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[George Bailey]

Odds are against us with each passing 'winnable' game. 2 points from those two fixtures is not great at all.

Nervy very nervy.

Thankfully a few other sides are just as shit.

 

Slimani hitting the ground running is absolutely key. If not we are down imo.

[Twinport53]

Lost 2 in 9.

Only won 2 in 14.

 

Both of these stats show that we draw alot of games. We need goals to get on the right side of the "fine margins".

 

Slimani best be the second coming of prime Papiss Cisse.

[timeEd32]

Pretty confident we’re going to be fine.

[Guest firetotheworks]

No change from me after that.

[Dave]

Lost 2 in 9.

Only won 2 in 14.

 

Both of these stats show that we draw alot of games. We need goals to get on the right side of the "fine margins".

 

Slimani best be the second coming of prime Papiss Cisse.

 

 

50/50 shot from here IMO.

[Yorkie]

I think we're improving, which is important. The fact we didn't lose today ought to give us a boost.

 

It's all about the home form, basically. Getting a point at Selhurst Park, where they've got Townsend, Zaha, PVA all running at you, Benteke to aim at and a boisterous crowd - that's not what gets you relegated. We've got Southampton, West Brom and Huddersfield all to come at St James' Park - that's where our season will be decided.

[Amir_9]

9 points from Soton, Huddersfield and West Brom at home and we are safe I think.

[Skeletor]

9 points from Soton, Huddersfield and West Brom at home and we are safe I think.

 

Good thing we win home games.

[AY]

Our salvation might be that there are teams in the league that are very poor. Stoke, Wba and Huddersfield really are losing a lot. At least we are getting draws from here and there..

[toontownman]

Could well be in the bottom 3 before we the Manure game next week.we simply have to do more than draw or lose. I'm not confident we have enough. Anyone's game in the bottom 8.

[Varadi]

Still only 3 points between 11th and 19th, almost impossible to call at this stage.

 

Probably about a 4 for me, think we've a slightly better than even chance of staying up.

[bigfella]

We'll be fine once Slimani comes in for Gayle.  Might as well have played with ten men today for what use he was.

[Skeletor]

We'll be fine once Slimani comes in for Gayle.  Might as well have played with ten men today for what use he was.

 

This is what I worry about. A lot of people seem to have convinced themselves 'Oh it will all be fine in the end because Slimani will score the goals we need'. There's absolutely no guarantee of that at all.

[Ketsbaia]

9 points from Soton, Huddersfield and West Brom at home and we are safe I think.

 

Well yes, definitely, but that won't happen.

 

I'm more confident about beating either Man Utd or Bournemouth than Burnley & Palace though. I dunno..... today hasn't made me more pessimistic.

 

Still around a 7.

[toontownman]

The worry is we don't beat or draw with the top 6, we can't beat those around us and we are hopeless either way at home.

 

The players are working hard and sticking to the gameplan though so hopefully soon we get some good fortune. Fixtures make me nervous though.

 

[Superior Acuña]

Think we'll just scrape up but it's going to be fuckin nervy. Thank god so many teams are in same situation. And great we don't lose many points to rivals

[BlackandWhite]

You’d imagine four wins from 12 games will see us through but I really don’t believe the players are good enough to achieve that. Please prove me wrong.

[Guest firetotheworks]

We'll be fine once Slimani comes in for Gayle.  Might as well have played with ten men today for what use he was.

 

This is what I worry about. A lot of people seem to have convinced themselves 'Oh it will all be fine in the end because Slimani will score the goals we need'. There's absolutely no guarantee of that at all.

There's a guarantee he's better than what we have and is more likely to score goals.

[Dave]

Our record against the current bottom half:

 

[Groo]

Some good news for you, we've lost Fer and Bony for the rest of the season. Well Bony is no loss to be honest, an expensive mistake that should never have happened.

[Yorkie]

We'll be fine once Slimani comes in for Gayle.  Might as well have played with ten men today for what use he was.

 

This is what I worry about. A lot of people seem to have convinced themselves 'Oh it will all be fine in the end because Slimani will score the goals we need'. There's absolutely no guarantee of that at all.

There's a guarantee he's better than what we have and is more likely to score goals.

 

And our approach play is improving, not least because of the arrival of Kenedy - but Diame has improved a lot recently, and so has Murphy. Perez too, tbh.

[Ketsbaia]

Kenedy & Slimani should make us a lot better going forward and defensively we're adequate. But I don't like our fixture list.

[Jayson]

We've picked up 2 wins & a draw from our last 4 away Prem games which is pretty good considering the other was Man City.

 

We'll need to keep stepping up away from home.

[Ketsbaia]

Some good news for you, we've lost Fer and Bony for the rest of the season. Well Bony is no loss to be honest, an expensive mistake that should never have happened.

How important is Fer to you?

[Guest firetotheworks]

Can definitely see Swansea winning next week mind. There are a fair few matches between relegation battlers next week.