a home game against stoke is a good measure of our situation, the fact we couldnt win it . makes relegation more likely.
We lost to Derby last year, so theres your predictive model out of the window.
so you think the inability to beat stoke makes relegation less likely?
No, I dont think its predictive of whether we stay up. We looked like being relegated last year and therefore, according to the/your/whatever criteria, the Derby loss had us nailed on as going down.
He said more likely to go down given that newcastle can't beat stoke at home. Not nailed on.