Guest fading star Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 Our fight for survival can be broken down into three phases. 1 Staying in touch until our run of home games arrives. 2 Winning our run of home games 3 Getting a point at Villa Park. The first bit will be the hardest. Without Taylor, Bassong and Enrique we’ll struggle away from home. Getting nine points at home is going to be down to the supporters. It’s only really us that can turn home draws into victories. Villa will probably have nowt to play for. It’s do-able without a massive improvement in form. A bit of extra motivation and a slice of luck and we might be alright. Three games to watch out for. Middlesbrough v Hull (11/04) Sunderland v Hull (18/04) Newcastle v Middlesbrough (11/05) It’s almost impossible to see how we could be mathematically safe before the Villa game, without picking up one or two ‘freak’ results. If we win our homes games it should go down to the wire, at which point the last card can be played and this seasons poker game brought to a close. Three homes games to have a fighting chance. If we don’t raise the roof we deserve to go down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Its HT and we're 0-1 down to Stoke. Lose this and my rating will from a 6 to a 10. We are truly, truly awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Eight million and thirty seven Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I'm in denial. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Parka Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Virtually down. 9. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I'm in denial. Man, he ain't no batty bwoy! He's STR88888 LIKE A BANANA! http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3366/nile.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 9 still Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Up from an 8 to a 9 for me now. Shearer clearly hasn't got what it takes to turn this around - and it was always going to be a difficult ask in any case, regardless of whoever took over, given the absolute shower of shite that passes for our so-called first team squad. I'm feeling extremely pessismistic now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Up from an 8 to a 9 for me now. Shearer clearly hasn't got what it takes to turn this around - and it was always going to be a difficult ask in any case, regardless of whoever took over, given the absolute shower of shite that passes for our so-called first team squad. I'm feeling extremely pessismistic now. aye that pretty much sums up my feelings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Did people really expect a fucking win like? They've lost 3 games all season! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 5. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offshore Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Bonus point today - win our three games at home and we're safe. In fact we may not have to win all three, 7 points may be just enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 We're the first team this season to get anything off Stoke at the Britannia after they've gone ahead, every other team has lost once Stoke went 1:0 up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 5 I think people are forgetting about the other teams. 9 for fucks sake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Carroll will save us a new legend for newcastle has arrived yaaaaa Hes stepping up big time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 People also seem to be forgetting how formidable Stoke are at home. People were expecting us to join only Manure, Chelsea and Everton in beating them and are gutted and talking about us being down and Shearer not having what it takes when we've just become the first team to come back against Stoke this season. Its hardly a coincidence that they've won every single time they've gone ahead at home this season! (until now). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 two points off the Mackems, Hull and Blackburn still in touching distance... hope is very much alive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I've moved from an 8 to a 9. We needed to win today. We are 2 points and goal difference off 17th and 4 points off 16th. Sunderland's next two games they could realistically win (or draw even) and widen the gap to safety from us. Our fate is no longer in our hands. We need other teams to drop points. We were crap today until Carroll came on and then all of a sudden the team woke up. We are going to need some unexpected results from us and teams around us to save us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 People also seem to be forgetting how formidable Stoke are at home. People were expecting us to join only Manure, Chelsea and Everton in beating them and are gutted and talking about us being down and Shearer not having what it takes when we've just become the first team to come back against Stoke this season. Its not a coincidence that they've won every single time they've gone ahead at home, until now. Agreed. I hope that's put across to the players too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I've moved from an 8 to a 9. We needed to win today. We are 2 points and goal difference off 17th and 4 points off 16th. Sunderland's next two games they could realistically win (or draw even) and widen the gap to safety from us. Our fate is no longer in our hands. We need other teams to drop points. We were crap today until Carroll came on and then all of a sudden the team woke up. We are going to need some unexpected results from us and teams around us to save us. Check the fixtures, just because Sunderland have their easier games at a different time to us doesn't mean that their harder games have any less significance. Im sticking with my 'if we win our home games, we'll stay up' prediction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I've moved from an 8 to a 9. We needed to win today. We are 2 points and goal difference off 17th and 4 points off 16th. Sunderland's next two games they could realistically win (or draw even) and widen the gap to safety from us. Our fate is no longer in our hands. We need other teams to drop points. We were crap today until Carroll came on and then all of a sudden the team woke up. We are going to need some unexpected results from us and teams around us to save us. Check the fixtures, just because Sunderland have their easier games at a different time to us doesn't mean that their harder games have any less significance. Im sticking with my 'if we win our home games, we'll stay up' prediction. I hope you're correct. The trouble is, a few demoralising defeats by Tottenham and Liverpool could kill any embers of hope in our team or fans E.g. 6 points from safety with a few 3 'winable' games? Could the team and fans take the pressure? A bunch of arseholes Stoke's fans may be (every single touch an opposition player has is booed, every decision against them is complained about and anything in the penalty area is a hand ball) but I wish our fans were like that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Mongo Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 5 I think people are forgetting about the other teams. 9 for fucks sake. The other teams have just as many points to pick up as we have, and seem to have the ability to do so now and then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 5 I think people are forgetting about the other teams. 9 for f***s sake. The other teams have just as many points to pick up as we have, and seem to have the ability to do so now and then. Youve just highlighted my point there really. The points theyre picking up theye picking up off each other. We have just as much chance as Boro, Sunderland and Portsmouth to stay up imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 6. As in I'd say 60% chance we'll go down. It's all about the three home games, Shearer needs to figure it out by then and we'll have a fighting chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 5 I think people are forgetting about the other teams. 9 for fucks sake. The other teams have just as many points to pick up as we have, and seem to have the ability to do so now and then. Sunderland haven't shown that ability mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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