How many points for safety ?

[Chris Smith]

We're 12th in the current form table, over the last 6 games. So although we've all decided that we're rubbish again after yesterday there are 8 clubs even worse at the moment.

Things are not looking good for Blackpool, Blackburn and Wigan if we use that as a guide.

[D.boy]

43 should do it.

[SoccerHQ]

Had a go with the predictor...



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West Brom to only gain two more points given the good run they've had under Hodgson? Really?

Wigan, given how random they are, to gain just one more point this season really?

Manure, given how shite they are away from home, to just drop just 3 more points for the rest of he season? Really?

That's the thing with doing these points predictions, invariably you just keep on giving the top teams wins which result in ridiculously high points tallies and the bottom teams really low tallies. I mean Liverpool are playing better but they did get turned over at West Ham last week so them to finish on 62 points?!

[SoccerHQ]

SHQ all the teams we have to play are all capable of getting results, there is so little to choose between them, I guess the league proves that. Telegraph on sat showed a chart , this is the lowest points gap (7)  10th to bottom at the begining of March since the prem started, Wigan on 27 points would not have been in the bottom 3 in the last 15 seasons, so i guess that means the points to stay up is going to be high, the record number of points to be relegated is 42.

I know but  I just can't see how we won't get at least another 10 points on the board, just from the home games. We were worse in January and beat Man. City and Wigan then.

There are so many variables that can happen. We could play Newcastle without Tiote and Noland so with a limited strikeforce you'd expect us to win that. Stoke are shite away and should be safe when we play them so another you'd expect to win etc.

[KevinGage]

I would just like the occasional Saturday evening where my family aren't too frightened to talk to me.

Put away the gimp mask and gaffer tape then, that ought to do it.

[Holtenderinthesky]

SHQ all the teams we have to play are all capable of getting results, there is so little to choose between them, I guess the league proves that. Telegraph on sat showed a chart , this is the lowest points gap (7)  10th to bottom at the begining of March since the prem started, Wigan on 27 points would not have been in the bottom 3 in the last 15 seasons, so i guess that means the points to stay up is going to be high, the record number of points to be relegated is 42.

There are so many variables that can happen. We could play Newcastle without Tiote and Noland so with a limited strikeforce you'd expect us to win that. Stoke are shite away and should be safe when we play them so another you'd expect to win etc.

That's true but by that reasoning we could play either of those two, plus any other game you'd care to mention, without Downing/Ash/Bent and/or Collins/Dunne/Clark.  Making said games even harder to win than they already will be.

[*shellac*]

10 more, at least.

How?  I hope Houllier knows.