The Plot to Escape Relegation Thread 2015.

[Smoke]

If we take it at the moment that our "Relegation Rivals" are Everton, Hull, Sunderland, QPR, Burnley & Leicester How many more wins are these teams going to pick up?

Everton fixtures: (not taking into account europa league games)

* Newcastle
* QPR (W)
* Southampton
* Swansea (D)
* Burnley (W)
* Man Utd
* Villa (D)
* Sunderland (W)
* West Ham
* Spurs

I predict Everton will pick up 11 more points.

Hull Fixtures:

* Leicester (W)
* Chelsea
* Swansea
* Southampton (D)
* Liverpool
* Crystal Palace (D)
* Arsenal
* Burnley (W)
* Spurs
* Man Utd

I predict Hull will pick up 8 more points

Sunderland Fixtures:

* Villa (D)
* West Ham
* Newcastle (W)
* Crystal Palace (D)
* Arsenal
* Stoke
* Southampton
* Everton (D)
* Leicester (W)
* Chelsea

I Predict Sunderland will pick up 9 more points

QPR Fixtures:

* Spurs
* Crystal Palace (D)
* Everton
* West Brom (W)
* Chelsea
* Villa
* West Ham (D)
* Liverpool
* Man City
* Newcastle (W)
* Leicester (W)

I Predict QPR Will pick up 11 more points

Burnley Fixtures:

* Man City
* Southampton (D)
* Spurs
* Arsenal
* Everton
* Leicester (W)
* West Ham (D)
* Hull
* Stoke (D)
* Villa

I Predict Burnley will pick up 6 more points

Leicester Fixtures:

* Hull
* Spurs
* West Ham
* West Brom (W)
* Swansea
* Burnley
* Chelsea
* Newcastle (W)
* Southampton (D)
* Sunderland
* QPR

I Predict Leicester will pick up 7 more points

Villa fixtures:

* Sunderland (D)
* Swansea (W)
* Man Utd
* Spurs
* QPR (W)
* Man City
* Everton (D)
* West Ham
* Southampton
* Burnley (W)

I Predict Villa will pick up 11 more points

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Everton - 39 pts
Villa - 36 pts
Hull - 35 pts
Sunderland - 35 pts
QPR - 33 pts
Burnley - 28 Pts
Leicester - 25 pts


Quite a few 6 pointers amoungst our "Rivals" too in that run in.

at the end of the day we've just got to beat the results of 3 teams.

WAAAAY too close for comfort for my liking.

Yes, I don't have much to do today!

[PaulWinch again]

See the reason I think we could really do with winning the next two is that if we don't there's going to be an awful lot of pressure on the QPR, Everton and Burnley games.

[teamvillage]

I'd be discounting Hull from my thoughts, but their run-in is atrocious, isn't it?

[Smoke]

There's an arguement for including WBA & Crystal Palace too. There's always a team that's so close to the line but not quite over it for a month or so.

See Us last season, after 28 games sat in 11th place with 31 points!

[QBVILLA]

All the results have gone our way this week.
Didn't realise that Everton are down there, too.
Although I don't think they'll get into to much trouble, the way they're tumbling it could be worrying times.

I would love the Baggies to hit a bit of a rough patch now.

The minute they appointed Pulis I ruled them out of relegation. They'll continue to chip away for the remainder of the season and I expect them to be safe with at least three games to go. Everton, well as the saying goes, "no one is too good to go down", but surely Everton are? For me Leicester and Burnley will go. The remaining place will go to QPR,Sunderland, Hull or us. Personally I think it will be Sunderland.

[Percy McCarthy]

April looks absolutely brutal

IfWhen we get to the semis the QPR game will be moved. No idea to when though.

Fixed. We wouldn't win it if we weren't in the semis, ya daft bugger.

I don't get it.

[Big Dick Edwards]

If ever there was an optimum time to win two league games on the bounce, the Sunderland game is it.

[Matt Collins]

I can't face this game by game predicting again!

But if you look at the next two games:

Villa are three points clear of the bottom three. If we could get four points from Sunderland and Swansea that's 7 points the others would need to catch up on

QPR have got Spurs h and palace a, which they could easily lose both of

Burnley have got Man City and saints a, ditto

There's a lot of ifs and buts there but on current form I doubt the others will pick up too many points. If we can get four or more we will be looking a lot healthier

Aw night need that gap tho given our subsequent fixtures

[Villafirst]

For me, great result at Blunderland, but still gonna be tight with the three tough April away games. Need to win 3 of the 5 home games - then I think we'll be safe.  I think it'll work out that we'll play 4 out 5 of the last games at home due to the QPR game being re-arranged?

[SoccerHQ]

Two more wins and two draws will do it you'd think.

No chance on today's showing Sunderland will get 10 more points this season, they'll probably struggle to get over 30.

Great thing today was our GD has levelled up with everyone else.

Think the bottom three will be QPR, Leicester and Sunderland.

[Pete]

Prediction. We'll be safe on 9th May when Man City beat QPR.

[Villafirst]

After today's result at Burnley, wouldn't rely on Man City to beat QPR!

[Des Little]

I reckon we need 10 points, and the quicker we get them, the better.

[supertom]

I don't think there's a game left that really scares me. Certainly none of those sides will have a backline that we shouldn't fancy breaching. I also have faith we'll approach the Utd and Spurs game with intensity and fight and play to win, as opposed to lying on our backs for a belly tickling like normal.
QPR and Sunderland are a mess. Burnley got a good result but I still can't see them getting too many more points.

I also reckon by the end of the season we'll no longer be the lowest scorers in the Prem.

[Villafirst]

Still think 40 points is the benchmark - you get some strange results in the relegation run in! We certainly need 3 points against Swansea with  the 3 tough April away games.