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The Relegation Thread

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Few questions:

How are the promoted clubs looking? Signed anyone good?

Who's your surprised tip to go down?

Who's fucked already?
 
Hopefully Pompey will go down. Burnley and Hull to join them, with Wolves hovering just above.
 
Its difficult to see Burnley surviving. You never know though.
Birmingham don't really seem to have anyone any good either, and if Hull start like they finished last season they are in trouble.

Wolves do seem to have made a few signings but ultimately they have Mick McCarthy in charge. That never bodes well. I think they might just scrape it.
 
No chance Stoke will go down, they have Beattie and Fuller up front, an average but resolute midfield and a solid enough defence.

Birmingham have a poor manager in McLeish who signs decent players but then fails to utilise/motivate them adequately. They have bought a couple of good centre backs in Johnson and Dann and they have an aggressive looking midfield with; Carsley, Ferguson and Johnson. Up front McFaddy and Jerome are both decent and Benitez could be good (never seen him but for £8m they will expect a decent goal return.

Burnley will be sunk without a trace - I go to Turf Moor 7 or 8 times a season and would love to see them stay up but they are weak (by EPL standards) all over the pitch. They have failed to sign Marcus Tudgay from Sheff Wed and Daryl Russell from Norwich but this shows the limit of their ambition as Tudgay is an average Championship forward and Russell is a first division footballer at best.

Last season I predicted Hull would survive and Stoke might survive but that WBA would go down so I don't automatically "pick on" the newly promoted teams. However I do think Wolves will struggle although I expect Ebanks-Blake to score a few. Hull City have not strengthened during the summer and will struggle, they will probably go dwon and if they lose Michael Turner they are doomed.

18. Hull City
19. Wolves
20. Burnley
 
Have Birmingham signed Barry Ferguson? Great move that by them

As is Doyle's move to Wolves.
 
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Have Birmingham signed Barry Ferguson? Great move that by them

As is Doyle's move to Wolves.
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I think they have, but not sure how good he will be.

Agree on Doyle. That's was part of my thinking behind them staying up (despite the manager)
 
The three promoted sides will go back down straight.

IF Hull dont spend anything, they may go down in place of a promoted side.

Newly promoted sides just cannot compete in an inflated transfer window like this.
 
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The three promoted sides will go back down straight.

IF Hull dont spend anything, they may go down in place of a promoted side.

Newly promoted sides just cannot compete in an inflated transfer window like this.
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I can't be bothered to check but all three newly promoted sides don't tend to go down. At least one normally survives.
 
Hull have got that second-season-blues look about them already. I mean, trying and failing to sign Bobby Zamora is just embarrassing. I have a feeling Phil Brown will be gone before Xmas. But there are so many sides 'in contention' for relegation that it's really hard to predict.

I've never seen Burnley play, but I just have a feeling they'll be suprisingly good in a 'Hull/Reading/Wigan' kinda way, and will just survive.

In a way it's easier to list the sides who *won't* be in danger of going down: beyond the top four, I'd say: Man City, Villa, Everton, West Ham, Spurs, and maybe Fulham and Sunderland. Everyone else will be staring into the abyss by March.
 
Portsmouth have 14 first team players in pre season training at the moment.

They've got a very thin squad so unless they sort it out they'll go down.
 
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Portsmouth have 14 first team players in pre season training at the moment.

They've got a very thin squad so unless they sort it out they'll go down.
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My guess is they will sort it. I'd expect any new ownership to want to try and protect its investment, and they'll know (or soon be told) that they're not going to do that with a first team squad of 14.
 
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