[Archived] Relegation Watch

[gumboots]

I am very worried about the situation, I think Newcastle are going to turn it all around.Can anybody believe Newcastle are going to go down without a fight?

And the way we have been playing we cant score for love nor money.

Well, I'm not optimistic but i haven't noticed any sign of Newcastle's fight back starting yet either.

[Nelsta]

i just think it's going to happen, Newcastle will win there first match then they'll just keep winning.

[broadsword]

I am very worried about the situation, I think Newcastle are going to turn it all around.Can anybody believe Newcastle are going to go down without a fight?

And the way we have been playing we cant score for love nor money.

No telling what they'll do.

They have a very tough run-in.

[Nelsta]

i just did the predictor

12th Newcastle - 45 Points

18 Rovers - 38 Points

19 Hull - 35 Points

20 WBA - 27 Points

[broadsword]

get out of it!

Where's Boro then?

[Amo]

Newcastle do have players like Viduka coming back, and if Owen, Martins, and Duff can pull their fingers out they could take this to the wire. Hopefully, it will be too little too late.

[speeeeeeedie]

i just did the predictor

12th Newcastle - 45 Points

18 Rovers - 38 Points

19 Hull - 35 Points

20 WBA - 27 Points

You have them winning every game, or thereabouts. They've no chance of that.

[b12_simon]

i just did the predictor

12th Newcastle - 45 Points

18 Rovers - 38 Points

19 Hull - 35 Points

20 WBA - 27 Points

Jeez Nelsta. This might help

[gumboots]

You have them winning every game, or thereabouts. They've no chance of that.

Not thereabouts. that is every game. Now I'm a pessimist when it comes to Rovers prospects but we surely can get a few points if they can get all 15 left to them.

[Balwer]

Newcastle to win every single game on the run in? Despite playing Liverpool and Aston Villa away?

Um, is this Mike Ashley in disguise?

Newcastle will be lucky to get over 35 points in my opinion.

[OscarRaven]

(40 pts for saftey / 38 games to play in total) x 33 played = 34.7, we have 34 pts.

After wigan we need to have 35.8pts to be on course to stay up. A draw is not good enough.

[DE.]

Newcastle on 45 points? :D if they were serious about staying up they would have shown it against Stoke and Spurs. Both performances were abysmal.

You could aim the same criticism at our "professionals", but at least through luck alone we managed 3 points rather than 1 out of both games, and we've beaten Newcastle twice this season. Those results will probably/hopefully save us.

[BRFC95]

(40 pts for saftey / 38 games to play in total) x 33 played = 34.7, we have 34 pts.

After wigan we need to have 35.8pts to be on course to stay up. A draw is not good enough.

How the hell do we get 1.8 points?

[Nelsta]

i think Newcastle will beat Pompy and that will kick start them.

[gumboots]

How the hell do we get 1.8 points?

Well that means that we'll just have to get 3 and then we'll be ahead on the pseudo Duckworth Lewis method and can afford a slightly dodgy umpiring decision or am I getting my sports confused?

[modes98]

i just did the predictor

12th Newcastle - 45 Points

18 Rovers - 38 Points

19 Hull - 35 Points

20 WBA - 27 Points

Thank god I don't think like that, I'd never leave the house for fear of being run over.

Boro will not get more than 38 points and neither will newcastle imo, although they have a better chance. Don't forget that they have to play each other, so a draw would be amazing there. Hull are on dire form also 1 win in 17 games.

We have Wigan, Pompey and WBA at home, which have to be a minimum of 5 points, and more likely 7. If not then we only have ourselves to blame. Unless Newcastle somehow win all their games after 3 awful performances with the "new manager" effect which have given him 1 point.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

I can't see Hull picking up many points at all, and I'd hope that we could get more points than Boro and Newcastle.

[gumboots]

I can't see Hull picking up many points at all, and I'd hope that we could get more points than Boro and Newcastle.

The point is surely that having only a defence without a midfield and strikers we are not doing significantly worse than the other teams down there with us. If we can get just slightly better we must have a decent chance of getting out of it.

[SoccerHQ]

Some wild over reactions on this thread.

Not getting another point this season. You're having a laugh! So you've been playing poorly for the last 3 games? How about Boro, Hull and Newcastle who've been playing abysmally for the last 3 MONTHS. How are they suddenly more likely to put top 10 form together anymore than you are?

And I am laughing at the comments about West Brom. They like to big themselves up as the second coming of the Brazil 1970 team and seems some on here are lauding them to those levels. You'll be fine if you need a win or a point in the last game, no danger at all.

[gumboots]

Some wild over reactions on this thread.

Not getting another point this season. You're having a laugh! So you've been playing poorly for the last 3 games? How about Boro, Hull and Newcastle who've been playing abysmally for the last 3 MONTHS. How are they suddenly more likely to put top 10 form together anymore than you are?

And I am laughing at the comments about West Brom. They like to big themselves up as the second coming of the Brazil 1970 team and seems some on here are lauding them to those levels. You'll be fine if you need a win or a point in the last game, no danger at all.

Try imagining Villa just above the relegation trapdoor and you might begin to understand the wild over reactions as you call them. We've been relegated in recent years. We know what it feels like. we know the smell of it. We cannot go into that last game relying on beating west Brom. It's just the kind of game we do lose regardless of how rubbish the opposition are. I personally think we'll scrape enough points to stay above the bottom 3 but you must allow us our angst. We are Rovers fans and we love it.

[SoccerHQ]

i just think it's going to happen, Newcastle will win there first match then they'll just keep winning.

Their next match after Pompey is Liverpool away so their goal difference will take a bit of a battering.

[SoccerHQ]

Try imagining Villa just above the relegation trapdoor and you might begin to understand the wild over reactions as you call them. We've been relegated in recent years. We know what it feels like. we know the smell of it. We cannot go into that last game relying on beating west Brom. It's just the kind of game we do lose regardless of how rubbish the opposition are. I personally think we'll scrape enough points to stay above the bottom 3 but you must allow us our angst. We are Rovers fans and we love it.

We were quite recently actually- 05/06 (think that was the season you finished 6th so bit of a role reversal!). We were @#/? and quite easily could've got relegated but there were always three worse teams than us (Sunderland, Blose and West Brom again) so we did just about enough to stay up. Like you, we also had the worst team that season in the league (Sunderland) at home on the last day and won it comfortably enough.

[champions1995]

I'm surprised people have predicted Boro to stay up. They have 31 points with five games remaining and have scored the least amount of goals in the division (25). They face daunting trips to Arsenal, West Ham (final day) and face a relegation crunch at Newcastle. By the way, they have taken eight points away from home all season (2 wins, 2 draws) and have lost their last nine away league games and have yet to register a point on their travels this year. Their home games are tough too. Man United and Aston Villa travel to the Riverside, where Boro have only won five times this season. United are challenging for the title, and despite Villa's recent dip in form, they have still registered 10 away wins this season.

I really can't see much from those fixtures.

[1864roverite]

Pompy already losing at manure 1-0 6 mins fatboy shrek

[philipl]

I agree with Soccerhq re the overblown reactions although we did get relegated from a more comfortable position than we have now in '99.

The key is to get ahead of Hull which means improving our goal difference relative to them by just 1 over an apparently easier set of fixtures.

If we do that, we are safe from any revival from Newcastle which looks tricky given their remaining fixtures anyway. Bork are in really deep trouble needing at least one highly improbable win before they start to worry us again.

For all the angst about 3 terrible performances, we did collect 3 points from them and gain 2 points over Boro, Hull and Newcastle. Before that we played West Ham and were pretty good and extremely unlucky not to win.