CleggHall wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:08 pm

“the beach”?! - you’ll be lucky to get to Hollingworth Lake this year!

BabylonClaret wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:08 pm

33 will be more than enough this season. That would be 18 points in front of the highest relegation candidates who are currently on 15. The bottom three essentially have to get more points than they've garnered so far in less games than they have had already.

If the gap were smaller than a few games ago or even the same its possible but u nlikely. As the gap's increased the bottom 3 really do need a miracle.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:28 pm

I've been saying for weeks that I don't think it will need 35 and after the Villa win I reckoned four more wins would be more than enough. I'll stick with 34 being the absolute max needed to stay up this year.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:08 pm

Villa stayed up with 35 last season, but I really can't see any of the bottom 3 getting anywhere near 34 points this season, and even if they somehow did reach that figure it's hard to imagine us not winning at least 3 more games, and drawing a couple, and that's being cautious in predictions, it'll take an amazing drop in form from anybody else for the bottom 3 to even get a sniff of survival, however this doesn't mean we should rest on our laurels, and we will need to strengthen in the summer, we've got away with it for the most part this campaign, but as recent weeks have shown, if we're short of 1st team regulars on a constant basis, we'll struggle to compete week after week in this league, so we badly need a stronger back up squad, and simply extra strength in depth, because relying on the same 14/16 players to stay fit and in form for the entire season is dicing with lady luck to say the least.

jdrobbo wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:36 pm

The frustrating thing for me, and I know we can’t have ‘everything’ in this league, BUT if we’d taken the game against Bournemouth seriously, we’d probably be saying that this is turning into an excellent campaign!

Grumps wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:31 pm

"a few questions marks in the week after I made a lot of changes, which I don’t always do, but we keep losing players with injuries and the players give us a lot.

“I felt it was important to make those changes and today it paid us back because I thought the energy levels of the side were terrific and the tempo of the play both in and out of possession and the effective play.

“I talk many times about how many ways can we affect a game to win and I thought it was all on show with a very good performance.”

Grumps wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:38 pm

The sensible ones amongst us can certainly see why

Grumps wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 9:04 pm

Wouldn't need to if there weren't so many idiots in the world.

The proof of the pudding though, in this case is 3 games... 1 down 2 to go, if they turn out good I'd invest in some ear plugs if I was you.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:28 pm

I've been saying for weeks that I don't think it will need 35 and after the Villa win I reckoned four more wins would be more than enough. I'll stick with 34 being the absolute max needed to stay up this year.

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:23 pm

I reckon some people on here still think that Derby are gonna catch us.

DomBFC1882 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 9:13 pm

And if they don't you'll look stupid yet again

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:13 pm

15 games remaining, so 45 points up for grabs, I'd hope we can garner say 20 or so, and if we maintain our form from the last 15 games that should be perfectly possible, only 3 points off Southampton in 12th, so they are catchable I'd say.