Relegation Possibility

[pauliewalnuts]

And just to illustrate how the momentum is right now:

- we have won ONE of our last NINE games.
- we have won TWO home games in very nearly five months
- we have taken 6 points from the last 27.

[Toronto Villa]

I think we'll be OK for this season. Next season fills me with dread.

I'll be massively relieved just to get to the end of this season intact. Beyond that we need major surgery in every area. The ability to do that effectively fills me with concern. We need 6 or 7 game changing players.

[Nev]

We were all but down in July, lets face it.

We all knew it, but many decided to take a positive view, some a more negative approach, but it didn't matter either way. The season has panned out almost exactly as you would expect, a really poor, negative minded manager dragging the players and the supporters down to a position of resignation about our fate.

The crushingly sad thing is that it was all so avoidable. Lets' hope for that one bit of luck, somewhere along the line, to save our skin, but we don't deserve it, thats for certain.

[Risso]

And just to illustrate how the momentum is right now:

- we have won ONE of our last NINE games.
- we have won TWO home games in very nearly five months
- we have taken 6 points from the last 27.

You're not cheering me up.

[ktvillan]

I have to agree, once again, with Paulie.  As soon as the fixture list came out I saw we had a very difficult run in and that we needed to be well clear of trouble with 10 games left.  Which is why I was very concerned when we were not winning many during our easier spells earlier in the season.  Until recently the direness of the 5 below us made our position look better than it was, but they've pulled some unexpected wins out of the bag (would you back us to beat Arsenal or even Liverpool?).   The mediocre form earlier in the season is now coming back to bite us on the arse, and we are in a very similar position to Blues last season. The good news is AM is used to a relegation fight.  The bad news is he's used to losing them.

[Fergal]

And just to illustrate how the momentum is right now:

- we have won ONE of our last NINE games.
- we have won TWO home games in very nearly five months
- we have taken 6 points from the last 27.

You're not cheering me up.

That's because we are showing relegation form.  That's what we have been showing all season.  That's why the manager should have been sacked ages ago.

[andyh]

There is another factor we need to consider. Pressure. As the gap narrows, and we start to get closer to those below us those 3 or 4 points we need will be even harder to come by.

[Greg N'Ash]

midfield is buggered. Just got to hope the teams below us don't get 6 points because i can't see us getting another one

[myf]

On a more positive note we have the same points as we had this time last year. the bottom three were all on at least 31 points then as well

[pauliewalnuts]

On a more positive note we have the same points as we had this time last year. the bottom three were all on at least 31 points then as well

However, last year we won at the Emirates, and beat Liverpool at home in the run in.

Right now, those are the sort of fixture our negative manager would look at as games where we need to keep the score down rather than opportunities to take points.

[hawkeye]

And just to illustrate how the momentum is right now:

- we have won ONE of our last NINE games.
- we have won TWO home games in very nearly five months
- we have taken 6 points from the last 27.

The crazy thing is, that points to game ratio would almost certainly keep us up.

[VillaAlways]

On a more positive note we have the same points as we had this time last year. the bottom three were all on at least 31 points then as well

I hate to piss on your chips but we also had a fully fit squad including Darren Bent.

[Toronto Villa]

On a more positive note we have the same points as we had this time last year. the bottom three were all on at least 31 points then as well

However, last year we won at the Emirates, and beat Liverpool at home in the run in.

Right now, those are the sort of fixture our negative manager would look at as games where we need to keep the score down rather than opportunities to take points.

Scary to think that had we retained Gary Mac as manager we'd probably be better off.

[ozzjim]

The man has to go. Said on the match thread, we look rudderless. We fought back supremely well today, but then contrived to give it away again immediately. I know they were kids, but they were in the ascendancy, the corner came in and 2 players went completely unchallenged as they put it home. Ivanovich had scored in exactly the same place already too, and Heskey had just come on, without doubt with McLeish hoping to shore it up, but it completely took the momentum off us. We are going to struggle, badly. Last season over the last 10 games Petrov, Bent and Walker were exceptional, and dragged us out of trouble with ease. This season, we have no one of that quality in the side, Gabby is not a captain, as much as he has been poor form wise Collins was the leader out there today that we needed, and we look totally lacking in any direction. For me not signing a central midfield player in January after loaning Makoun and losing Jenas completely was a massive, massive mistake, and one we are going to live to regret.

In the famous words of Dad's Army - We're Dooooooomed.




QPR are picking up exceptional results and will have confidence, Bolton have won 3 in a row, Wigan have just beaten Liverpool away and Stoke at home, and Blackburn have been playing well for a couple of months and picked up decent points in that time. Of the 5 down there, we are easily the least inspiring and in the worst form bar Wolves who are down. McLeish has to go, we have to roll the dice, or we are gone.

[pauliewalnuts]

On a more positive note we have the same points as we had this time last year. the bottom three were all on at least 31 points then as well

However, last year we won at the Emirates, and beat Liverpool at home in the run in.

Right now, those are the sort of fixture our negative manager would look at as games where we need to keep the score down rather than opportunities to take points.

Scary to think that had we retained Gary Mac as manager we'd probably be better off.

Appointing him would have made more sense than giving it to this spineless muppet.

I honestly think the scariest thing is that, even if we stay up, McLeish is going to do nothing but suck the lifeblood out of the club for another season.