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Sorry just can't get my nut around this macum logic that the fixture list gave them a difficult first half of the season. They've played 17 out of 19 teams and have 10 points. They've been shite against the top sides and they've been shite against the bottom sides. They're woeful and don't create anything.

They may stay up, but as things stand they look relegation certainties with no apparent sign of anything that could change that.

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Actually - NUFC 2012/13 after 17 games had 17 points, having only played 3 of Spurs (W), Man Utd (L), Man City (L), Chelsea, Sunderland, Liverpool and Arsenal at home, so we'd picked up 3 points against these sides.  After that point we picked up just 3 points in the remainder of those 4 fixtures, so take potentially as many as 9 away from 17 and stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Stifler.  We could have quite easily been in a similar position last year with the same run of fixtures.

 

Too complicated, didn't read?  Give your Rain Man impression a rest once in a while and appreciate that there's more to it than that only 1 team have recovered from being in this position in Premier League history. 

 

It's a weird season and they're showing signs of improvement in their performances and have the transfer window to add talent, they're not finished quite yet.

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The worry for Sunderland is that 6 of their 10 points have come from teams in the top 6

 

To stay up they need to beat the teams around them and so far they have failed to do that

 

Though it looks unlikely I would not rule out them surviving, on paper they have a decent run of home fixtures and also there is a lot of crap at the bottom end of the table so I don't think teams will get too far away from them

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The worry for Sunderland is that 6 of their 10 points have come from teams in the top 6

 

To stay up they need to beat the teams around them and so far they have failed to do that

 

Though it looks unlikely I would not rule out them surviving, on paper they have a decent run of home fixtures and also there is a lot of crap at the bottom end of the table so I don't think teams will get too far away from them

 

Their two wins have been nothing but flukes IMO. We should have drawn and citeh didn't turn up. Teams fighting it out down there will give them a game, they'll fight for their lives and with every missed opportunity that passes the pressure builds on the next game.

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Re. Jozy, from 'Uncle Sam' on RTG, after five pages of moaning about how utterly woeful he is

 

Please, please sell him. Put some 19 yo wanker from your reserves out there to run around with no service, no support. Let Jozy prepare properly for the Brazil for a team with actual top flight players. Thanks.

 

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Actually - NUFC 2012/13 after 17 games had 17 points, having only played 3 of Spurs (W), Man Utd (L), Man City (L), Chelsea, Sunderland, Liverpool and Arsenal at home, so we'd picked up 3 points against these sides.  After that point we picked up just 3 points in the remainder of those 4 fixtures, so take potentially as many as 9 away from 17 and stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Stifler.  We could have quite easily been in a similar position last year with the same run of fixtures.

 

Too complicated, didn't read?  Give your Rain Man impression a rest once in a while and appreciate that there's more to it than that only 1 team have recovered from being in this position in Premier League history. 

 

It's a weird season and they're showing signs of improvement in their performances and have the transfer window to add talent, they're not finished quite yet.

The fact remains that we had 7 more points than Sunderland do at this stage of the season.

 

Only 1 team at this stage of the season have had a points total similar to that of Sunderland's and have stayed up. That team was WBA, in the process they won 5 more games and stayed up with some of the lowest points total needed to stay up.

 

You can argue that they have had a difficult home set of fixtures to the season all you like. It kind of is a shit argument when you take into account their two wins so far have been at home against two of those so called difficult sides. Look at their other games, they have played games against teams around them and have lost the majority of them, Palace, WBA, Hull, and Villa.

 

Yes last season if our fixtures were a little bit more harsh then we could have been in a similar position, but you know what, they weren't and we weren't in a similar position to them.

 

Statistically speaking their chances of staying up are slim. Do they have a chance of staying up, yes they do, but it would require a massive turnaround. Even Reading and QPR last season who were in a similar position to Sunderland at this stage went under a good run of form but still went down because the turnaround required was too much.

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More from Uncle Sam

 

On mackem opinions of international football

You don't give a shit about int'l football because your side has no one close to international quality.

 

On being asked if he supports the club or just the player

some of the supporters here are truly awful, which has made it impossible to like the club. It would be much easier to support Sunderland if there weren't so many idiots. Sorry, but that's the truth.

 

:lol:

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The only amazing thing about this terrible mackem side, is that their wins have came against us and man city. Really, they should be on as many points as they are. Awful, awful side.

 

Most likely they will be on 10pts after 19 matches, and who can really see them more than doubling that in the second half of the season? As every match goes by, and they don't pick up wins, they have less chance of staying up, yet their fans keep coming up with shite reasons to believe they can.

 

They are all talking about January as if they can win all 4 games, have a look at those fixtures and with what reason can you claim they will win one, never mind four.

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The only amazing thing about this terrible mackem side, is that their wins have came against us and man city. Really, they should be on as many points as they are. Awful, awful side.

 

Most likely they will be on 10pts after 19 matches, and who can really see them more than doubling that in the second half of the season? As every match goes by, and they don't pick up wins, they have less chance of staying up, yet their fans keep coming up with shite reasons to believe they can.

 

They are all talking about January as if they can win all 4 games, have a look at those fixtures and with what reason can you claim they will win one, never mind four.

 

 

there will be a fresh- points from the next 10 games thread, on monday, as the last one failed at the first game.

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