[Albion] Rest of PL: 22-24 Jan. Predictions and hopes.

[giveusfalmerplease]

Few tough games for teams around us in the table in Midweek and others facing eachother so not everyone can pick up points:

Eve vs New - Draw here would keep both teams in touching distance. If not prefer Everton win as they are likely to finish much higher eventually
Palace - Soton - As much as it grates me I hope them up the A23 do us a favour and beat Southampton.
Villa - Watford - Seems only a few weeks ago we were all writing Watford off - how times change!. Away win please..
Foxes vs Hammers - Should be an easy win for Leicester ..
Spurs vs Canaries - Hopefully Spurs will maintain their recent improvement. Norwich getting a bit too close for comfort now...

Thoughts ?

 

[GT49er]

Five flukey away wins there, plus a home win for PLB ................................ could be a lousy week!

 

[spence]

Newcastle are safe, so are Saints and Palace. West Ham i fully expect to pull away. I'm sure Burnley are capable of getting 10 pts with there remaining fixtures. That win for them the other day was a massive blow for us against a good side.

It a battle between us, Villa, Watford and Bournemouth. Norwich are gone.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Eve vs New - Home Win
Palace - Soton - Home Win
Villa - Watford - Draw or Away Win
Foxes vs Hammers - Home Win
Spurs vs Canaries - Home Win

 

[Bold Seagull]

Newcastle are safe, so are Saints and Palace. West Ham i fully expect to pull away. I'm sure Burnley are capable of getting 10 pts with there remaining fixtures. That win for them the other day was a massive blow for us against a good side.

It a battle between us, Villa, Watford and Bournemouth. Norwich are gone.

That's nuts. If Saints lose tonight and we win we're level on points.

Things can change very quickly as we demonstrated last season when sitting 7 points above the drop zone as Newcastle and Southampton are now.

Last season we had 7 wins after 23 games, no one was picking us for the drop, we were 4 points above 14th.

The battle this year could easily drag Newcastle, Southampton, Burnley, us into the mix.

 

[spence]

That's nuts. If Saints lose tonight and we win we're level on points.

Things can change very quickly as we demonstrated last season when sitting 7 points above the drop zone as Newcastle and Southampton are now.

Last season we had 7 wins after 23 games, no one was picking us for the drop, we were 4 points above 14th.

The battle this year could easily drag Newcastle, Southampton, Burnley, us into the mix.

Deary me. It isn't nuts at all. Do you actually watch the form guide and other results ? Have you been watching us properly lately ? We are awful, defending is woeful, strikers who can't score, Potter being found out. A weak team with no real quality.

 

[Ernest]

Deary me. It isn't nuts at all. Do you actually watch the form guide and other results ? Have you been watching us properly lately ? We are awful, defending is woeful, strikers who can't score, Potter being found out. A weak team with no real quality.

No real leadership or strong men on the pitch to kick a few of the opposition too

 

[whitelion]

Norwich definitely not out of it as yet. When I've seen them they're a team capable of scoring but just need to tighten up at the back. The relegation battle looks very interesting.

Fwiw my predictions at the start of the season for the drop were Southampton Norwich and Sheffield United. What do I know. I think there's still a chance Sheffield Utd will have a bad run but I've been saying that for most of the season.

 

[BBassic]

Deary me. It isn't nuts at all. Do you actually watch the form guide and other results ? Have you been watching us properly lately ? We are awful, defending is woeful, strikers who can't score, Potter being found out. A weak team with no real quality.

Honestly, part of me wants us to sack Potter just so you can have one almighty explosion of "I TOLD YOU SO" smugness to get it out of your system

But a bigger part wants us to get back to winning ways so you can retreat back to wherever you went when we weren't in a patch of bad form

 

[Bold Seagull]

Deary me. It isn't nuts at all. Do you actually watch the form guide and other results ? Have you been watching us properly lately ? We are awful, defending is woeful, strikers who can't score, Potter being found out. A weak team with no real quality.

Yeah of course, and the same people who thought form continues indefinitely also called Saints going down after their dreadful run and getting hit for 9.

That is what form is, with you one minute, gone the next. Southampton have ridden a huge wave of good form, but came crashing down with a bang v Wolves. Burnley had lost 4 in a row up until Leicester pretty much gifted them a home win.

We've lost 3 of our last 9, have 10 points from 9, and probably only Watford and Southampton have done better from those around us.

Plenty of football to be played, with teams going in and out of form yet.

 

[BBassic]

Here is the form, by the way:



Of that lot I'd argue that only Watford and Southampton have found any sort of form.

We're absolutely in with a bunch of teams that are all having a tough time but to say we're more likely than any of those to be dragged into the mire feels a touch pessimistic

 

[Bold Seagull]

No real leadership or strong men on the pitch to kick a few of the opposition too

As I said last season, not much a manager can do tactically or motivationally if your players are gifting balls to the opposition. We bought Villa into the game on Saturday, it wasn't really anything they did, or tactically we did, we just got sloppy. It happens. Hopefully not too many times. What Potter does do is freshen things up, and expect a different approach tonight.

We went from a poor performance at home to Leicester, to arguably the closest a side has come for a while to taking points at Anfield, to beating Arsenal. So fingers crossed we follow up with a decent showing tonight.

 

[Ernest]

As I said last season, not much a manager can do tactically or motivationally if your players are gifting balls to the opposition. We bought Villa into the game on Saturday, it wasn't really anything they did, or tactically we did, we just got sloppy. It happens. Hopefully not too many times. What Potter does do is freshen things up, and expect a different approach tonight.

We went from a poor performance at home to Leicester, to arguably the closest a side has come for a while to taking points at Anfield, to beating Arsenal. So fingers crossed we follow up with a decent showing tonight.

Hopefully he can do it but the squad is painfully weak now

 

[super-seagulls]

All draws today, baring us who will win comfortably.
(Hopefully)

 

[Taybha]

Everton 2-0
Saints 1-2
Watford 0-2
Leicester 2-0
Spuds 3-1

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

Our last 5 game form is the same as Sheffield United's. Since December (from memory!) narrow defeats to Spurs and Sheffield United, comfortably beaten at Everton are the only defeats, between victories and draws against Wolves, Arsenal, Palace, Bournemouth, Villa and Chelsea. Our form really isn't too shoddy.

 

[Bakero]

Here is the form, by the way:

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Of that lot I'd argue that only Watford and Southampton have found any sort of form.

We're absolutely in with a bunch of teams that are all having a tough time but to say we're more likely than any of those to be dragged into the mire feels a touch pessimistic

Spence pessimistic? Surely not. He's only started saying this now that he feels our form has dropped. It's not as if he's been playing the same **** record on repeat all season.

 

[oldboyroy]

A win for us tonight is all I care about the rest can do what they like we win sod the rest

 

[oldboyroy]

And villa win last minute