Next Seasons PL Table (According To The Bookies)

[not3bad]

From a Villa viewpoint I'd be happy with that for Lambert's first season, though I'd like it better if we swapped places with Martin O'Neil's Sunderland.

[TaxDodger]

Why are they predicting Fulham to do so well?

[not3bad]

Our imminent takeover by QIA clearly hasn't been factored into this...

Has anyone seen any 'Arab looking gentlemen' and BH?

My brother's mate's girlfriend's hairdresser heard "Rock The Casbah" being played out of a car window near Villa Park this morning.

[Damo70]

Why are they predicting Fulham to do so well?

I thought there was some London bias. Fulham top ten and QPR and West Ham to stay up confortably.

[Tuscans]

Liverpool won't finish 6th, some of the players there will struggle adjusting to what Rogers wants, and vice versa. I think West Brom will go down, going from England manager to an assistant who's never managed, meeeh! Wigan have to face the drop this year in my opinion, playing well in the lat 6 games might be too late for them this time. Then its a 2 horse race with the Hammers or the Hoops for me.

[Damo70]

The two teams I think they may have got very wrong are Fulham who could well finish several places lower and Reading who I think will finish a few places higher. I think Wigan, Norwich, Swansea, Southampton and Albion are the ones who will be in most danger of relegation.

[rutski]

please go down olbeyun. you fuckers have been unbelievable to live by this year. top team in midlands is all i have heard for 2 months! if they went down it would make my life a dream!

[woody4866]

As said before, to early to predict without seeing all the coming and going thats about to start with players (and managers)

However, my punt would be Yernited, Citeh and Chelski in the top 3 and Whammers, Naaaaarich and The Best Young Manager in the World (according to Dave Whelan) to drop

Villa will be top 10 amongst Everton, Sunderland, Liverpool and Spurs

Liverpool and Spurs will both struggle to improve on last season IMO together with Arsenal if they lose RVP

Interesting times ahead I think

[Concrete John]

Yep.  So many new managers and the vasy majority of transfer dealings still to be done leaves big questions marks over a number of clubs, including ours.

Things I'd like to see:-
Wigan go down.
Houghton and Norwich do well.
Spurs or Liverpool, hopefully both, struggle.

Things I think we WILL see:-
Wigan go down.
Swansea struggle.
RDM get the bullet before the season ends.
 

[maidstonevillain]

Although I agree it's too soon to judge, last season all three promoted teams stayed up, which is so unlikely (2nd time since Sky invented football?) that you can't imagine it happening again.  I think two will go straight back down with West Ham staying up - we may not like it, but Fat Sam knows how to keep teams in the PL!  WBA or Wigan to go down with them, with my preference/prediction being Wigan.

The three promoted teams for this coming season do have Premier League pedigree and/or infrastructure. I think it is more likely that 2 out of 3 of last years promoted teams (QPR, Norwich, Swansea) will suffer 2nd season syndrome, and go down, possibly with Wigan.

[TonyD]

8th is the minimum requirement IMO.

[PaulTheVillan]

I'd like to finish above Sunderland.

I guess we'll be between 8-12.

[N'ZMAV]

We will finish 1st.

[Karl Bridges]

I think West Ham will stay up. They've just signed Diame, signed a great keeper,  offered a supposed £5.5 for Grant Holt and have been linked heavily with Olsson from Boggies. They seem to be taking it seriously. I think taking Holt's goals away from Norwich will be fatal for their hopes of staying up.

[Richard E]

QPR look a good bet to struggle. Considering they are supposed to have money they are being linked with some real dross.