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It's hard to say which - who knows what the Di Canio factor will be like at Sunderland, but I've seen enough from Wigan and Villa recently to say they'll make a fight of it. As it stands I still think over the course of the season it'll be Villa that deserves to take that final spot, but Sunderland are in big trouble. Of us, Norwich, Stoke and Newcastle amongst those others, I see Norwich as being the ones to struggle and join the relegation battle. They can't buy a goal at the moment. Poor form from them.
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This, and a GK if Boruc goes.
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Found this on a Stoke forum - a league table formed with only the results since Boxing Day. (So a form guide going back 11 games or so.) It shows why Norwich, Stoke and Sunderland are all suddenly in the relegation battle... : http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/thread/211310/table-boxing-day#ixzz2PA58MCI4
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Beating Reading and Sunderland could potentially send them down. Both massive games. Who knows, the biggest game could be Stoke on the last day - if we need to win it to stay up. I think (and hope) we'll be clear of relegation by then anyway. I can't see us getting anything from the Spuds game, but then we said that about both the Liverpool and Chelsea matches. They're all winnable, if you think about it. For me, as I dislike them, I hope we beat Reading the most, although I am going to the Hammers game (and can make the Stoke game if I have tickets) so a win against them would be good.
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I take my missus to games so she can see goals. She rarely gets any watching Norwich.
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Pochettino's trust in Jos surprised me, especially after the way he started the season, but then he was the selected CB when Pochettino got the job, because of injury to Jose. Jos has had some solid games too since he's been in, playing alongside first choice Yoshida. Personally I still think Jose and Yoshi are the preffered partnership, but Jos being a left footer give us more balance. Who knows about Forren, perhaps one for the future but currently it seems like a strange signing. For progression next season, I'd still like to see us bring in a dominant centre back. Whom to play with is the tough bit, but probably Yoshida or Forren. I hope we stick by Jose and Jos - Jos was excellent in the nPC (and has improved this season) and Jose was excellent in League One and good in the nPC (and was very good in the first half of this season)- but I can see us being a bit ruthless with some of the squad players in the summer.
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I said on the 18th March that anyone in the table up to 10th (which was Stoke) could still be in danger and it got poo pooed. Look at Stoke now. I think they'll survive on the basis that there are 3 worse teams in the league, but it shows how a few wins in the relegation battle can really drag other teams into it. Failure to beat Liverpool and Chelsea and we'd have been right in the shyte, and the Reading game would have become massive. Thanks to the two wins we can now balls up one of our easier games without completely screwing our season up. I hope we don't though - I hope we win every game for the rest of the season! It still looks like QPR, Reading and one other. Even though Villa lost today I saw enough that they could scrape wins. Wigan are doing their usual late season routine. We're flying. Norwich can't score for toffee. However I do suspect Sunderland now could take that final spot, but they have made a managerial appointment that will at least kick them up the bum. If my money was on anyone though, it would be...... Villa. Based on how poor they've been this season with the youngsters. Benteke has shone but their young defence makes too many mistakes. It's so tough to call though.
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Funnily enough, this means that O'Neill still doesn't have a relegation on his CV! He's escaped by the skin of his teeth. I think Sunderland could go down. Wigan and Villa have shown the fight in recent weeks, and both have goalscorers, Kone and Benteke. Sunderland and Norwich could be the ones struggling - and as for this sacking, it's baffling. Very strange decision.
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I think it'll be a little more. Excluding Reading and QPR, who I personally think are down, you have one relegation space for, I'd say, nine teams. (i.e. Anyone from Fulham downwards) Of those nine teams, you have those with a bit of form (Us, Wigan, Villa) and you could probably rule out Fulham and, after today, West Ham. That leaves Newcastle, Norwich, Stoke and Sunderland as the teams out of form. It's because the likes of Wigan and Villa are picking up wins, that more sides above are being dragged into the relegation battle. It's a terrible time for one of those teams to be out of form. Newcastle have the players to drag themselves out of it, and Stoke have the talent to fight to win or draw games too. So really it's Norwich and Sunderland that need to watch their backs, pending a continued improvement in form of Wigan and Villa. Even our form could dip, but I don't see it. I still see 40 points as the safety mark, and won't even start relaxing until we're there. Our next two games are immensely winnable. Six points from those and everything else for the rest of the season is playing for places up the league table.
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It's like trying to compare Holt to Lambert. Only people that couldn't give two hoots about either would draw that comparison - lower league players, risen up, goalscorers that score goals in their first Premier League season. There's a massive difference though, Lambert is intrical to the way we play, a creator as well as a scorer. Holt is a fat battering ram. I know a lot of Norwich fans and most of them say they'd rather have Lambert over Holt this season. I personally don't think Lambert will ever see the England squad - but if Jay continues playing as he is, he surely won't be far behind...
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Huge, important win. Ecstatic. I still think anyone from 10th down could still go down. A high points total needed, defitinitely 40 points or more, to avoid relegation IMO.
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Interesting table as it stands. Half the table could yet go down. A high points total needed this year I think.
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For us to be 2-1 up with 20 minutes to go is amazing - I should before the game I'd take a point, and I still would now. 3 points would be special - 6 points from Liverpool and Chelsea would be dreamland. Is that Stoke I see slipping... Come on Norwich, do us all a favour.
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From Beeb A good stat from our friends at Opta Sports - "OptaJoe: Without Steven Fletcher's goals this season Sunderland would be bottom of the Premier League & nine points from safety. Crocked."
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We could be a big part of sending them down, penultimate game of the season. Interesting run in for all of us.
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Bang on for me! He starts by praising us and ends up saying "but Chelsea are simply a better team." 1-3 Chelsea. (For me, I think we'll get a point out of this - 2-2.)
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They're in big trouble. Has O'Neill relegated anyone before? Don't think he has. Interestingly his current and ex-club could both go down...
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I live in Horton, a village on the outskirts of Windsor/Slough. I wouldn't buy here, but the house we rent is direct from the landlord (thus avoiding renewal fees and having a better, almost personal, relationship with him) and is underpriced for its size. My missus likes Egham (where we used to live) and bits of Staines (upon Thames, if you want to make it sound a bit more classy.) I personally would rather have a bigger house in a quieter part of the world, such as South Berks, Surrey or Hampshire, but perhaps walking distance to a train link as she works in London. Fleet for instance, has a train link, but I don't know the area at all. Oi! I have you know I'm superb at customer service! :-) That's true. We're honeymooning (a year late) in Mexico in June, so we're being cautious until that's over. Then we let nature take it's course. A fixer upper perhaps wouldn't suit us, I especially am bone idle and useless at DIY (!) but I wouldn't mind a bit of a paint. I do realise they're more affordable though if you're willing to put the work in. My wife's friends in Norwich bought a 2 bed wreck of a terrace house for about £100k, transformed it, and now reckon it's worth nearly £190k. They're both in the building trade though, which helped with getting things done and low cost fixings.
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Ramirez to Arsenal? (discussion from Life's A Pitch)
SNSUN replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
I do think the best of Ramirez is yet to come, but sell him for what we paid or more in the summer and I won't be too upset, pending we replace him correctly. For his big transfer fee, much was expected but we've not seen the best of him yet - keep him and I reckon he'll be a much better player next season after having a season to adapt to the English game. I'd rather lose him than one of our other crown jewels - Morgan for instance who has been linked with Arsenal from the moment we signed him. Weirdly (and I am a bit weird), as much as I love a big money signing and get all excited over it, it's the bargain signings or academy players that I end up liking more - Cork, for instance, who's turned into an excellent player and didn't even cost us a million quid. I do hope we get to see the best of Ramirez though. Keeping the squad together and adding quality to it is the way forward this summer IMO, losing only the "lower league" players that did us so well in the past but don't have a future at the club - like Hammond, Chaplow, Seaborne, Dickson etc etc -
Coningsby, Lincs and Paphos, Cyprus - neither are particularly useful for London! :-) I'm not sure what we're looking for, 3 bed house with parking though would be ideal. Kids will follow soon enough so good schools and a safe area are paramount. Funnily enough the first thing I said to my missus was that we should go round towns and villages trying different pubs! hat's one way to see how friendly people are in the area. Anyone going to my current local would walk out in seconds! All good advice people, London I class as within the M25 - I live in literally the first village just outside it! We both have free London travel as part of my job, so one option is to move inside and utilise the free travel. She's not that keen though. Lots of planning to do - daunting but looking forward to it.
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Obviously I'll do things properly and study everything, but I wonder if I could pick your experienced brains! Yesterday my lovely parents said that within a couple of years (pending them selling one of their spare houses) I'll be given £50,000 to put down a deposit on a house. To be honest I'd been begging them for a while, I really didn't want to live in a rental for ever, despite us rather liking our current rental home. This will be mine and Mrs SNSUN's first house purchase, and we just wondered what things we should look for, what a good mortgage is, anything you've experienced that you've learned from...that sort of thing. Even a discussion on location would be good - I'm very attached to the Windsor area where I've been raised my whole life (and have friends in), but we were wondering whether a move to, say, North Hampshire would be a good idea. As some of you know I work for London Underground (currently at Heathrow) so it can't be toooooo far away, but if it's a reasonable commute it won't be a problem. Ta.
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How long will it be before we are as big as we were in 2003?
SNSUN replied to Roger's topic in The Saints
I'd say we're in a healthier position now than we were in 2003. We have good financial support behind the club in the Liebherrs, God bless them, an exciting young team being supported by a top academy without the need to sell individuals, and a manager who, whilst still unproven in the Premier League, has got us playing well and is possibly a bigger draw in terms of player signings (although of course that still has yet to be proven.) I'm excited by the future, and I think we'll soon top the average attendance mark. -
Yes please. If we stay up, I'm looking forward to all the lovely rumours that will no doubt link us with various players - and even more to those Pochettino signs. This is a good link, as long as he achieves more than Adam Johnson has since leaving City.
