[Football] Relegation, heart v head. WELL?!

[dazzer6666]

Heart

Bournemouth
West Ham
Palace

Head

Bournemouth
Newcastle
Norwich

 

[Weststander]

Heart:
ManU. [Stains in reserve, if not allowed to include a normally top6 club]
CP
Villa

Head:
Norwich
Burnley
Bmuff

 

[BN41Albion]

I don't think we will be relegated but at the same time I believe we will lose many more games and will finish just above the bottom 3. Right now we are experiencing a period of unexpected points. There is a down turn coming.

Blimey, there's pessimism for you. I'm not sure beating Bournemouth and drawing with Chelsea at home can really be classed as 'going through a period of unexpected points', can it? Before that we'd won 1 in 8...? Albeit through a very tough period. If anything I think we're due a period of winning more points than we have been, which if we achieve should see us pull away from the bottom three.

 

[kevo]

The other results yesterday could not have been much worse for us really - Watford, Stains and Villa all winning. Even Norwich got a point. Despite two good back-to-back performances, we are only 4 points above the drop zone. I hope we can accumulate a lot of points over the next couple of months, because the end of March and April look really tough.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Blimey, there's pessimism for you. I'm not sure beating Bournemouth and drawing with Chelsea at home can really be classed as 'going through a period of unexpected points', can it? Before that we'd won 1 in 8...? Albeit through a very tough period. If anything I think we're due a period of winning more points than we have been, which if we achieve should see us pull away from the bottom three.

Did you expect to get 4 points out of Bournemouth and Chelsea? No? Then are they not unexpected points?

 

[Muzzy]

Heart

Palace
Arsenal
Southampton

Head

Norwich - (already gone I reckon) Lets take a couple of their players please
Watford - New manager bounce to wear off
Burnley

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Heart as long as it's not us don't care

Head
Villa
Norwich
Bournemouth

 

[Mancgull]

Strength of squad is vital in second half of the season. Lots of injuries are really affecting Bournemouth and I expect they will go. Plus as others have said, the pressure on EH seems to be showing. He looks awful.
Four of Newcastle's first teamers were injured yesterday and maybe out for a while.
Villa lost Heaton and Wesley to potentially bad injuries yesterday. McGinn is already out for many weeks.
Apart from Big Dan being injured yesterday we are relatively healthy on this front. March returning will help as well, plus players coming in who are fresh, such as Ali J, Bernardo.
So for me head says;
Norwich, Newcastle, Bournemouth.
Heart says;
Palace, Norwich, Villa.

 

[Milano]

Ask me again after this transfer window. We are an injury to Maupay away from being fecked IMO. If we bring in decent striker cover then I think we’ll be fine.
It also depends on what our rivals do in this window.

 

[Justice]

We are only six points behind media darlings Wolves and four points off the bottom three. Far to early to be worrying about other results. We look good improving all the time and have a decent run of games coming up.

 

[BN41Albion]

Did you expect to get 4 points out of Bournemouth and Chelsea? No? Then are they not unexpected points?

I was confident we'd beat an injury ravaged Bournemouth and thought we'd have a good chance of a point against Chelsea at home, especially considering the Big 6 (or 5 of them) are dropping points left right and centre...

I still don't think 4 points from those 2 home games can be classed as going through a period of unexpected results...

 

[Icy Gull]

This is such a topsy turvy season that I really can’t make a case for anyone being more nailed on than anyone else, except perhaps Norwich. Even a recovery by them wouldn’t really surprise me. I still believe that we will be in the mix as we are still lacking that killer instinct when we are on top. How many points have we let slip this season by not closing a game out?

 

[Hugo Rune]

This is such a topsy turvy season that I really can’t make a case for anyone being more nailed on than anyone else, except perhaps Norwich. Even a recovery by them wouldn’t really surprise me. I still believe that we will be in the mix as we are still lacking that killer instinct when we are on top. How many points have we let slip this season by not closing a game out?

Agreed. A series of injuries and bad luck will have us down it’s that close; I’m talking about a hell of a lot of bad luck though.

 

[Perkino]

Head
Burnley
Bournemouth
Norwich

Heart - as all three should improve for next season if they stay up but teams like Saints will still be relegation candidates
Palace
Burnley
Bournemouth

 

[el punal]

Bournemouth are going through a really bad run with injuries.

I tend to think they'll be ok. They are a bloody good team when everyone is fit. Much better than a lot down the bottom.

In previous seasons I would have agreed with you. This time though, despite their injury crisis, many Bournemouth fans think their number’s up. Eddie Howe’s aura has waned somewhat and, perhaps, he has reached the end of the road with his plucky team.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Norwich. They've had it
Newcastle. Much like us last year. Nicking 1-0 wins and sticking men behind the ball. Wont take much to turn toxic up there and their luck will run out. At 3-1 in places they are certainly the value bet as things stand.
Burnley could well fill the other but so could Bournemouth if they get little else from thier next run of games or Villa if anything happens to Grealish.

 

[peterward]

Heart
Brighton , every time .
Arsenal , aftv would explode .
Bournemouth, it could be their time .

Head
Brighton , potterball will deflate.
Norwich , lose too many leads .
Burnley , will do a stoke .

You could be right about Potterball, obviously far to complicated and hasn't amassed as many points as the far simpler Hodgsonball.

If only we had a big lump like Benteke to punt hopeful hoofs up to....... moreover, where can you find such a callous diver and serial con artist, guaranteed to cheat so many points per season for less than £80million?

 

[Guinness Boy]

By the time Bournemouth get their decent players back they will need a hell of a lot of saving. I've just had a look at their run in and it's not pretty. They've got to go to Liverpool in March, Man U in April and Man City on 2 May, while their final home games are against Spurs, Leicester and Southampton (not difficult per se but the closest they come to a local derby). Their current run is worse than ours at the end of last season and the meltdown started earlier. For me, both heart and head says they are gone. Norwich are also down says my head but not my heart. An easy three points for us and a decent away trip. I'd like them to stay but they won't. The third will likely come from Villa or Watford. Watford have a good new manager bounce at the moment and Pearson will certainly get them organised but I still think they are a couple of bad results away from another crisis of confidence.

My "heart" three to drop are Palace, Bournemouth and Newcastle - the latter just because of the massive meltdown it would cause in barcode land.

 

[Napper]

Impossible to call really

Even Norwich are not gone. They are showing fight and I don't think impossible they could get a couple of back to back results to change the picture again.

If you look at our form the last 10 and where we are then you have to say we are in the shit but we are playing well and looking a prem side. Good sides do drop though.

With no certanty at all

Villa
Bournemouth
Norwich

Could easily be us though

 

[MattBackHome]

Head

West Ham
Bournemouth
Norwich


Heart

West Ham
Arsenal
Man Utd