Are we safe now?

[Toronto Villa]

It's as much about confidence and spirit at this time of the season as it is about points on the board. We've got 40 points, but we are also growing in strength mentally, whereas clubs like Blackpool, West Ham and Blackburn are literally shitting themselves. Wolves, I thought would get out, but last weeks loss will really hurt them.

Are we safe. Yes, absolutely.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Safe now and i'd be chuffed with a top 10 position.

[LeeB]

Fuck yeah!

[mattjpa]

Yes mate, it's not time to take the foot off the pedal but honestly I think were good. A strong end to the season and a squad overhaul and I might well be looking forward to next season.....

[We Love You]

Yeah think we're safe as now mate. Never been out the EPL and shouldn't start now!

[avfcpg]

Just about. 3 points would seal it I would think but we are just about there...

[Chris Smith]

Do you see us beating Stoke, there having a very good season and aren't an easy team to beat, at the start of the season this was one of those we should be winning games. West Brom i see us winning actually, we dont generally beat Wigan at home
I do think we'll be safe, but its not definate yet. Win next week and we will be

We have two more points than Stoke, so it's not that good a season and their away form is shocking

[ez]

7 points between us and 18th place but a lot of clubs.

[Michel Sibble]

No.

But get a draw against Stoke and it is all but guaranteed.
Win and 7th is on the cards.

[The Left Side]

Hell yeah, let's start looking up and finish the season strong

[CJ]

Not mathematically safe but realistically a lot of teams now at the bottom have to play each other so even if we lose the last 5 (which we won't) I think we'd stay up. We're on a roll now and could see us winning the next 3 anyway

[eastie]

We are safe as far as I'm concerned and hopefully we can have a strong finish and consolidate a top 10 finish, maybe even try for 8th, it's been a long season and if we finish top 10 after all the problems it will be an achievement.

[andyh]

we are not safe mathematically, but I think we are in reality.
I think the pressure is off the players and the fans now, and next week we will give Stoke a real good tonking.

[KevinGage]

The ''we never beat Wigan at home'' argument is not really valid though is it? It's a different team/and (or) manager every year we play them.
We're above them in the table, we've already beaten them away, there's no reason why we shouldn't go into that game confident of getting three points regardless of what happened 18 months or 3 years ago.

It might be a different manager and players as far as we're concerned with our turnover, but theirs has been relatively settled outfit over the past few years. Most of the players in that Wigan side have good memories of coming to VP and getting a positive result.

Sometimes it can just be an anomaly, an otherwise poor side consistently getting good results against a better team. It can be a psychological thing as well though; for our lot it'll pray on the mind that they haven't beaten Wigan at VP, for them they might actually look forward to the fixture more than you'd usually expect.

[madirishvillain]

the Newcastle match imho meant we were safe

today was the icing on top of the cherry that was already on the icing