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Management Relegation

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Maccer said:
If we need to hit 40 points to stay up then we're in big trouble.
That would mean we need another 6 wins , we've only won 7 games out of 22 attempts so asking for 6 wins out of 16 games seems beyond this manager.
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27 points would have sufficed to stay up last season, or even 26 and a healthy goal difference, which we have. It’ll be a bit more this season but in the 38 game season which it has been since the mid 1990’s, the average for survival, I think is around the 32-33 mark.

The magical 40 points for survival is a relic of the 42 game season.
 
LLB Part Deux said:
From the BBC Blog:

Opta Supercomputer: Where will Tottenham finish?​


Following Tottenham's 3-2 defeat by Everton, Opta's Supercomputer predicts their most likely finish to be 12th (17.8%), although they have similar percentage chances of finishing as high as 10th (11.1%) and as low as 15th (11%).

Spurs are currently 15th with 24 points from 22 Premier League games. They are eight points clear of the bottom three.

The Supercomputer gives them a 0.1% chance of relegation.
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But is it the same supercomputer we use to identify our cheap targets?

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Last season 27 points was enough to stay.
30 looks more likely than not be enough - that's two wins.
We have Southampton at home to come - and also City at home -.
In addition there is an outside chance City will get so many points deducted they are relegated - in which case we would be already safe.
The 0.1% chance is not made up. Lose to Leicester however and the odds will change
 
Charlie F said:
Last season 27 points was enough to stay.
30 looks more likely than not be enough - that's two wins.
We have Southampton at home to come - and also City at home -.
In addition there is an outside chance City will get so many points deducted they are relegated - in which case we would be already safe.
The 0.1% chance is not made up. Lose to Leicester however and the odds will change
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I'm sorry, are you suggesting City at home is a guaranteed win?
 
i think it's two wins for safety and that's why we're stuck with ange. we're not moving up the table in any significant way so why woud levy spend the 20-30 million on a new coach and a couple signings just to finish 12th rather than 17th? it's going to be miserable and fuck levy and the board for screwing us over but that's par for the course.
 
Harry Vaginola said:
i think it's two wins for safety and that's why we're stuck with ange. we're not moving up the table in any significant way so why woud levy spend the 20-30 million on a new coach and a couple signings just to finish 12th rather than 17th? it's going to be miserable and fuck levy and the board for screwing us over but that's par for the course.
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I also wonder if there is a break clause in the contract that allows us to get rid of Ange in the summer for a much reduced amount if he fails to achieve certain objectives. For example a bottom half finish and not qualifying for Europe.
 
To me it feels like levy the Board and ange are creating the perfect storm to make Relegation a real possibility. Yes maybe hopefully we will be saved by 3 clubs getting fewer points than us over this season. But if we continue our form and god forbid one or two clubs beneath us go on a run of wins the unthinkable could happen.
I am 38 and have been following spurs closely for 20 years now and it already feels like the lowpoint since then. My first match was qpr when I was a junior spur and I saw ginola and Klinsmann live but I dont really remember the 90s.
Not everything levy has done was bad for this club like some people want to see it but if we get relegated he will undo most of the good work he has done at this club.
I could never forgive ange the board levy or some of those players if we go down.

I would have been ok with a draw yesterday and I think its important to get a draw vs leicester at least. If we keep losging to the teams below us even a win vs mancity or Liverpool could be nothing more than a bittersweet memory at the end of the worst season since the 70s.

I rarely post here but my feeling towards ange went from yeah ok lets see what hes up to when he came in. To maybe he is onto something after the first 8 or 9 matches.
Then Chelsea I was like fuck off this is just stupid not brave or clever he is so full of himself.
Thats when the downward spirale begun and I not just dislike him now its hate. Also thanks to levy because he holds onto him.
If he had been sacked after ipswich at home then I wouldnt feel this hate that I feel now.

I Just had to get this out after the last week I had thanks to Spurs now please dont fuck it all up and make our worst nightmares true.
 
JimothyCF14 said:
It's the Villa one which should be really scary because they took ages to come back. People act like it couldn't happen. Then that it could but we'll have a great time and just bounce back up. Then... League One looks fun doesn't it?
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Getting out of the Championship if we go down is not going to be easy.

All of those teams are going to look at us as the biggest match of the year. We'd be in for like 48 straight fights.
 
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