Relegation battle

[mr_moo]

Taking a little breather from our title challenge, looking at the other end of the table, who do you want to go down?

13 Aston Villa. 32 -13 34
14 Crystal Palace 32 -16 34
15 Swansea 33 -4 33
16 West Brom 32 -11 32
17 Norwich 33 -26 32
18 Fulham 33 -41 27
19 Cardiff 33 -35 26
20 Sunderland 30 -20 25

Cardiff - Tan guy is a nutter, changing team colours and sacking Malkey and replacing him with that Manc. Deserves everything he gets

Norwich - never really liked them, plus shocking to sack manager with only a few weeks of season left

Palace - can't see it happening now, but hate pulis.

 

[Whirly]

Cardiff - I think Tan is actually okay. Sacking Mackay was the right move, Tan spent more than enough money in the summer window, and Mackay started complaining to the press that he needed more funds. Still though, wouldn't mind seeing them go down.

West Brom - Their curb appeal with Steve Clarke/Lukaku has worn off. They seem pretty aimless now.

Fulham - They've lost their identity as well. They had a good thing for awhile with Dempsey, and they got a bit of a foreign following, but now they just suck.

Can't have Norwich going down, just because Suarez reams them just about every time. Sunderland, Villa, Norwich all have their own niches. Crystal Palace is the (second) most interesting name in the league table after ours.

 

[HC]

I think the bottom 3 at present will all drop.

All it really takes is Norwich with their new manager syndrome to best fulham this weekend ( it doesn't at all but I think it will be enough )

Sunderland may well have games in hand but there's a reason they are down there, we're not talking about man City with games in hand here..

Cardiff are just terrible, plus their manager is a cunt, he will be binned off by this time next year - hopefully to utd!

 

[Mystic]

Norwich were mad to sack Hughton, they've got games against Us, City, Chelsea and Arsenal (I think) in the last five games, last thing they need to add on top of that is a new manager. I think someone will do a great escape at their expense now, which is a shame as I'm a big fan of Norwich and I think they'd have scrapped it under Hughton.

 

[doctor_mac]

Not having Norwich in the league takes at least six goals from Suarez's goal tally. That's reason enough to hope they survive.

 

[Frogfish]

Quite like Norwich, it'd be a pity to see them drop but they are in serious danger now, they'll lose 4 of their remaining fixtures and if Fulham beat them then they will replace them in the bottom three IMO. That match is do or die for both teams every bit as much as ours against City next Saturday.

WBA and up will all get more points and with better GD's they'll be able to see off any 11th hour recovery from those below. Sunderland do not have an easy run-in (City, Everton, United, Spurs & Chelsea) so even with those games in hand they are doomed.

Gone : Cardiff & Sunderland plus either Fulham or Norwich.

 

[keniget]

I'd love to see Sunderland go down.

It's hard to think of many clubs that have gotten it more wrong than Sunderland over the years. It feels like they've spent an absolute fortune since getting promoted but always on the wrong managers / players. Maybe in the Championship they'll have less money to throw Utds way.

Other than that, I don't really care. I'd probably prefer to see Palace going down because Pulis teams are hard to play against, whereas I'd actually keep Cardiff because just looking at Tan amuses me.

 

[Silver Sean]

As long as Villa can still go down mathematically then I'd like them to join Sunderland and Cardiff. At the start of the seaosn I wanted Hull to go. Bruce and, like Wigan before them, no reason for them to be in the PL. Stick to rugby league. Norwich are 6 guaranteed points a season and Fulham are the only acceptable face of London football to me (and have two good mates support them)

 

[gkmacca]

Happy to see Sunderland and Cardiff go down. I'm torn about WBA - the manager seems like a good guy but I can't stand the club.

 

[Red Mullet]

Couldn't care less about Cardiff

 

[gene hughes]

Cardiff
West brom
Villa

 

[Mersey86]

Its about Liverpool for me. I hope Swansea get a big win this weekend. I hope Villa plummet and need a win late in the season. I do want Cardiff to go down. I'd like Palace to go down as well. I've always liked Fulham and would be happy for them to escape. When I was a youngster going to the games in the 80s the East Anglian supporters were the best visiting supporters. I remember the Norwich fans rising and applauding with the rest of the stadium as one league title was paraded round the ground. So, despite feeling that the Hughton sacking was ill-advised, I'm not hoping they go down.

 

[RolandG]

Norwich would have stayed up by the skin of their teeth had Houghton stayed. Cardiff and Fulham will join them. Sunderland can escape with Borini goals.

 

[Mersey86]

I'd love it if Borini helped us win the league. I'd just love it.

 

[Modo]

Didn't have anything against Cardiff until that cunt of a manager opened his gob. Fuck em.

 

[Judge Jules]

Cardiff and Fulham are both dead clubs walking IMO. Don't really care who goes down with them - I'd have liked it to be Palace just to get shot of Pulis but that's not going to happen.

 

[Brizzle]

Only team I can see being safe of the current bottom 3 is Fulham - beat Norwich and then they have a great chance as I can't see Norwich getting anything out of their last 4.

 

[dmishra]

I've always found Fulham fairly likeable, so I'd like them to stay up.

Hate both WBA and Sunderland, so hope they go down.

Norwich - fairly likeable club again, but we have to beat them to win the league, so what's the point wanting them to stay up.

Palace are also cunts, and I hope we thrash them.

 

[Spaghetti Legs]

Only team I can see being safe of the current bottom 3 is Fulham - beat Norwich and then they have a great chance as I can't see Norwich getting anything out of their last 4.

This.

Those cup runs really didn't do Sunderland any favours at all, i think Poyet is a decent manager but he was playing catch up from day 1 and added with the cup games its proven too much.

Cardiff have gotton what they deserve, West Brom are similar to Cardiff but looked to have lucked out thanks to others being even more shit than they are, Clarkes sacking was stupid and the harshest of the lot this season, i guess if they stay up it justifies it but it was still a stupid knee jerk risk to take in firing him and appointing someone who has never managed in the league and struggles with the language.

 

[cloggypop]

Bad punctuation karma

 

[Judge Jules]

Haha. Geel goed.

 

[Rouge Penguin]

It's like asking which turd is better.

I think Fulham will climb out, Cardiff, Sundermongs and Norwich to go.

Sundermongs purely for their transfer window spend and completely fuckin it up.

 

[Silver Sean]

Happy to see Sunderland and Cardiff go down. I'm torn about WBA - the manager seems like a good guy but I can't stand the club.

I grew up around a few Baggies fans, good blokes. When you live near Coventry City, Villa, Wolves and Birmingham fans they are a breath of fresh air.