11 games left...

[Chippy_boy]

Doubt it. I would wager Villa will get 70 and if they don't then Liverpool will. We have to expect one of them to get 70 imho, which would leave us 2 points shy (we'll need 71 due to goal difference).

not when we do the rags 6-0 at our gaffe.

Er, "unlikely", but I like your thinking!

 

[somervillain]

Here's a breakdown of the remaining fixtures for all four contenders for fourth:

<a class="postlink" href="http://skybluethinking.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/a-breakdown-of-the-run-in-for-fourth-place-contenders/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://skybluethinking.wordpress.com/20 ... ontenders/</a>

There's a mistake in it.

They have Villa as down to play United (which they don't) and they have missed off the Villa v Chelsea game.

Good catch. It's been fixed.

And the math wasn't affected, as @Chelsea and @United have the some average opponent point haul this season.

 

[MadchesterCity]

I think that the fact that we play against some of the better footballing sides definitely works in our favour - our results have been good against the better sides - we strugggle against the hoofers and cloggers.

I tip us to beat the Rags at home again, but if I had to choose between drawing or losing to the Rags and 4th spot, or thrashing them 4-0 or 5-0 and ending up 5th or 6th, which would I choose?

beaten by the rags if youv'e got a brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow obv 4th is the holy grail this season

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Sunderland A 3
Fulham A 1
Everton H 3
Wigan H 3
Burnley A 1
Birmingham H 3
Rags H 0
Arsenal A 0
Villa H 3
West Ham A 3
TBA Spuds H 1

Total 21

Grand Total 70

It's going to be very tight!

 

[davymcfc]

16-20 points is what we will get depending if we get luck or not. i think a lot of teams will unexpectedly lose points as the season goes on.

 

[The Iceman Cometh]

People who think we are going to draw at burnley and sunderland are taking the piss. Sunderland havent won a game since october? And burnley can hardly score and they lost to portsmouth FFS!!

only half taking the p at the moment

 

[DTeacher]

It's looking likely (with the fixture reshuffle for Spurs and Everton) that we'll have a run of 5 games involving Man Utd,Everton,Arsenal,Spurs and Villa consecutively!

Gulp !

 

[kun]

Sunderland, 1 pt
Fulham, 1 pt
Burnley, 3 pts
Arsenal 0 pts
West Ham 3 pts


Wigan, 3 pts
Brum, 3 pts
Rags, 3 pts
Villa, 1 pt
Spurs 1 pt
Everton 0 pts

19 pts in total

 

[mullsy]

I think we need over 70 points so another 24 should do it , fingers crossed .

 

[pardoe]

Les would've guaranteed eleven points from that!

 

[simon23]

Sunderland, 1 pt
Fulham, 1 pt - agreed
Burnley, 3 pts - hopefully
Arsenal 0 pts - agreed
West Ham 3 pts - away game last of the season....anything could happen


Wigan, 3 pts - it should be but who knows
Brum, 3 pts - think you are underrating brum there...id say a draw
Rags, 3 pts - the way we are playing we wont beat utd - but anything cn happen in a derby so god knows
Villa, 1 pt - agreed
Spurs 1 pt - agreed
Everton 0 pts - agreed

think we will fall short of what we need unfotunately

 

[1961_vintage]

Fulham, 0 pt
Burnley, 3 pt
Arsenal 0 pts
West Ham 1 pt

6 home

Wigan, 3 pts
Brum, 3 pts
Rags, 3 pts
Villa, 3 pts
Spurs 3 pts
Everton 3 pts

72 points. Might just be enough!

 

[simon23]

Fulham, 0 pt
Burnley, 3 pt
Arsenal 0 pts
West Ham 1 pt

6 home

Wigan, 3 pts
Brum, 3 pts
Rags, 3 pts
Villa, 3 pts
Spurs 3 pts
Everton 3 pts

72 points. Might just be enough!

we cannt beat sunderland so what makes you think that we are going to beat spurs, villa, brum and everton

i can see a lot of draws coming up to be honest

 

[1961_vintage]

Fulham, 0 pt
Burnley, 3 pt
Arsenal 0 pts
West Ham 1 pt

6 home

Wigan, 3 pts
Brum, 3 pts
Rags, 3 pts
Villa, 3 pts
Spurs 3 pts
Everton 3 pts

72 points. Might just be enough!

we cannt beat sunderland so what makes you think that we are going to beat spurs, villa, brum and everton

i can see a lot of draws coming up to be honest

Different prospect @ home and the reality is we have a whole load of cup finals coming up. Good record vs Villa and Bhm, we owe Gollum and the Rags big style, and the Tott game is the only one that worries me tbh.

 

[kenzie115]

Fulham, 0 pt
Burnley, 3 pt
Arsenal 0 pts
West Ham 1 pt

6 home

Wigan, 3 pts
Brum, 3 pts
Rags, 3 pts
Villa, 3 pts
Spurs 3 pts
Everton 3 pts

72 points. Might just be enough!

we cannt beat sunderland so what makes you think that we are going to beat spurs, villa, brum and everton

i can see a lot of draws coming up to be honest

I'm going to guess because we play them all at home.

 

[simon23]

the wya we are playing you cannt believe we are going to beat many of those teams

we have to attack to win games!!!

 

[kenzie115]

the wya we are playing you cannt believe we are going to beat many of those teams

we have to attack to win games!!!

Funny that because the game before last we scored 4 at Stamford Bridge, but I suppose we scored them by defending.

 

[simon23]

the wya we are playing you cannt believe we are going to beat many of those teams

we have to attack to win games!!!

Funny that because the game before last we scored 4 at Stamford Bridge, but I suppose we scored them by defending.

we scored 2 of those when the oppostion had 10 men or less, it was only at thiat point did we really start attacking chelski....other than that we had one breakaway where tevez scored and one break away where bellamy scored.....and one header by lescott......oh and they still created chances against us with 9 men!!!

 

[ElanJo]

Fulham, 1 pt
Burnley, 3 pt
Arsenal 0 pts
West Ham 1 pt

6 home

Wigan, 3 pts
Brum, 3 pts
Rags, 1 pts
Villa, 3 pts
Spurs 3 pts
Everton 1 pts

69 pts