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  1. Joelinton's Right Foot

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    After Saturday's games...

    The Final Countdown

    Games To Go: 6

    Current Position: 10th

    Current Points: 38


    Points Required To Avoid Finishing Bottom : 0
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    Points Required To Avoid Finishing 2nd Bottom: 5/18
    Points Required To Avoid Relegation: 6/18

    Points Required To Finish 14th (average prediction at season start): 12/18
    Points Required To Finish Top Half: 15/18
    Points Required To Finish in 9th Place: 18/18 (17 needed)
    Points Required To Finish Above Sunderland:     <laugh><laugh><laugh>


    Highest Possible Finish: 6th
    Lowest Possible Finish: 19th    ​
     
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    Joelinton's Right Foot, Apr 14, 2018
  2. Joelinton's Right Foot

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    After beating Arsenal........

    The Final Countdown

    Games To Go: 5

    Current Position: 10th

    Current Points: 41


    Points Required To Avoid Finishing Bottom : 0
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    Points Required To Avoid Finishing 2nd Bottom: 2/15
    Points Required To Avoid Relegation: 3/15

    Points Required To Finish 14th (average prediction at season start): 9/15
    Points Required To Finish Top Half: 12/15
    Points Required To Finish in 9th Place: 15/15 (14 needed)
    Points Required To Finish Above Sunderland:     <laugh><laugh><laugh>


    Highest Possible Finish: 6th
    Lowest Possible Finish: 19th    ​
     
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    Joelinton's Right Foot, Apr 15, 2018
  3. Albert's Chip Shop

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    We’ve avoided relegation mate.
     
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    Albert's Chip Shop, Apr 15, 2018
  4. Joelinton's Right Foot

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    Not mathematically yet
     
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    Joelinton's Right Foot, Apr 15, 2018
  5. Albert's Chip Shop

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    Maths was never my strongest pint.
     
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    Albert's Chip Shop, Apr 15, 2018
  6. Joelinton's Right Foot

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    No - that was Irn Bru
     
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    Joelinton's Right Foot, Apr 15, 2018
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    Another box ticked!!


    The Final Countdown

    Games To Go: 5

    Current Position: 10th

    Current Points: 41


    Points Required To Avoid Finishing Bottom : 0
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    Points Required To Avoid Finishing 2nd Bottom: 0
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    Points Required To Avoid Relegation: 3/15

    Points Required To Finish 14th (average prediction at season start): 9/15
    Points Required To Finish Top Half: 10/15
    Points Required To Finish in 9th Place: 13/15

    Points Required To Finish Above Sunderland:     <laugh><laugh><laugh>


    Highest Possible Finish: 6th
    Lowest Possible Finish: 18th    ​
     
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    Joelinton's Right Foot, Apr 16, 2018
  8. Joelinton's Right Foot

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    We could be mathematically safe as soon as Thursday now if Southampton lose at Leicester. I'd prefer to see Southampton get a shock win though and bring 8th place into our own hands, and into play on the calculations!
     
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    Joelinton's Right Foot, Apr 16, 2018
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    Definitely. The champions have been decided already, the top 4 have a huge gap to 5th who also has a gap to 6th so the top of the league has already stopped being an issue at all. There's a 5 point gap to the relegation zone. This may be the least interesting last month in the history of the Premier League so I'm all for anything that threatens to shake it up.
     
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    haslam, Apr 16, 2018
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    I agree. Having said that, as boring as it is for the league, at the beginning of the season we would all have jumped at the chance to be playing a completely meaningless game in mid-late April. Actually, not just the beginning of the season - a month ago!!
     
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  11. General Lee Speaking

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    Don't pay any attention to other teams so I wasn't interested anyway.
     
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    I would have taken five meanıngless games at the end of the season, at the start of the year, hands down!!!!
     
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    LiamO, Apr 17, 2018
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    Not really meaningless financially however - each place in the league is worth roughly an additional £2m in PL Prize Money/TV Rights etc

    So, if we can go from 10th to 8th then we get roughly an extra £4m, or Dubravka's transfer fee...
     
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    Judge Death, Apr 17, 2018
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    In addition a really strong finish to the season will make the story of our coming up from the Championship and smashing the PL an attractive factor to potential new signings. The more we can seem like a club going places under Rafa and the less like a yo-yo team battling for survival the more chance we have of signing players like Kennedy permanently (and holding on to players like Lascelles!)
     
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    GeordieHalfbreed, Apr 17, 2018
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    and shoving it up the arse of most of the pundits like Merson, Owen, Lawrenson etc who had us down as a cert for relegation.... :wink:
     
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  16. Squint Eye

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    You can always follow the lower end of the league just below the PL. Things are hotting up there for a tense finish<laugh>
     
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    Squint Eye, Apr 17, 2018
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    In all honesty I follow it pretty closely. It really isn't very tense unless you support Barnsley, Bolton or Birmingham.
     
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    haslam, Apr 17, 2018
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  18. Joelinton's Right Foot

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    You could say the Championship was past tense for Sunderland
     
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    Be kind to our six-fingered neighbours. To them it is as tense as it comes<laugh>
     
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    Squint Eye, Apr 17, 2018
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