Relegation 2022/23

[blue to the bone]

Mystic Megs out in force tonight

This time next year they will all be millionaires

 

[dylsexicbleu]

All I know about the run in is that we'll have some surprising results before seasons end. It's invariably a mugs game predicting three points in this fixture, one point in that fixture.

 

[blue to the bone]

I done a prediction and I see us finishing on 65 points .
We will draw with Bournemouth last game to miss out on Europe

 

[JohnRoss23]

Will your mum stick this on the fridge for you?

I’ll see if your mum can make a copy first

 

[JohnRoss23]

I find it tough to imagine a draw when Man City will be pushing for th title, and even Man U are getting better and better, but we do need some very difficult results to get to 38 or 39 points.

Hopefully Goodison can help us out against the likes of City. By then I would like to think Dyche has the squad in order playing the way he would like.

 

[JohnRoss23]

I done a prediction and I see us finishing on 65 points .
We will draw with Bournemouth last game to miss out on Europe

You’re crazy but I like it!

 

[JohnRoss23]

This time next year they will all be millionaires

Already am after predicting the Arsenal win. Put down a couple million and my wife’s pair of size 7 ski boots.

 

[MIKE85]

West Ham Everton about to get very very interesting

 

[davek]

Bottom 9 fixtures up until the international break end of March:


Crystal Palace (26 points)

Liverpool (H)
Aston Villa (A)
Man City (H)
Brighton (A)
Arsenal (A)

......Palace will struggle to get 3/4 points from that lot

Nottingham Forest (25 points)

West Ham (A)
Everton (H)
Tottenham (A)
Newcastle (H)

....Maximum 6/7 points here

Leicester (24 points)

Arsenal (H)
Southampton (A)
Chelsea (H)
Brentford (A)

...between 3 and 6 points maybe

Wolves (23 points)

Fulham (A)
Liverpool (A)
Tottenham (H)
Newcastle (A)
Leeds (H)

....maybe as low as 1 point or high as 3 points.

Everton (21 points)

Aston Villa (H)
Arsenal (A)
Nottm Forest (A)
Brentford (H)
Chelsea (A)

...maybe as low as 3, a high of 6 to 7 points (beat Villa and it may be more than 7)

Bournemouth (21 points)

Man City (H)
Arsenal (A)
Liverpool (H)
Aston Villa (A)

...possibly zero points a high of 1-3 points

West Ham (20 points)

Nottm Forest (H)
Brighton (A)
Aston Villa (H)
Man City (A)

...possible 3 to 5 points

Leeds (19 points)

Southampton (H)
Chelsea (A)
Brighton (H)
Wolves (A)

....as low as 2 points maybe as high as 4.

Southampton (18 points)

Leeds (A)
Leicester (H)
Man Utd (A)
Brentford (H)
Tottenham (H)

....as low as 2 maybe 5 or 6 points


At the end of those fixtures I think the table could look like this:

Forest 29/30 pts
Palace 29 pts
Leicester 28/29
Everton 27/28
Wolves 25 pts
WHU 24 pts
B'mouth 22/23 pts
Leeds 22/23 pts
S'ton 21/22 pts

 

[Swartzy]

At least we're at the right end of the table with this metric from this weekend.

Sorry, not a big stat man, but 'Expected Goals' that is just another level of 'Cringe'.
All I care about is that we score more then the opposition, not what some computer says could be expected.

 

[lesbattersby]

Leeds about to appoint ex watford manager Javi Garcia

 

[neil999]

Leeds about to appoint ex watford manager Javi Garcia

Seems pretty average although he ddi OK with Watford.And has experience, not the worst appointment

 

[GoldenToffee]

Massive weekend ahead. All the teams in the bottom half either playing each other or teams right at the top:

Us v Villa
Fulham v Wolves
Leeds v Southampton
Leicester v Arsenal
West Ham v Forest
Bournemouth v City
Palace v Liverpool

A huge opportunity to both put a bit of a gap between us and bottom three AND pull the likes of Palace, Leicester, Villa, Forest and Wolves into the mix.

We cannot drop more points against bottom half teams at home because our other fixtures are solid. If we do, we'll likely need to go away to a top side and get a result, which isn't happening. Draws won't be enough if we drop points at home against poor opposition, which Villa definitely are.

Absolutely must win this. Keep up the Dyche home form and we stay up comfortably.

Villa Brentford, Fulham, Newcastle, City, Spurs, Bournemouth left at home. Take 13+ points from those 7 games and we'll stay up easily as we'll not lose every game we don't win, not on Dychy's watch.

 

[NathDogg]

Just gotta keep getting wins at home and then trying to Nick anything we can away - no more surrenders to bottom table dwellers.

As others have said, the teams around us should also be dropping points as they have some really tough fixtures.

Take care of our own business, which dyche has started well at home, get a bit of luck with injuries and hopefully we have enough.

The injuries bit worries me, past the first 11 there’s not a lot to choose from.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Just gotta keep getting wins at home and then trying to Nick anything we can away - no more surrenders to bottom table dwellers.

As others have said, the teams around us should also be dropping points as they have some really tough fixtures.

Take care of our own business, which dyche has started well at home, get a bit of luck with injuries and hopefully we have enough.

The injuries bit worries me, past the first 11 there’s not a lot to choose from.

By hook or by crook stumble over the line is absolutely fine. Lose a load of fringe players in the summer, literally saving half a million a week in wages, and finally loosen the purse strings with the Gordon and Kean money, plus additional sales to make sure we comfortably enter BMD as a Premier League side. Our first choice XI + say three additional quality players and we're easily the best of the rest in this league (7th).