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I'm going to suggest that the teams on 33 points and above will reach 40plus points and safety.

Those on 23 will struggle to get much more than 30 points.

Those on 30 and 31 will be in a real dogfight to the last day.

No predictions as to who will join Reading and QPR.

Note just how uncannily accurate goal difference is turning out to be!

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I'm going to suggest that the teams on 33 points and above will reach 40plus points and safety.

Those on 23 will struggle to get much more than 30 points.

Those on 30 and 31 will be in a real dogfight to the last day.

No predictions as to who will join Reading and QPR.

Note just how uncannily accurate goal difference is turning out to be!

 

 

Villa have to play Stoke,Sunderland,Norwich and Wigan I think. If Villa escape relegation one of those 4 probably won't.

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I said on the 18th March that anyone in the table up to 10th (which was Stoke) could still be in danger and it got poo pooed. Look at Stoke now. I think they'll survive on the basis that there are 3 worse teams in the league, but it shows how a few wins in the relegation battle can really drag other teams into it. Failure to beat Liverpool and Chelsea and we'd have been right in the shyte, and the Reading game would have become massive. Thanks to the two wins we can now balls up one of our easier games without completely screwing our season up. I hope we don't though - I hope we win every game for the rest of the season!

 

It still looks like QPR, Reading and one other. Even though Villa lost today I saw enough that they could scrape wins. Wigan are doing their usual late season routine. We're flying. Norwich can't score for toffee. However I do suspect Sunderland now could take that final spot, but they have made a managerial appointment that will at least kick them up the bum. If my money was on anyone though, it would be...... Villa. Based on how poor they've been this season with the youngsters. Benteke has shone but their young defence makes too many mistakes.

 

It's so tough to call though.

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Wonder if Reading still worry Delldays. Funny when viewing the fixtures, that's the first response, comedy gold. Reading were always a poor side who had a brief period of being ridiculously lucky. Were Never gonna stay up

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Reading beaten on SAturday by Saints should finally do it for them. QPR are finished IMHO.

 

I think Sunderland will go down. I think Paulo's Nazi past will see him drummed out of the job and a big distraction not needed. Well done David Miliband for resigning, I agree with Seth Blatter - the bloke should have been banned from football the last time he did a Nazi salute for Lazio. Time for the fans to hammer him.

 

Sunderland are spineless, Fletcher is out, they're screwed. Villa, West Ham, Newcastle will be fine. Sunderland are going down with QPR and Reading.

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Oh, bad luck, Harry. What a shame. You twonk.

 

Funniest thing was his marquee signing, Samba (reported 12.5m fee and 100k / week) was at fault for their first 2 goals.

 

Try and distance yourself from that twitchy!

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Funniest thing was his marquee signing, Samba (reported 12.5m fee and 100k / week) was at fault for their first 2 goals.

 

Try and distance yourself from that twitchy!

And on £100k a week...(a proportion of which goes into a brown envelope somewhere no doubt)

Samba is getting lots of abuse on twitter

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I know that prediction league on the Beeb is the biggest joke ever due to it's inaccuracy - I mean do you base results on whether team is better on paper, recent form, etc etc - but I just did it again and still Villa get that third spot. It goes down to the last game of the season and Sunderland, Wigan and Villa are all in with a shout, but Wigan beat Villa at home and stay up.

 

Somebody said it on another thread, that last game of Wigan vs Villa could be the one which determines who gets the final slot. (Oh, and even trying not to be biased we finish on 46 points.)

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Funniest thing was his marquee signing, Samba (reported 12.5m fee and 100k / week) was at fault for their first 2 goals.

 

Try and distance yourself from that twitchy!

 

Shame he moves a bit like a marquee. Perhaps more of a beer tent signing........

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Reading beaten on SAturday by Saints should finally do it for them. QPR are finished IMHO.

I think Sunderland will go down. I think Paulo's Nazi past will see him drummed out of the job and a big distraction not needed. Well done David Miliband for resigning, I agree with Seth Blatter - the bloke should have been banned from football the last time he did a Nazi salute for Lazio. Time for the fans to hammer him.

Sunderland are spineless, Fletcher is out, they're screwed. Villa, West Ham, Newcastle will be fine. Sunderland are going down with QPR and Reading.

Agree. What is amazing is not just the timing of O'Neill's sacking but how anyone can imagine that Di Cannio is a better manager than Martin O'Neill is beyond me and with only 7 games to get to know the team I can see their descent gathering speed.

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He might not be a better manager (in fact, I don't think tactics even come into it with PdC) but he's probably the shot in the arm they need and wouldn't have gotten from O'Neill. Their prospects are better now for it IMO.

 

BTW, it wasn't a Nazi salute, try to understand why he did it and what it means properly. I'm not defending it, but people need to do a little homework, not read the yellow ticker on Sky Sports News...

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Next round of games...few 'relegation 6 pointers'....

 

 

Reading v Southampton

Norwich v Swansea

Stoke v Aston Villa

West Brom v Arsenal

Liverpool v West Ham

Tottenham v Everton

Chelsea v Sunderland

Newcastle v Fulham

QPR v Wigan

 

Reckon us, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Wigan and Newcastle to get wins

 

Norwich - Swans, Spurs - Everton, Stoke - Villa draws....We'll see,

 

Could do with Swansea and Fulham nicking away wins, Stoke winning(or a draw?), Liverpool, Chelsea, and QPR all winning. We will see.

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Would want Stoke and QPR wins out of those lot. (And us obviously!)

 

Would move us further away from 18th, and drop Wigan and Villa deep into the ****. QPR would gain points, but I don't worry about them now. Think they're long gone, and it's not us they'll be trying to catch either.

 

That set of results would probably almost secure us for another year. (As we'd be 7 pts clear)

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I don't know why, but I've always said that a red and white striped team either goes up or down from the Premier League when it matters...

 

Who's it gonna be? Stoke or Sunderland?

 

It aint gonna be Saints :)

 

For me Villa's win is worse for Sunderland than for Stoke; in freefall with a manager who is attracting all the attention for being a Nazi and I believe will be sacked by the US owners as more fans use his appointment and politics as an excuse during the post relegation witch hunt.

 

My predictions:

 

Bottom 3:

 

Sunderland

QPR

Reading

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I fear for Stoke now. Truly.

 

At least Sunderland will have a firework sent up them.

 

Talking yesterday to a stokie mate, (he's coming down here on tuesday :lol: ) he reckons the fans are sick to death of pulis and "pulisball" as they term it. He also pointed out that on form since christmas, stoke would be bottom of the division, they are the worst performing team of the year so far.

 

We could quite possibly relegate them on the last day.

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So we are 66/1 to get relegated - and yesterday a horse won the GN on those same odds. I'll wait a while before celebrating

 

There speaks the voice of a long standing Saints fan who has seen numerous spectacular cock ups by our beloved team over many years :)

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Whilst I am pretty certain we will be fine wins for Wigan (possible) and Sunderland (highly unlikely) today could see us in 11th on 37 points and still only 4 points away from the drop zone. It is crazily tight this year.

 

Saggy chops got very upset with a reporter last week when the 40 points safety margin was mentioned, stating no where near that much would be required. I'm not so sure.

 

I have been saying since the start of the year that I thought Reading, QPR and Villa would go down. However, that was a huge win yesterday for Villa. And I now think they might well finish above not only Wigan but Sunderland and Stoke as well. So, my current prediction is: Reading, QPR and Sunderland (although I would find it highly amusing if Stoke were to go).

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I think we can delete QPR and Reading from this thread. They will both have to win 5 games more than us to be any threat. To do that in 6 games would be quite something. We are about as close to Everton in 6th as we to Reading and QPR. Add Fulham, West Ham and Swansea fixtures to the list.

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This wigan/qpr game is f"cking woeful. None of the players would make our team currently apart from townsend from spurs.

 

Taraabt could be a decent player with a more solid team around him; he'll stay Premier League next season if he doesn't go abroad. Loic Remy is good too.

 

Hats off to Wigan for making a competitive side year on year with such a relatively little amount of cash.

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Next round of games...few 'relegation 6 pointers'....

 

 

Reading v Southampton

Norwich v Swansea

Stoke v Aston Villa

West Brom v Arsenal

Liverpool v West Ham

Tottenham v Everton

Chelsea v Sunderland

Newcastle v Fulham

QPR v Wigan

 

Reckon us, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Wigan and Newcastle to get wins

 

Norwich - Swans, Spurs - Everton, Stoke - Villa draws....We'll see,

 

My predictions better than Lawros !!

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