Anyone starting to get worried?

[gpbarr]

One game at a time - all that matters right now is Tottenham at home in a weeks time. Big crowd, big atmosphere, big performance needed. Worrying about the other fixtures is needless.

[Drummond]

Yes. I think the world could be coming to an end.

Smith is out of his depth.
Grealish is definitely going, whatever happens.
We're going to be relegated.
We haven't got enough players.
We haven't got enough quality.
The owners aren't ambitious enough.
Our Sporting Director can't see into the future.
The CEO isn't sorting everything out quickly enough.
The past was shit at times so that's bound to carry on.

But most of all I'm worried that I'm not worried about all of the above.

[Legion]

Smith is struggling at this level but will hopefully come good given time.
Grealish will leave if we get relegated, stay if we stop up.
We could possibly be relegated.
We haven't got enough experienced players at this level.
We have enough quality if they perform to their standards.
The owners have saved us from doing a Portsmouth thanks to Dr Tony.
Our Sporting Director can see what we need to do.
The CEO is doing what he can.
The recent past was shit but the future is looking a lot better than a few years ago.

[Drummond]

Quite.

[DB]

50/50 staying up

[Risso]

I really think that dismal performance at Bournemouth was the tipping point unfortunately.  It was a pivotal match, that if we'd won would have given us a bit of respite with the tough run of fixtures coming up.  The fact that the manager and team couldn't raise themselves for it speaks volumes.  According to most of the bookies, we're amongst the 3 favourites to go down, despite not being in the bottom three.

[Smithy]

Bournemouth was shite, and hugely disappointing given the week we were having, but I don't think it was a tipping point any more than beating Leicester four days before was.  It was just a crap result, and a poor performance.

Things would look MUCH better had we beaten them, absolutely, but there are still three teams below us who would happily swap places with us.  And the three teams above us are in worse form than us over the last 6 games (even with Bournemouth's win against us).

There is a long way to go, and we're a long way from doomed.

[Risso]

Bournemouth was shite, and hugely disappointing given the week we were having, but I don't think it was a tipping point any more than beating Leicester four days before was.  It was just a crap result, and a poor performance.

Things would look MUCH better had we beaten them, absolutely, but there are still three teams below us who would happily swap places with us.  And the three teams above us are in worse form than us over the last 6 games (even with Bournemouth's win against us).

There is a long way to go, and we're a long way from doomed.

The Leicester result was nothing to do with the league, so is of minor importance to the relegation battle either way.  We've got a much, much harder run than anybody except West Ham, and they'll probably be joining us in going down.

[Drummond]

Bournemouth was shite, and hugely disappointing given the week we were having, but I don't think it was a tipping point any more than beating Leicester four days before was.  It was just a crap result, and a poor performance.

Things would look MUCH better had we beaten them, absolutely, but there are still three teams below us who would happily swap places with us.  And the three teams above us are in worse form than us over the last 6 games (even with Bournemouth's win against us).

There is a long way to go, and we're a long way from doomed.

The Leicester result was nothing to do with the league, so is of minor importance to the relegation battle either way.  We've got a much, much harder run than anybody except West Ham, and they'll probably be joining us in going down.

Apart from the fact we played at a standard that beat the first team of the club in the 3rd place in the league. Does that not give you any hope?

[Smithy]

Bournemouth was shite, and hugely disappointing given the week we were having, but I don't think it was a tipping point any more than beating Leicester four days before was.  It was just a crap result, and a poor performance.

Things would look MUCH better had we beaten them, absolutely, but there are still three teams below us who would happily swap places with us.  And the three teams above us are in worse form than us over the last 6 games (even with Bournemouth's win against us).

There is a long way to go, and we're a long way from doomed.

The Leicester result was nothing to do with the league, so is of minor importance to the relegation battle either way.  We've got a much, much harder run than anybody except West Ham, and they'll probably be joining us in going down.

Oh, I don't disagree about it's importance, I just meant in terms of it - as a result - being a tipping point (one way or another).

I think the run-ins are important, but less so than in previous years as everyone is so close and taking points of each other.  I think everyone bar Liverpool and Man City are genuine opportunities for points - yes, we've not really done it yet, but I'm confident we'll beat at least one of the traditional 'top 8' teams in the run-in.  We were close against Spurs, Arsenal and Man Utd (hell, we were close against Liverpool!).

[dave.woodhall]

Let's ignore the previous month's form and concentrate on one poor performance.  It's what we're good at.

[Ads]

Let's ignore the previous month's form and concentrate on one poor performance.  It's what we're good at.

Absolutely. We beat Watford, they're 2nd bottom and have been below us the entire season bar one week, but they'll somehow stay up at our expense because we lost to Bournemouth? I cannot follow the logic of that.

[Risso]

It’s not difficult. We’ve got a much harder run in than they have.

[Oscar Arce]

The last game against Bournemouth really was a must-win, I cannbot see where we're going to get the wins from I'm afraid.
The Spurs game represents an opportunity to prove we have what it takes to stay up by beating a side from the top half of the table, which is what we're going to have to do.
The optimist in me says we will, and we'll get the other four wins we need away at Southampton, and at home to Sheffield United and two of either Wolves, Manure or Palace.
That would give us 37 points, and I still don't think that's enough.
I don't fancy us going to West Ham needing a win to stay up.
The pessimist in me says we're pretty much fucked.

[Ads]

It’s not difficult. We’ve got a much harder run in than they have.

Because they've been so convincing this season against all those "easy" reverse fixtures. They had a brief up turn, but have now taken 1 point out of 9.

As Dave said, odd that our form gets ignored, which since the turn of the year has us comfortably staying up.