useless Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 (edited) Hopefully Everton lose today, but they're playing Southampton and Norwich next so might need them to do us a favour in those games. After they have a really difficult run of fixtures in December and then Man City away on January 1st. Edited November 3, 2019 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I think Sheffield will fall away perhaps drastically after Xmas, they'll just hope to have enough points on the board by then. I can see us carrying on with intermittent form for the rest of the season but we have to start winning the games against the Burnleys and sotons etc at home, without them it doesn't matter how many heroic defeats to the top teams we have we'll struggle to survive. Ideally I'd want Watford to continue this terrible form and be cut adrift as they will probably improve when idiot Deeney returns. That will leave in effect 2 relegation places, Norwich look the likeliest to fill one but the last is literally a toss up between about 7 teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 @jim I found the bet mate. It’s £100 (you wanted £1000:)) to a charity of your choice if we get relegated under Smith. £100 to a charity of my choice if he keeps us up. If he gets sacked this season then bets void. I also have a bet with @Davkaus but not sure what that one was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 CP better than i expected before the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Kane apparently not travelled with Spurs today so lump on Everton home win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Leicester very much in the title race Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 1 hour ago, villalad21 said: Leicester very much in the title race To be fair they have a very exciting team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 We're outputting so much effort for not many points right now. If the front three click at some point we could easily go in a run I think. Newcastle game so big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Above Everton on goal difference. Think goal difference could end up being massive this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMitch Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 3 minutes ago, villalad21 said: Above Everton on goal difference. Think goal difference could end up being massive this season. Yep... Thank McGrath we have a manager who likes to attack... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 We'll probably be 17th next weekend. I think Wolves will beat us, reason being i think their style of play counter our style of play. And Everton will beat Soton. Newcastle game massive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted November 3, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 3, 2019 We're going to get 6 points from the next 2 games. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 12 minutes ago, PieFacE said: We're going to get 6 points from the next 2 games. I’ll take 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: I’ll take 4. I want 9, but I know that's greedy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Just now, KenjiOgiwara said: I want 9, but I know that's greedy. I like the optimism! Aim for 9 and we’ll hopefully get 6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 5 hours ago, PieFacE said: We're going to get 6 points from the next 2 games. Need this really as we have a run of 3 very losable games after that, then a run of 5 very winnable games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zab6359 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 10 hours ago, villalad21 said: CP better than i expected before the season. See how they go in Jan without Zaha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 3 hours ago, zab6359 said: See how they go in Jan without Zaha! Even without Zaha going, they're still on 15 points. Should've been 13 while we should've been 12. Still only 4 points between us and them. Their team isn't bad, they have a good manager. But I would definitely not rule them out of a relegation battle. The league is so tight this year. The only team you could say that will most likely go down are Norwich (they could still do some brilliant investment in January and do wonders like when they won the Championship without anyone expecting. Watford is tricky one, they're playing well with desire. They have experience unlike us when we went down. Hopefully they complete bottling games and fail to get their first win. I think even if they just be above Norwich it will give them a huge boost. Anyway we seem to score goals, only Spuds out of top 4 scored more than us (17), Arsenal scored 16 just like us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 During Houllier season, we were 18th after new year with only 21 points. We ended the season 9th with 48 points. I remember the disappointment when we lost to tesco bags under Mcallister. But then we've beaten Arsenal and Liverpool to go to top 10. So basically we've been top half while being 18th after 21 games! It's not that we didn't bottle couple of games after that. All that difference came with Bent. Our identity as a team is much better now. I think in reality 5 points from the next from the next 5, then 6-7 from the next 4. It won't be the end of the world. Although I think we're more than capable to get 14-16 points out of the next 9 games. That would put us on 25-27 points. I don't think many teams went down with that amount of points, I can only think of Blackpool and maybe Hull. We have have a lesser winnable home games in the second half of the season. 5 against top 6 teams. So just another 5 home games, against Norwich (and thats boxing day), Dingles, Watford, Sheff Utd and Palace. Thats the main fear, its not that we're playing badly away from home (apart from Palace game), but still home games will still be huge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 Actually a more stranger one, Lambert first season, we were 20 points after 24 games, 19th. 21 points after 25 games. Then we went in our best run under Lambert and got 20 points out of the last 13 games. There is something strange (which shows the importance of having form towards the end of the season). Those two seasons were the best in our last 6 seasons in the PL. Yet we didn't have a bad points as them (apart from the relegation season). I remember us ending the season badly after beginning it reasonably under Mcleish and Lambert second season. Well, I remember that Sherwood has saved us when he came (before bottling it the season after), but we were really a bad form under Lambert, I remember failing to score for months, but, 22 points after 27 games! I don't know how he managed to keep us up, and to take us to the cup final. Although that season ended by one of the worst performance at Southampton then losing to relegated Burnley before losing the final. Anyway, Lambert and Sherwood managed to do all that, we've seen Smith doing more already when he turned the table and took us up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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