[Football] Are we safe already

[saafend_seagull]

We need 8 more wins and 4 draws to be sure.

- Cardiff (home and away), burnley, Huddersfield, Newcastle, palace, Southampton, wolves at home wins

- Huddersfield, burnley, palace, Fulham away draws.






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[Blackadder]

Discuss...

Can't wait for the next, in-depth analysis thread, you start.

To help you out oddschecker has us between 7 and 10/1. Cardiff are still favorites.

No one is actually safe at the moment, even City.

 

[worthingseagull123]

No, silly thread.

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This.

 

[OzMike]

We don't have any of the shit normally associated with teams facing the drop. We have stability, we carry a goal threat, we have good squad depth, we don't concede that many, we're tough to beat at home and we've won away today.

We do tend to ride our luck which doesn’t always work out, not many commanding performances from us to be honest.
The woodwork has come to our rescue on numerous occasions, including yesterday.

 

[Brian Parsons]

On the basis that we are averaging 1.2 points a game at present multiply 1.2 by 38 gives 45.6, so yes we're safe. [emoji16][emoji16][emoji23][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji2][emoji2][emoji1][emoji1][emoji28][emoji28]

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[spence]

Looking at our team and with players like Dunk and Duffy i feel we will be safe in March. The only concern for me is the number of injuries this season compared to last season.. We are certainly utilizing our squad and thank god we have depth this year.

 

[Stat Brother]

We probably were right up to the point this thread appeared.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Indeed, but I genuinely wonder how many teams have been relegated from the top division after 11 points from their first 9 games? Can't be many. I remember Millwall going down after a great start but that was so long ago it was pre-Prem I think...

Not sure how their start was, but I seem to remember Boro dropping like a stone through the table one season. No win in 20 or something stupid...

 

[maffew]

On the basis that we are averaging 1.2 points a game at present multiply 1.2 by 38 gives 45.6, so yes we're safe. [emoji16][emoji16][emoji23][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji2][emoji2][emoji1][emoji1][emoji28][emoji28]

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Define present. We are actually averaging 3 points per game. Unfortunately I don't think it's going to be enough to win the league. Anything less than a Champions League spot though now and some freak results against us then we should be questioning if Bloom is the right chairman for a club of our size and Hughton wants to be updating his cv. Definitely we're also long overdue a #BarberOut campaign and if Murray doesnt get a place at the next World Cup and Dunk doesn't captain England by the end of the season, well then Southgate can go to,

But "are we safe yet?" is probably a really really stupid question.

 

[Horses Arse]

We probably deserved to lose today and at Southampton. Got a silly penalty to get a draw at home to Fulham. Rode are luck a little bit against West Ham.


All in all, with these things considered, there is no way we are going down.

Drives me mad. Absolutely no excuse for it. Not going to mention it though

 

[El Turi]

West Brom had 10 points at this stage last season.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

If we can go into the 2nd half of the season with at least 17 points, we have a fighting chance.

 

[Perkino]

We are in a position where we should be looking up at who we can catch rather than worrying about getting relegated.

To get an away win at this stage in the season could help with our confidence, if we can beat Wolves and then Cardiff the players may really start to believe they could push for a top 10 position

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

West Brom had 10 points at this stage last season.

Didn't the have 6 of those from their first two games?

 

[Marshy]

If I could I would ban you for 30 days for starting this thread

 

[dazzer6666]

Didn't the have 6 of those from their first two games?

7 from their first three......then came to us [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Only played 2 of the top 6 in their first 8 games.

Didn’t win again until January when.......you know the rest.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I think if you can decide we're safe after today's game, you could have decided we were safe before the season started. Everything was there, the team, the manager, the signings, the set-up, and the results so far are simply bearing this out. Continue in this vein, we are safe, yes.

 

[chaileyjem]

Indeed, but I genuinely wonder how many teams have been relegated from the top division after 11 points from their first 9 games? Can't be many. I remember Millwall going down after a great start but that was so long ago it was pre-Prem I think...

duplicate...

 

[el punal]

Unfortunate wording, but if you had stated do we look as if we might be safe on results so far then you probably would not have received so many disparaging comments.

On a similar note, about avoiding relegation, was a discussion I had with friends a couple of weeks back prior to the West Ham. At the time I said that of our next 5 fixtures could well determine our status come the end of the season. Those 5 games against West Ham, Newcastle, Wolves, Everton and Cardiff were all “do-able”, and that we would have to come away with at least 8/9 points to prove that we had the resolve to avoid being sucked into a relegation struggle.

We have now earned 6 of those 8/9 points with 3 games to go - so far, so good. But I, and many thousands of other sane (and insane!) Albion fans, are not going to be carried away. The other thing about these 5 fixtures is that they are against teams that are around or below us thus making the results even more significant in the long term.

 

[Justice]

I never thought we would be a possibility for relegation we are very organised defensively. No idea why fans of other lower half teams always fancy 3 points against us.