Relegation?

[andyh]

If there's one thing that does worry me slightly is our inability to put together winning run. West Ham looked in a bit of a mess up until they played us. Since then they've overtaken us and are looking upwards instead of down.

Our result against the Stripeyfilth should have given us the confidence to go on and pick up a few points. Since we beat them, we've lost 3 out of 4. Winning one game every now and again is not good enough really. We don't capitalise on decent results and until we do, we're always going to be down the bottom half of the table.

This is exactly it, and its not even an winning run that we are incapable of.
I honestly cant remember if we have had back to back wins this season, I don't  think we have.
I don't think it was much better last season.
 

[JUAN PABLO]

I think we will be ok this season , to many shite teams eg Cardiff and baggies  , thank f**k for that Money city win

But If PL is still here next season , I think we are a good bet for then. 

Lose to Norwich thou . I just dont know ;(

[john e]

in terms of performance I think we are a lot worse this season than last,
even though results didn't always go for us last term we were at least showing some signs of wanting to play some good football,
and I thought the younger palyers would learn an awful lot and be better and more experienced this time round

its not worked that way, we are playing some really crap football,
 and its not as if we cant play better just look at Liverpool,
I bet other teams like West Ham, Crystal Palace, Sunderland etc have never played like that, you know, playing Liverpool of the park at Anfield in the first 45 mins,
 but it all happens to rarely, most of the time its rubbish

[caster troy]

Last season when we played the other relegation contenders we did pretty well, I'm thinking of Reading, Sunderland and QPR all being wins. We also had Benteke scoring at Messi/Ronaldo rates with Gabby and Weimann chipping in.

This season we seem to be determined to give those types of teams a nice confidence boost and 3 easy points. We haven't scored for three games which includes two poor defences.

Norwich have a much easier March than us, facing 4 out of 5 bottom half teams. Even if we beat them we could be behind them in April. Stoke are the same. Palace face three top half sides including Arsenal and Chelsea but they do have a game in hand in reserve. I have a feeling we'll be 16th by the time we play Fulham which would then be absolutely huge.

I think we're still 10/1 to go down though which is bizarre.

[Richard E]

Palace's game in hand is away at Everton - not exactly a banker 3 points for them.

[David_Nab]

I hope we can stay up but if we do go down it will be deserved , you simply can not play with fire season after season like we have.

I struggle to see where the next win is coming from ,Norwich should be a decent chance but given our home record you can easily see another defeat.In the end us staying up with come down to the likes of Cardiff etc continuing to be poor.Fulham looked doomed but with new manager they are a bit of an unknown now.

[aj2k77]

I don't think we've had 4 shite seasons in a row since the late 60's.

Well done Lerner.

[myf]

All the talk about only needing 37 or 38 points to survive - right now I can't even see how we will get 30 points.

On what basis?  We're a very poor side but to assume we'll take only 2 points from 11 games is crazy talk.

Even during the recent poor run of form we've taken 4 points from the last 5 games.

[levico]

All the talk about only needing 37 or 38 points to survive - right now I can't even see how we will get 30 points.

On what basis?  We're a very poor side but to assume we'll take only 2 points from 11 games is crazy talk.

Even during the recent poor run of form we've taken 4 points from the last 5 games.

Tongue in cheek but the truth is we just don't look like adding points very quickly. How often have we approached so called 'must win/winnable' games and come away with nothing. We could just about put up with it whilst our away matches provided points but that's dried up too.

[silhillvilla]

Relegation would be very hard to swallow. I already feel emotionally drained after 3.5 seasons of pain

[Dave Clark Five]

All the talk about only needing 37 or 38 points to survive - right now I can't even see how we will get 30 points.

On what basis?  We're a very poor side but to assume we'll take only 2 points from 11 games is crazy talk.

Even during the recent poor run of form we've taken 4 points from the last 5 games.

Tongue in cheek but the truth is we just don't look like adding points very quickly. How often have we approached so called 'must win/winnable' games and come away with nothing. We could just about put up with it whilst our away matches provided points but that's dried up too.

What does our current points per game ration give us if we keep it up to the end?

[rob_bridge]

Relegation would be very hard to swallow. I already feel emotionally drained after 3.5 seasons of pain

It would be a financial disaster. We are already sitting on a whole load of debt that will take a long time to pay off even with Premier League revenues..

[PeterWithesShin]

All the talk about only needing 37 or 38 points to survive - right now I can't even see how we will get 30 points.

On what basis?  We're a very poor side but to assume we'll take only 2 points from 11 games is crazy talk.

Even during the recent poor run of form we've taken 4 points from the last 5 games.

Tongue in cheek but the truth is we just don't look like adding points very quickly. How often have we approached so called 'must win/winnable' games and come away with nothing. We could just about put up with it whilst our away matches provided points but that's dried up too.

What does our current points per game ration give us if we keep it up to the end?

39. And a half. That half point could be vital!

[bertlambshank]

Relegation would be very hard to swallow. I already feel emotionally drained after 3.5 seasons of pain

It would be a financial disaster. We are already sitting on a whole load of debt that will take a long time to pay off even with Premier League revenues..

We could do a Bolton.

[PeterWithesShin]

Isn't the debt to Randy though?