Now he has gone we could potentially survive... but it will still be very tight!

[SaintJackoInHurworth]

Firstly, please accept my apologies that I've already posted on this topic in this thread:

 

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?59509-If-we-sack-Pellegrino-we-can-still-survive

 

HOWEVER, seeing as MoPe has now finally been sacked and I have not got the ability to edit my posts I thought I would start again here!...

 

In the light of this weekend's other results (especially the West Ham result) I think our odds of survival have just improved. I previously analysed the remaining fixtures here:

 

https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?59469-Relegation-The-Run-In&p=2603593#post2603593

 

Yet, while Saints are already one point and three goals worse off than what I predicted, with a change of manager we can improve on my prediction by getting at least a point at Swansea, beating West Ham, taking a point from Leicester and/or Everton and maybe even taking a point from either Arsenal or Chelsea. Nevertheless, we could still be struggling to reach the magical 40-point target.

 

Meanwhile the meltdown at West Ham could be great news for us. They are 3 points worse off than I predicted and a defeat against us and failures to beat Stoke and /or Everton could leave them stranded - though conversely that could also help Stoke out if they are not already down and out by mid-April.

 

The facts of the matter are that we could have a chance to escape but it will be a close run thing with West Brom bottom and the other two places likely to be out of Huddersfield, West Ham, Palace, Stoke and Saints, with Newcastle still a possibility to be dragged back into it if they fail to capitalise on their win over us with a win against Huddersfield at the end of the month. Swansea, too, cannot be ruled out, especially if we can beat them at their place!

 

Pondering all of this, but without being too precise, I'm going to stick my neck out and predict that with a good managerial appointment we could end up with the following final bottom of the table:

 

13 Swansea

14 Newcastle

15 C.Palace

16 Saints

17 Stoke

18 Huddersfield

19 West Ham

20 West Brom

[whelk]

Get a brilliant manager in, just fail to survive, win the FA Cup, smash the Championship next season playing free flowing football and have a great Europa run and back in in the PL having shedded some dross. Simple

[Shroppie]

Get a brilliant manager in, just fail to survive, win the FA Cup, smash the Championship next season playing free flowing football and have a great Europa run and back in in the PL having shedded some dross. Simple

Good plan. But prefer "just survive, charge up the Prem, do a Leicester"

 

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