With only 1 win in 9 PL games the 'Mood Music' has shifted from a top half finish , even a European place, to the "R" word with many supporters genuinely concerned with our current situation.

I have spoken to supporters who are not convinced that Vieira is the man to take us forward but this is his first season and we are in transition.
One hopes we don't hear a chorus of "You don't know what you're doing" ringing around Selhurst Park.

Edited by Willo (21 Feb 2022 9.05am)

I don't envisage us winning both games, however should we take 4 pts from these games I suspect the fears of many supporters will be allayed.
I don't envisage us losing both games.

The relegation odds change as the results happen, so they can ‘get it wrong’ as you put it. They do not know and cannot predict what is going to happen this week but are guaranteed to win financially on all the teams’ odds today and Sunday.

There’s a percentage figure called the override in horse racing and the higher over 100% a race is, the more profitable it is for the bookie. This will be similar to how the relegation odds work. Canterbury Palace does this for work. They don’t care whether Palace get relegated at 18/1 or the current three at odds on. ‘Getting it right’ isn’t isn’t it at all, unless you mean getting the odds/price right at the time, in which case lose both this week and those 18/1 odds will come crashing down.

COYP

Watford are poor and we should be ok, but Burnley will be putting crosses in throughout the game and if we defend like we did for Chelsea's winner then there's only one result.

We have actually put in more crosses that Burnley this season :

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I understand you are a seasoned supporter from the 60s like myself. We knew that a top half finish or a European spot was never going to happen, some get carried away with a few results.
Supporters need to hold their nerve, look at other teams similar to us Brighton and Southampton, both their managers have had appalling results in trying to change the style of the way their teams play. Both were given time and the clubs are now reaping the benefit.
Football is a game of fine margins, it hasn’t gone our way recently, but we aren’t a bad team and are capable of getting the results required.