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Management Relegation

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Do you think we'll stay up?

  • Yes

    Votes: 184 40.1%

  • No

    Votes: 275 59.9%
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Gmspurs said:
We have Leeds and Forest at home and Wolves away.

Win two and draw the other and we'll most likely stay up

It's that simple

Liverpool, Villa and Chelsea just write off.

Everton and Brighton at home, we need at least a point from either of those two so can lose one.

Sunderland away - probably a loss.

That gets us to 37 points

We can afford another four losses max and that's it.
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We need 4 wins and a draw in our last 9 matches.

Forest, Brighton, Leeds, Everton at home, Wolves away.

We simply have to win the games that on paper at the beginning of the season we should win, draw the games we should draw and lose the games we'd probably expect to struggle in.

It's a huge ask for these pathetic professionals.
 
We have been shit (and ridiculously unlucky/crap with injuries). But getting relegated because spam beat us to the post, the gooners winning the prem (and whatever else) and Chelsea possibly being the game that seals our fate can't happen. Surely?
 
dudu said:
Fair enough if that's what you are getting from it..... looking and acting dejected can be a symptom of a number of things.

VDV, for example, was trying to drive the team forward consistently at 0-0 - he certainly looked like he gave a shit. And his getting sent off was not borne out of a lack of desire.

Most of these players havent been in a relegation battle either - and many of them are still young men who are absolutely struggling with the pressure, which is not something you can teach to get out of.
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I haven't seen anything to suggest the players aren't "trying" - I just see a bunch of young men utterly bereft of confidence, under enormous and increasing pressure.

If anything Romero and VDV's stupid red cards were a result of being "too" desperate. Where there is no confidence there can be no composure.

The only chance we have is someone coming in and making them believe in themselves again. Exactly how Redknapp did in 08.
 
Park Lane Mark Twain said:
We need 4 wins and a draw in our last 9 matches.

Forest, Brighton, Leeds, Everton at home, Wolves away.

We simply have to win the games that on paper at the beginning of the season we should win, draw the games we should draw and lose the games we'd probably expect to struggle in.

It's a huge ask for these pathetic professionals.
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Thing is we have zero momentum and are on a terrible run.

No wins this year.

2 home wins all season.

I just dont see how it all suddenly turns around to winning 4 or 5 games out of the last 9.

I want to believe it's possible but I just don't see it.
 
Merl said:
Thing is we have zero momentum and are on a terrible run.

No wins this year.

2 home wins all season.

I just dont see how it all suddenly turns around to winning 4 or 5 games out of the last 9.

I want to believe it's possible but I just don't see it.
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The only hope I have is that there have been pl teams in the past in a similar place who somehow turned it around.

And we have the type of fixtures coming up that you’d want as well as players coming back.
 
Fattynomates said:
What will be will be , we have no say on what the future holds this season , it’s looking likely we go down however I think there are a few more twists In this yet , whatever happens it’s just a fucking game, there are more important things in life to stress about !
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It will be extremely painful and the ridicule and piss taking will be on another level, but life will eventually go on. Let's just hope the dullards who own and supposedly manage this club, if they are still around, don't discover an entirely new level of shite and sink us to the bottom parts of the Championship.
 
docomospur said:
It will be extremely painful and the ridicule and piss taking will be on another level, but life will eventually go on. Let's just hope the dullards who own and supposedly manage this club, if they are still around, don't discover an entirely new level of shite and sink us to the bottom parts of the Championship.
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*Could even get to Wembley?
 
Phomesy said:
I haven't seen anything to suggest the players aren't "trying" - I just see a bunch of young men utterly bereft of confidence, under enormous and increasing pressure.

If anything Romero and VDV's stupid red cards were a result of being "too" desperate. Where there is no confidence there can be no composure.

The only chance we have is someone coming in and making them believe in themselves again. Exactly how Redknapp did in 08.
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Couldn’t agree more. There was a split second yesterday after we scored when I thought that might be the turning point. I still think this squad is good enough to put things together and stay up.
 
Park Lane Mark Twain said:
We need 4 wins and a draw in our last 9 matches.

Forest, Brighton, Leeds, Everton at home, Wolves away.

We simply have to win the games that on paper at the beginning of the season we should win, draw the games we should draw and lose the games we'd probably expect to struggle in.

It's a huge ask for these pathetic professionals.
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I think three wins and a draw would do it, but I don't think we'll get them.
 
django said:
Villa fan in peace here. We obviously had a longer period circling the drain before we were relegated and had a worse squad than you do but there are a lot of similarities in us being an established premier league side of similar side who went down. I thought I’d share a perspective on what happens when a club like ours is relegated.

Firstly the championship was a lot of fun. After years of shit football it was really enjoyable to win some games and compete for promotion.

Although we presumed we’d come straight back up it was much harder than that and we finished 13th, 4th and 5th before coming up through the play offs at the second go. It’s hard for the reasons your fans are aware of…fire sale of decent players, getting stuck with the overpaid once-hyped players whose wages stop them moving on…being your oppositions cup final for every league game.

If we hadn’t gone up when we did we’d have been in serious shit financially. We’d been run as a lower table side for a few years but had a couple of past it players on high wages (Lescott, Agbonlahor, Micah Richard’s) and we were stuck with 2 of these for the remainder of their contracts despite them not playing for us in the championship.

I’m no expert on Spurs finances, I know you’re in much better financial shape than we were when we went down. That can cut both ways though as I imagine you will have a far higher wage bill than we did. I’m not sure what the deal is with your stadium and if you’re still paying for that but just from the playing side you will be out in serious jeopardy.

I’ve got no real love or hate for spurs. But it’s shit watching your team lose all the time especially when you’ve been used to being better than that.

I watched the game last night and it looks pretty hopeless for you guys right now. If there’s any hope I can offer, it’s that for a few years before we actually went down I was convinced we would and then each time we pulled something unexpected out of the bag. Until we didn’t. Good luck.
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Cheers. Just been reading Newcastle fans on Twitter saying pretty much exactly the same thing as you have when they went down. There seems to be a common denominator of terrible owners making a series of bad decisions that once they begin are almost impossible to reverse. The PL is too unforgiving.
 
Nuts said:
We have been shit (and ridiculously unlucky/crap with injuries). But getting relegated because spam beat us to the post, the gooners winning the prem (and whatever else) and Chelsea possibly being the game that seals our fate can't happen. Surely?
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