This is the season...

[Villa in Denmark]

I don't foresee us being in the bottom three by the time we kick off against West Ham on Boxing Day.

Bloody hell... that's optimism for you...

I'd have gone for end of January personally.

[Diablo]

Is that a particularly big deal? The owner who has up to now spent a huge amount (given that we're talking about Bournemouth) on transfer fees and infrastructure is selling a quarter of his stake to an American businessman?

That doesn't strike me as worrying news for us at all.

I know it shouldn't be a particularly big deal that was kind of what I was getting at. The fact that I'm not that confident that RL will invest that much in Jan and the fact that Bournemouth may out spend us  to get themselves out of trouble I think will be tonight's bad dream ;-) I hope you're right Dave. This stuff shouldn't even be crossing my mind lol

[ChicagoLion]

7 games before New Year. Plenty of points up for grabs there I reckon.

Everton (A)
Watford (H)
Saints (A)
Arsenal (H)
Newcastle (A)
West Ham (H)
Norwich (A)

i think we need 12 points from these.

[Toronto Villa]

Just looking at the table makes me think that getting to third-bottom shouldn't be beyond us even after our next game (Bournemouth have a worse goal difference). Getting to fourth-bottom and beyond, however, will take some work. Let's hope that Norwich start being as bad as they bloody well ought to be, looking at their team.

If we get to third bottom as you suggest, then if we cannot surpass Norwich over the next 26 games then we don't deserve to go down. With this squad, manager and resources we deserve to be closed down as a football club.

[Stirchley Villain]

Just looking at the table makes me think that getting to third-bottom shouldn't be beyond us even after our next game (Bournemouth have a worse goal difference). Getting to fourth-bottom and beyond, however, will take some work. Let's hope that Norwich start being as bad as they bloody well ought to be, looking at their team.

If we get to third bottom as you suggest, then if we cannot surpass Norwich over the next 26 games then we don't deserve to go down. With this squad, manager and resources we deserve to be closed down as a football club.

Don't you mean we do deserve to go down?

[Dave]

Just looking at the table makes me think that getting to third-bottom shouldn't be beyond us even after our next game (Bournemouth have a worse goal difference). Getting to fourth-bottom and beyond, however, will take some work. Let's hope that Norwich start being as bad as they bloody well ought to be, looking at their team.

If we get to third bottom as you suggest, then if we cannot surpass Norwich over the next 26 games then we don't deserve to go down. With this squad, manager and resources we deserve to be closed down as a football club.

Don't you mean we do deserve to go down?

"We don't just deserve to go down, we deserve to be closed down"

[Stirchley Villain]

Just looking at the table makes me think that getting to third-bottom shouldn't be beyond us even after our next game (Bournemouth have a worse goal difference). Getting to fourth-bottom and beyond, however, will take some work. Let's hope that Norwich start being as bad as they bloody well ought to be, looking at their team.

If we get to third bottom as you suggest, then if we cannot surpass Norwich over the next 26 games then we don't deserve to go down. With this squad, manager and resources we deserve to be closed down as a football club.

Don't you mean we do deserve to go down?

"We don't just deserve to go down, we deserve to be closed down"

Oh yeah... makes sense when re-read 😉

[Ads]

I don't think its a stretch to think we will get five more points than Newcastle in between now and Boxing Day, especially when we will play them. Of course, things may have changed somewhat by then, with others struggling.

There is a team sat 9 points in front of us whose defensive nihilistic approach to football leads me to suspect that they will be feeling a little nervous come April, but will ultimately be safe.

Bournemouth, Norwich and Sunderland will drop for me though.

[Ad@m]

I don't think its a stretch to think we will get five more points than Newcastle in between now and Boxing Day

Except the fact we've only got 2 points since mid-August...

[Skerra]

Before the Ģiteh match I did a prediction at work on likely points we will accumulate up to New Year:-

* Manchester City - 1
* Everton - 1
* Watford - 3
* Southampton - 1
* Arsenal - 0
* Newcastle - 1
* West Ham - 3
* Norwich - 3

Which would put us on 17 points and, although not great, it would be a lot better than the 4 we had before the match last sunday. Also, suggest you take a look at the fixtures up until new year for Norwich, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Sunderland and suddenly, to me at least, the escape does not seem impossible.

[KevinGage]

We are going to need a significant upturn in form to even hit 25 points before the end of the season.

With the run of fixtures we now have, If we are not cut adrift by January, I'll be a bit more optimistic.

But as it stands, I think it will be ourselves, Bournemouth and Norwich.

[Dave]

But as it stands, I think it will be ourselves, Bournemouth and Norwich.

What have you seen from Sunderland that makes you think we can't turn round a one-point deficit on them?

[Ads]

I don't think its a stretch to think we will get five more points than Newcastle in between now and Boxing Day

Except the fact we've only got 2 points since mid-August...

Well yes that's relevant if you believe that nothing will change. In which case we are already relegated and Man City have already won the league. The variables have changed though and for the better.

I think we have good players and lacked organisation, I thinking with the coming of organisation, we will see a marked improvement.

[Stirchley Villain]

I think we're back in the game, but our lack of goals are a real concern...

[myf]

Before the Ģiteh match I did a prediction at work on likely points we will accumulate up to New Year:-

* Manchester City - 1
* Everton - 1
* Watford - 3
* Southampton - 1
* Arsenal - 0
* Newcastle - 1
* West Ham - 3
* Norwich - 3

Which would put us on 17 points and, although not great, it would be a lot better than the 4 we had before the match last sunday. Also, suggest you take a look at the fixtures up until new year for Norwich, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Sunderland and suddenly, to me at least, the escape does not seem impossible.

1 defeat in the next 8 games? If we've got 17 points by xmas we'll be laughing