Is fourth gone?

[marty mcfly]

Say fourth will be 72 points and there's 25 games left that leave us needing an average of 2.2 points a game.

I don't want to be pessimistic but that seems very high.

I know we technically aren't that many points off 4th but there's a lot of teams in between and overall it probably won't be too far away from 72. Even 68 points leaves us with needing 2.04.

To put that in context. Over a whole season a rate of 2.2 would leave us with a total of 83.6 and 2.04 would leave us with 77.52.

We've never come close to either in our history. We will need Arsenal and Utd to keep playing like crap and I just don't see that. Arsenal always turn it around and Utd are finding form plus have the money to sort it out.

 

[Titus Bramble]

Not until it's mathematically impossible. Every team will drop in and out of form and I can't see anyone running away with it at the moment.

 

[bluemangroup]

It's still there, I checked.

 

[Titus Bramble]

Third is still up for grabs.

 

[sageyefc]

We're gonna win the league

 

[MACCA75]

I think 65 points would probably do it. We simply aren't playing well enough though - haven't been since about April.

 

[bluemangroup]

It's be nice if our manager learnt anything when we get beat. We might stand a chance then. The useless daigo pillock.

 

[The Cowboy]

There seems to be a lot of teams sitting in that 2nd-tier bracket right now. Arsenal, Spurs, Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd, plus West Ham, Newcastle and Southampton providing a bit of food for thought. Everyone is capable of beating everyone else.

I wouldn't be surprised to see it going down to the wire and 4th being taken by one of the lowest total points since we got 4th.

 

[MikeH72]

I'd be a bit embarrassed if we finished 4th to be honest. We've been shocking in more or less every game

 

[MACCA75]

We have averaged higher than 2.04 pts per game over a season btw. - 1985 springs to mind.

 

[neil999]

It's be nice if our manager learnt anything when we get beat. We might stand a chance then. The useless daigo pillock.

why dont you write him a letter if it doth irk thee so much?

 

[bluemangroup]

why dont you write him a letter if it doth irk thee so much?

Neil, speak to me like we are in a production of The Tempest again and I will insert a pencil up your anus and use you like a troll pencil topper.

 

[Khalekan]

Mathematically it is still on but I think there is a desperate aftertaste following the spineless capitulation yesterday which makes even the most optimistic among us feel we are actually going backwards after the breath of fresh air which was blowing through the club like a force X gale all last season.

I don't think we are going to finish above United or Arsenal now, I'm afraid.

 

[neil999]

Neil, speak to me like we are in a production of The Tempest again and I will insert a pencil up your anus and use you like a troll pencil topper.

the course of football mangement never did run smooth

 

[bluemangroup]

the course of football mangement never did run smooth

Right that's it. Bottom out and let me find my pencil case. I'm going to enjoy this.