The Plot to Escape Relegation Thread 2015.

[supertom]

Think we need to win 3 of the 4 home games to be sure. I don't fancy too much out of the away games.

[Dave]

That run-in for QPR is shonky as hell. They need the three points more than us.

I'd say they have some winnable games - West Ham , Leicester,

Yet we have West Ham and Burnley and you seem sure that we may as well give up now.

[Gregorys Boy]

Our run in is tough, but I tend to agree that the home games are very winnerable or at least they are games in which we can get results.  I think we need two more wins hopefully starting tonight and then the odd point elsewhere.

I fancy beating West Ham just because they have the look of a side who are in cruise control with nothing much to play for and I don't think they have the best record at VP.  Think we might pick up a point against Everton, but can see that being tough, they are a hard team to predict.

[PaulWinch again]

Today is pivotal, if not decisive. If we get a win then hopefully we'll still be outside the bottom three at the end of our really difficult April and then confidence should be ok. If we lose then we are in real trouble and could be going into May needing to win 3 games.

[Malandro]

Today is pivotal, if not decisive. If we get a win then hopefully we'll still be outside the bottom three at the end of our really difficult April and then confidence should be ok. If we lose then we are in real trouble and could be going into May needing to win 3 games.

nice sunny day and then I read that! Its all true but not good for the old heart.

[villa for life]

Why does everyone think QPR's run in such a nightmare?

Us- relegation rivals
Chelsea: pretty much champions already
West Ham: nothing to play for
Liverpool: top four pretty much gone
Man city: not going to be champions but going to be top four
Newcastle: shit but will be safe
Leicester: already relegated

That's not a nightmare scenario in my opinion..

[silhillvilla]

Why does everyone think QPR's run in such a nightmare?

Us- relegation rivals
Chelsea: pretty much champions already
West Ham: nothing to play for
Liverpool: top four pretty much gone
Man city: not going to be champions but going to be top four
Newcastle: shit but will be safe
Leicester: already relegated

That's not a nightmare scenario in my opinion..

Agree, same with Sunderland run In aswell.
We really need to pull out our finger and start winning.
Losing to Swansea, Stoke & Newcastle was shocking and costly.

[supertom]

Why does everyone think QPR's run in such a nightmare?

Us- relegation rivals
Chelsea: pretty much champions already
West Ham: nothing to play for
Liverpool: top four pretty much gone
Man city: not going to be champions but going to be top four
Newcastle: shit but will be safe
Leicester: already relegated

That's not a nightmare scenario in my opinion..

Agree, same with Sunderland run In aswell.
We really need to pull out our finger and start winning.
Losing to Swansea, Stoke & Newcastle was shocking and costly.

I don't think losing to Swansea should be that shocking. They're almost 20 points better off than us at the moment. They're far superior in almost every way (a sad indication of how far we've fallen).
Newcastle was indeed poor, particularly given how shit they've been under Carver.
Stoke we were poor but in fairness but for a Vlaar cock up of monumental proportions we come away with a point.

That said if we don't win at the very least 2 of our last 4 home games (ideally we need to win 3) then we're probably going down and will thoroughly deserve it.

The way we've become though, I don't a defeat can ever be described as shocking. It's wholly unsurprising and seems to be our lot in life now.

[aj2k77]

QPR
Everton
West Ham
Burnley

Teams with a combined total of  10 away wins all season from 61 games. If we can't get 6/7 pts from that lot at least then we are shit and not good enough for the Premier League. We should be targeting everything single home game as a fucking win.

[silhillvilla]

Losing to swans is no disgrace but the manner of it was poor. We should have seen the game out .

[Lastfootstamper]

QPR
Everton
West Ham
Burnley

Teams with a combined total of  10 away wins all season from 61 games. If we can't get 6/7 pts from that lot at least then we are shit and not good enough for the Premier League. We should be targeting everything single home game as a fucking win.

Yep.

[ozzjim]

Stoke, Newcastle and Swansea were all very poor results for different reasons. Newcastle we should have put to bed with the chances we created, Swansea we just had no tactical plan to beat them, and once it was obvious they were the more likely side, having got to the 87th minute to not see it through was pretty awful, and Stoke, having got the early goal, to lose was just atrocious in truth.

[PaulWinch again]

Pretty poor result tonight, but luckily not completely disastrous. We're still in a lot of trouble.

[Malandro]

Gave it away. Should have been the easiest 3 points of the season.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep we should have walked that. The harsh reality is that Sherwood's major selection choices failed. Richardson was atrocious, Vlaar poor and Grealish not great.