the-ecstacy-of-eight
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tolmie's hairdoo said:
Keep your head mate. The positives are that we don't need to win EVERY game. Seven points more than last year? One point more than last year would have done it wouldn't it? So we we've got a margin. Silva said a few days ago that "WE CAN'T LOSE ANOTHER GAME", which is what we must be quietly putting out to play with their heads. We can, we could conceivably lose two and still be ok.
But we need that lot to start dropping points. I can't see them suddenly massively come off the rails, losing left right and centre cause I just can't see this happening, but is a long slow period where they can't manage to claw those last minute equilisers/winners not possible?
QPR away? West Ham away? Reading at home? Stoke away? Aston Villa home? and now Southampton at home with "new manager syndrome".
Plenty of drawable relegation dogfight battles there and they've also got to play Chelsea and us at the swamp. They haven't got that much of an easy run. Hopefully the push for survival helps us.
I'm believing it can happen
We're going to show them that we can run their down. We showed them last year that we could take the lead early and go on to win it, just about, but we still won it. This year we're going to show them we can pull an early lead back and reel them in.
I am a bit worried about their ability to score whenever they're allowed to put teams under a period of about twenty minutes of sustained pressure though, but I think that we're still probably on an even parr with them even though they do now have RVP, but he's got to have a blip in form hasn't he. A RVP drough would be a good prayer today for all you blues with a religious slant, or isn't this really the sort of miracle you're allowed to ask a devine one for? I've never really got religion.