It's on I say......

[Philw]

Okay bored at lunchtime I've looked at the fixtures for Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal, us and the RS and I can confidently predict the following final table:

3. Spurs 70 points
4. Everton 66 points
5. Chelsea 64 points
6. Arsenal 63 points
7. Liverpool 63 points

For what it's worth, here's how I got there:

Spurs (+16) Points
54
Liverpool (A) 54
Fulham (H) 57
Swansea (A) 58
Everton (H) 61
Chelsea (A) 61
Man City (H) 61
Wigan (A) 64
Southampton (H) 67
Stoke (A) 67
Sunderland (H) 70

Chelsea (+26) Points
52
W Ham (H) 53
Southampton (A) 53
Sunderland (H) 56
Spurs (H) 59
Liverpool (A) 60
Swansea (H) 63
Man U (A) 63
Villa (A) 64
Fulham (A) 64
Everton (H) 64


Arsenal (+21) Points
47
Swansea (A) 47
Reading (H) 50
W Brom (A) 51
Norwich (H) 54
Everton (H) 57
Fulham (A) 60
Man U (H) 60
QPR (A) 60
Wigan (H) 63
Newcastle (A) 63


Everton (+9) Points
45
Man City (H) 48
Stoke (H) 51
Spurs (A) 51
QPR (H) 54
Arsenal (A) 54
Sunderland (A) 57
Fulham (H) 60
Liverpool (A) 60
W Ham (H) 63
Chelsea (A) 66


Liverpool (+19) Points
42
Spurs (H) 45
Southampton (A) 46
Villa (A) 49
W Ham (H) 52
Reading (A) 52
Chelsea (H) 53
Newcastle (A) 54
Everton (H) 57
Fulham (A) 60
QPR (H) 63

Bold final result there, going against form so to speak! Not a lot of draws there either... highlighted the predictions I find more.... 'interesting'... Can see Chelesa and Arsenal both getting several more points, and us several less tbh. Arsenal have a pretty esay run in compared to the rest tho, only two 'big' teams.

 

[Pabbers]

Also, IF we get to Semi / Final, Moyes WILL need to rest players.

We play the ****e at Anfield 6 Days before a potentiall Cup final.

As much as I dont like resting players, Baines, Fellaini and Mirallas will NEED to swerve that game.

They will love nothing more than putting our stars out.

 

[Dell Boy]

So Chelsea are going to get 12 points from 10 games, while we're going to get 21 despite having harder fixtures ?

Yes.

Dont underestimate the Benitez crap at Chelsea and Jelly will start slotting for us like a champion thoroughbred on acid.

 

[tasslehoff]

I wish it were true but I think 7th is where we will finish this year

As for the cup? Good draw and some luck, who knows

 

[evilwebby]

If we take 6 points from Arsenal & Spurs then I would agree that it's back on.

It's a big ask. TBH I don't think we'll do it. Let's face it, our record in these sort of do-or-die matches that really can move us on to the next level is very poor.

Realistically I think we're going to finish 8-10 points behind the 4th place finisher.

 

[BigBlueConk]

Think we will get 60 points.

Chelsea, not that I care will be closer to 70 with Arsenal and RS not too far behind.

We will all know who were the optimists and who were the realists by the end of May.

Just a bit of fun lads!

 

[Baines' left foot]

We can't finish 4th. We're 7 points behind the 4th places team with a goal difference 3 times as good as ours.

I just hope to god that we finish above the RS, for pride and to avoid the gloating, unless we win the FA Cup, in which case I'm not as bothered where we finish.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

We can't finish 4th. We're 7 points behind the 4th places team with a goal difference 3 times as good as ours.

I just hope to god that we finish above the RS, for pride and to avoid the gloating, unless we win the FA Cup, in which case I'm not as bothered where we finish.

Finishing 7th & with the RS 6th, with us denying them a EL place by winning the Cup would be top value.

 

[grandjoeblue]

I think we'll finish 7th, hopefully we can get to the FA cup final though to take the European place.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Finishing 7th & with the RS 6th, with us denying them a EL place by winning the Cup would be top value.

I'd take that like.

It would be all "We don't want der yoorowpa ne way it's mickee mowss"

 

[ToffeeMike]

Being realistic here we'll finish 6th and have a go at the FA Cup. 4th is out of the question but if Jela comes into form we can have a go at 5th which is achievable.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

I'd take that like.

It would be all "We don't want der yoorowpa ne way it's mickee mowss"

Yep, that'd be exactly what they'd say...........but the bile would be dribbling out of the sides of their mouths while they were saying it though.....Please Lord make it happen, just once.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I don't think we have much of a hope of 4th, but any hope is good enough. Bring it on.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Yep, that'd be exactly what they'd say...........but the bile would be dribbling out of the sides of their mouths while they were saying it though.....Please Lord make it happen, just once.

The thing is with the EL though is the sheer amount of games, coupled with our tiny squad it's difficult to see how we'd handle it.

Winning the cup would be great though, and despite what many people think about Moyes at the moment I think he deserves a trophy to mark his time here.

Over to you, Davo.

 

[toffeejack]

6th and an FA Cup final would be a good achievement. 4th simply isn't going to happen, unless bale, mata and cazorla get injured for the season and we get lucky in a few games, there isn't even a sniff of it happening. there is definitely a chance we can catch arsenal, depending on how they react from going out of the champs league soon. but if it's still on with 2 games to go, even if we are ahead of them by about 4 pts, i wouldn't place my hopes on us not ****ing it up somehow