! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 1 minute ago, NeilS said: They have benefited from some last day escape acts over the years, could they fall victim to it this year. It would be comedy gold if it did happen! It would be awesome but I think the jammy words removed will scrape it again, after being bumraped by Fulham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 I dont think its impossible at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 There's still hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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