Relegation?

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't get why the Bitters don't get taken more seriously as being deep in the shit. They have Citeh and Arsenal away, West Ham and Stoke at home. They have a truly abysmal record against Stoke going back 20 odd years and have won at home twice in 7 months.

[SoccerHQ]

I think most think they'll get something at Sunderland take 4 points from West Ham and Stoke, that would get them to 38.

I think it's possible they could go down but unlikely. That said they are two points below us so given the doom mongers proclaiming us as certs to go down you would think they'd be noticed aswell.

[Monty]

I don't get why the Bitters don't get taken more seriously as being deep in the shit. They have Citeh and Arsenal away, West Ham and Stoke at home. They have a truly abysmal record against Stoke going back 20 odd years and have won at home twice in 7 months.

Christ, they are in trouble. It would be quite funny if they went.

[PeterWithesShin]

Oooops, missed saying they had Sunderland away as well.

[Monty]

Even better. May as many teams below us as possible play each other as often as possible.

[levico]

As soon as we say such and such a club are in deep trouble, they pull off  a surprising result - look at Sunderland today.

The only club in the bottom six or seven I don't think are capable of such performances are us. Even with the negative affect of Culverhouse and Karsa and the reported positive training session we were absolutely clueless today.

We remain in serious trouble.

[rob_bridge]

As soon as we say such and such a club are in deep trouble, they pull off  a surprising result - look at Sunderland today.

The only club in the bottom six or seven I don't think are capable of such performances are us. Even with the negative affect of Culverhouse and Karsa and the reported positive training session we were absolutely clueless today.

We remain in serious trouble.

Agree - laughing at the Bitters is a bit like laughing at the next door neighbour whose wife has run off with the local Lothario without realising he has been and is shagging your Missus too

[curiousorange]

As soon as we're mathematically safe (this includes that ridiculous GD swing that will have to happen), I'll take delight in the ill-fortune of others. While there's even a snifter of a chance we could go, I'll keep the gloating to myself.

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't think saying they are in trouble, and currently more than us, is gloating.

[David_Nab]

The problem you have now is there is getting less to fight for near the top end.Liverpool should easily wrap up the title now leaving Chelsea concentrating on Champs League and City coasting waiting for the beach.Arsenal and Everton are the ones really fighting it out now.

Sunderland on paper City and Chelsea away should have got nothing on form instead they got 4 points.

Cardiff have gotten points from no where in last 2 games and have to play Newcastle who are on the back of 5 defeats in a row.

I fear we like 4/5 teams are going to go into the last weekend fighting to stay up.

[curiousorange]

I don't saying they are in trouble, and currently more than us, is gloating.

No, it isn't. In this situation, I'd normally be grinning my arse off, especially as I have to go to a Boggie-dominated wedding in a fortnight. But I can't be smug until we're safe, which is a killer.

[curiousorange]

The problem you have now is there is getting less to fight for near the top end.Liverpool should easily wrap up the title now leaving Chelsea concentrating on Champs League and City coasting waiting for the beach.Arsenal and Everton are the ones really fighting it out now.

Sunderland on paper City and Chelsea away should have got nothing on form instead they got 4 points.

Cardiff have gotten points from no where in last 2 games and have to play Newcastle who are on the back of 5 defeats in a row.

I fear we like 4/5 teams are going to go into the last weekend fighting to stay up.

A few weekends this season, results have gone our way, enough to pull us clear, and we've not taken those chances. I fear those free passes have been used up.

[ozzjim]

I think the last day could be very nerve wracking for us still.

[PeterWithesShin]

Using that as a point, then surely the teams we have left to face don't have a fat lot to play for either?

[curiousorange]

Using that as a point, then surely the teams we have left to face don't have a fat lot to play for either?

No, they don't. I think a team with a good motivator could have turned over Southampton today, for example. If we'd have had a frenetic result or had battered a team like we did at the fag end of last season, we could have strung three or so wins together in the preceding and following weeks. But there seems to be nothing about Villa at the moment where you can say "look, that's what you can do when you try".