Tubestationatmidnight Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 He said safe before the last day. Sunderland play Watford last day... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 The clues are in the words tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty66 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 There's bound to be at least one shock result in the games between us v Palace and villa, Sunderland v arsenal and Chelsea and Norwich v man utd and arsenal. Unfortunately it won't work in our favour so we just need to hope that the results on paper hold up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 The old saying of "taking it one game at a time" could not be more apt. We must beat Palace. (Don't, and we are gone). We must beat Villa. (Don't, and we are gone) Then we will see what the situation is ahead of the spuds game. I don't understand the concept of taking things one game at a time. How do you take lots of games at once? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 We'd have probably taken still being one behind Sunderland going into the weekend. Still could be anyone's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubestationatmidnight Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Down to an 8 after that. Fairly content with that result. Long as they don't win at Stoke which I think is unlikely we just have to do our job to be out the bottom 3. Don't share the negative view that that's a bad score for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 If we win on Saturday and neither Norwich or the mackems do; we're out of the bottom 3 and will be 1 or 2 points clear of them both. Definitely not the end of the world, but the mackems worry me playing 4 teams with absolutely nothing to play for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 That was Sunderland's hardest fixture on paper and they took a point from it, they are staying up I am at a 9.999. Despite how great that comeback was yesterday and the great performance against Man City, we needed more than 2pts from them, we put ourselves into such a huge hole, no way out of it now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Down to an 8 after that. Fairly content with that result. Long as they don't win at Stoke which I think is unlikely we just have to do our job to be out the bottom 3. Don't share the negative view that that's a bad score for us. They gained a point, at this stage every point someone gets is vital so yes it's a negative. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 If we win on Saturday and neither Norwich or the mackems do; we're out of the bottom 3 and will be 1 or 2 points clear of them both. Both of them are away from home too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 That point was massive, essentially puts them a win ahead of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 You look at the mackems today (and vs Norwich) then look at Stoke who have lost the last three 4-1, 4-0 & 4-0 and you can only see one winner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 If they'd lost, we'd have the same points and they'd still be about 6 goals better off on the GD. We're not going to overturn that goal difference, we still need to win the next 2 and hope they don't win their next 2 and the game in hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 I was already pretty certain that Sunderland will survive but that point makes it even more so. They'll beat at least 2 of Stoke, Everton and Watford. So we'll have to win all 3 of ours. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 We need to beat Palace and Villa by at least 2 to try and get this goal difference back from the mackems (and hope they lose their next two). Can see this going down to GD personally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 We need to put about 5 past Palace next week to bring them back into it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 If they'd lost we'd need to pick up 1 point more than them in our remaining games. Now we have to pick up 2 more, it's massive considering we only have 3 games left and they have 5. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 If they'd lost, we'd have the same points and they'd still be about 6 goals better off on the GD. We're not going to overturn that goal difference, we still need to win the next 2 and hope they don't win their next 2 and the game in hand. A loss today would have meant 7 points might have seen us safe though. We're probably going to need all 9 now. The one thing maybe in our favour is they draw a helluva lot, so some of the games we've got them pencilled in to win could easily be 0-0s for example. They waste a lot of chances despite Defoe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubestationatmidnight Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Would be a crime if we went down below the likes of the mackems and palace with all the resources we have. Even ran half arsed we should still be way out the relegation fight. Just shows how many bad decisions have been made. The most frustrating thing for me is if we stayed up we have potential and could even be back in Europe soon enough. The mackems would just be there usual waste of a place and be 16-18th next season as usual. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 It's just so hard to predict who turns up at this time of the season. For Sunderland it's entirely possible that none of Stoke, Chelsea, Everton and Watford give a f*ck when they play. Even within a team, just takes one player to either want it or not to change the entire match, and that's much harder to predict than the outcome a normal football match where it's reasonable to assume everyone is at least semi-motivated. We definitely need to win twice to have a chance. If we do that, well done to Rafa and the team since he was installed - lot of blame at their feet and the club management for not getting rid of McClaren before the Spain hiatus. 3 wins feels like too much to ask. Too much chance Spurs have the title in play on the final day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 If they'd lost we'd need to pick up 1 point more than them in our remaining games. Now we have to pick up 2 more, it's massive considering we only have 3 games left and they have 5. It's 4 isn't it? Not that it changes anything Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 If they'd lost we'd need to pick up 1 point more than them in our remaining games. Now we have to pick up 2 more, it's massive considering we only have 3 games left and they have 5. They have 4 games left now. Your point still stands though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Aye 4 games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Still believe they won't beat Everton and Stoke, no idea why Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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