Hey all long time reader but have never really posted and after reading all the negative posts i feel id balance things up with a positive outlook on things.

Looking at the table it looks like 18th place will finish on 35 so all we need is 36 to stay up lets call it 37 to be safe. just 10 points from our last 10 games, so lets say 9 points from Sunderland, Cardiff, A villa, W ham and fulham. We are more than capable of 9 points out of these games, sunderland and cardiff look the toughest but i feel we can at least pick 1 point up and that's at our worse, Villa at home we really should be looking at and will need 3 points, w ham will be tough but i think they will be pretty much safe by then and fulham are just terrible. If they aint relegated by the last game of the season then manager of the year has got to go to them.

That leaves 1 point from Everton, Newcastle, Chelsea, City and liverpool. if we cant get one point out of these 5 games then we deserve to go down. Chelsea we have no chance but you would fancy us to get a point out of Everton or Newcastle, One of these two games have got 0-0 written all over it, and then there is that shock win "we are due". Looking at Liverpool, are they still going to be in with a shot at the title come us, maybe but i doubt it. They will be guaranteed champions league football tho, so will probably have their end of season party already booked, so that fixture wont be as hard as it looks on paper.

I can see us getting more than 37 points but ideally would rather drop points to the big clubs and pick up points from our relegation rivals. looking at our fixtures we have no need to panic and our fixtures aint exactly the hardest when you look at what teams we play and when. being palace it will defiantly go down to the last game of the season but it will be someone else hoping fulham do them a favor rather than fulham doing themselves one and im more than confident that we will stay up.

The only game left that I feel upbeat about is Villa at home. We must win this.

The rest of our fixtures are tough and unless we up our game significantly they could all be lost.

Everton, Newcastle away, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City at home? We cannot expect much from these games.

Sunderland, Cardiff, West Ham, Fulham away. All scrapping for points.

I can easily see us coming up short.

I'm hoping Pulis' record of not being relegated is a factor, but a slim hope!

I wouldn't panic, ok we got beaten at home by Manchester Utd and Southampton (just in the case of the latter), and got a draw against Swansea Away.

We've not got a particually positive history against any of those clubs in recent years, and they are clubs that have only gotten better since then.

Realistically we'd have expected to lose to Man Utd, maybe draw with Swansea and Southampton. We've gone through a fairly tough run of games, and not move in the table - Thats good.

Saturday, away from home against Sunderland. Massive game, win that, and we're putting serious distance against their games in hand.

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We was terrible on saturday but you've got to give southampton credit their one of the best footballing teams in the league and there's a massive difference in quality between them, sunderland and cardiff.
I agree id like to see bannan start, his the best player we've got on the ball but what would he of done against southampton when we had 20% possession, he would of been even more anonymous than ledley was.

1 point against Sunderland and/or Cardiff is not enough. We need to beat them both and will not do it by treating them as if they are Man City or Chelsea.

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Where will the points come from?
Sunderland - 1
Cardiff - 1
Villa - 3
Fulham - 3

Cant see any more. That's 35 points. Likely come down to goal difference.

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