It was a long shot to start with but this forum wouldn't be the same without a relegation panic .

Im surprised Fulham have gone , Uddersfield were nailed on and Cardiff were always going to struggle .Brighton ,Southampton are poor and Burnley playing in Europe has had the usual effect for teams with a weak bench
35 pts will be enough this season

And we still need a striker

I think we will be safe now.
We will pick up points slowly but surely and we are a more confident side now that Batshuyi is playing.
I see us with probably 43 - 45 points for sure.
I just hope Brighton get relegated in that last available space and if not them then Southampton!

Some gloom merchants will feel sorry they are no longer able to wind people up on here

Cardiff have 44% of their games to play against the top 6 whereas they have played 28% up to now. Think they will do very well to catch us now.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Fun facts - Since our promotion we've had 33 points after 29 games on 2 other occasions, the 14/15 and 15/16 leagues in which we ended on 48 and 42 points respectively. The 48 points 10th place finish being the best we have done this decade, to equal that we would need 5 wins from the last 9 games.

Alternatively in the 15/16 prem. we had 33 points and were 9 points clear of relegation in 15th place, we got 2 wins and 3 draws from the remaining 9 games to finish 5 points clear on 42.

Last year was our worst year at this stage as we had only 27 points after 30 games but then went on to win 5 draw 2 and lose just 1. Also worthy to note is this time last year we had scored 27 goals and conceded 46 compared to this years 35sco and 39conc..
In fact we have never had as good a goal difference than this year and only once had more goals scored (16/17-36gs) and less goals conceded (13/14-38ga) at this stage of the season.

The First 90 Minutes Are The Most Important!

Last year, Swansea were relegated on 33pts with -28 GD. 33pts with a better GD could have been enough to keep you up (Saints did it with 36pts).

In short: unless we fail to pick up a single point, and get tonked in most games, I am pretty confident in saying we will stay up.