I just realised what I did last night.After every game I have viewed the table and looked at the teams below us.Last night for the first time I was looking at the teams above.
I like your style but I think we are about as high as we can get. We were never going to catch Stoke even if we won although we would have been closer of course.
I said quite early in the season that a lowish points tally would bring safety.I have absulotely no reason to revise that view.A point a game from here on in is the best that the teams in the bottom six can expect to achieve - only QPR have managed that to date,so I reckon 36 points will be the safety mark.We need 15 from 21 games. I think 42-45 will be where we end up,maybe 12th,13th,14th. I say Wolves are doomed! Doomed I tell you!
Yep one game at a time I think we will probably slip down the table a bit In the new year Confident of staying
17th moe than good enough, but every place above that is worth another £1m in the coffers, so I'm hoping for 14th.
I'm just hoping we finish as high as we possibly can, and personally I see no reason at all why that can't be as high as where we are right now. newcastle might well wobble and drop down into the mid-table battle and there are some incredibly ordinary/rubbish team around this year - Wolves, Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn, Villa, Sunderland, Fulham - that we should certainly finish above in my opinion, and that's not including Swansea and Koo Pee Arr who are also unlikely to end up higher than us. I backed us quite heavily to avoid relegation at 2/1 at the start of the season and also stuck a bit on us to be champions in the handicap market where we start off with a handicap of 47 points! So if we can finish within 47 points of the winners that will do me very nicely thanks
finishing 17th is the target. finishing anywhere above that is merely a bonus. its still very close and a run of four defeats could see us plummet towards the bottom 6 but at least we've given ourselves a great footing in the league and with so many teams involved in the dog fight, the odds on staying up are greater
After last nights results the safety we hope for looks a little better with Villa, Fulham, QPR & Swansea taking 0 points. Let's get the Spurs game out of the way, anything from the game will be a nice little bonus (not expecting a point personally but is not beyond us at home) then we have Fulham at home and QPR away where I am guessing we will fancy getting 4 or possibly more points
Wish Charlie Adam had buried his penalty then we would have been 8 points clear plus superior goal difference thats the equivalent of 3 wins difference.
wigan are playing well at the moment! but they are still a long way behind us. 3 wins is MASSIVE in the premier league - thats basically a quarter of all victories required to survive - so its a nice safety net to have on them, despite them picking up. blackburn are surely going to lose their next two games. bolton are the team currently in the bottom 3 most likely to escape in my opinion but they still don't score enough goals and much will depend on how the cahill money is spent (if it is). qpr look awful at the moment, swansea aren't decisive enough and in the 2nd half of the season face many of the big guns at home - if their home wins start to dry up they will struggle. sunderland i'm sure will be fine now o'neill is in charge and i can't see fulham going down - far too organised. personally, i think there are at least 5 teams we SHOULD finish above. but as the saying goes, its a funny old game... things may look different after january
"The last time Norwich were in the top half of the Premier League on Christmas Day was in 1994. They were seventh, on 30 points, but picked up just a further 13 points and ended up getting relegated." Sure is a funny old game. Not that I believe it will happen this time! Happy Christmas and New Year to you all!
What happens if we are 46 point adrift of the champions but another club who have a handicap of 20pts are only 15 away? Do you still get your money?
