Superior Acuña Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Hull and Sunderland represent our redemption as I can't see any other teams down there staying down there due to their fixtures. These two abominations are on awful runs though and are poor teams with awful fixtures to play. Delighted to see only 1 point between them today especially when you consider Hull were at home to a team below them and Sunderland were playing West Ham's reserve team. I agree they're our best chances, but awful fixtures to play? Hull's fixtures include Boro and Sunderland away, Stoke at home and Bolton away Sunderland's Hull home, West Brom away, Bolton away, Portsmouth home. Not easy for them, but some good chances for points, of course points will be distributed when they play each in 2 weeks and one has a 5 point head start and the other 3. Don't know why I look. eugh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Now almost a 9 for me - getting cut adrift now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sicsfingeredmong Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Now almost a 9 for me - getting cut adrift now. And what was a minor buffer for us, in the way of goal difference, has now evaporated. Relegation is approaching certainty status now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayno Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 at 6, considering putting it up to 7. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 i've thought for ages the best we'd get would be 10 points in the remainder of the season and still do, i always thought 39 points was enough but looking at it it may well not be 9 for me now unless shearer saw what has been glaringly obvious to the fans for months and changes things we're still going down if duff, butt, nolan, colocinni, r taylor & owen (as a CF) are left to decide our fate on the pitch we're fucked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 i've thought for ages the best we'd get would be 10 points in the remainder of the season and still do, i always thought 39 points was enough but looking at it it may well not be 9 for me now unless shearer saw what has been glaringly obvious to the fans for months and changes things we're still going down if duff, butt, nolan, colocinni, r taylor & owen (as a CF) are left to decide our fate on the pitch we're fucked far be it for me to agree with you majorisim, lol. But i hear a lot about this 9 pts, or 39 points thing. But i too dont think thatw will bring survival. If we dont beast stoke, i think its over. Shearer sounded very flat on radio 5 this AM, think its hitting home for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 6 for me now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brummiemag Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 3 wins and a draw will probably be enough and we've 4 winnable games left. I honestly think I would take the draw at Stoke if we were offered it and then hope we can win the 3 remaining home games. Theres also the possibility of picking up a point against an out of sorts villa Its a big ask but we're only 3 points off Sunderland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I don't trust Ashley much. I am starting to wonder if getting Shearer in was his last nail in the NUFC coffin...knowing we're as good as down, he thought 'who better to have at the tiller when the ship goes down' than one of our greatest living footballing icons - SHEARER. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 I don't trust Ashley much. I am starting to wonder if getting Shearer in was his last nail in the NUFC coffin...knowing we're as good as down, he thought 'who better to have at the tiller when the ship goes down' than one of our greatest living footballing icons - SHEARER. I've got faith in Shearer, but I've got no doubt that Ashley wants him because it's the only way he'll sell season tickets in the Championship. Just like how he got Keegan in as a brand to sell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Hull and Sunderland represent our redemption as I can't see any other teams down there staying down there due to their fixtures. These two abominations are on awful runs though and are poor teams with awful fixtures to play. Delighted to see only 1 point between them today especially when you consider Hull were at home to a team below them and Sunderland were playing West Ham's reserve team. I agree they're our best chances, but awful fixtures to play? Hull's fixtures include Boro and Sunderland away, Stoke at home and Bolton away Sunderland's Hull home, West Brom away, Bolton away, Portsmouth home. Not easy for them, but some good chances for points, of course points will be distributed when they play each in 2 weeks and one has a 5 point head start and the other 3. Don't know why I look. eugh. I wouldn't fancy Hull at Boro, Sunderland OR Bolton, to be honest, especially at Bolton. Their confidence is shot and they don't have the quality necessary. Stoke at home represents a decent chance for them, but then they are appalling at home and Stoke are a horrible, hard team to play against. That means I'd obviously fancy Sunderland to beat Hull at the SOL and probably West Brom away, but outside of that I can't see any games where they are clear favourites, even Portsmouth at home won't be easy with the run that the Mackems find themselves on. Bolton away is an "awful" game, if you ask me, for many, many reasons! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offshore Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 No change (again) Getting owt yesterday would have been nice, but unexpected. It'll still come down to winning those three home games. Blackburn winning was a bummer, but the Mackems and Hull will still be bricking it too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Lose to Stoke and any of our rivals pick up points and that's it for us I think. But we will beat Stoke and stay up and win the league next year with Shearer Premier League top scorer and European golden boot winner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Darth Toon Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Sunderland's Hull home, West Brom away, Bolton away, Portsmouth home. The mackems are away at Pompey - the only real home banker they have left is Hull. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 We are still in a position where a win could see us out of the bottom 3, i seriously doubt anyone genuinely thought we would beat Chelsea. Cant see why people are increasing their numbers when imo nothing has changed since Thursday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest getcarter Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Lose to Stoke and any of our rivals pick up points and that's it for us I think. But we will beat Stoke and stay up and win the league next year with Shearer Premier League top scorer and European golden boot winner. Stoke aren't going to be easy. Only ManU, Chelsea and Everton have won at the Britannia stadium in the league this season. I've got a real bad feeling about this one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 The tension and euphoric negativity on this forum is like a adolescent penis waiting to be masturbated for the first time. We're not gonna go down man; a win against Stoke will be like one collective ejaculation. It's gonna be funny reading for the week following. Imagine what'll happen when we beat Spurs. Jeez. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 problem is, if we lose at Stoke the Shearer bubble might burst right then and there. Then it's bye bye honeymoon period. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 The tension and euphoric negativity on this forum is like a adolescent penis waiting to be masturbated for the first time. We're not gonna go down man; a win against Stoke will be like one collective ejaculation. It's gonna be funny reading for the week following. Imagine what'll happen when we beat Spurs. Jeez. I know, there'll be cum all over the walls and everything! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stjamestoon Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 We are still in a position where a win could see us out of the bottom 3, i seriously doubt anyone genuinely thought we would beat Chelsea. Cant see why people are increasing their numbers when imo nothing has changed since Thursday. The only change is that our rivals won. Bolton won, Blackburn won.. Stoke won.. not good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 We are still in a position where a win could see us out of the bottom 3, i seriously doubt anyone genuinely thought we would beat Chelsea. Cant see why people are increasing their numbers when imo nothing has changed since Thursday. The only change is that our rivals won. Bolton won, Blackburn won.. Stoke won.. not good. Tbh, the way I see the table we only have two relegation rivals (above us)- mackems and Pompey. I've just checked the league table and I have just realised the most distressing fact: if we lose next week and Boro win......*gulps*......we'll be in 19th place. Very, very distressing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Tbh, the way I see the table we only have two relegation rivals (above us)- mackems and Pompey. You think Hull are safe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Tbh, the way I see the table we only have two relegation rivals (above us)- mackems and Pompey. You think Hull are safe? I cant see us catching them. Sounds silly but I just cant. Their 5 points ahead of us and they probably will pick up a couple of points until the end of the season, in fairness. I think we should just focus on reaching 17th place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 just realised that portsmouth and boro have pretty easy looking games this weekend, shitballs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 I've just look through all the fixtures for all our rivals and ourselves, and we still look to be up against it. The problem as well is that we have two tough away games before we get into one of our winnable ones, then we need to go to Liverpool right after that. There's a danger we could be cast so far from safety that the task is impossible before we get to a ease up in our fixture list I was going to change my prediciton from a 10 to and 8 or a 9, but I just can't see a way we'll get through this, hope to god I'm worng, so sticking to a 10. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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