Just taken a look at QPR's fixtures and they're as good as down imo. Their 7 home games are very very difficult with 4 local derbies. Southampton Arsenal Tottenham Everton Chelsea West Ham Newcastle Their away form stinks and they have 8 games left, 2 against Liverpool & Man City and the other 6 against relegation rivals. They barely have a 'mid table' team to play home or away. If we fail to beat them on a cold February night, under floodlights, with 40,000+ then we deserve to go down with them. But I don't go in for this 'witchcraft ****e' about 'this is Sunderland' & they're bound to break their duck against us. I think we'll beat them and help the Cockney ****ers on their way back down to a massive fine and oblivion.
Unfortunately Smug this is SAFC who we have followed for years. I do believe this witchcraft sh*te. We should hammer them but knowing us we will make them look like Brazil. I hope I am totally and utterly wrong. Still think they will be in the bottom four. Slackjaw might just have enough in him to scrape thru. Hull, Burnley, Leicester and QPR. Any three from them to go.
Don`t know about voodoo dolls mate but it looks like someone made a waxwork of him and chucked it in the fire. We do need to be beating these teams though. Hull?? Got to make the most of these chances.
We've banished so many of these 'nailed on' theories that we need to let them go once and for all now. All these 'Shola will score, we never beat Everton/Man City/Chelsea, do the double over Newcastle' things are just daft. In reality Ross Wallace didn't come on and score yesterday and Joey Barton shouldn't get a look in when we play QPR. Let's just beat them, as we should, because they're shyte P.S. Shola rarely scored a winning goal against Sunderland, it's just bullshit.
The reality is there isn't a great deal of difference between our team and QPR. Confidence makes a big difference. They have good players. Often in these games the first goal makes a huge difference. If QPR were to score first I wouldn't be confident of us turning it around. Burnley was a good confidence booster. Defoe gives us an edge we didn't have. On another voodoo note. We always tend to be poor under floodlights in a league match.
I'm with smug on the positive mental attitude approach. I know we've been ****e at home, but that doesn't mean we have to be. Whilst i kind of get the whole 'superstition' thing, it's just unneccesary negativity. Believe, and take that attitude into the ground with you. You might enjoy yourself a lot more, improving the atmosphere to boot.
I agree with Smug, some of these runs have nothing to do with our current players. Every game is about approaching it professionally and playing the opposition in front of you, previous games or stats can't have any bearing on what happens on the day. The only caveat to that is Hull, I think because of the managerial link and a couple of ex players, they know how to wind us up and our players respond to their antics
Said since day zip that they're nosediving straight back down, their transfer policy is all wrong and their manager is a ****ing numpty. Checked their fixtures out about 6 weeks ago and suggested exactly the same as you did mate, they really don't look good. Chelsea could have the league in the bag, West Ham could be playing for nowt and Newcastle should be safe and in autopilot by then, but by then QPR could be finito anyhow. There'll be a scramble for Austin after the season, I'd say he'll go to Liverpool/Spurs or possibly even Chelsea.
