This is the season...

[joe_c]

Not to be a party pooper but if Swansea beat Sunderland tomorrow night we will be 10 points adrift again.

Thanks for that.

[Mossie Hennebry]

Maybe, just maybe, we are too big to go down? Hope springs eternal...

[MarkM]

One win is not any indicator of how we will progress this season.

I remember in our last relegation season we beat West Ham (I think it was 3-1) and the headlines were 'It's Vintage Claret'

We will need to see a series of good results and a real closing of the gap in the table before we can have any real optimism of an escape.

I hope this result is the kick start we need, with the fans reaction at the weekend maybe it has stuck a sharp stick into the club and will get everyone motivated

[luke95]

All we have to do is win 3 games more than everybody else.
Piece of piss, why the worry ?

[Ads]

It was the manner of the win that springs a little hope; fight, determination, organisation, no lack of ability and winning by the opposition doing something daft for once.

[PaulWinch again]

It was the manner of the win that springs a little hope; fight, determination, organisation, no lack of ability and winning by the opposition doing something daft for once.

Yep we've got to keep up that level of performance and build on it as well. Then we need to take each individual game as it comes and not worry too much about the table. We've just got to keep winning now.

[SoccerHQ]

So as it stands tonight we are 8 points adrift....but Swansea have been very much dragged into this now.

I've previously discounted them as they have good players so expected them to win tonight and pull away. They didn't and inexperienced boss (doubt Alan Curtis will last the season) so they're right in it now.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

There are realistically 6 teams fighting relegation. We look the obvious team to go but things can change.

Looking at the fixtures I can only really see:

Sunderland getting 6 more points.

Newcastle maybe 9 or max. 12.

Norwich maybe only 6.

Bournemouth possibly only 9.

Swansea as few as 6 maybe 9 but not much more.

The key is to beat all of the above when we play them and pick up a few points here and there. It's not impossible but Saturday is massive. A win against Leicester and everybody above will be ordering large size diapers.

[SoccerHQ]

Sunderland will get more than 6 points rest of the season, have we not learnt anything from their miraculous run ins of previous seasons? They are winning games earlier this season.

I'll say it again, if survival rate is something like 38 points which has been our bar in recent seasons we have no chance.

However something low like 32 or 33 points, why not? 21 points isn't an impossible task, it's 5 wins and 6 draws from final 17 games.

[myf]

Hmmm. Getting carried away I feel. Sunderland have taken 6 points from last 2 games so they're likely to get many more than 6 over the next 4 months. Newcastle are strengthening as well.

We'll need at least 24 points from 17 games as I see it. A humongous task with this squad which looks like it won't be strengthened in the window

[saunders_heroes]

Hmmm. Getting carried away I feel. Sunderland have taken 6 points from last 2 games so they're likely to get many more than 6 over the next 4 months. Newcastle are strengthening as well.

We'll need at least 24 points from 17 games as I see it. A humongous task with this squad which looks like it won't be strengthened in the window

I'll be dumbfounded if we don't strengthen with at least 3 players this month, it'll feel like we've been sabotaged if we don't. We can't give up half way through January and I don't think we will. I'm sure Garde has put his foot down and demanded support from the chairman. We can still stay up.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Sunderland will get more than 6 points rest of the season, have we not learnt anything from their miraculous run ins of previous seasons? They are winning games earlier this season.

I'll say it again, if survival rate is something like 38 points which has been our bar in recent seasons we have no chance.

However something low like 32 or 33 points, why not? 21 points isn't an impossible task, it's 5 wins and 6 draws from final 17 games.

I've being saying for some time now, I really believe we'll see the lowest number of points recorded this season to stay up.

[ChicagoLion]

Hmmm. Getting carried away I feel. Sunderland have taken 6 points from last 2 games so they're likely to get many more than 6 over the next 4 months. Newcastle are strengthening as well.

We'll need at least 24 points from 17 games as I see it. A humongous task with this squad which looks like it won't be strengthened in the window

I'll be dumbfounded if we don't strengthen with at least 3 players this month, it'll feel like we've been sabotaged if we don't. We can't give up half way through January and I don't think we will. I'm sure Garde has put his foot down and demanded support from the chairman. We can still stay up.

No one is joining any time soon,

[SheffieldVillain]

Hmmm. Getting carried away I feel. Sunderland have taken 6 points from last 2 games so they're likely to get many more than 6 over the next 4 months. Newcastle are strengthening as well.

We'll need at least 24 points from 17 games as I see it. A humongous task with this squad which looks like it won't be strengthened in the window

I'll be dumbfounded if we don't strengthen with at least 3 players this month, it'll feel like we've been sabotaged if we don't. We can't give up half way through January and I don't think we will. I'm sure Garde has put his foot down and demanded support from the chairman. We can still stay up.

No one is joining any time soon,

Really?
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-boss-remi-garde-10730027

[saunders_heroes]

Hmmm. Getting carried away I feel. Sunderland have taken 6 points from last 2 games so they're likely to get many more than 6 over the next 4 months. Newcastle are strengthening as well.

We'll need at least 24 points from 17 games as I see it. A humongous task with this squad which looks like it won't be strengthened in the window

I'll be dumbfounded if we don't strengthen with at least 3 players this month, it'll feel like we've been sabotaged if we don't. We can't give up half way through January and I don't think we will. I'm sure Garde has put his foot down and demanded support from the chairman. We can still stay up.

No one is joining any time soon,

It worrying that it's the middle of January and we've signed no one, I'll give you that, but last night's win revealed a tiny bit of light at the end of the tunnel. If we don't strengthen with a few players it'll be unforgivable though.