I'd like Leicester to stay up: in addition to their admirable revival, it can't be good for football for all 3 promoted teams to go straight back down the following year. In defence of Hull and Villa, they both have some decent players. Newcastle fans have hounded out a good manager and their owner doesn't generate much empathy. However, it feels like Sunderland have repeatedly flirted with relegation in recent seasons and they may have just run out of luck. I think they're the worst side I can recall at HQ this year. So let it be them.
Newcastle would be absolutely hilarious. Let's see Alan Shearer knocking on doors and giving people tickets for Rotherham on a Tuesday night.
Thanks for generally not wishing relegation on us guys It is a shame that it looks like you are down, would have preferred... Well, anyone else really. As I've mentioned on here before, my old man is a Rangers fan. I had 3 bets with him at the start of the season... £10 for each individual game, and £10 for who finishes higher. Ideally £30 in my pocket and us 16th and 17th would have been the dream!
I would say good luck but looks like you don't need it! What I would say is, 'watch out for season 2 in the PL'. That year we went on a run and beat Stoke, Liverpool etc, we thought the following season was going to be great! I think you're a different prospect - probably.
I was going to post similar sentiments to Jack above guys, we've had some banter that almost went to far (although that was probably all Queenie tbf) but you're all being so gracious to us on here and if things were still a bit closer at the bottom there Id want Sunderland and Newcastle to go and us both to stay up, in fact throw Hull in there instead of burnley but it ain't gonna happy now :/
You finally got the results your play deserved in the past six games. I note Nigel Pearson said the team had ostrich burgers before the Newcastle game, good high-protein fuel, maybe that's the secret...
I was thinking the exact opposite about us. We're financially stable, it's a huge debt but it's to the owners, so unless they have personal issues we'd be fine there. Bruce won't be sacked, and he's got a great track record in the Championship. Player wise we'd lose Robertson and N'Doye that have contributed well. Huddlestone I'd give a lift to his new club, and Diame, Jelavic, Snodgrass and pretty much anyone else you'd expect us to lose based on ability have had such bad injuries this season that clubs won't want to risk it until January when they've been back for 6 months. Dawson I don't know about, he could be wanted, but with his brother having had success with us I don't think he'd want to leave after 1 failed season, so I think he'd give us a year.
I was thinking, Ricardo, that most of your better players would be snapped up by Prem clubs and that you would struggle to attract quality enough to fill the void. Hull (and Wigan) as a club (outside of the perm) and as a place to live are not overly attractive to players. Hopefully, you will stay up!
Leicester to be fair have played pretty well all season, certainly they created so many chances in all the games I watched they just needed someone to put the ball in the net, now they have that knack and looks what's happened 5 wins out of 6 and a great chance to survive, I'm sure we'll help them out on the last day if need be as we are the most giving of teams....... Newcastle in freefall and internal strife, I know they still have to visit HQ when we may well be our usual help yourself mode, but I hope not as it may well be the last Premier League game at HQ for a number of years so I would hope we tear them to shreds..... Newcastle to drop with us and Burnley...
This one is far too difficult, I know some Leicester 'fans' some are quality lads a couple spoil it by being total twats even a Liverpool fan I know jumps on their bandwagon when Liverpool as they always do, **** up at some point, also the issue that nothing they do is ever wrong and their manager is a bit of a cock Hull, totally indifferent to them only really wanted to see them fail when it might have meant we stayed up. Sunderland. Well there is that muppet who I have seem post on here a few times, what they did to sign Defoe, won't look so smart in a lower league and the fact they are in my opinion the worst team we have played all season by some way. Newcastle. They have suffered? Yeah so have a lot of teams and supporters so don't see why they should be immune because there is more of them, screw that sense of entitlement. Villa the whole too big to go down and another manager who I can't stand also several fans of them at my work.and want others to suffer with me. I will go for Leicester, and blame that Liverpool 'supporter' I know he has made me dislike your club because he is such an arsehole, hardly logical sorry but we all know one like him.
I think the difference here then is I'm happy our better players aren't the ones that would be snapped up. I think clubs would come raiding, but they'd be after our supposedly better players rather than the ones that have actually contributed to us getting the results. Looking at our squad if we lost the XI I think are most likely to leave I'd be quite happy with what we were left with as a starting XI, it'd be stronger than the one we got promoted with last time. My only worry would be if people saw past the names Huddlestone and Livermore and realised that Brady and Chester were far better players for us we could be stuck with the reputations rather than the players.
I understand that ricardo, but I think you will be ok. Most clubs go after the name rather than the performers. We certainly have a record for doing so! BTW, I still think your team played better on the opening day than most teams have at The Bush this season. Sunderland were the worst IMO.
Burnley, unlike ourselves, at least stuck to the job until the bitter end and if Hull could have beaten them at home, they would have been safe with Villa down on GD.
