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Online kippaxvilla2

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #660 on: December 06, 2019, 09:10:50 AM »
Agree with the minimum points tally.  Cannot see it being 36-38 as in previous years.  West Ham went down with 42 once didn’t they.  Could be similar to that.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #661 on: December 06, 2019, 09:47:22 AM »
A little bit now, but we've got some very winnable games coming up. Kind of.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #662 on: December 06, 2019, 10:14:12 AM »
I think anything over 20 points at the halfway mark [after the Norwich game] would mean we're slightly ahead of the curve.

We have played most of last years top 7 away from home already, I think we've only not played Liverpool away. So there are plenty of opportunities to go and pick points up away from home in the second half of the season and we've already shown at home we're extremely competitive.

The other results are white noise as far as I'm concerned at this stage, if we get 42 points there will be three teams below us at the end of the season.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #663 on: December 06, 2019, 11:17:50 AM »
Watford and Norwich look nailed on to go down. Watford would have to win the next 4 in a row to get to more than a point a game and they've only won 1 all season.

Similarly, Norwich would need to win 3 out of 4 to be above a point a game at the half way point. For a team averaging more than 2 goals conceded every match I just don't see it happening.

So for me that's 2 of the 3 spots wrapped up. You've then got 5 points separating Everton in 18th from Sheff Utd in 9th. Any of that lot (Arsenal excluded) could go down and we're right in the middle of it.

It obviously won't be easy but with the run of games we've got coming up we should be picking up plenty of points. If we don't, we deserve to go down.

Ultimately though, we just need to be better than just one of Newcastle, Southampton, West Ham, etc, etc, all of whom look dreadful.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #664 on: December 06, 2019, 01:01:07 PM »
I usually just watch the goal difference until the mid-point of the season, ultimately points decide it but early in the season a few freak results - or an easy/hard run of games - can massively skew the table.

On that basis, I don't think we're in any realistic danger.  We score goals at rate you'd expect from a top-half team, and are more like bottom-half for goals conceded but not awful.  I'm saying we're basically a mid-table team who's had a hard run of fixtures.  Not bad for a newly promoted team who've mostly been playing together for less than 6 months.

Absolutely no worries about Villa, Smith, or anything else.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #665 on: December 06, 2019, 01:06:21 PM »
Our form against the bottom 10 reads P7 W4 D2 L1. Over a 38 game season would give us 76 points.

As someone else has said, we've played all bar Liverpool of last seasons top 7 away from home, and were unfortunate not to take more points from those.

A good couple of additions in Jan and more games to conti ue gelling the squad together, we'll be fine come the end of the season.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #666 on: December 06, 2019, 02:28:38 PM »
Nigel Pearson is expected to be the new manager of Watford. That’s one relegation spot locked in. Need to avoid the other two.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #667 on: December 06, 2019, 03:06:50 PM »
Not sure we can say it's a guaranteed relegation when he's never been relegated and escaped relegation in hugely unlikely circumstances last time he was in this league.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #668 on: December 06, 2019, 04:00:45 PM »
Given he was dumped earlier this season from a Belgian First Division B side I’ll take my chances on them going down or him not lasting long enough to see it happen.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #669 on: December 06, 2019, 04:16:07 PM »
Mental club appoints mental manager, what could possibly go wrong.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #670 on: December 06, 2019, 06:14:46 PM »
Pearson really has had an impressively weird career hasn't he?

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #671 on: December 06, 2019, 06:36:53 PM »
Given he was dumped earlier this season from a Belgian First Division B side I’ll take my chances on them going down or him not lasting long enough to see it happen.

Well, it's entirely possible. But far from a guarantee. Especially given that even that useless bellend Newcastle manager has been getting decent results! 😥

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #672 on: December 06, 2019, 06:37:11 PM »
The worry this year is that there aren't really any obvious fall guys.


If we were Watford fans we'd be feeling doomed right now.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #673 on: December 06, 2019, 07:28:22 PM »
I’m probably a little irrationally fucked off right now at some of our results this season. But on the whole we’ve competed well against the top sides even if we have blown the games. What gives me hope is that against the sides around which is really the league we are in we’ve done quite well. That’s what will matter in the end this season. Watford for me look fucked. Then after that it will be crap shoot for those last two spots. I still think it will be Norwich, and then any one of about 6 teams. And yes it includes us. We need a good January window. Pay what is needed and/or loan for whoever is needed for us to stay up.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #674 on: December 06, 2019, 08:07:54 PM »
Not sure we can say it's a guaranteed relegation when he's never been relegated and escaped relegation in hugely unlikely circumstances last time he was in this league.

I think it's a really poor appointment for Watford. They've basically picked the short term British fix option and gone for arguably the worst one.

Nigel Pearson last managed in the prem in May 2015. Since then he lasted two months at Derby and did a poor job in Belgium second division.

Watford's next 3 games are Palace and Man. United at home and Liverpool away so they could easily be 10 + points off 17th by the time they play us.

 


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