Other Games - 2017/18

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

I'm reliably informed that three of their last five games are against Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs. So yes, I'd advise them to rack up  a shitload of points before April. Obviously I wish them all the very best with that.

[Toronto Villa]

The thought of that smug twat Pardew with his highly punchable face relegating them as we stroll to promotion makes my tummy tingle.

The Toronto winter has been quite harsh so far. The thought of them suffering and scraping the rest of the way ultimately failing gloriously warms my frozen cockles.

[tomd2103]

What goes around...

It's been coming for some time with them.  They've stuck with the same ageing group of players for years and have added a few more ageing players to boot. It will need something a bit special to get out of the situation they now find themselves in and could well struggle next season in the Championship unless they have a massive clear out.

[olaftab]

The thought of that smug twat Pardew with his highly punchable face relegating them as we stroll to promotion makes my tummy tingle.

There is the double whammy of Wolves and us. Wolves promotion will hurt them the most.

[Damo70]

Looking at their next 6 league fixtures, they either pick up a load of points from them or they're gone.

H) Huddersfield
A) Watford
H) Leicester
A) Bournemouth
H) Burnley
A) Swansea

Huddersfield appear to be in freefall but then so do Albion
Watford* seem to have lost the plot but are also capable of pulling out a win and have better players than Albion
Leicester are quietly and without fuss or fanfare having a pretty decent season
A trip to Bournemouth is always tricky
Burnley aren't great away and seem to be slipping a bit as the season goes on but are still better than Albion
Swansea seem to have found a burst of form lately

As somebody else already said, when you are rock bottom every game seems daunting.

*I accept they did regain the plot big time against Chelsea!

[kippaxvilla2]

I’ve got a feeling that Swansea game is at home as I seem to remember them losing away to Swansea in Pardews first game?

[andyh]

We know the feeling. When you are at the bottom, 1 win in 24, every game, irrespective of the opposition feels daunting. They're confidence must be absolutely shot, and if Sturridge was recruited to be the saviour, him going off after a couple of minutes will have crushed their spirit.

You are absolutely right TV.














Great innit?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[DB]

What goes around...

It's been coming for some time with them.  They've stuck with the same ageing group of players for years and have added a few more ageing players to boot. It will need something a bit special to get out of the situation they now find themselves in and could well struggle next season in the Championship unless they have a massive clear out.

1 win in 24, 7 points from safety with 11 games to go. They really need a massive upturn in form to get out of this. Not going to happen. However, I am keeping my powder dry with my Boggies mates as they have given me so much shit the last 2 years.

[MoetVillan]

Its heads we win, tails they lose.  If they stay up, thats six points in the baggies for us, if they go down, it will be terribleeeehahhahahahahahahah

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Am I the only one who looks at that Boggies squad and thinks that actually they shouldn’t be anywhere near adrift at the bottom of that league?  They’ve got no superstars but in Foster, Evans, that Polish bloke who’s on loan from PSG and diving Rodriguez up front they’d appear to have a decent spine there.  They’ve also got some reliable fodder around that, players like Barry and Brunt and Morrison who aren’t brilliant but are sort of steady and consistent, they've got some classic oafish centre-half support and they’ve got a bit of pace in Phillips and Burke.  They’re not a young squad but they’re not that ancient, and in this situation you’d think that experience would count for something.  Look at our relegation squad in comparison and it’s no wonder we plummeted, with our ragbag assortment of over-the-hill couldn’t-be-arsed wasters, unknown French kids and Championship punts.  There was barely any proven quality in there.  Don’t get me wrong, the Bitters are clearly bollocks and you’d have to pay me handsomely to go and watch them, but on paper they look at least as strong as some of the other teams down there.  Surely it can only be dreadful management that has them cut adrift like that.  Which is an enormous shame, of course.  Haha.

[olaftab]

It's not about talent it's about attitude. Poor competitive attitude eventually relegates teams. This emanates from years of low expectations, where a club is happy to finish 17th, resulting in gradual performance drop to a level from where it's unrecoverable. Sunderland and ourselves are good example of that. Teams that hover around 15/16/17th  season after season end up going down.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Am I the only one who looks at that Boggies squad and thinks that actually they shouldn’t be anywhere near adrift at the bottom of that league?  They’ve got no superstars but in Foster, Evans, that Polish bloke who’s on loan from PSG and diving Rodriguez up front they’d appear to have a decent spine there.  They’ve also got some reliable fodder around that, players like Barry and Brunt and Morrison who aren’t brilliant but are sort of steady and consistent, they've got some classic oafish centre-half support and they’ve got a bit of pace in Phillips and Burke.  They’re not a young squad but they’re not that ancient, and in this situation you’d think that experience would count for something.  Look at our relegation squad in comparison and it’s no wonder we plummeted, with our ragbag assortment of over-the-hill couldn’t-be-arsed wasters, unknown French kids and Championship punts.  There was barely any proven quality in there.  Don’t get me wrong, the Bitters are clearly bollocks and you’d have to pay me handsomely to go and watch them, but on paper they look at least as strong as some of the other teams down there.  Surely it can only be dreadful management that has them cut adrift like that.  Which is an enormous shame, of course.  Haha.

Agent Barry, Doing a wonderful job ;-)

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Oh I agree Olaftab, and they obviously stuck with Pulis too long so were completely stagnant - I haven't looked at their form over 2017 as a calendar year but they seemed to get almost all of last season's points before Christmas - but even then they weren't exactly circling the drain like we were. The summer before we dropped we sold our two best players and replaced them with vastly inferior ones. The Boggies haven't done that, they appeared to have bought well in the summer to freshen up the squad - I still don't know how they got that PSG bloke to sign, I assume he has a boinging fetish or something. As I said, on paper they didn't look like relegation candidates to me yet they're going about it in style. I guess they've all been dragged down to the low level that had been set.  It's hard to get out of that rut. As you say, this is where attitude comes into it. Their plucky rivals down there are up for the fight. Looks like the Bitters haven't got it in them.

[PeterWithesShin]

I’ve got a feeling that Swansea game is at home as I seem to remember them losing away to Swansea in Pardews first game?

Yeah you're right.

[Toronto Villa]

Wonderfully petty. I want it embedded into their minds so that they wake constantly from their cardboard boxes in a sweat.