Relegation?

[levico]

I don't think we'll get 10th now.

I'd settle for 17th but I'm not confident in that with Lambert in charge.

[Monty]

Despite how shit we are we won't drop. To catch us

Sunderland need at least 9 points from away Chavski, Citeh and Manure, home Cardiff, Bitter, Swansea. And they currently have 1 point in their last 8 games.

Cardiff need at least 6 points from home, Stoke & Chavski, away Sunderland & Newcastle. They've won 3 of their last 18.

Fulham, are one that could catch us, but they still need at least 5 points from Spurs and Stoke away, Hull Palace home.

Norwich need (barring a big GD swing) 3 points from Liverpool & Arsenal (home), Manure & Chavski (away).

So i'm confident we'll stay up, i'm also as sure as I can be we'll win at least one game before the end of the season, but I repeat, it's just not sodding good enough to be in this position again

Agreed, though I wouldn't describe it as us avoiding relegation - it's relegation avoiding us.

[adrenachrome]

11/1 against the drop from William Hill now, and the best on offer is 20/1. It was 50/1 a couple of weeks ago.

When we dropped into the old Second Division in 1967, we looked safe going into April. Then this happened:

25 Mar 1967   Aston Villa v Stoke City   W   2-1    
28 Mar 1967   Aston Villa v West Ham United L   0 -2   
01 Apr 1967   Everton v Aston Villa    L   3-1   
08 Apr 1967   Aston Villa v Fulham    D   1-1   
15 Apr 1967   Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa   L   3-0   
19 Apr 1967   Manchester City v Aston Villa   D   1-1   
22 Apr 1967   Aston Villa v Burnley   L   0-1   
29 Apr 1967   Manchester United v Aston Villa   L   3-1   
06 May 1967   Aston Villa v Everton   L   2-4   
13 May 1967   Southampton v Aston Villa   L   6-2   

What made me look this up was talking to an old friend who said he was getting an unsettling sense of deja vu.

[PeterWithesShin]

I should add I say at least as that's what they need to catch us even if we lose every game.

[Legion]

Despite how shit we are we won't drop. To catch us

Sunderland need at least 9 points from away Chavski, Citeh and Manure, home Cardiff, Bitter, Swansea. And they currently have 1 point in their last 8 games.

Cardiff need at least 6 points from home, Stoke & Chavski, away Sunderland & Newcastle. They've won 3 of their last 18.

Fulham, are one that could catch us, but they still need at least 5 points from Spurs and Stoke away, Hull Palace home.

Norwich need (barring a big GD swing) 3 points from Liverpool & Arsenal (home), Manure & Chavski (away).

So i'm confident we'll stay up, i'm also as sure as I can be we'll win at least one game before the end of the season, but I repeat, it's just not sodding good enough to be in this position again

I so hope you are correct.

[Ads]

We won't go down as per PWS post, but it shouldn't have come to this.

[Tuco Salamanca]

If we went down we'd have to improve dramatically just to make the play-offs.

[pauliewalnuts]

I am not too sure we are going to survive. At this point of the season it is about momentum as much as anything, and we have just lost four games in a row - games we'd have expected to get something from mostly

It doesn't really matter though as unless something major changes it will happen next season or they one after.

We have become a shinier more famous Wigan staving off the drop increasingly desperately.

A total shambles from top to bottom.

[bertlambshank]

I am not too sure we are going to survive. At this point of the season it is about momentum as much as anything, and we have just lost four games in a row - games we'd have expected to get something from mostly

It doesn't really matter though as unless something major changes it will happen next season or they one after.

We have become a shinier more famous Wigan staving off the drop increasingly desperately.

A total shambles from top to bottom.

New manager bounce?

[supertom]

Two wins on the spin will do Fulham the world of good. I think they'll be above us come May. I think we're resting on Norwich getting nothing from their difficult run in.

[saunders_heroes]

It should be of no surprise that we are where we are right now. We've had 4 years where we have sold our best players and replaced them with inferior ones. A recipe for disaster if ever there was one.
Randy Lerner is at fault 100% and the sooner he sells up and gets out the better.

[myf]

Lerner has mad some bad appointments but the majority wanted lambert. I think we can excuse him that one.  Very worrying who will be appointed next though.

Egg on face with martinez

[Archie]

My question is always the same. How long will it take to some of our  mates to acknowledge that we are in the hands of a clueless  man that is driving us straight to hell?

I can not understand how the legendary  claret and blue army can remain so supine.
In Italy fans would have done the revolution and the so said manager would have been sacked 5 months ago. . .

[ChicagoLion]

Despite how shit we are we won't drop. To catch us

Sunderland need at least 9 points from away Chavski, Citeh and Manure, home Cardiff, Bitter, Swansea. And they currently have 1 point in their last 8 games.

Cardiff need at least 6 points from home, Stoke & Chavski, away Sunderland & Newcastle. They've won 3 of their last 18.

Fulham, are one that could catch us, but they still need at least 5 points from Spurs and Stoke away, Hull Palace home.

Norwich need (barring a big GD swing) 3 points from Liverpool & Arsenal (home), Manure & Chavski (away).

So i'm confident we'll stay up, i'm also as sure as I can be we'll win at least one game before the end of the season, but I repeat, it's just not sodding good enough to be in this position again

I so hope you are correct.

The trouble is I can see a combination of the above more likely than us getting any more points unless something changes.

[Toronto Villa]

It will one of those situations that if the season was two games longer we'd be down. As it is we'll just about survive though not for the apparent want of trying to go down.