CB Fry

I said we were safe when ticked over into 31 points in January and haven't changed my mind since. Teams that hit 31 points in January aren't going down. You said Brighton were safe yesterday and that's fine if you believe that. You be you.

I've taken my cue from you saying Brighton are already safe before they kicked off yesterday. Very relieved as a result.

So in this scenario that is seven consecutive defeats from now (actually including yesterday, eight consecutive defeats) and we go into the final three games "needing to beat" Bournemouth and Brighton, meaning we also will need to beat Sheffield United (otherwise we wouldn't also "need" to beat the other two). So eight consecutive defeats and then the points total to stay up this season is now 43 points if we, as you say "need to win" the last three matches. Crystal clear, its going to be a hell of an end to the season if Brighton and Bournemouth and Villa etc are going to end up on at least 43 points each.

There's people on this thread that still don't realise that teams can accrue points from drawn matches so I don't hold up much hope. If we don't win every single match from now on we're relegated relegated relegated. Welcome to Saintsweb.

Pleased to say was lucky enough to be there yesterday and agree with all of this. A lot of the game was reminiscent of the bad old days of the early season. We looked vulnerable to the simple ball over the top and to any pace or power. We were out muscled all day. JWP playing out of position is hurting us. I thought Armstrong did well enough mainly because he played with a pace and energy in significant contrast to others - Boufal in particular was dreadful. The Vestergaard sub was definitely an attempt to change shape but ineffective - as you say we missed Redmond and/or Djenepo, and Ings was off the pace. So ultimately the system change at that stage was never going to be enough. We move on, we will get the win/points needed to stay up but not sure it is going to be a barnstorming end to the season, more a stuttering one.

Why do you have so much belief that a team in 18th with 27 points is going to get the wins and points required but the team in 13th starting seven points ahead aren't going to? Why would you rather be 18th than 13th? It's a bit, y'know, fu cking mental ain't it?

Just to check, if it was us in 18th place on 27 points you'd be on this forum absolutely adamant that we'd be staying up, yes? Because you have a very impressive unshakeable belief in the imminent and breathtaking turnaround in form of the teams on 27 points that surely it means you'd prefer that to be our situation too?

We are safe. We will not get relegated. Absolutely delighted to see SKD going into absolute meltdown yet again.

100/100. Exceptional stuff.

Norwich have won. We're getting dragged back into it, dragged back into it I tell you.

Not really comparable as elite level Women's Athletics events take place in the the same arenas, the same time with similar pressures and exposure. Women's football is nowhere near men's but the athletic disciplines are much closer and have been for some time. The men are still the bigger stars but not by such a wide margin. Gunnell and Denise and Jessica Ennis became household names after success at the highest level, something a woman footballer is a long way from achieving.

Apparently if you take away all the goals we've scored we'd be bottom of the league with zero wins all season. Really makes you think.

If West Ham win this and then beat us on Saturday they'll only be FOUR POINTS BEHIND US #draggedbackintoit #complacency #we'regettingrelegated #relegated #relegatedItellyou

Lying scumbag journalists making it all up etc etc etc etc etc etc

I have zero interest in South American football but I could listen to Tim Vickery talk about it every day.

We didn't' lose to Villa. We're not going to be relegated. Your hypothetical "gotcha" questions are lame as fu ck sunshine. The only hypothetical I am interested in how how much you will sh it yourself about how complacent everyone is being and how doomed to relegation we are if we dare to drop any points on Saturday.

Agree with this. Much like the nutcases that used to say "it's too early to get promoted this season, let's build for next year". The best time to do anything - get promoted, win a cup, qualify for Europe - is always this season. Worry about the implications later. It's academic this season because we're not going to make it but as you say it was fantastic when we qualified and we should be trying to do it again at the earliest possible opportunity.

The two separate concepts of "we won't be relegated this season" and "we won't finish in the Europa places this season" cannot co-exist in the mind of a simpleton.

Go back to poop-pooping your little pants about "getting dragged back in" you absolute weirdo.

Barring injury Ings will get (at least) 20 for the season and that will be that. But some other decent contenders.

I said last week we wouldn't go down, before this match had been played. It was obvious we weren't going down and here we are, we're not going down. If we had lost today I'd still be saying it. I look forward to seeing you absolutely sh ite your pants all over again if the unfortunate event of us losing to WHU happens next week. #draggedbackin #plank

One week and one win after starting this moronic thread. Some absolute planks on this forum.

As explained previously, we're not going to be relegated.

Che Adams is on and that means goals goals goals

Sweepstake on which minute of the match someone on here types "......and there it is." I'm going 63rd.