The relegation battle - get out of my league!

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  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited February 2018
    Here's the run-ins for all the bottom 10 teams:

    Capture

    Edited after Adam's spot ;ok
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I think the current bottom three, Stoke, Huddersfield & West Brom, are done for.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    WBA + Huddersfiekd ;ok

    Think there might be a scrap for the 3rd spot. Newcastle? Palace?
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Newcastle don't score many but have only conceded 36, which isn't bad for a struggling team. The also have Rafa who is a good manager.
    Palace need to get through their injury crisis but again they have Hodgson who is a good club manager.
    Stoke don't score many but concede a lot and they have Lambert who I personally am not impressed by.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    The sooner Huddersfield go and take their clacky clackers with them, the better!
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    They sounded like a Yorkshire Palace to me...
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Yeah, but they don't take themselves as seriously as Palace. ;biggrin
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    We pull out a good result as we did yesterday and needed Huddersfield to lose and then they go thrash Bournemouth, we really need Man Utd and Liverpool to win as otherwise it contracts up again. I feel we will be safe when I see us find something like yesterday but other teams are just as able as Swansea have shown. After 10 games I was convinced Palace would be down, after 20 that Swansea would be, now I am tempted to say WBA are but two results and they are back out again. Too close to call but my instinct says we will pull clear and be safe with a couple of games to go with a couple of wins and two or three hard fought draws.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited February 2018
    C&B

    Disagree. I'm glad Bournemouth lost.

    Imo, we will be vying with teams like them, Everton and Burnley for a top 10+ spot.

    Not worried about what Huddersfield do, as I don't believe for a second they will catch us. (edit to clarify: by the end of the season.)

    Looking up, not down.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    I hope you are right Grey it's certainly not beyond possible that we finish 10+, I would like to be clear with matches to go so would quite like 2 or 3 to start getting cut off at the bottom rather than keeping the contraction that we have at present.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Newcastle one up on Man U...
  • LukerzLukerz
    Good thing we won this weekend
  • LukerzLukerz
    The way this season is going we won’t ‘pull clear’. We will be in it until May.
  • Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_MoyesJorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes
    I think we’ll be comfortably clear by May.
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    I expect us to be clear by the end of March
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited February 2018
    Newcastle's goal from a free kick given for Smalling diving.

    Smalling.

    A CB, diving.

    Pathetic.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    It’s hilarious that Man Utd are losing at Newcastle ;lol
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    But does us no favours.

    I'd much rather our relegation rivals dropped points.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I will not put my joy in a box because of our league position.

  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited February 2018
    It doesn't matter about other teams winning.

    Over the weekend, so far, we've made up points on Bournemouth, Watford, Palace, Brighton and Stoke, with Soton and WBA yet to be determined.

    We are doing our job, so it doesn't matter what other teams do.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    And if we don't do our job?

    I know I'd rather have the back-up of the teams below us dropping points to make our position a bit safer, but hey, each to their own ;ok
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    If we don't do our job we go down, deservedly so. It's in our own hands.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    It is.

    But teams below us losing makes that job easier.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    OCS

    If we'd had several Brighton performances in a row, I'd be more concerned, but our over all record under Moyes is better than pretty much any of the other teams in the mix.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    edited February 2018
    I cannot believe any west ham
    fan would seriously want another team to reap the rewards vs our own survival...
    Others might see it as all cool, but for me any result that means teams around us drop points, I personally don't care who they are playing ;ok
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Given the way this season is going, I don’t for one minute think we will end up with zero points out of our games v Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. Aside from the odd meltdown, Moyes has made sure we are no pushovers. I’d be disappointed, for example if we didn’t take at least a point v Man U.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Jay.

    I will enjoy Man Utd losing, it (imho) is funny as it was against a really, until today, rubbish Newcastle.

    It has no bearing on our Premier League survival.

    Believe it or believe it not.

    I will not become an old curmudgeon and view all football in terms of West Ham related maths.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    SuzanneClaret said:

    I will not become an old curmudgeon and view all football in terms of West Ham related maths.

    Become? ;wink
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    ;whistle
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    ;nonono

    ;sofa
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