Will we win the Premier League

[Brazilian Villain]

Recent history suggests you've a better chance of winning the league with a Brazilian called Alysson. He'll be the final piece in our jigsaw.

[eamonn]

Opta predicts:

[eamonn]

For the rest of the season, us and Wolves are going to pick-up a similar amount of points 

[Rigadon]

For the rest of the season, us and Wolves are going to pick-up a similar amount of points 

Hmm. Kind of discredits the forecast eh?

[Baldy]

This is the predicted league table I looked at:

https://theanalyst.com/competition/premier-league/table

Which shows the actual, expected and predicted league table. Only guessing, but Eamonn's might have been after less games. Not sure though, I am shit at browsing.

[Somniloquism]

League table for the rest of the season based off that Opta table. We would be 12th.

Arse +47 points
Plop + 46
Bournemouth + 39
Citeh +38
Newcastle  + 37
Spuds  + 36
Chelsea  + 35
Brentford + 34
Manu + 32
Brighton + 32
Palace + 31
Villa  +30
Burnley+29
Fulham + 27
Wolves +27
Leeds +24
Sunderland + 23
Everton + 22
Forest + 22
West ham  +20

[Mellin]

For the rest of the season, us and Wolves are going to pick-up a similar amount of points 

Great spot. Great shout. Fuck Opta.

[Olneythelonely]

That’s an old table. They’ve updated it since.

[Dave]

That’s an old table. They’ve updated it since.

Yup, eamonn's giving us what they thought would happen back at the end of October.

[Baldy]

That’s an old table. They’ve updated it since.

Who, mines or Eamonn's?

Can't believe at beginning of season they expected us to be 16th?

[Brazilian Villain]

I predict we will get more points than Wolves in the remaining games. Feel free to check back with me in May.

[Olneythelonely]

That’s an old table. They’ve updated it since.

Who, mines or Eamonn's?

Eamonn’s. The insane one.

[cdbearsfan]

Not that I can be arsed to do the Swing-O-Meter thread any more, but if I could, it would have us finishing on exactly the same points as last season, 66. Which, again, would probably be touch and go for a Champions League spot but nowhere near the title.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Regardless of if we win the league (or are even still challenging by the end of the season), we have consistently been the fourth best team in the country since Emery took over.  Other than C115y, Arsenal and Liverpool (and even they are wobbling now), no other team has done what we've done and been in the Champions League race solidly for the last 3 years (and had Emery taken over earlier we would probably have qualified in 22/23 too).

I think this is what pisses me off about the media coverage most of all - it is just lazy, talk of lack of squad depth and the expectation that we will eventually fall away.  Given the advantages that the three teams named above have had, plus then what the likes of Chelsea, Manure, Spuds and Newcastle should also have on us than what we are doing is remarkable, but it's not an aberration - we are at least the fourth best team in England, and have been for nigh on 3 years now. 

Bang on. I caught a bit of the Stick to Football podcast last week and it really wound me up. There was a Villa fan on it and Carragher’s opening line was ‘are you in a false position?’ 

Like you say, we’ve been in the top 4 best teams for 3 years now and all he can come up with is that ill informed shite.

[Rigadon]

It makes you wonder how long this needs to be maintained before those opinions would change.  10 years? Fuck knows.