This is the season...

[Toronto Villa]

We can't give up and have to fight hard until it's of no use mathematically. I think we'll come up a little short but that's not say lots will happen and change between now and the end of the season.

[myf]

When the boggies survived does anyone know what the points difference was at this point between 17th and 20th?

No idea. Someone on VillaTalk the other day said teams have been 8 points adrift in March and still stayed up. No idea how true that is but it would make thimngs look very good if true.

Interesting. The worry is that the players see all the stats about no team surviving with our points tally but surely what is important is the points difference.

[PeterWithesShin]

After 22 games the Bitters had 1 win, 13 points and were 5 from safety.

[QuintonVilla]

Trouble is we need to overhaul three teams, not just one. All the teams down there aren't going to lose every week. This week for instance Sunderland and Norwich lost but Newcastle and Bournemouth won.

I think it will be us, Norwich and then one of Sunderland or Swansea. Newcastle and Bournemouth have got a few surprise results up their sleeve and will stay up.

[saunders_heroes]

When the boggies survived does anyone know what the points difference was at this point between 17th and 20th?

No idea. Someone on VillaTalk the other day said teams have been 8 points adrift in March and still stayed up. No idea how true that is but it would make thimngs look very good if true.

Interesting. The worry is that the players see all the stats about no team surviving with our points tally but surely what is important is the points difference.

Teams have been dead and buried much later than January and still stayed up. What would give us a major boost would be 2 or 3 decent signings in the next week or two.

[PeterWithesShin]

After their 29th game last season Leicester had 19 points and were 7 from safety.

[Ormy Droid]

So long as our striking options consist of two giant tree trunks (Kozak, Gestede) and an unruly hippopotamus (Gabby), we're fuckety fucked.

[SoccerHQ]

Games are startingto run out now, there isn't 20 games left, just 16. Win 8 and we certainly stay up but a 50% win ratio is bordering on delusion given what we've seen.

I think at our maximum we can win six more games and draw a few but even it's only 20 ish points and we'd fall short with that.

[QuintonVilla]

Next week we could have really done with some pace in our team, but we haven't got any. Albion play 4 centre backs in defence, all big lads and good in the air but slow. They struggle against pace but it will play into their hands with Kozak and/or Gestede up there.

[aj2k77]

2 wins on the trot, it's a big ask but we are 100% in the mix if we can do that. We have Albion and Norwich, not the 2 toughest fixtures we could have. Get the players pumped up about it for the next week. I had all but given up hope but the fact we are actually trying to compete now on the pitch, well that's when things can happen. 4pts can snowball in to 10 very quickly in this league.

Technically we are also on our best run this season as well aren't we? If we can get to 18pts from 24 games, then you're probably looking at 19ish from the remaining 14 games, which isn't European form or anything excessive. We really need a striker in though.

[Richard E]

Next week we could have really done with some pace in our team, but we haven't got any. Albion play 4 centre backs in defence, all big lads and good in the air but slow. They struggle against pace but it will play into their hands with Kozak and/or Gestede up there.

Sinclair? He might have a point to prove to the Albion as well.

[Toronto Villa]

Next week we could have really done with some pace in our team, but we haven't got any. Albion play 4 centre backs in defence, all big lads and good in the air but slow. They struggle against pace but it will play into their hands with Kozak and/or Gestede up there.

Sinclair? He might have a point to prove to the Albion as well.

he did that with his goal vs that lot in the game last season. A very happy moment indeed.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

We have to increase the goal threat this month because, looking at our fixtures, mid-Feb to mid-March could kill us. Liverpool, Stoke, Everton, City and Spurs in a row. We need winnable games mixed in with those to close the gap and I don't see this side, as it currently is, being able to pull off a shock win at places like the Etihad. A couple of astute signings, though, and you never know.

[QuintonVilla]

We need a striker with pace, a winger who can cross a ball and a big bastard in central midfield. Reality is I think we'll probably get Debuchy and then someone we've never heard of.

[Ads]

Keep up this ratio and we'll be fine.

We will twat the Bitters next week. Fletcher is out, he dropped a washing machine off his scrap wagon and broke his foot, while Morriston is out too.

We will long ball them too, for the ultimate irony.