Is this the season... (Poll reset after Albion double)

[Damo70]

You can only play 'dare' for so long. If you keep running across main roads or railway tracks for long enough your luck will run out at some point.

[Ads]

Nah, each season there will always be at least three sides who are far more inept than us. Its very difficult to get relegated in this league.

15th has our name all over it.

[Villan For Life]

You can only play 'dare' for so long. If you keep running across main roads or railway tracks for long enough your luck will run out at some point.

That's how I see it.

[PaulWinch again]

Nah, each season there will always be at least three sides who are far more inept than us. Its very difficult to get relegated in this league.

15th has our name all over it.

Are you Randy Lerner Ads?

[tomd2103]

To be honest, I've feared for us in each of the last four seasons and we've managed to avoid any real relegation dramas.  I guess that is exactly what Wigan fans would have said up to a couple of years ago though.

[rob_bridge]

To be honest, I've feared for us in each of the last four seasons and we've managed to avoid any real relegation dramas.  I guess that is exactly what Wigan fans would have said up to a couple of years ago though.

Wigna. No. They played good football.

More like Cov under Don Howe and Bobby Gould

[paul_e]

I'm with Ads, we'll do just enough again, 38-42 points and safe with a game or 2 to go, not good enough for Villa but good enough to stay in the league.

[supertom]

Staying 15th won't let us hold onto Benteke, Delph etc. If they go, and we can't replace adequately, then we go next season. That's if we've managed to survive this.

[not3bad]

My blood is pulsing as we enter our annual race for 15th.

[Ads]

My blood is pulsing as we enter our annual race for 15th.

Hold onto your seats!

Poor Seattle Villain.

[supertom]

My blood is pulsing as we enter our annual race for 15th.

Hold onto your seats!

Poor Seattle Villain.

I suspect we'll come just short of our usual 15th placing. I think we'll end up 16th or 17th. Which at this point, with Lambert in charge, I'd take.
Who knows if QPR will turn it around. Austins a good finisher and they've a few half decent players that might keep them up. Leicester have a run coming up which will tell a lot about where they might finish. They've got 3 out of the next 4 games where you'd expect them to pick up points and if Ulloa keeps scoring, who knows.

Palace don't have any firepower and are worse with the ball than us. They've got spirit though, but Warnock isn't a Premiership manager, he's destined to take them where they belong I think.

Newcastle will be clear. West Brom will probably finish ahead of us. They're just building a head of steam now and Berahinho looks good.

Sunderland, who knows. They look disastrous, but Poyets shown an ability to string results together when he has to.

Burnley are gone. Plenty of fight but no quality.

A lot depends on January's window too. I don't envision us doing much. Other sides may well spend their way (or try) out of trouble.

[Ads]

The run Leicester are on at the moment tells you where they will finish. I will be massively shocked if either of QPR or Burnley are still in the league next season, while Sunderland still seem to be as poor as they were last season.

[nigel]

I'm in the 'Probably not, but worried' box.
I'm hanging on to once we get our full team back to fitness we'll have enough to make it safe.
With Benteke scoring them, Guzan saving them, Senderos to bolster defence & Delph the midfield, a fit Kozak giving an option and Sanchez finding his feet.
I also think the when Benteke's up to speed Weimann will rediscover his form

I'm sounding quite desperate 

[AGRIPPA]

The thing that worries me is that we will manage to stay up and nothing will change....

[PeterWithesShin]

This is the kind of thing I think we need, I get the feeling there is a lack of motivational people in the dressing room. Especially when the chips are down.