Just checked the fixtures and we could actually send Sunderland down. Trouble is we might go with them the following week.
Those would be my three for the drop, but it could just as easily be us, Leicester (if the new manager effect wears off- and it will) or even Bournemouth if they don't start winning.
For the first time I think we are down. I think the bottom 3 as they are now will go, in some order or as they are now. I think we might finish 18th if we're lucky.
I'd love to be able to get 11 more points and stay up, but I just think that some teams will win some we don't expect them to and we will inevitably lose/win some we aren't supposed to. Predictably, we'll probably be relegated in late April and then win our remaining games when it doesn't matter.
Given a fire sale on relegation, assuming a lack of ambition for anything else other than recouping money, I can definitely see Clucas leaving for a Prem club (he's certainly good enough), together with Tymon (as a development prospect for a bigger club) and Grosicki (provided he continues his on current trajectory). Dave to leave in January after proving his form and fitness early next season.
Are the Premier League's current bottom three doomed? http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/03/06/are-the-premier-leagues-current-bottom-three-doomed/
If we go down along with Mbro and Sunland, and Leeds, and that 'massive club' and Huddersfield fail to go up then the Champ next year is going to be packed with northern clubs. Loads of away days coming up..
Exactly that - what's not to like? Winning a few games in the Championship, better away days or, getting taken apart week in week out in the ''best league in the world'', praying that there are three teams worse than we are so we can have another season giving us more of the same. The journey has been brilliant, the destination, mostly, has been ****.
I know what you're saying and it's probably right, but there'll be nothing as pleasurable in the Championship that comes anywhere near stuffing Liverpool twice, Arsenal in 2008, etc.
Hmm you normally know your stuff OLM but there are few points that need clarifying or correcting here:- Yes, Newcastle's support is pretty good but they have a history AND a history of being appreciated by their club. Just the opposite of Hull City AFC right now really. They haven't always been well supported either. Remember in the 1980s when they were in danger of being relegated to the third tier? Support dropped off massively and their ground looked almost empty when they played us (circa 1985). Certainly there are several ways of measuring town and city populations (some are rather dubious) but Hull's population is nearly always understated just as Newcastle (and L**ds) are nearly always overstated. The whole world (including many Hull people) have long been brainwashed into believing that Hull is smaller than it really is. I find that the best guide to use is the Collins Town Plans of Britain - it uses real data and it isn't biased. In 2002 the Newcastle Upon Tyne population was 189,150 whereas Kingston Upon Hull's population was 310,636. Admittedly I am looking at the 2002 edition but I don't think things have changed massively since then. Newcastle's surrounding area includes several towns and it is obviously much more densely populated than the East Riding but the city of Hull itself has always been bigger than Newcastle. We are also bigger than Bradford, Cardiff, Coventry, Nottingham, Southampton and Stoke and we are only slightly smaller than Leicester.
