Norwich, Aston Villa, Brighton Those that already have enough to keep out of trouble are Newcastle (just) and Palace. Bournemouth are currently in form (7 from last 5 matches), West Ham and us have good enough squads and experience to stay up.
Villa - good footballing side but horrible fans and I hate Grease Ball. Muff - so we can watch their fans cry that we stayed up at least a season more than they did. Also, diving cheats never prosper Brighton - beat us Day One and Mapps scored a great goal for them. Flirted with it last season and a bit like us, relient on a one or two players Outside bets - Norwich - play nice football and good fans, quite devoted. Plus they look a bit like us. Think they might survive Wet Spam - poor owners, awful stadium and no atmosphere. Should be higher up as they have probably the best squad. Watford - lose Sarr again we are stuffed. No Delafoo is not a massive loss, but Bobby P needs to step up now. Pussetto unproven as of yet. Could cut it close.
Watching super Nigel Pearson at half time on the bbc. He seems confident on keeping us up. All about keeping it in our own hands. Which I think on paper we should be doing so. But twists turns injuries suspensions var all to have a say in final 10 games. Just done one of those predictor games. With extremely yellow tinted glasses on. Watford finish 13th on 45points Down Brighton Norwich Villa. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
We had already survived at a canter going into final 3 games so gave us draw at wet spam and defeats in final 2 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think we have the potential to avoid the drop but not sure we have the balls. Norwich yep, the others are a lottery
If Norwich were to survive it would be an amazing feat but I don't think its likely. I think it will be Norwich, Villa & Bournemouth to go down.
I've put together table which is based on rival teams compared to Watford's standing in the table. We've obviously got to finish in 3rd place, or higher, in order to stay up. The relegation league table: (RG means remaining games) …………………….RG Pts Gd 1. Brighton...…... 9. +2. +9 2. West Ham...... 9.. 0.. +2 3. Watford...….... 9.. 0.. 0 4. Bournemouth 9.. 0.. -1 5. Aston Villa..... 11. -2 -1 6. Norwich...…... 9.. -6 -10 You can easily see how costly that last kick of the game goal against Villa was, or that Mariappa own goal at Brighton was. It's so close, that even an extra goal conceded has big implications. Brighton are 2 points and 9 goals ahead of us. West Ham just 2 goals ahead, Bournemouth just 1 goal behind and Villa 2 points and 1 goal behind, although they have two extra games. We are further handicapped with all our rivals (apart from Norwich) as they have all scored more goals than us. So a level point and GD total, would put us behind all our rivals.
UPDATED after tonight's result …………………….RG Pts Gd 1. Brighton...…... 9. +2. +9 2. West Ham...... 9.. 0.. +2 3. Watford...….... 9.. 0.. 0 4. Bournemouth 9.. 0.. -1 5. Aston Villa..... 10. -2 -5 6. Norwich...…... 9.. -6 -10
call me old fashioned, but I like going to the BBC website and seeing their professionally laid out, easy to read league table. I can work out the difference between -8 and -17 all by myself, don't even need Excel.
Sheffield United robbed of a goal there. If that point for Villa ends up relegating us then we should sue hawkeye.
They still got a point though, which might just relegate us, lets hope it doesn't or there will be 'ELL UP as they say in Cornwall.
As a Burnley fan, I'd have to say I would like a few more just to be ultra-cautious. A win next Thursday should see us right. As far as I;m concerned, Villa and West Ham are the two I would want to go down. The rest of you can fight it out. Possibly Brighton are the biggest pain in the backside of the others.
Interestingly, the journo's on the totally football show podcast were saying that Bournemouth are in real financial trouble if they go down. Like might go bust in trouble. Apparently they've had to abandon the building of their training ground because they can't afford it anymore...
I don’t want Bournemouth to go down anyway. I’ve never really understood the vitriol of some on here towards them. They’re a relatively unfashionable, smaller club like us and I’d like them to stay in the Premier League. I’d much rather Villa or West Ham dropped.
Their wage bill is £110m on £131m of revenue so they made a £32m loss last year. Presumably they have relegation clauses in the players contracts as c90% of their revenue is from being in PL so would drop by over half if relegated. They also owe £80m in outstanding transfer fees and £100m to their owner. Compared to us- our wage bill was £85m but we still made a £12m loss before profits on player sales helped us make an overall profit. We only owe £50m in outstanding transfer fees and £86m to third party lenders. All this before we bought Sarr and sold Lukebakio (and paid off QSF and Gracia) in the current financial year.