[Football] Which three teams will be relegated this season

[jessiejames]

The 3 teams at the bottom of the league at the end of the last games of the season. Will it be us? Maybe, if so life goes on.

IMHO I think we will be safe, by some margin as well. What amazes me that after a couple of bad performances some on here are reaching for the Prozac, yet only a few weeks ago we were talking about qualifying for a Europa league spot.
Still a lot of football to be played until the end of the season,I still think other than the top 6 any one of the others could still be dragged back into it, Saints fans were sure they would be relegated a few weeks back.Sit back and hopefully enjoy the ride. What will be will be.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

If we continue to play Webster we are down. No question.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Best price 9-1 to go down.

Assume some of you who think we've had it are lumping on?

 

[Weststander]

4th bottom this season is going to need more points than last couple of seasons imho..... Been 3 clearly shit teams past 2 seasons and we were just lucky last year that Cardiff were just a bit more shit than us.

This season, except Norwich there's a lot of similar level teams, ok but inconsistent. You'd have money on Stains going down couple of months ago, now you'd only bet on them staying up, Watford under Pearson look more than capable of surviving, muff's injury crisis is getting better, really is about 5 or 6 clubs Inc us for the 2 spots with Norwich.

Bloom is a gambler at heart, and it's his money thats at risk, but without more proven firepower and ability to get a few more in the onion bag, come Feb 1st, it's going to be another nail biter like last season again.

Good post.

I genuinely never had Watford and Stains relegated in October, when it seemed the rest of NSC did. There were 30 games still to go and Pereyra, Redmond, Ings, Bertrand, Deulofeu, Doucoure, are proven PL stars who’d improve almost any team.

 

[Weststander]

Best price 9-1 to go down.

Assume some of you who think we've had it are lumping on?

Or just an insurance bet to sweeten the pill should relegation happen, even if unlikely.

 

[portlock seagull]

The 3 teams at the bottom of the league at the end of the last games of the season. Will it be us? Maybe, if so life goes on.

IMHO I think we will be safe, by some margin as well. What amazes me that after a couple of bad performances some on here are reaching for the Prozac, yet only a few weeks ago we were talking about qualifying for a Europa league spot.
Still a lot of football to be played until the end of the season,I still think other than the top 6 any one of the others could still be dragged back into it, Saints fans were sure they would be relegated a few weeks back.Sit back and hopefully enjoy the ride. What will be will be.

I don’t think it’s a case of a couple of bad results. Our shot shy team didn’t test Pickford until 16.40pm, almost when the first vidiprinter results used to roll in if you’re old enough to remember that. It’s nothing new either. Since promotion we’ve had a problem creating testing scoring...which over 38 games means those sorts of teams tend to get found out or collapse just in the nick of time over the finishing line. Some of us copped a lot of flak for pointing this out season after season even when seemingly doing well. In other words, that 1 or zero goals in a game at this level doesn’t usually cut it. What I don’t understand is this is now the third season on the trot and some fans, perhaps you, still don’t see this or appear to have learnt anything from last two. I find that odd. It’s not a case of rose tinted or negative. It’s just a fact, the team management know it’s a problem and the trouble it will invariably cause come end of season. Why all our fans can’t too puzzles me. I mean, we’re all seagulls but quite a few ostrich’s around too IMO.

 

[Weststander]

I don’t think it’s a case of a couple of bad results. Our shot shy team didn’t test Pickford until 16.40pm, almost when the first vidiprinter results used to roll in if you’re old enough to remember that. It’s nothing new either. Since promotion we’ve had a problem creating testing scoring...which over 38 games means those sorts of teams tend to get found out or collapse just in the nick of time over the finishing line. Some of us copped a lot of flak for pointing this out season after season even when seemingly doing well. In other words, that 1 or zero goals in a game at this level doesn’t usually cut it. What I don’t understand is this is now the third season on the trot and some fans, perhaps you, still don’t see this or appear to have learnt anything from last two. I find that odd. It’s not a case of rose tinted or negative. It’s just a fact, the team management know it’s a problem and the trouble it will invariably cause come end of season. Why all our fans can’t too puzzles me. I mean, we’re all seagulls but quite a few ostrich’s around too IMO.

You’re spot about the lack of creativity in the 2 PL Hughton seasons, the stats don’t lie. Then Potter came along and solved all that. But in recent weeks and months, bizarrely, we’ve reverted to type.

Radio Sussex covered this in detail between 5 and 6 this evening. Our final third play is awful of late in the vast majority of games. They felt new signings are needed, plus a formation change with a creative player sitting behind Murray or Maupay.

 

[jessiejames]

I don’t think it’s a case of a couple of bad results. Our shot shy team didn’t test Pickford until 16.40pm, almost when the first vidiprinter results used to roll in if you’re old enough to remember that. It’s nothing new either. Since promotion we’ve had a problem creating testing scoring...which over 38 games means those sorts of teams tend to get found out or collapse just in the nick of time over the finishing line. Some of us copped a lot of flak for pointing this out season after season even when seemingly doing well. In other words, that 1 or zero goals in a game at this level doesn’t usually cut it. What I don’t understand is this is now the third season on the trot and some fans, perhaps you, still don’t see this or appear to have learnt anything from last two. I find that odd. It’s not a case of rose tinted or negative. It’s just a fact, the team management know it’s a problem and the trouble it will invariably cause come end of season. Why all our fans can’t too puzzles me. I mean, we’re all seagulls but quite a few ostrich’s around too IMO.

I'm not sticking my head in the sand regarding scoring goals creating chances. I know if has been and still is a problem, we thought that this was addressed when we got Maupay in, Yes he has started well but now he seems to be low on confidence at the moment. I think we missed Mooy today as he seems to be the playmaker in the team.
I would like to see Propper play just behind the front two.
This season we have shown that we can play good football and create a lot of chances, the problem is we are not consistent with this. What is the answer? Spend big in January with no guarantee that things will change, or keep things as it is and hope? That is the problem with the January transfer window. Thank God I don't have to decide, that is down to the board and recruitment team. I will support them what ever they decide to do.

 

[portlock seagull]

I'm not sticking my head in the sand regarding scoring goals creating chances. I know if has been and still is a problem, we thought that this was addressed when we got Maupay in, Yes he has started well but now he seems to be low on confidence at the moment. I think we missed Mooy today as he seems to be the playmaker in the team.
I would like to see Propper play just behind the front two.
This season we have shown that we can play good football and create a lot of chances, the problem is we are not consistent with this. What is the answer? Spend big in January with no guarantee that things will change, or keep things as it is and hole? That is the problem with the January transfer window. Thank God I don't have to decide, that is down to the board and recruitment team. I will support them what ever they decide to do.

I agree, January is a bad time to buy new players more often than not. Too many players inconsistent is certainly an issue, and I know a lot of people disagree but I think the biggest problem we have is the central midfield. Fine defensively but going forward I can’t see our problems going away until both Propper and Stephens are replaced for faster and more positive, if that’s the right word, players. Neither can score goals as we’ve consistently seen and more often as not turn attacks into defence. But thats major surgery and summer is when you do that. It’s going to be another stressful 2nd half of the season therefore and I’m worried the players belief in Potterball might cease with the pressure alongside the still fresh memories of the last relegation fight.

 

[Stato]

At this point last season we had two more points than we have now. We had scored one goal less and conceded the same number. Between that point and the end of last season we went from averaging 1.18 points and a goal average of -0.27 per game to, over the last 16, averaging 0.625 points and a goal average of -1.187 per game. This collapse cost Chris Hughton his job.

In league terms, Potter's task is simply to do what Chris had been doing for a season and a half before this: keep the points tally ticking over, don't let the players get too high when things go our way, or too low when they don't. If he avoids the cliff edge that we fell off last year and continues to pick up points at the same rate, we'll end up with 41-42 points and a goal average of approx -9: Enough to avoid relegation comfortably in all bar one season in the last two decades and to give ourselves a good chance to avoid it in the feared 2002/03 season.

Now, there is definitely no guarantee that we won't see a struggle in the second half of this season and it is definite that we will have to fight tooth and nail for every point to get ourselves over the line, but a disappointing performance resulting in a very tight loss away at a place where we have never won against a team that was recently humiliated and had something to prove does not seem to be the most reliable gauge of our ability to do what is needed over the next 4 months. Everton's record at home is as good as our away record is poor. Today's toothless performance actually got us closer to a point than we were at Goodison last year or the year before.

Look on the bright side: last year, during January an February we got a total of 2 points. This year, we've already got 1 and still have six more chances to add to it.

 

[Weststander]

At this point last season we had two more points than we have now. We had scored one goal less and conceded the same number. Between that point and the end of last season we went from averaging 1.18 points and a goal average of -0.27 per game to, over the last 16, averaging 0.625 points and a goal average of -1.187 per game. This collapse cost Chris Hughton his job.

In league terms, Potter's task is simply to do what Chris had been doing for a season and a half before this: keep the points tally ticking over, don't let the players get too high when things go our way, or too low when they don't. If he avoids the cliff edge that we fell off last year and continues to pick up points at the same rate, we'll end up with 41-42 points and a goal average of approx -9: Enough to avoid relegation comfortably in all bar one season in the last two decades and to give ourselves a good chance to avoid it in the feared 2002/03 season.

Now, there is definitely no guarantee that we won't see a struggle in the second half of this season and it is definite that we will have to fight tooth and nail for every point to get ourselves over the line, but a disappointing performance resulting in a very tight loss away at a place where we have never won against a team that was recently humiliated and had something to prove does not seem to be the most reliable gauge of our ability to do what is needed over the next 4 months. Everton's record at home is as good as our away record is poor. Today's toothless performance actually got us closer to a point than we were at Goodison last year or the year before.

Look on the bright side: last year, during January an February we got a total of 2 points. This year, we've already got 1 and still have six more chances to add to it.

In the reality of matches, we must get a few wins in Jan and Feb, starting with the 6 pointer against Villa. Our fixtures after that are either hellish or away at stadia where we never seem to win.

 

[shingle]

At beginning of season I had Norwich, Watford and Southampton down.

Now....Norwich, Watford & Burnley. But starting to worry about us.

 

[sydney]

hopefully Norwich , Villa & Bournemouth.

 

[DavePage]

three of the six teams below us

 

[Insel affe]

Bournemouth
Brighton
Norwich

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Can I be the first for a while to use the word 'bedwetters' every year in the premier league is going to be like this. People should get used to this. We've still had just 1 week in the bottom 3 in over two and a half seasons. We were playing scintillating winning football just a couple of games ago. Everton away is supposed to be difficult but we did something i have never seen us done at goodison - we competed and were in the game up to the final whistle. We just got our first every point against Chelsea, our first ever win away at Arsenal. We're probably the only team to have already played all of the 'big 6' away from home. Our three games in the second half of the season so far are Spurs away, Chelsea home, Everton away. Will be easier matchups ahead. We know we have good players and a good team that have dominated teams. Blah blah blah blah blah let's just enjoy the ride eh

 

[DJ NOBO]

Can I be the first for a while to use the word 'bedwetters' every year in the premier league is going to be like this. People should get used to this. We've still had just 1 week in the bottom 3 in over two and a half seasons. We were playing scintillating winning football just a couple of games ago. Everton away is supposed to be difficult but we did something i have never seen us done at goodison - we competed and were in the game up to the final whistle. We just got our first every point against Chelsea, our first ever win away at Arsenal. We're probably the only team to have already played all of the 'big 6' away from home. Our three games in the second half of the season so far are Spurs away, Chelsea home, Everton away. Will be easier matchups ahead. We know we have good players and a good team that have dominated teams. Blah blah blah blah blah let's just enjoy the ride eh

Answer the question

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Can I be the first for a while to use the word 'bedwetters' [emoji14] every year in the premier league is going to be like this. People should get used to this. We've still had just 1 week in the bottom 3 in over two and a half seasons. We were playing scintillating winning football just a couple of games ago. Everton away is supposed to be difficult but we did something i have never seen us done at goodison - we competed and were in the game up to the final whistle. We just got our first every point against Chelsea, our first ever win away at Arsenal. We're probably the only team to have already played all of the 'big 6' away from home. Our three games in the second half of the season so far are Spurs away, Chelsea home, Everton away. Will be easier matchups ahead. We know we have good players and a good team that have dominated teams. Blah blah blah blah blah let's just enjoy the ride eh

Good points.

I suspect there is a lot of worry and stress about the Villa game, and a lot of angst that we'll lose it, and then lose to Bournemouth to compound the misery.

We need to be brave as fans - and not wave the white flags inappropriately.

 

[LlcoolJ]

At this point last season we had two more points than we have now. We had scored one goal less and conceded the same number. Between that point and the end of last season we went from averaging 1.18 points and a goal average of -0.27 per game to, over the last 16, averaging 0.625 points and a goal average of -1.187 per game. This collapse cost Chris Hughton his job.

In league terms, Potter's task is simply to do what Chris had been doing for a season and a half before this: keep the points tally ticking over, don't let the players get too high when things go our way, or too low when they don't. If he avoids the cliff edge that we fell off last year and continues to pick up points at the same rate, we'll end up with 41-42 points and a goal average of approx -9: Enough to avoid relegation comfortably in all bar one season in the last two decades and to give ourselves a good chance to avoid it in the feared 2002/03 season.

Now, there is definitely no guarantee that we won't see a struggle in the second half of this season and it is definite that we will have to fight tooth and nail for every point to get ourselves over the line, but a disappointing performance resulting in a very tight loss away at a place where we have never won against a team that was recently humiliated and had something to prove does not seem to be the most reliable gauge of our ability to do what is needed over the next 4 months. Everton's record at home is as good as our away record is poor. Today's toothless performance actually got us closer to a point than we were at Goodison last year or the year before.

Look on the bright side: last year, during January an February we got a total of 2 points. This year, we've already got 1 and still have six more chances to add to it.

Can I be the first for a while to use the word 'bedwetters' every year in the premier league is going to be like this. People should get used to this. We've still had just 1 week in the bottom 3 in over two and a half seasons. We were playing scintillating winning football just a couple of games ago. Everton away is supposed to be difficult but we did something i have never seen us done at goodison - we competed and were in the game up to the final whistle. We just got our first every point against Chelsea, our first ever win away at Arsenal. We're probably the only team to have already played all of the 'big 6' away from home. Our three games in the second half of the season so far are Spurs away, Chelsea home, Everton away. Will be easier matchups ahead. We know we have good players and a good team that have dominated teams. Blah blah blah blah blah let's just enjoy the ride eh

Go away with your nasty FACTS. Lots of people on here want to piss THEIR pants!

Villa, Bounemouth and Norwich will be relegated btw.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I have absolutely no idea.

Saints and Watford are on a ladder right now, us and 'Muff on a snake. Not sure about Toon whatsoever.

I will put 50p on Norwich heading down though.