Rolling Stone's fool proof formula says 10 points every two months until March will see us safe and able to relax throughout April and May.....and I love it! Taken another way, 8 points every two months will see us safe, so where are they coming from....???? This is what I think.... Aug/Sep (6 games)...Villa (h) 10pts Oct/Nov (7)...Fulham (a) Blackburn (h) Chelsea (h) Spurs (a) Man City (h) Stoke (a) Norwich (a) 6pts Dec/Jan (9)...W.Brom (h) L/Pool (a) Man U (h) S/Land (h) Swansea (a) Arsenal (a) Norwich (h) Newca (a) Wigan (h) 12pts Feb/Mar (9)...Villa (a) Wolves (h) Blackburn (a) Fulham (h) Everton (h) Bolton (a) L/Pool (h) S/Land (a) Arsenal (h) 8pts Apr/May (7)...Man U (a) Swansea (h) W.Brom (a) Spurs (h) Chelsea (a) Stoke (h) City (a) 7pts I make that 43pts and another season with the big boys!
Mmm,all looks very easy when you lay it out like that,don't think it will be quite that simple though.
Good forecast JoeyR. Nice and conservative too. Allowing for draws, we can all see even more points in there if we're lucky. Reckon that luck's gonna come through Tony and Amit. Unlike us they won't be looking for 17th - I'm sure Air Asia (official partner of Queens Park Rangers) would prefer to be associated with a prem team a touch higher than basement. Got a feeling that unless something goes badly awry (anyone seen Paladini lately?), Christmas for us will find its way into the new year this time. Just a feeling...
Blimey I've come over all funny seeing my name in lights!! Glad you like it though....and I reckon that as at 20th September we are bang on target!
Love it.. I will settle for that joey, every step of the way..... Viva Traore!! Running down the wing Hear the 'Rangers' sing Viva Traore!
Of course Cayman, and another anchor man of some description. But the way I'll put it to Santa is a bit more all round strength in depth... Now I've got to work out how to be a good boy like Joey and Adel for the rest of the season. HELP!!
Brix, I'm not looking for 17th either - however, should my fairy godmother turn up now, wave her wand and offer me either a) a dance with a prince whilst wearing glass slippers; b) a ride in a carriage that smells suspiciously like pumpkin; or c) 17th on goal difference guaranteed - I'd take the last one, and forego the chance to skip in seethrough shoes with seeds stuck to them.
I don't think my ticker could take 17th on goal difference! I'd like us safe by Easter (or before)...
I'd like to think if we're not on target to stay up by Xmas Tony and Amit will certainly be splashing the cash in January. The last thing they'll want is us being one-season wonders!!
Maybe in a perverse kind of way, Fenandes needs to feel that. It is imperative for us to get good signings in the transfer window
I thought I'd resurrect this a year later, partly out of vanity, but mainly because perhaps I was ahead of my time. Last year we didn't quite keep to 10 points every couple of months, but this year, 25 points at Christmas with the aim of getting to 40 with a month to spare is still possible, despite what the doom-merchants maybe preaching after last Saturday. To finish the season with 45 points, clear of the drop and the last day tension would do me just fine. And I think we will have the squad to do it.
Problem is all the predictions last season were tosh. We failed miserably against fellow strugglers and beat teams we were expected to lose to. As I stated earlier on this thread I'd like us to safe before Easter and the key to that will be beating teams in the bottom half and better away form...
Norwich v QPR Sat 25 Aug Man City v QPR Sat 1 Sep QPR v Chelsea Sat 15 Sep Tottenham v QPR Sun 23 Sep ---------------------------------------- 8 POINTS (12) QPR v West Ham Mon 1 Oct West Brom v QPR Sat 6 Oct QPR v Everton Sun 21 Oct Arsenal v QPR Sat 27 Oct QPR v Reading Sun 4 Nov Stoke v QPR Sat 10 Nov QPR v Southampton Sat 17 Nov Man Utd v QPR Sat 24 Nov Sunderland v QPR Tue 27 Nov ---------------------------------------- 8 POINTS (27) QPR v Aston Villa Sat 1 Dec Wigan v QPR Sat 8 Dec QPR v Fulham Sat 15 Dec Newcastle v QPR Sat 22 Dec QPR v West Brom Wed 26 Dec QPR v Liverpool Sat 29 Dec ---------------------------------------- 8 POINTS (18) Chelsea v QPR Tue 1 Jan QPR v Tottenham Sat 12 Jan West Ham v QPR Sat 19 Jan QPR v Man City Tue 29 Jan QPR v Norwich Sat 2 Feb Swansea v QPR Sat 9 Feb QPR v Man Utd Sat 23 Feb ---------------------------------------- 8 POINTS (21) Southampton v QPR Sat 2 Mar QPR v Sunderland Sat 9 Mar Aston Villa v QPR Sat 16 Mar Fulham v QPR Sat 30 Mar QPR v Wigan Sat 6 Apr Everton v QPR Sat 13 Apr QPR v Stoke Sat 20 Apr Reading v QPR Sat 27 Apr ---------------------------------------- 8 POINTS (24) QPR v Arsenal Sat 4 May QPR v Newcastle Sun 12 May Liverpool v QPR Sun 19 May ---------------------------------------- 4 POINTS (9) 111 points to play for 44 if we go for 8 every two months ... so how many will we get?