Saturday 26th of April at home to Cardiff City will be the day we secure another season in the Premier League and relegate the Welsh ............... club. By then we'll have had another transfer window and Short won't want to even consider relegation. We'll have played Newcastle, Aston Villa, Southampton, Stoke City, Hull City, West Brom, Crystal Palace, West Ham, Norwich, Everton at home.* We'll have played Hull, Stoke, West Ham, Cardiff, Villa, Fulham, Newcastle, Norwich, Everton away.* Together with the point we have now that'll give us around 28/29 points imo. We'll need another 6, 7 or 8 points from the other 8 'unwinnable' home & away games 6 or 7 from a possible 24 points? * That would give us around 35/36 including the point we have now. The Cardiff game could give us the 3 points that would save us and effectively relegate them. If that doesn't happen then Newcastle, who play them the following week at SJP, can save us It'll be a relegation decider so the Cardiff supporters will be here in numbers and some will stay the night after the game, especially if the suggested 5.30 kick off happens. Revenge may be in the minds of some of the 'Wheatsheaf lads' and the police will have it down as 'special interest'. All in all an interesting day, safety for Sunderland and a celebration against Swansea for the last home game .......... lap of 'honour' for the players *Disregard all figures as I'm pissed.
That appears to eb the case but it wouldn't take more than a win against Newcastle and a good result at Hull to change the way things look. I'd say there's a potential bottom 3 that doesn't include us. Hull, Aston Villa, Fulham , Stoke, Cardiff, Norwich and Crystal Palace are all in with a shout. Stoke are very poor and have only scored 4 which is less than us, I think they've only managed one in their last 5 or 6 games. I'd exclude the likes of Newcastle and West Ham but that doesn't mean we can't take points off them.
Nah, already mentioned that on another thread ...... I reckon we'll beat Southampton and make that 3 League Cup wins under 3 different managers!
