Relegation

Barry Rathbone · December 4, 2019

PITA said:
Judging by the punctuation I suspect (and hope) not.

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Marius57 · December 4, 2019

When we let Koeman go and got BS in, I genuinely believed we were not in a relegation scrap and that it was a major knee jerk reaction, and I still stand by that now. Yes it's only a gut feeling, but we were better and looked better than the teams below, even if we had struggled a bit.

This time, I genuinely feel like we are in danger. Because we arent playing better than the teams below us, they look more like getting points in their games than we do in ours. And as much as I have preferred silva over koeman, I have more faith that koeman could have solved the defensive issues and scrapped for points which silva cant (as shown by the horrendous record of us never coming back from a losing position).

Neither situation would call for BS though and that should never have taken place but I'm genuinely worried about us right now if the board dont take some action.

Toffeelover · December 4, 2019

There is every chance we could be 18th tonight in the table

blueloon · December 4, 2019

We should never think we are too big/good or whatever to be relegated.
Having said that I don’t think we will be relegated this season.

sbbefc · December 4, 2019

Let be honest, we're unlikely to win a point in our next 4 games. We're in serious trouble. At least there's time to change the manager and shore up the squad.

davids · December 4, 2019

Parker NSNO said:
I think it's hilarious personally.

We've just lost away to the second best team in the league atm after a good performance and peoples arses suddenly go about relegation.

Your clue is in the word lost,perform well week in week out but keep losing by the odd goal and the outcome is inevitable.Too good to go down? Heard that one before.

MinkyJoe · December 4, 2019

Nothing to see here...

We're not going down.

PITA · December 4, 2019

Barry Rathbone said:
Superfluous brackets

Parentheses or round brackets ( )
The most commonly used bracket in English is the parentheses. This pair of round brackets is used when a writer wants to add information to a sentence that will give greater detail to the information presented.

MikeH72 · December 4, 2019

Layne said:
Think December decides our season. If we can get points from the decent clubs in the division that'll raise confidence. Right now I don't see us getting a point until boxing day and that means we'll probably be 18th or 19th at new year.

If we come out of games against United and Arsenal with 0 points we really are in dire straits.

Barry Rathbone · December 4, 2019

PITA said:
Parentheses or round brackets ( )
The most commonly used bracket in English is the parentheses. This pair of round brackets is used when a writer wants to add information to a sentence that will give greater detail to the information presented.

But not essential in your sentence which is my point.

It's not a criticism just an illustration of how the use of punctuation, grammar and sentence flow is very often a subjective matter rather than a definitive science. I once witnessed two teachers on the verge of kicking off about the correct use of a semi colon.

Take care

PITA · December 4, 2019

Barry Rathbone said:
But not essential in your sentence which is my point.

It's not a criticism just an illustration of how the use of punctuation, grammar and sentence flow is very often a subjective matter rather than a definitive science. I once witnessed two teachers on the verge of kicking off about the correct use of a semi colon.

Take care

Agreed. However, sometimes it is just plain wrong.

jimmythenut · December 4, 2019

We probably are in a relegation scrap. But even if we're bottom by 1st January I think we would spend massive amounts to stay in the league.

Can't see the likes of Watford, Norwich or Southampton spending 100 big one's in Jan.