There's a good chance Stoke will be relegated when they play Palace, so I'm not sure they'll muster much fight for Swansea.
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[Albion] 5 clear, 3 to play, we are safe
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Nicola
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Silly old bat
MOTD talked about the relegation battle with a graphic showing West Ham downwards.
Dave the OAP
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They have been doing that for a while now...it was the same on the radio...we are not mentioned as a team that will go down. I think it is because a lot of the teams below have just as hard games ( Hudds appear the most in peril) but of course with Swansea playing fellow strugglers, they will be the ones who could dictate who drops.
It won't be us.
grubbyhands
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We're playing at Old Trafford again? Bugger!
- Jun 27, 2012
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I thought I’d read on here that everyone below us is going on a winning streak without exception.
Big article in the Sunday Telegraph focusing on the relegation battle and each team and their run in. We weren't included.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Let's face it - Southampton will lose on Saturday at Everton, as will a woeful away Swansea at Bournemouth - and it will be happy days regardless of any other results.
You misread.
If anyone has been saying they genuinely believe we will go down, then they're obviously pretty negative. What people have been saying is that it's not that improbable that we'd lose out last 5 and that the teams below us would get past our 35 points. That's fair enough.
As things stand now, some just don't want to count their chickens because experience has taught them that anything can happen in a few games of football.
Right, but only one of them needs a point to halt our celebrations. Unless we've already got a result from the night before
Perfidious Albion
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We have 37 points.
In 2016 Newcastle went down on 37 points . I would not say "safe" but I believe we will stay up.
In 2016 Newcastle went down on 37 points . I would not say "safe" but I believe we will stay up.
symyjym
Banned
Swansea are playinjg Bournemouth and then Stoke on the last day so they can lose against Shampton. And Shampton can beat Everton and Swansea so they don't need to beat City. Going into the last game of the season it could see us needing a draw to stay up and Huddersfiled needing to beat Arsenal and West Ham needing to beat Leicester.
We can only probably assume the outcome of the season next weekend but it won't take a miracle to have four teams within 2 points of us on the last day of the season. We can only start celebrating another season with a draw against Man U at the earliest. I don't really get the "Chances are we will stay up" confidence even though the chances are we will. I recon we have 80% chance of staying up.
So you're thinking more like 5/1 to go down rather than the 50/1 or 66/1 the bookies are offering ?
Spot on! Almost safe - yes; nearly safe - yes; probably safe - yes. But just 'safe' on its own............no, not yet. Asking for trouble, that is!
Icy Gull
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It may or may not come to that but we are definitely not “safe” as things stand, it’s just wishful thinking to say we are. We have, at the moment, less chance of going down than a few other clubs but nobody has a run in like ours.
Except Huddersfield
- Jan 3, 2012
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Absolutely this.
WBA can not catch us.
Stoke can not catch us.
It would need all of Southampton, Swansea, Huddersfield and West Ham to overhaul us over the next three games. ........ Unlikely but POSSIBLE.
Edit- By the same token, Watford, Crystal Palace and Huddersfield are not yet safe.