Mantis Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) I'm not ready to say I think we'll stay up yet but I do have a lot more confidence in us now - not because we're 3 points better off (although that does help) but because the team showed something yesterday I didn't think they had. Their commitment isn't in question but I honestly believed they would crumble under the pressure of a game as important as that one. To go behind and then come back and go ahead and then hold onto it is something I didn't expect at all. Edited March 10, 2013 by Mantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I just had a look at the remaining fixtures of the bottom 5 clubs. I had it as this going into the final day: 16th Villa on 33 pts 17th Southampton on 31 pts 18th Wigan on 31 pts 19th QPR on 30 pts 20th Reading on 27 pts I hope I am wrong and that we're safe already because a final day table like that would probably cause me to have a heart attack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDish Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Before today's matches, I had these results in the table predictor: Everton-Reading - Everton win Man U-Norwich - Man U win Soton-QPR - Soton win Stoke-West Ham - Stoke win Sunderland-Fulham - Fulham win Swansea-NEwcastle - Swansea win Wigan-Liverpool - Liverpool win This and my predictions for the next matches will give this table the 2nd of April; 12 Norwich 35 13 Southampton 31 14 Sunderland 30 15 West Ham 30 16 Newcastle 30 17 Aston Villa 30 18 Wigan 28 19 Reading 23 20 QPR 20 Now when QPR won West Ham won and Sunderland drew, I have updated the predictor and get this table: 12 Norwich 35 13 West Ham 33 14 Sunderland 31 15 Newcastle 30 16 Aston Villa 30 17 Southampton 28 18 Wigan 28 19 Reading 23 20 QPR 23 If we do our job against Reading and QPR we will be fine. If not we will go down anyway, so today's results has so far been very good for us (hope Wigan don't make an upset). And we have yet to play Norwich and Sunderland, who are in the mix as well. Since this post Liverpool has won against Wigan, we have won against Reading, QPR has won against Sunderland and there has been a draw in the Norwich - Southampton match. This means there will be no changes in the point prediction, as I had us getting 3 points yesterday, Norwich and Southampton drawing and I expected a QPR win. Things are looking good, just need the win against QPR to get some breathing space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 5 teams on 33 points now. We need to get into that group in the next 4-5 matches. It'd make the world of difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I hope the unplayable version of Benteke is with us next Saturday and violates that QPR defence so that they are totally traumatised for the rest of the season and indeed their lives. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDish Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 5 teams on 33 points now. We need to get into that group in the next 4-5 matches. It'd make the world of difference And we have matches against 3 of those 5 teams, plus we have not played Sunderland, who has 30 points. Will be a very interesting spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I hope the unplayable version of Benteke is with us next Saturday and violates that QPR defence so that they are totally traumatised for the rest of the season and indeed their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie09 Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Is the FA Cup final the week after the final league games? If so and given Wigan's favourable draw in the semi finals if they do make it to the final then maybe some of their players will be distracted when we play them. I've said for a while i thought we'd be okay so as long as we don't lose to QPR i'm sure we will be. I just hope the tension and nerves from the terraces doesn't transcend into the players. For me it's Wigan, Reading and Saints that will drop but if either Reading or Saints could stay up at the expense of Sunderland that would be the icing on the cake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Ideally the final drop zone would look as follows : ---------------------- 18. Stoke 19. Sunderland 20. QPR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) Stoke aren't going down, as much as everyone would like to see it happen. Edited March 10, 2013 by Mantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) That would make up for a shit season But can't see it happening Edited March 10, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 No I know albeit stoke are on an awful run of form Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcTheObsession Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 One more win and a draw would probably see Stoke safe. Sunderland could be in trouble, don't seem capable of getting results against teams in the bottom 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 5 teams on 33 points now. We need to get into that group in the next 4-5 matches. It'd make the world of difference The problem we have though is our goal difference is much worse Han those teams,which puts us bottom of that group. 33 won't be enough but I think 37 will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 5 teams on 33 points now. We need to get into that group in the next 4-5 matches. It'd make the world of difference The problem we have though is our goal difference is much worse Han those teams,which puts us bottom of that group. 33 won't be enough but I think 37 will be. Ah I'm not saying 33 will keep us up, I'm saying if we can break into that group we won't be quite as worried as we are right now, which will rub off on the players hopefully and increase performances a touch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 To break into that group in reality we'd need to beat QPR then Liverpool plus stoke away. Difficult but not impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 I think its 3 from 5 really. that group above just have enough of a buffer I think. Would **** love west ham and stoke to drop though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 To break into that group in reality we'd need to beat QPR then Liverpool plus stoke away. Difficult but not impossible. I think we could get there even if we lost to liverpool. of the 5 teams on 33 right now, there's a fair chance there'll be plenty of defeats for them in the next 4-5 games, we just need to do our thing and hope they can all draw whenever they play each other, or see someone like newcastle pull away by beating all the others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Things are looking good, If I've read it correctly, your imaginary table shows us going into the final few matches just 2 points above the 17th and 18th placed clubs, so saying that things are looking good might be a touch OTT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Bear Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 No clean sheet since Stoke (H) on 8th December Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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