Yes DH and taking nothing about the weekend for granted we were I think 13 points behind you not so long ago Look at the form guide, it's a better way to see which way the wind is blowing
Yes,people keep saying that but they choose a six game run whereas eight is the norm.On the six game example we have Man City,Chelsea and Liverpool which rather skews it.If you use eight games we are well off the bottom with Villa and Wigan the bottom two.I still say you need another twenty points from fourteen games 5:5:4 when to date you have 2:10:12
Our big problem has been not being able to convert draws into wins. Although I have had my foot firmly in the 'we are doomed' camp since our West Ham game at home, I will remain quiet in the hope that until it is mathematically impossible it can be achieved. On a different note, when is Ruddy going to be back? Is Holt match fit? Just pondering what line up CH is likely to go with on Saturday. I'm guessing tonights line up should give us a clue?
BBC reporting that you've just had another bid, reported 6 million, turned down by Celtic for Hooper.
Yep - we should give up on Hooper now - ain't gonna happen. Good point for the Hoops last night - well done.
Ruddy is out for a few months yet but Holt is 100% as far as I know. Lord alone knows if we will play 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 tonight and to be honest, whatever formation we play tonight could easily change depending on who is signed in the next day or so.
Despite our awful 2013 form, the teams below us apart from Saints and possibly Reading have not taken full advantage When you are in the bottom three, draws do not help too much. 38 draws might just keep you up but 14 wins and 24 defeats certainly will.
On the point of my OP it wasn't gloating over Lambert but just that one of the bottom six was 0-2 down at home after half an hour.That in itself is very significant in the relegation battle when the visiting side is also a team that is down there.Personally I never thought The Magpies were in it anyway,or The Mackems for that matter.The relevant sides are QPR,Reading,Villa and Wigan.Outside of that Saints,ourselves and possibly the loser of Fulham v West Ham tonight if there is one are not clear of the fray.
well it's a good result for QPR last night, sure that will do their confidence a lot of good. they do need wins though. Turn us over on saturday (let's be honest they are well overdue a win against us) and things will look a lot rosier for them. i just can't see teams stringing a lot of wins together this season, so a low points total to stay up is looking likely. Reading seem to be the loose cannon in this though
Reading might do the great escape this year Max at the expense of Wigan. We've just had Suk Em Young confirmed on the offish site subject to visa so he might feature at the weekend with possibly some of the latest band of rumours - Crouch, OdemWhinger, Rolando & Samba Whats the latest on Van Turkeywinkle??
That he's most likely too expensive for us, but Sporting have arranged a replacement in preparation for him leaving. Fiorentina are interested as well though, so he may well go there.
suk em young where is he from then? reading could well pip us. they have had some flukey wins recently though. i reckon they will get a draw tonight against chavski. re van willywinkie, probably too expensive for us - although a lot of us on here are praying we will push the boat out. Unlikely i think.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-sign-South-Korea-defender-Yun-Suk-young.html If he can get his visa for Saturday an Samba comes back from Moscow then losing Nelsen might not be the problem we feared
No need to justify your post mate, even if you were gloating about Lambert in my opinion it's fair game and you have every right to
Although defence is the most important part of any football team, I don't necessarily think it is the answer to avoiding the drop with three months to go. As crap as we were at the weekend and against Newcastle and to a certain extent after 20 minutes against Liverpool, we had chances to score and squandered them. We are the third lowest scorers in the league. It's like cricket, you have to bowl the opposition out to win (yes, I know they can declare). The teams that stay up will be able to get the winning goal 5 minutes from time, not, they held out for 0-0. Trouble is with the January window, you are taking on a player for next season really. If you are in the mire at the bottom, you will buy to put a sticking plaster on your poor form at the time, not be looking to next season. For instance, I don't think if we signed a world class CB, it would make too much difference to our poor form. But a world class striker would.
