Even taking an optimistic view, there will be a reckoning and that will be West Ham, i don't fancy that to have to survive.
Said elsewhere that we could still stay up if we could sort out the appalling current strike force options. Davis is simply not good enough. Can't even suggest Archer as an option as he has not been selected to train with the first team and there is no current Academy provision.
I’m not sure what point there is in playing Vassilev. He doesn’t look ready for the first team to me.
Quote from: Risso on July 05, 2020, 08:12:20 PMI’m not sure what point there is in playing Vassilev. He doesn’t look ready for the first team to me.He’s no worse than Davis.
Watford beat Norwich tomorrow and then theres a 4 point gap with an inferior goal difference, and I think thats as good as us gone. I highly doubt we'll get 5 points from the next 5 games, and that Watford wont pick up any more points.
We're going down like Buddy Holly.
To me, it looks like it's going to be a one-on-one scrap between ourselves and Watford. Think it'll be close. They're a point and +1GD ahead, but looking at the two sets of fixtures (theirs in order)WatfordUsNorwich (h)Crystal Palace (h)Newcastle (h)Everton (a)West Ham (a)West Ham (a)Man City (h)Man Utd (h)Arsenal (a)Arsenal (h)... you'd probably just take their fixtures over ours, but I'm not sure there's a massive difference ... and IMO we look more likely to pick up points than they do right now.I dunno, I'm still moderately optimistic that we'll stay up at the moment.
The advantage Watford have is in the sequence of their fixtures, that Norwich game they have is pivotal as a win and they'll gain confidence. We dont seem to be a team that can respond when under pressure either.I still cant get my head around how we've ended up 12 months on from the Championship having a team thats actually worse than the one we went up with.