The Plot to Escape Relegation Thread 2015.

[Matt Collins]

I can only see a draw v Everton if I'm being logical.

I see the happy pills have kicked in

The weekend was a salutary reminder of where we are as a club and where they are. Don't think we are solid enough to win, or crap enough to lose, I'm going 1-1.

I think the lesson learned from the weekend is that we cant defend and they can ( or at least on Sunday). Other than that I dont think there is much between the sides and home advantage for us could be enough

Quite. I'm very confident we will match or bette them. But we probably need to be two goals better than them to win by one

[Pete3206]

We should be aiming to remain unbeaten for the rest of the season, 8-10 points. No reason why we can't.

Fucking right as well.

[Matt Collins]

Even with a pessimistic scenario - eg 1 or maybe even 0 pts from the next three games- I still think a win against burnley will be enough to see us ok. And I think they'll be down by then.

Sunderland are the team I'm Counting on. If we beat burnley they'll need five more points and I don't think they'll get it

[SoccerHQ]

I don't think Sunderland will win another game this season although now I've typed that no doubt they'll effortlessly roll over Southampton this weekend.

It might be one of those situations where we've already got enough points to be safe now (bit like last season when we were safe after beating Chelsea mid March but it didn't seem that way in the final few weeks) but I wouldn't want to take that risk and fully expect us to get at least 4 more points this season as the aim of course should be to try to finish as high up the league as possible.

[Des Little]

A win and a draw and that'll be enough I tells ya

[Billy Walker]

If we approach the Everton match a bit like the home Hull game of last season and go full out for the three points - and get them -the rest of the season will be a doddle.  Three points this Saturday, let's get the job done.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Quite. I'm very confident we will match or bette them. But we probably need to be two goals better than them to win by one

I'm confused. Surely we only need to be one goal better to win by one?

[Matt Collins]

We need to perform to the standard that would warrant a two goal victory because we'll probably gift them at least one goal.  Bit like the FA cup game. We had to murder QPR to get a draw too

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

Ah, right. Wasn't actually that hard to work out...

[PaulWinch again]

We could really do with Hull losing tonight.

[Des Little]

I've decided to to keep a distance from other games...I don't actively look for the score during the game, just once it's over. It helps to avoid that horrible feeling of anguish if you're waiting on an equaliser or winner.  Let's just see hoe the cards fall....and win our own games of course.

[MONCABA]

We could really do with Hull losing tonight.

I would be more confident if Hull were away.

[Singapore Villa]

Liverpool had better turn up tonight. 

[dekko]

If only Newcastle had appointed Carver one or two games earlier and they'd be in seriously deep trouble!  You'd expect Leicester to beat them this weekend given their respective form, which would put Leicester on 34, and with QPR and Sunderland to play, they'd be more or less safe already.

So I think it's down to the current bottom 3 (Burnley/QPR/Sunderland) plus us and Hull.  On current form, and with the fixtures left, I'd say we're the least likely to go down, but this close to the end there is very little room for error.

My guess is that we'll go into the last day needing to avoid defeat against an already relegated Burnley.  As bad as we've been at home, I think we'd smash them.

[ROBBO]

I went through the remaining fixtures and as silly as it seems we may have enough points already.