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I was surprised to see that we were worse off this time last season, I thought we had a good season!!!

Once a season ends the season was great if all goes well!

Edited by celtavigoeagles (17 Dec 2017 3.57pm)

The Red and Blue never leaves our Palace empire,!

Interesting as you say that given our appalling start to the season we have one more point at this stage than we did at the same time last season.
There are also more teams in the bottom half mix this season as well in terms of the points gap between them. It will take a while for teams to get gaps between them and others and not keep switching places based on one week's results.

But the first half of last season was f***ing s***e as well.

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I had a brief look at this. I am wondering how many points we actually need this year. It seems that 34-35 points might be enough.

Other than 2015/6 - when we had such a great start - our points tally after 18 games exceeds that of any season since we rejoined the top flight

Yup. Our shocking run stood out because it was at the start of the season, but Newcastle are presently on a worse run (1 point from 24) than we went through (3 points from our first 24).

Staying up is all about arresting those alarming slides, and picking up points here and there.

it’s amazing how quick The perspective turns - we have gone from not scoring away from home all season, to three away clean sheets in a row in the space of an afternoon.

we have broken the record for longest run of no goals or points at the start of a season, and equalled our own record for longest run without defeat, all in the space of a few months.

It all depends on what statistics you want to listen to, and whether you want to be miserable midway, or happy at the end of the season.