[Archived] The Relegation Thread

[K-Hod]

IMO 10 more points will see us safe....

[MarkBRFC]

Exactly right. 10 points from 10 games will definatly do us. With sunderland, liverpool, norwich & wigan at home & bolton away we should just do it. To be honest, 3 more wins for us anywhere could well be enough.

[Mercer]

Bottom 5 so poor this season that I actually think that 2 more wins giving us 31 points will be enough.

With Wigan presently on 21, Wolves & QPR on 22, how on earth they will reach 31 points the way they have shaped so far, and their fixtures to come, I honestly don't know.

[John]

Just what were Wolves thinking appointing Terry Connor, as manager, for a relegation battle - given their situation, I don't understand the thinking as he has no mangerial experience - why take such a huge risk.

Good news for us though.

QPR look heavily in trouble too, horrible run in for them.

[RevidgeBlue]

Just what were Wolves thinking appointing Terry Connor, as manager, for a relegation battle - given their situation, I don't understand the thinking as he has no mangerial experience - why take such a huge risk.

Good news for us though.

It would appear that they wanted to put an experienced older head in until the end of the season with a view to either seeing how they did or appointing a younger manager long term after that.

Understandable in some ways. Would you want the likes of Bruce and Curbishley installed on a 5 year contract after they'd taken you down? However said older heads seemingly weren't prepared to take a temporary deal leaving them in the humiliating position of trying to claim that Connor was the outstanding candidate all along.

You can understand the managers' position as well. When all's said and done Wolves are a poor side and MCCarthy only kept them up courtesy of a freak late goal last season. A couple of months work but if they went down Wolves would probably ditch them for a cheaper up and coming tracksuit type manager and relegation would represent a major blot on their CV.

Very surprised Curbishley didn't take it though. After the length of time he's been out of the game beggars can't be choosers. What's he waiting for? Barcelona?

[Mattyblue]

Think he's feeling very cosy on the TV sofa Rev.

[DE.]

Very surprised Curbishley didn't take it though. After the length of time he's been out of the game beggars can't be choosers. What's he waiting for? Barcelona?

You would assume he simply doesn't have that much of a hunger to get back into the game. If he did he would have taken the Wolves job, short contract or not. There have been plenty of vacancies Curbishley has been linked with in the last few years - he hasn't come close to any of them though. If he was keen to get back in, I'm sure he'd be somewhere by now.

[Hughesy]

2 more wins in the next 2 games please...Ugly win against Sunderland will do, followed by a 2-0 win at Bolton please.

[jim mk2]

An excellent end to the weekend with Wigan drawing.

If we can get 3 points vs Sunderland and other results go our way, we are pretty much safe.

Un-chuffing believable.

[Mercer]

Un-chuffing believable.

How many points do you reckon we need Jim ?

[Majiball]

1st clean sheet followed by back to back wins

Mmmmmmm

interesting

If that happens and I were Steve Kean, I'd be running straight to Tescos to buy a Euromillions ticket.

[Audax]

Just what were Wolves thinking appointing Terry Connor, as manager, for a relegation battle - given their situation, I don't understand the thinking as he has no mangerial experience - why take such a huge risk.

Good news for us though.

QPR look heavily in trouble too, horrible run in for them.

This story says that Steve Bruce was hired and ready to go at Wolverhampton and pulled out.

http://www.soccerway.com/news/2012/March/11/wolves-fans-vent-their-frustrations/

I've got to admire that the owner Morgan went out and confronted hostile fans, you don't hear of those things happening and it sounded like an ugly environment.

Morgan, though, felt it necessary to speak to the fans to explain why there had been a delay and laid the blame on Steve Bruce who he claimed left the club in the lurch.

"He accepted the job, he accepted it. He took four days from the process," Morgan told fans outside the stadium.

...

"We are the fifth-biggest spenders," Morgan insisted.

Did not know about this last part, that is hard to believe.

Still, good to have a hands on owner, one who is really concerned about the team even if this seemingly backfired.

[imy9]

Un-chuffing believable.

Huh??

If we win and results go our way we would be SIX points clear with a superior goal difference.

Wigan, Wolves and QPR would have to win THREE games out of EIGHT just to overtake us and we would have to not gain another point too!

To put it into context they have won four/five games ALL season.

[47er]

An excellent end to the weekend with Wigan drawing.

If we can get 3 points vs Sunderland and other results go our way, we are pretty much safe.

Eh? With 9 games to go? This is called pushing your luck!

[4000Holes]

You would assume he simply doesn't have that much of a hunger to get back into the game. If he did he would have taken the Wolves job, short contract or not. There have been plenty of vacancies Curbishley has been linked with in the last few years - he hasn't come close to any of them though. If he was keen to get back in, I'm sure he'd be somewhere by now.

Londoner, wants another London club. Anything outside the capital is second class! Idiot!

[DE.]

This story says that Steve Bruce was hired and ready to go at Wolverhampton and pulled out.

http://www.soccerway.com/news/2012/March/11/wolves-fans-vent-their-frustrations/

I've got to admire that the owner Morgan went out and confronted hostile fans, you don't hear of those things happening and it sounded like an ugly environment.

Did not know about this last part, that is hard to believe.

Still, good to have a hands on owner, one who is really concerned about the team even if this seemingly backfired.

Wolves are the fifth biggest spenders in the league? Jheeeze.... they must have spent badly, to say the least.

Londoner, wants another London club. Anything outside the capital is second class! Idiot!

Hmm, possibly. He had the chance to take the Ipswich job and he lives in Woodbridge (very close by).

Just don't think he has much of a desire to come back.

[Tom]

Lots of twists and unexpected results to go yet but It looks better than it has for a long time.

4 points in the next 2 games and I may start believing

[philipl]

A certain amount of premature ejaculation on this thread.

I am delighted to see us 3 points ahead of 18th but there are significant reasons for caution:

- Steve Kean has horribly misjudged 5 of the last 10 halves Rovers have played. He is not the "Special One" yet...

- Yak looks like he could struggle to score many more if any goals at the moment

- Yes Wolves look to be horribly deficient and Wigan are awful in front of goal but it only needs two of the four in distress below us to put a run together and that points survival target for Rovers goes up and up.

- Offered a choice of Hughes, Coyle and Kean as the manager for the next ten games, would Kean get so much as 1% of the supporters' votes?

[Kamy100]

Good to see positivity in here but we are far from safe, we will still need another 10 points to get safe, let's just take one game at a time but there is still plenty of scope for all of this to go horribly wrong.

[braddock]

I always get more optimistic when philipl writes off the Yak.

[Majiball]

I always get more optimistic when philipl writes off the Yak.

The Yak is only until Xmas.

He's too unfit to last any longer, lol.

[braddock]

The Yak is only until Xmas.

He's too unfit to last any longer, lol.

He's on 3 in 7 or something like that since Xmas day, and one of those games he got sent off so didn't last long (but is rightfully included in the statistic as it was his own fault - not bad for his time on the pitch/goals scored ratio though) so he's still doing decent enough. If this is his unfit and not looking like scoring that'll do me. He's no Benni.

[gumboots]

He's on 3 in 7 or something like that since Xmas day, and one of those games he got sent off so didn't last long (but is rightfully included in the statistic as it was his own fault - not bad for his time on the pitch/goals scored ratio though) so he's still doing decent enough. If this is his unfit and not looking like scoring that'll do me. He's no Benni.

he doesn't have to be as prolific as in the earlier part of the season either as long as others like Hoillett do their fair share of scoring when they are set up to do so. His holdup play and his strength are 2 very important aspects of our all round game too. Good strikers are often the best creators for others too.

[47er]

I always get more optimistic when philipl writes off the Yak.

I'm always happy to see you post because it usually means we've won!

[Mercer]

Good to see positivity in here but we are far from safe, we will still need another 10 points to get safe, let's just take one game at a time but there is still plenty of scope for all of this to go horribly wrong.

Too pessimistic by far saying 35 points required.

Can you see Wigan getting at least 14, Wolves or QPR getting at least 13 - that's what would be required to get them to 35 points.

IMV, 31 points would probably do it, 32 definitely would.

Just where and how are these struggling teams going to put a run together to yield a points haul requiring us to get 35.