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WEEKLY UPDATE - Forum (perhaps unsurprisingly given that 2nd half performance) back to doom and gloom with plenty reverting to relegation being an inevitablilty. The market (again perhaps unsurprisingly) takes a more balanced view and while after a nightmare weekend of results our price to be relegated has contracted, it is still as big as 9/2.

No we won't.

Relegation price drifting further now the market has taken in all the weekend action, now 15/2.

POST WEST BROM UPDATE - Forum a lot happier (except the bit about keeping the manager), Betfair relegation price out to 13/2.

You can lay at us at 1/2 on Betfair at HT. Not saying you SHOULD, just that if we do end up drawing or losing this place will be crammed with people claiming it was absolutely inevitable.....

This must get five more wins stuff is just nonsense - 2 wins, 8 draws, 3 defeats and we'd stay up imo.

The fact he's doing the presser this afternoon suggests he ain't going anywhere.....

POST BRIGHTON UPDATE........Forum split between those who think if MP goes we could still pull off a "miracle" and those who think it's just too late even if it happens. Betfair relegation price into 4/1.

You lot really need to discover Betfair where you could currently get half as much again.

Betfair.....

PRE BRIGHTON MATCH UPDATE - Seeing as Promes now isn't coming (and nor is anyone else presumably) and that a good chunk of the forum thinks an inevitable failure to win tonight in a poisonous atmosphere will absolutely guarantee relegation.....we can still be backed at bigger than 5/1 to go down.

Given that if we go the extra few £M there is a release clause and that personal terms are already agreed and the window doesn't close till 11......is it crazy talk to suggest tonight's result could be a factor?

WEEKLY UPDATE: Forum slightly more upbeat, but still with major reservations.... Betfair Price - Remains steady at 11/2.

WEEKLY UPDATE........Forum even more unanimous that we have reached the point of no return and nothing can save us... Relegation odds on Betfair drift from 5/1 to 11/2.

Which part of "yes we are obviously in a scrap" passed you by?

.....but if you are dim enough to think we are now down and nothing can save us you can get upwards of 5/1 for your money on Betfair. Before the replies come in, yes we are obviously in a scrap, i'm merely pointing out the sheer nonsense of some of the knee jerk reactions at FT.

I must say i'm really surprised at the lack of a meltdown - I guess i'll just have a solo one.

.....I guess we'll find out if it really was all his fault soon enough..

Might just be me but can't see him in the training vid they've just tweeted......

Those thinking it's inevitable we will use the break to find a new manager are completely deluded (imo, of course).

When discussing our recent troubles in front of goal and our persistence with the current line up and formation, several posters have said that the definition of madness is to do the same things and expect different results. The forum nods its head sagely in agreement. However point out that the current sentiment of many on here "you are kidding yourselves if you think we can finish top ten, we are in a relegation scrap" has been present (and utterly utterly wrongly) on here for at least some part of virtually every season since we came up and.......meh, not so much....

I love this kind of logic - Palace can't get a result or even a goal - so that will obviously change tomorrow. Saints can't score - so that will obviously carry on indefinitely.

Something that the betting markets think has about a 30% chance of happening regarded as "absolutely inevitable" by the forum. Seems about right....

Normally decided by a by-election.

Surely the fans need to do their bit here - almost to a man they have said they don't want the board to cave in and definitely not to Liverpool and the board has held firm. If when he is integrated back in the crowd boos his every touch and makes his position untenable then what was it all for?